The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F#
Rank 503 522 506
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -16
Contract jobs citing F# 18 37 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.041% 0.070% 0.098%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.109% 0.196% 0.254%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 45
Average daily rate £525 £525 £585
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £441 £525
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £625
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
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
16573 18897 21696
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.84% 35.62% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10417 11465 13011
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 698 783
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £18.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
F#
UK

F#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England F# Daily Rate Trend

F#
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing F# across the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

England F# Daily Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +7 16 £538 +1.51% 12
East of England +13 1 £350 -4.76%
South East - 1 £325 - 2
South West - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
F#
UK

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 36 (94.74%) C#
2 28 (73.68%) .NET
3 22 (57.89%) WCF
4 20 (52.63%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (39.47%) Banking
6 14 (36.84%) Investment Banking
7 12 (31.58%) Multithreading
8 11 (28.95%) Scrum
8 11 (28.95%) WF
9 10 (26.32%) MVC
10 9 (23.68%) Front Office
10 9 (23.68%) TDD
10 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
11 8 (21.05%) Visual Studio
11 8 (21.05%) ASP.NET
12 7 (18.42%) CSS
12 7 (18.42%) TIBCO
12 7 (18.42%) SQL
12 7 (18.42%) WPF
12 7 (18.42%) HTML5
12 7 (18.42%) CSS3
13 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (15.79%) jQuery
13 6 (15.79%) Haskell
13 6 (15.79%) C++
13 6 (15.79%) Java
13 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
14 5 (13.16%) HTML
14 5 (13.16%) Back Office

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 28 (73.68%) .NET
2 22 (57.89%) WCF
3 11 (28.95%) WF
4 8 (21.05%) ASP.NET
5 7 (18.42%) CSS
5 7 (18.42%) WPF
5 7 (18.42%) HTML5
5 7 (18.42%) CSS3
6 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (15.79%) jQuery
7 5 (13.16%) HTML
8 4 (10.53%) Web Services
9 3 (7.895%) J2EE
9 3 (7.895%) Spring
9 3 (7.895%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (5.263%) LINQ
10 2 (5.263%) ZeroMQ
10 2 (5.263%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (5.263%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (5.263%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.632%) Confluence
1 1 (2.632%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.632%) HTTP
1 1 (2.632%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.53%) KDB
2 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.632%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.632%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.632%) Big Data
3 1 (2.632%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Visual Studio
2 5 (13.16%) TeamCity
3 4 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (7.895%) Subversion
5 1 (2.632%) Maven
5 1 (2.632%) JIRA
5 1 (2.632%) NUnit
5 1 (2.632%) MSTest
5 1 (2.632%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (2.632%) Moq
5 1 (2.632%) Gradle
5 1 (2.632%) Git (software)
General
1 15 (39.47%) Banking
2 14 (36.84%) Investment Banking
3 9 (23.68%) Front Office
4 5 (13.16%) Back Office
4 5 (13.16%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) C# Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.895%) .NET Developer
4 3 (7.895%) Programmer
4 3 (7.895%) Real Time Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) UI Designer
4 3 (7.895%) UI Developer
4 3 (7.895%) Designer
4 3 (7.895%) C# Programmer
4 3 (7.895%) User Experience Developer
4 3 (7.895%) UI Programmer
5 2 (5.263%) C# Analyst Programmer
5 2 (5.263%) Real Time Software Engineer
5 2 (5.263%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (5.263%) WPF Developer
5 2 (5.263%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (5.263%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.263%) Analyst
5 2 (5.263%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Derivative
1 5 (13.16%) Human Factors
2 3 (7.895%) N-Tier
2 3 (7.895%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.263%) Grid Computing
3 2 (5.263%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.263%) Social Media
3 2 (5.263%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.632%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.632%) Visualisation
4 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.632%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.263%) UNIX
1 2 (5.263%) Windows
2 1 (2.632%) Linux
2 1 (2.632%) Android
2 1 (2.632%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (31.58%) Multithreading
3 11 (28.95%) Scrum
4 10 (26.32%) MVC
5 9 (23.68%) TDD
5 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.16%) SOA
7 3 (7.895%) Unit Testing
7 3 (7.895%) System Testing
7 3 (7.895%) OOP
7 3 (7.895%) MVVM
7 3 (7.895%) Memory Management
8 2 (5.263%) BDD
8 2 (5.263%) OO
8 2 (5.263%) Release Management
8 2 (5.263%) Performance Testing
9 1 (2.632%) Software Architecture
9 1 (2.632%) RAD
9 1 (2.632%) E-Commerce
9 1 (2.632%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (94.74%) C#
2 7 (18.42%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) Haskell
3 6 (15.79%) C++
3 6 (15.79%) Java
4 5 (13.16%) Scala
5 4 (10.53%) Ruby
6 3 (7.895%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.263%) Erlang
7 2 (5.263%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.263%) Perl
7 2 (5.263%) VBA
8 1 (2.632%) Python
8 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.632%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.632%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.632%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.632%) Groovy
8 1 (2.632%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) TIBCO
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.263%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.263%) Perforce
4 1 (2.632%) 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: 14 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
City, London
Key Skills: - Very strong C# skills -MVVM - OOD - No Sql solutions (Mongo DB) - WCF - Strong distributed computing knowledge - experience of Grid based computing, sharded aches, etc Solace - Good...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
c# mvc WPF developer financial Hedgefund agile finance london software... - C# asp.net - Very strong agile (TDD etc) - WPF (preferably) - MVC(4) Ideally + any of these NHibernate, Castle,...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £300 - £450 per day + dependant on candiate
Posted: 7 June 2013
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