The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited F# over the 3 months to 21 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F#
Rank 656 671 729
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +58
Permanent jobs citing F# 191 187 133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.188% 0.164% 0.115%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.352% 0.302% 0.216%
Number of salaries quoted 164 148 121
Average salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,750 £45,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £92,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-27.77% -21.73%
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54245 61957 61502
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.38% 54.46% 53.21%
Number of salaries quoted 47151 54880 53552
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
F#
UK

F#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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#
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing F# across the England region.

England F# Salary Trend

F#
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F# across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England F# Salary Histogram

F#
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F# within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +46 172 £70,000 +21.73%
South East +6 13 £32,500 -18.75%
East of England -14 5 £55,000 +22.22%
South West - 1 £40,000 -
F#
UK

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F#.

1 280 (86.15%) C#
2 181 (55.69%) Finance
3 161 (49.54%) Java
4 140 (43.08%) C++
5 136 (41.85%) .NET
6 135 (41.54%) OO
7 116 (35.69%) Hedge funds
8 92 (28.31%) Scala
9 90 (27.69%) Computer Science
10 89 (27.38%) Haskell
11 65 (20.00%) Degree
12 63 (19.38%) Erlang
13 62 (19.08%) Mathematics
13 62 (19.08%) TDD
14 57 (17.54%) Clojure
14 57 (17.54%) Open Source
15 56 (17.23%) SQL
15 56 (17.23%) SQL Server
16 49 (15.08%) ASP.NET
16 49 (15.08%) Python
17 48 (14.77%) UNIX
18 45 (13.85%) OCaml
19 40 (12.31%) MVC
19 40 (12.31%) WPF
20 39 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
21 38 (11.69%) Ruby
22 37 (11.38%) JavaScript
23 36 (11.08%) Unit Testing
24 35 (10.77%) MongoDB
24 35 (10.77%) Visual Studio

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 136 (41.85%) .NET
2 49 (15.08%) ASP.NET
3 40 (12.31%) WPF
4 34 (10.46%) WCF
5 29 (8.923%) ASP.NET MVC
6 25 (7.692%) REST
7 22 (6.769%) Spring
7 22 (6.769%) Hibernate
8 18 (5.538%) XML
9 17 (5.231%) WinForms
10 16 (4.923%) Web Services
10 16 (4.923%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 11 (3.385%) XSLT
12 10 (3.077%) Guice
12 10 (3.077%) Silverlight
12 10 (3.077%) LINQ
13 9 (2.769%) Apache CXF
14 8 (2.462%) .NET Framework
15 5 (1.538%) HTML
16 4 (1.231%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 31 (9.538%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (2.769%) Windows Azure
2 9 (2.769%) MQSeries
3 8 (2.462%) MSMQ
4 4 (1.231%) IIS
4 4 (1.231%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.615%) Rendezvous
6 1 (0.308%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.308%) Zope
Applications
1 1 (0.308%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.308%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.308%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.000%) HTTP
2 4 (1.231%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.23%) SQL Server
2 35 (10.77%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.077%) Hadoop
4 21 (6.462%) Big Data
5 10 (3.077%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.077%) MySQL
6 9 (2.769%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (2.769%) DB2
6 9 (2.769%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.615%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.308%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.308%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.308%) KDB
8 1 (0.308%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.308%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.308%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.308%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 35 (10.77%) Visual Studio
2 8 (2.462%) TeamCity
2 8 (2.462%) Git (software)
3 4 (1.231%) Subversion
3 4 (1.231%) Maven
4 3 (0.923%) SilkTest
5 2 (0.615%) GitHub
5 2 (0.615%) NUnit
6 1 (0.308%) Selenium
6 1 (0.308%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.308%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.308%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.308%) Gradle
General
1 181 (55.69%) Finance
2 32 (9.846%) Games
3 11 (3.385%) Front Office
4 7 (2.154%) Banking
5 5 (1.538%) Telecoms
6 3 (0.923%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 206 (63.38%) Developer
2 103 (31.69%) C# Developer
3 45 (13.85%) Programmer
4 44 (13.54%) Java Developer
5 39 (12.00%) Software Engineer
6 33 (10.15%) Quantitative Developer
7 32 (9.846%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 31 (9.538%) C# .NET Developer
9 25 (7.692%) .NET Developer
10 22 (6.769%) C++ Developer
11 15 (4.615%) C++/Java Developer
11 15 (4.615%) C++/C# Developer
12 14 (4.308%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.769%) Senior Developer
14 6 (1.846%) Development Manager
14 6 (1.846%) Tester
14 6 (1.846%) Team Leader
14 6 (1.846%) Technical Leader
15 5 (1.538%) C# ASP.NET Developer
15 5 (1.538%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 116 (35.69%) Hedge funds
2 90 (27.69%) Computer Science
3 62 (19.08%) Mathematics
4 57 (17.54%) Open Source
5 24 (7.385%) Spread Betting
6 23 (7.077%) Physics
7 21 (6.462%) Online Games
8 14 (4.308%) Statistics
8 14 (4.308%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.077%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (2.769%) Derivative
10 9 (2.769%) Applied Mathematics
10 9 (2.769%) Mainframe
10 9 (2.769%) Fixed Income
10 9 (2.769%) Grid Computing
10 9 (2.769%) Machine Learning
11 7 (2.154%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.846%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.231%) Equities
13 4 (1.231%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.77%) UNIX
2 34 (10.46%) Windows
3 30 (9.231%) Linux
4 26 (8.000%) Apple iOS
4 26 (8.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (41.54%) OO
2 62 (19.08%) TDD
3 40 (12.31%) MVC
4 39 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 36 (11.08%) Unit Testing
6 34 (10.46%) Scrum
6 34 (10.46%) Multithreading
7 26 (8.000%) Algorithmic Trading
8 24 (7.385%) Manual Testing
9 19 (5.846%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (5.538%) BDD
11 17 (5.231%) Software Engineering
12 13 (4.000%) Business Analysis
12 13 (4.000%) Investment Management
13 12 (3.692%) Project Management
14 11 (3.385%) Analytics
15 10 (3.077%) Integration Testing
15 10 (3.077%) Domain-Driven Design
16 9 (2.769%) Time Management
16 9 (2.769%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 280 (86.15%) C#
2 161 (49.54%) Java
3 140 (43.08%) C++
4 92 (28.31%) Scala
5 89 (27.38%) Haskell
6 63 (19.38%) Erlang
7 57 (17.54%) Clojure
8 56 (17.23%) SQL
9 49 (15.08%) Python
10 45 (13.85%) OCaml
11 38 (11.69%) Ruby
12 37 (11.38%) JavaScript
13 27 (8.308%) Lisp
14 19 (5.846%) Objective-C
15 15 (4.615%) C
16 11 (3.385%) MATLAB
16 11 (3.385%) Shell Script
17 8 (2.462%) VB.NET
17 8 (2.462%) Groovy
18 5 (1.538%) Perl
Qualifications
1 65 (20.00%) Degree
2 15 (4.615%) OCA
2 15 (4.615%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (1.231%) PhD
4 2 (0.615%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.46%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (6.154%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.846%) Google
3 10 (3.077%) Facebook
3 10 (3.077%) Sybase
4 9 (2.769%) Oracle
5 3 (0.923%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.308%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.308%) Trayport
6 1 (0.308%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.308%) IBM
London
C# Developer / .Net Software EngineerLocation: London, CentralSalary: £85k to £100k + bonus (c100%) + benefits packageC# Developer / .Net Software Engineer / Programmer (.Net 4.0 F# C++ Real-time). Hedge Fund...
Client Server
Salary: £85k to £100k + bonus (c100%) + benefits package
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
C#, ASP.NET, SQL, MVC, F# C# .NET developer required on a permanent basis for one of the UKs leading companies... Demonstrated hands on experience with ASP.Net,...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £25000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Developer, C#, C++, Java, .NET, OO, F#, Winforms, GUI, SQL, Multithreading, Trading, Hedge Fund, London, Investment bank, Greenfield... You will ideally have a computer science background and will...
Aston Carter
Salary: £75000 - £120000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 19 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Software Developer .net 2.0 and above - any of VB, C#, C++, F#, ASP .Net/C#, web services, SQL Server... Must have experience with relational databases including SQL...
Green Thompson Consulting
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
This High-Tech, Open Source focused organisation is very well respected and renowned within the industry - with a history of producing Software which is in common use worldwide!.....
e-Recruiter
Salary: £40000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
We cannot say enough good things about this firm and are confident anyone that attends an interview will come away extremely impressed by the set-up, culture, environment...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £4000 - £35000 per annum + good benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
North London
Key Skills You should have extensive knowledge of at least 3: C# Java Ruby Python Perl Scala Haskell Lisp Bash F# C++ It is vital that the Developer...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
The role is working at one of the best .NET systematic Stat Arb trading houses in London. They mainly focus on FX and Equities - however specific product knowledge...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
Skills: C# , .NET , Java , Python , Scala , Ruby , Perl , Haskell , F# , Scheme , Erlang, Clojure A unique high-tech software development consultancy are looking for a number of Multi-Language...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus, Pension
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
The Person The platform is web based, deployed to both public and private cloud and is written primarily in C# (with some F#) but it contains a variety...
Sporting Index
Salary: Competitive, Bonus & Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Refactoring, Continuous integration and SOLID principles. The team is a mix between Scrum/Kanban... - NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB and experience with Ruby and/or F# would also be...
Prism Digital
Salary: £550 - £80000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Junior C#.NET Developer - (Secondary) SQL, CSS / CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML / XHTML / HTML5. London up to 25,000 Are you a developer with excellent solid .NET and C#...
Creative Personnel
Salary: £18000 to £25000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Scala, F#, Haskell, Google Guice, Developer, Greenfield, Core Java, threading, CXF, GUI, MQ Series, Concurrency, Linux, London, Investment Bank, finance, trading systems... The new system will be developed...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + BONUS
Posted: 19 May 2013
South East London
Understanding of networking TCP/IP and SQL Server. Experience with a scripting or programming language (C#, C++, Java, Python, Ruby) This is an excellent opportunity to establish your...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
As a QA Test Analyst / Technical Tester you will test newly developed software, existing software upgrades and deployments to ensure quality is maintained; including manual testing (exploratory, negative...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London or Oxford, South East, United Kingdom
Fund accounting platform... - Strong WinForms, WPF, WCF experience. - Knowledge of T-SQL programming... - Splunk logging, log4net, Ninject, SlowCheetah... - Web development using ASP.NET, MVC, JQuery, HTML5, Bootstrap, SignalR. -...
Winton Capital Management
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013