The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F# over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F#
Rank 525 542 537
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -5
Contract jobs citing F# 16 37 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.033% 0.065% 0.085%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.087% 0.184% 0.225%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 44
Average daily rate £463 £525 £585
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.90% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £441 £525
10% offered a daily rate of more than £573 £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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18427 20093 23572
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.69% 35.15% 37.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11300 11915 13947
Average daily rate £400 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -9.09%
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 607 733 846
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.51 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00

F#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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# within the UK.

F# Daily Rate Trend

F#
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing F# within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

F# Daily Rate Histogram

F#
Top 29 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +10 16 £463 -11.90% 12
London +2 14 £525 - 12
City of London -17 5 £550 +4.76% 6
East of England +16 1 £350 -4.76%
Canary Wharf +2 1 - -
South East - 1 £325 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 -
Hampshire - 1 £325 -
Cambridge - 1 £350 -
Portsmouth - 1 £325 -
Slough - - - -
Stoke-on-Trent - - - -
Watford - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Cheltenham - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
Aberdeen - - - -
Brighton - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
Staffordshire - - - -
Warwickshire - - - -
East Sussex - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Peterborough - - - -
South West - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Scotland - - - -

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 44 (95.65%) C#
2 35 (76.09%) .NET
3 22 (47.83%) WCF
4 20 (43.48%) Agile Software Development
5 16 (34.78%) Banking
6 15 (32.61%) Investment Banking
6 15 (32.61%) ASP.NET
7 14 (30.43%) SQL
8 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
9 12 (26.09%) Multithreading
10 11 (23.91%) WF
10 11 (23.91%) Scrum
11 10 (21.74%) MVC
11 10 (21.74%) T-SQL
12 9 (19.57%) TDD
12 9 (19.57%) Front Office
12 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (17.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (17.39%) VB.NET
13 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
13 8 (17.39%) Visual Studio
13 8 (17.39%) ASP
13 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
14 7 (15.22%) MS Excel
14 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
14 7 (15.22%) CSS
14 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
14 7 (15.22%) TIBCO
14 7 (15.22%) WPF

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 35 (76.09%) .NET
2 22 (47.83%) WCF
3 15 (32.61%) ASP.NET
4 11 (23.91%) WF
5 8 (17.39%) ASP
6 7 (15.22%) CSS
6 7 (15.22%) WPF
6 7 (15.22%) HTML5
6 7 (15.22%) CSS3
7 6 (13.04%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (13.04%) jQuery
8 5 (10.87%) HTML
9 4 (8.696%) Web Services
10 3 (6.522%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (6.522%) J2EE
10 3 (6.522%) Spring
11 2 (4.348%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (4.348%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (4.348%) LINQ
11 2 (4.348%) Rendezvous
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.174%) NServiceBus
1 1 (2.174%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) HTTP
1 1 (2.174%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.696%) KDB
2 4 (8.696%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.174%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.174%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.174%) Big Data
3 1 (2.174%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Visual Studio
2 5 (10.87%) TeamCity
3 4 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (6.522%) Subversion
5 1 (2.174%) Gradle
5 1 (2.174%) NUnit
5 1 (2.174%) JIRA
5 1 (2.174%) Maven
5 1 (2.174%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (2.174%) Moq
5 1 (2.174%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.174%) MSTest
General
1 16 (34.78%) Banking
2 15 (32.61%) Investment Banking
3 9 (19.57%) Front Office
4 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 5 (10.87%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 34 (73.91%) Developer
2 12 (26.09%) C# Developer
3 8 (17.39%) Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) SQL Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Data Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Developer Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.522%) User Experience Developer
6 3 (6.522%) UI Programmer
6 3 (6.522%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.522%) Programmer
6 3 (6.522%) Real Time Engineer
6 3 (6.522%) UI Developer
6 3 (6.522%) UI Designer
6 3 (6.522%) Designer
6 3 (6.522%) C# Programmer
7 2 (4.348%) C# Analyst Programmer
7 2 (4.348%) Real Time Software Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Derivative
2 5 (10.87%) Human Factors
3 4 (8.696%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.522%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.348%) Social Media
5 2 (4.348%) Grid Computing
5 2 (4.348%) Credit Risk
5 2 (4.348%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.174%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.174%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.174%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.174%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (2.174%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.348%) UNIX
1 2 (4.348%) Windows
2 1 (2.174%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.174%) Linux
2 1 (2.174%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (26.09%) Multithreading
3 11 (23.91%) Scrum
4 10 (21.74%) MVC
5 9 (19.57%) TDD
5 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
7 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (10.87%) SOA
9 3 (6.522%) Memory Management
9 3 (6.522%) OOP
9 3 (6.522%) System Testing
9 3 (6.522%) Unit Testing
9 3 (6.522%) MVVM
10 2 (4.348%) Release Management
10 2 (4.348%) Performance Testing
10 2 (4.348%) OO
10 2 (4.348%) BDD
11 1 (2.174%) CQRS
11 1 (2.174%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) C#
2 14 (30.43%) SQL
3 10 (21.74%) T-SQL
4 8 (17.39%) VB.NET
5 6 (13.04%) Haskell
5 6 (13.04%) C++
5 6 (13.04%) Java
6 5 (10.87%) Scala
7 4 (8.696%) Ruby
8 3 (6.522%) Perl
9 2 (4.348%) Erlang
9 2 (4.348%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.348%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.348%) VBA
10 1 (2.174%) Python
10 1 (2.174%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.174%) Objective-C
10 1 (2.174%) MATLAB
10 1 (2.174%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (8.696%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (6.522%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) TIBCO
3 2 (4.348%) Bloomberg
3 2 (4.348%) Perforce
4 1 (2.174%) 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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