The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 114 - 131
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing F# 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.046% - 0.038%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.112% - 0.100%
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
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
890 1237 1002
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.32% 41.97% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 608 424
Average daily rate £315 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 106 133
Average hourly rate £35.50 £36.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.38% +5.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £26.28 £23.11
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £50.00 £44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
F#
England

F#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 -
F#
England

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) C#
1 7 (87.50%) Visual Studio
1 7 (87.50%) HTML5
2 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 6 (75.00%) CSS3
2 6 (75.00%) MVC
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
2 6 (75.00%) WCF
2 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (75.00%) CSS
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) HTML
3 5 (62.50%) Human Factors
4 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
5 1 (12.50%) Lisp
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (12.50%) Mathematica
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Ajax

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) HTML5
2 6 (75.00%) CSS3
2 6 (75.00%) WCF
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
2 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (75.00%) CSS
3 5 (62.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Mathematica
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) UI Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Designer
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience Developer
3 2 (25.00%) UI Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Human Factors
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) MVC
1 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
2 1 (12.50%) MVVM
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VBA
3 1 (12.50%) Lisp
3 1 (12.50%) Haskell
3 1 (12.50%) Erlang
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle