The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F# over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F#
Rank 371 375 390
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +15
Contract jobs citing F# 13 35 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.057% 0.132% 0.168%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.134% 0.342% 0.394%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 30 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 £495 £525
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £575 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £368 -
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9677 10244 13467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 42.44% 38.53% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6907 6983 9169
Average daily rate £440 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.57% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 151 146
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.75 £20.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.84 £50.00 £55.00
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 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
City of London -15 4 £550 +4.76% 6
Canary Wharf +3 1 - -
F#
England

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 28 (93.33%) C#
2 20 (66.67%) .NET
3 19 (63.33%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (53.33%) WCF
5 15 (50.00%) Banking
6 14 (46.67%) Investment Banking
7 12 (40.00%) Multithreading
8 11 (36.67%) WF
9 9 (30.00%) Front Office
9 9 (30.00%) TDD
9 9 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (23.33%) WPF
10 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
10 7 (23.33%) TIBCO
11 6 (20.00%) C++
11 6 (20.00%) Java
11 6 (20.00%) Haskell
12 5 (16.67%) Derivative
12 5 (16.67%) TeamCity
12 5 (16.67%) Scala
12 5 (16.67%) SQL
12 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
12 5 (16.67%) Back Office
12 5 (16.67%) Scrum
13 4 (13.33%) MVC
13 4 (13.33%) Finance
13 4 (13.33%) Ruby
13 4 (13.33%) SOA
13 4 (13.33%) Web Services
13 4 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 20 (66.67%) .NET
2 16 (53.33%) WCF
3 11 (36.67%) WF
4 7 (23.33%) WPF
5 4 (13.33%) Web Services
6 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (10.00%) J2EE
6 3 (10.00%) Spring
7 2 (6.667%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (6.667%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (6.667%) SOAP
7 2 (6.667%) Rendezvous
7 2 (6.667%) Middleware
7 2 (6.667%) LINQ
7 2 (6.667%) ZeroMQ
8 1 (3.333%) CSS3
8 1 (3.333%) AppFabric
8 1 (3.333%) REST
8 1 (3.333%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.333%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) NServiceBus
1 1 (3.333%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) HTTP
1 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) KDB
2 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.333%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.333%) Big Data
3 1 (3.333%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 4 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.667%) Subversion
3 2 (6.667%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.333%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (3.333%) Moq
4 1 (3.333%) Gradle
4 1 (3.333%) JIRA
4 1 (3.333%) MSTest
4 1 (3.333%) Maven
4 1 (3.333%) NUnit
General
1 15 (50.00%) Banking
2 14 (46.67%) Investment Banking
3 9 (30.00%) Front Office
4 5 (16.67%) Back Office
5 4 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) C# Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Real Time Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) C# Programmer
4 3 (10.00%) Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.667%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Web Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) C# Analyst Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) Real Time Software Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) WPF Developer
6 1 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) UI Programmer
6 1 (3.333%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Web Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Derivative
2 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.667%) Grid Computing
3 2 (6.667%) Social Media
3 2 (6.667%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.667%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.333%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.333%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.333%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.667%) UNIX
1 2 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.333%) Android
2 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 9 (30.00%) TDD
3 9 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (13.33%) MVC
5 4 (13.33%) SOA
6 3 (10.00%) MVVM
6 3 (10.00%) Memory Management
6 3 (10.00%) System Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (6.667%) OOP
7 2 (6.667%) OO
7 2 (6.667%) Release Management
7 2 (6.667%) Performance Testing
7 2 (6.667%) BDD
8 1 (3.333%) CQRS
8 1 (3.333%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (3.333%) Software Architecture
8 1 (3.333%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) C#
2 6 (20.00%) C++
2 6 (20.00%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) Haskell
3 5 (16.67%) Scala
3 5 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Ruby
5 2 (6.667%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.667%) Erlang
6 1 (3.333%) Groovy
6 1 (3.333%) Perl
6 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.333%) VBA
6 1 (3.333%) Python
6 1 (3.333%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.333%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) TIBCO
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.667%) Perforce
3 2 (6.667%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.333%) 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
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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