The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F# over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F#
Rank 49 - 50
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing F# 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.182% - 0.191%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.398% - 0.365%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
251 376 274
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 45.72% 54.41% 52.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 199 122
Average daily rate £303 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.20% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 34 39
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.50 £16.03
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.50 £60.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
F#
East of England

F#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing F# across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cambridgeshire F# Jobs Demand Trend

F#
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing F# across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire F# Daily Rate Trend

F#
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F# within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge - 1 £350 -
F#
East of England

F#
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing F# also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited F#.

1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 7 (100.00%) HTML5
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 6 (85.71%) CSS3
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET MVC
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) WCF
3 5 (71.43%) Human Factors
3 5 (71.43%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) Haskell
4 1 (14.29%) Erlang
4 1 (14.29%) R
4 1 (14.29%) MVVM
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematica
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Lisp

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing F# also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited F#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) HTML5
2 6 (85.71%) CSS3
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) WCF
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (71.43%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Mathematica
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) UI Designer
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
1 3 (42.86%) User Experience Developer
2 2 (28.57%) UI Programmer
2 2 (28.57%) UI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Human Factors
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) MVC
1 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) MVVM
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Lisp
2 1 (14.29%) Haskell
2 1 (14.29%) Erlang
2 1 (14.29%) R
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft