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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for F# skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited F# over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkF#
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank647686977
Rank change year-on-year
Up+39Up+291
Matching permanent IT job ads2911
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.034 %0.001 %0.000 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.071 %0.002 %0.001 %
Salaries quoted2100
Average salary£40,500--
UK excluding London average salary£40,000--
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
410554025992083
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.83 %46.95 %45.61 %
Salaries quoted352803405876975
Average salary£40,000£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %

F#
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing F# within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

F# Demand Trend

F#
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing F# within the UK.

F# Salary Trend

F#
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F# over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 within the UK.

F# Salary Histogram

F#
Top 6 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 UK over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+3829£40,500-
LondonUp+527£40,750-
City of LondonDown-506£52,500-
West MidlandsNew entry-2£40,000-
SolihullNew entry-1--
BirminghamNew entry-1£40,000-

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F#.

161 (80.26 %)C#
242 (55.26 %)C++
338 (50.00 %).NET
436 (47.37 %)Degree
534 (44.74 %)Finance
629 (38.16 %)Computer Science
629 (38.16 %)Erlang
726 (34.21 %)Java
823 (30.26 %)Oracle
922 (28.95 %)Front Office
1021 (27.63 %)Agile Software Development
1120 (26.32 %)SQL Server
1120 (26.32 %)OO
1219 (25.00 %)Risk Management
1219 (25.00 %)WPF
1219 (25.00 %).NET Framework
1317 (22.37 %)Mathematics
1317 (22.37 %)Haskell
1317 (22.37 %)Scala
1416 (21.05 %)SQL
1515 (19.74 %)Derivative
1613 (17.11 %)Windows
1613 (17.11 %)Linux
1712 (15.79 %)Banking
1811 (14.47 %)XML
199 (11.84 %)LINQ
199 (11.84 %)PL/SQL
199 (11.84 %)UML
199 (11.84 %)T-SQL
199 (11.84 %)XML Schema

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
138 (50.00 %).NET
219 (25.00 %).NET Framework
219 (25.00 %)WPF
311 (14.47 %)XML
49 (11.84 %)LINQ
49 (11.84 %)XML Schema
58 (10.53 %)Web Services
66 (7.895 %)COM
75 (6.579 %)Silverlight
84 (5.263 %)XSLT
91 (1.316 %)J2SE
91 (1.316 %)Oracle Coherence
91 (1.316 %)Adobe Flex
91 (1.316 %)CSS
91 (1.316 %)HTML
91 (1.316 %)Middleware
91 (1.316 %)Hibernate
91 (1.316 %)WinForms
91 (1.316 %)Spring
91 (1.316 %)AJAX
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (5.263 %)TIBCO EMS
21 (1.316 %)MQSeries
21 (1.316 %)Rendezvous
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (5.263 %)Spreadsheet
23 (3.947 %)MS Excel
23 (3.947 %)MS Visio
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (1.316 %)PPP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
120 (26.32 %)SQL Server
28 (10.53 %)Oracle 8/8i
28 (10.53 %)Oracle 11g
36 (7.895 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
36 (7.895 %)SQL Server 2008
36 (7.895 %)Datawarehouse
36 (7.895 %)OLAP
36 (7.895 %)ETL
36 (7.895 %)SQL Server 2005
36 (7.895 %)SQL Server Integration Services
44 (5.263 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51 (1.316 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (10.53 %)Ant
24 (5.263 %)NUnit
24 (5.263 %)Team Foundation Server
33 (3.947 %)InstallShield
33 (3.947 %)VSS/SourceSafe
42 (2.632 %)ClearCase
42 (2.632 %)Subversion
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
134 (44.74 %)Finance
222 (28.95 %)Front Office
312 (15.79 %)Banking
48 (10.53 %)Financial Institution
55 (6.579 %)Education
64 (5.263 %)Games
72 (2.632 %)Retail
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
137 (48.68 %)Developer
216 (21.05 %)Graduate
310 (13.16 %)C++ Developer
49 (11.84 %)C# Developer
56 (7.895 %)Team Leader
56 (7.895 %)Quantitative Developer
56 (7.895 %)Project Leader
56 (7.895 %).NET Team Leader
56 (7.895 %)Excel Developer
65 (6.579 %)C++/C# Developer
74 (5.263 %)Build Engineer
74 (5.263 %)C++ Team Leader
74 (5.263 %)Java Developer
74 (5.263 %)SQL Developer
83 (3.947 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
92 (2.632 %)Technical Project Leader
92 (2.632 %)Junior
92 (2.632 %)Junior Developer
92 (2.632 %)Senior Developer
101 (1.316 %)Programmer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
129 (38.16 %)Computer Science
217 (22.37 %)Mathematics
315 (19.74 %)Derivative
48 (10.53 %)Physics
55 (6.579 %)Equity Derivative
55 (6.579 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
55 (6.579 %)Fixed Income
64 (5.263 %)Applied Mathematics
73 (3.947 %)Multithreading
73 (3.947 %)Equities
73 (3.947 %)Interest Rate Derivative
82 (2.632 %)Credit Derivative
82 (2.632 %)VAX
82 (2.632 %)Swaptions
91 (1.316 %)Open Source
91 (1.316 %)Hybrid Derivative
91 (1.316 %)Statistics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
113 (17.11 %)Windows
113 (17.11 %)Linux
23 (3.947 %)Windows 7
31 (1.316 %)UNIX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
121 (27.63 %)Agile Software Development
220 (26.32 %)OO
319 (25.00 %)Risk Management
49 (11.84 %)UML
58 (10.53 %)Continuous Integration
67 (9.211 %)Scrum
76 (7.895 %)Data Modelling
76 (7.895 %)Business Intelligence
83 (3.947 %)SOA
83 (3.947 %)Parallel Computing
92 (2.632 %)Financial Modelling
92 (2.632 %)OOP
92 (2.632 %)Software Engineering
101 (1.316 %)Web Development
101 (1.316 %)Electronic Trading
101 (1.316 %)TDD
101 (1.316 %)Content Management
101 (1.316 %)RAD
101 (1.316 %)OOD
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
161 (80.26 %)C#
242 (55.26 %)C++
329 (38.16 %)Erlang
426 (34.21 %)Java
517 (22.37 %)Haskell
517 (22.37 %)Scala
616 (21.05 %)SQL
79 (11.84 %)T-SQL
79 (11.84 %)PL/SQL
86 (7.895 %)Python
95 (6.579 %)VB6
95 (6.579 %)VB
104 (5.263 %)Smalltalk
104 (5.263 %)Lisp
113 (3.947 %)C
113 (3.947 %)Perl
113 (3.947 %)VBA
122 (2.632 %)OCaml
131 (1.316 %)JavaScript
131 (1.316 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
136 (47.37 %)Degree
28 (10.53 %)PhD
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
123 (30.26 %)Oracle
27 (9.211 %)Microsoft
36 (7.895 %)ProClarity
45 (6.579 %)TIBCO
52 (2.632 %)Reuters
52 (2.632 %)Bloomberg
61 (1.316 %)Adobe
61 (1.316 %)DataSynapse