The first table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F#
Rank 436 488 515
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +27
Permanent jobs citing F# 173 152 121
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.397% 0.282% 0.210%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.735% 0.523% 0.385%
Number of salaries quoted 149 116 113
Average salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.73% -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £95,000 £90,000 £92,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-27.77% -21.73%
All Programming Languages
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23535 29055 31430
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 53.96% 53.99% 54.65%
Number of salaries quoted 20256 25824 26815
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
F#
England

F#
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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

London F# Salary Trend

F#
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F# across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +13 19 £60,000 -4.00%
Canary Wharf -2 3 - -
F#
England

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F#.

1 265 (87.17%) C#
2 182 (59.87%) Finance
3 151 (49.67%) Java
4 137 (45.07%) C++
5 124 (40.79%) .NET
6 123 (40.46%) OO
7 115 (37.83%) Hedge funds
8 89 (29.28%) Scala
9 84 (27.63%) Computer Science
9 84 (27.63%) Haskell
10 65 (21.38%) Degree
11 64 (21.05%) Erlang
12 60 (19.74%) Mathematics
13 57 (18.75%) Clojure
14 52 (17.11%) TDD
15 49 (16.12%) UNIX
16 47 (15.46%) SQL
16 47 (15.46%) Open Source
17 46 (15.13%) SQL Server
18 41 (13.49%) Python
19 40 (13.16%) ASP.NET
19 40 (13.16%) MVC
20 39 (12.83%) OCaml
20 39 (12.83%) WPF
21 38 (12.50%) Ruby
22 37 (12.17%) Unit Testing
22 37 (12.17%) JavaScript
23 35 (11.51%) Multithreading
23 35 (11.51%) MongoDB
24 33 (10.86%) Games

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 124 (40.79%) .NET
2 40 (13.16%) ASP.NET
3 39 (12.83%) WPF
4 29 (9.539%) ASP.NET MVC
5 26 (8.553%) WCF
6 25 (8.224%) REST
7 22 (7.237%) Hibernate
7 22 (7.237%) Spring
8 17 (5.592%) WinForms
9 16 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 10 (3.289%) Silverlight
10 10 (3.289%) LINQ
10 10 (3.289%) Guice
11 9 (2.961%) Apache CXF
11 9 (2.961%) .NET Framework
11 9 (2.961%) XML
12 6 (1.974%) Web Services
13 5 (1.645%) HTML
14 4 (1.316%) J2EE
15 3 (0.987%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 23 (7.566%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (2.961%) Windows Azure
2 9 (2.961%) MQSeries
3 4 (1.316%) ColdFusion
3 4 (1.316%) IIS
4 2 (0.658%) Rendezvous
5 1 (0.329%) Zope
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.605%) HTTP
2 4 (1.316%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (15.13%) SQL Server
2 35 (11.51%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.566%) Hadoop
4 21 (6.908%) Big Data
5 10 (3.289%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.289%) MySQL
6 9 (2.961%) DB2
6 9 (2.961%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.658%) KDB
8 1 (0.329%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.329%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.329%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.329%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.329%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 28 (9.211%) Visual Studio
2 8 (2.632%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.303%) Git (software)
4 4 (1.316%) Maven
5 3 (0.987%) SilkTest
5 3 (0.987%) Subversion
6 2 (0.658%) NUnit
6 2 (0.658%) GitHub
7 1 (0.329%) Gradle
7 1 (0.329%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.329%) Selenium
7 1 (0.329%) Cucumber
General
1 182 (59.87%) Finance
2 33 (10.86%) Games
3 12 (3.947%) Front Office
4 8 (2.632%) Banking
5 5 (1.645%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.316%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (63.49%) Developer
2 95 (31.25%) C# Developer
3 45 (14.80%) Programmer
4 43 (14.14%) Java Developer
5 33 (10.86%) Quantitative Developer
6 32 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 32 (10.53%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 23 (7.566%) C# .NET Developer
8 22 (7.237%) C++ Developer
9 15 (4.934%) C++/Java Developer
9 15 (4.934%) C++/C# Developer
10 14 (4.605%) .NET Developer
11 9 (2.961%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.632%) Software Developer
13 6 (1.974%) Tester
13 6 (1.974%) ASP.NET Developer
13 6 (1.974%) Team Leader
13 6 (1.974%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 6 (1.974%) Technical Leader
14 5 (1.645%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 115 (37.83%) Hedge funds
2 84 (27.63%) Computer Science
3 60 (19.74%) Mathematics
4 47 (15.46%) Open Source
5 24 (7.895%) Spread Betting
6 21 (6.908%) Online Games
6 21 (6.908%) Physics
7 15 (4.934%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (4.605%) Statistics
9 10 (3.289%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (2.961%) Derivative
10 9 (2.961%) Mainframe
10 9 (2.961%) Fixed Income
10 9 (2.961%) Grid Computing
10 9 (2.961%) Applied Mathematics
10 9 (2.961%) Machine Learning
11 7 (2.303%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.316%) Social Media
12 4 (1.316%) Equities
13 2 (0.658%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 49 (16.12%) UNIX
2 32 (10.53%) Windows
3 25 (8.224%) Linux
3 25 (8.224%) Android
3 25 (8.224%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.329%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.46%) OO
2 52 (17.11%) TDD
3 40 (13.16%) MVC
4 37 (12.17%) Unit Testing
5 35 (11.51%) Multithreading
6 30 (9.868%) Agile Software Development
7 27 (8.882%) Algorithmic Trading
8 26 (8.553%) Scrum
9 24 (7.895%) Manual Testing
10 18 (5.921%) BDD
11 17 (5.592%) Software Engineering
12 13 (4.276%) Business Analysis
12 13 (4.276%) Investment Management
13 12 (3.947%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (3.947%) Project Management
14 11 (3.618%) Analytics
15 10 (3.289%) Domain-Driven Design
16 9 (2.961%) Time Management
16 9 (2.961%) E-Commerce
16 9 (2.961%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 265 (87.17%) C#
2 151 (49.67%) Java
3 137 (45.07%) C++
4 89 (29.28%) Scala
5 84 (27.63%) Haskell
6 64 (21.05%) Erlang
7 57 (18.75%) Clojure
8 47 (15.46%) SQL
9 41 (13.49%) Python
10 39 (12.83%) OCaml
11 38 (12.50%) Ruby
12 37 (12.17%) JavaScript
13 27 (8.882%) Lisp
14 19 (6.250%) Objective-C
15 11 (3.618%) MATLAB
15 11 (3.618%) Shell Script
16 10 (3.289%) C
17 8 (2.632%) Groovy
18 6 (1.974%) Perl
19 5 (1.645%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (21.38%) Degree
2 15 (4.934%) OCA
2 15 (4.934%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (1.316%) PhD
4 2 (0.658%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.20%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (6.579%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.250%) Google
3 10 (3.289%) Facebook
3 10 (3.289%) Sybase
4 9 (2.961%) Oracle
5 3 (0.987%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.329%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.329%) IBM
6 1 (0.329%) DataSynapse
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