The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F# over the 3 months to 18 June 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 City of London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F#
Rank 211 200 218
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +18
Contract jobs citing F# 4 22 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.058% 0.285% 0.299%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.137% 0.772% 0.694%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 26
Average daily rate £550 £525 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% -16.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £368 -
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2930 2851 4321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 42.49% 36.96% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2251 2174 3308
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £285 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 36
Average hourly rate £39.51 £35.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.87% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.60 £18.52 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.15 £48.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
F#
London

F#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London F# Daily Rate Trend

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 10 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (80.00%) WCF
3 6 (60.00%) .NET
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (40.00%) WPF
4 4 (40.00%) WF
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Front Office
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
5 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (30.00%) Back Office
5 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (30.00%) Derivative
5 3 (30.00%) TIBCO
6 2 (20.00%) Rendezvous
6 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (20.00%) Perforce
6 2 (20.00%) Grid Computing
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (20.00%) MVVM
7 1 (10.00%) Memory Management
7 1 (10.00%) AppFabric
7 1 (10.00%) Subversion
7 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
7 1 (10.00%) Confluence
7 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 8 (80.00%) WCF
2 6 (60.00%) .NET
3 4 (40.00%) WPF
3 4 (40.00%) WF
4 2 (20.00%) Rendezvous
5 1 (10.00%) Middleware
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (10.00%) JMS
5 1 (10.00%) LINQ
5 1 (10.00%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Front Office
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Derivative
2 2 (20.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) MVVM
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) OO
5 1 (10.00%) RAD
5 1 (10.00%) OOD
5 1 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) Memory Management
5 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) VBA
4 1 (10.00%) Haskell
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (20.00%) Perforce
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
City, London
An F# developer / architect / engineer is required by a leading Investment Bank to work within a Risk platform development team. You will be responsible for: The enhancement of...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £600 - £800 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
This role requires a C# Developer with strong commerical experience of WPF and who specialises in UI applications. This role also exposes the C# Developer to new technologies...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013