Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 9 February 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
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank633731-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+98New entry-
Matching permanent IT job ads3360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.042 %0.006 %-
As % of the Programming Languages category0.086 %0.013 %-
Salaries quoted2460
Average salary£32,000£36,250-
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.72 %-
UK excluding London average salary-£35,000-
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
384264700891356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.80 %46.51 %45.21 %
Salaries quoted331384065375843
Average salary£38,500£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.470 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

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 9 February 2010 within the UK.

F# Salary Histogram

F#
Top 3 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 9 February 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+10033£32,000-11.72 %
LondonUp+3733£32,000-14.66 %
City of LondonUp+411£72,500+93.33 %

F#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 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#.

152 (80.00 %)C#
242 (64.62 %)C++
333 (50.77 %)Degree
431 (47.69 %).NET
431 (47.69 %)Finance
528 (43.08 %)Computer Science
626 (40.00 %)Erlang
724 (36.92 %)Java
822 (33.85 %)Front Office
921 (32.31 %)Oracle
1020 (30.77 %)Agile Software Development
1119 (29.23 %).NET Framework
1119 (29.23 %)Risk Management
1218 (27.69 %)WPF
1317 (26.15 %)Scala
1415 (23.08 %)Derivative
1514 (21.54 %)OO
1514 (21.54 %)Haskell
1613 (20.00 %)Mathematics
1613 (20.00 %)Windows
1613 (20.00 %)Linux
1613 (20.00 %)SQL Server
1711 (16.92 %)XML
1711 (16.92 %)Banking
1810 (15.38 %)SQL
199 (13.85 %)XML Schema
199 (13.85 %)UML
199 (13.85 %)LINQ
208 (12.31 %)Physics
208 (12.31 %)Oracle 11g

F#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 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
131 (47.69 %).NET
219 (29.23 %).NET Framework
318 (27.69 %)WPF
411 (16.92 %)XML
59 (13.85 %)XML Schema
59 (13.85 %)LINQ
68 (12.31 %)Web Services
76 (9.231 %)COM
84 (6.154 %)XSLT
93 (4.615 %)Silverlight
101 (1.538 %)AJAX
101 (1.538 %)CSS
101 (1.538 %)HTML
101 (1.538 %)WinForms
101 (1.538 %)Middleware
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (4.615 %)TIBCO EMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (6.154 %)Spreadsheet
23 (4.615 %)MS Excel
23 (4.615 %)MS Visio
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (1.538 %)PPP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
113 (20.00 %)SQL Server
28 (12.31 %)Oracle 11g
28 (12.31 %)Oracle 8/8i
31 (1.538 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (12.31 %)Ant
24 (6.154 %)Team Foundation Server
24 (6.154 %)NUnit
33 (4.615 %)VSS/SourceSafe
33 (4.615 %)InstallShield
42 (3.077 %)ClearCase
42 (3.077 %)Subversion
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
131 (47.69 %)Finance
222 (33.85 %)Front Office
311 (16.92 %)Banking
48 (12.31 %)Financial Institution
54 (6.154 %)Education
62 (3.077 %)Games
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
128 (43.08 %)Developer
215 (23.08 %)Graduate
310 (15.38 %)C++ Developer
49 (13.85 %)C# Developer
56 (9.231 %)Project Leader
56 (9.231 %)Excel Developer
65 (7.692 %).NET Team Leader
65 (7.692 %)Quantitative Developer
65 (7.692 %)C++/C# Developer
65 (7.692 %)Team Leader
74 (6.154 %)Build Engineer
74 (6.154 %)C++ Team Leader
83 (4.615 %)Java Developer
92 (3.077 %)Technical Project Leader
101 (1.538 %)C Developer
101 (1.538 %)Senior C++ Developer
101 (1.538 %).NET Developer
101 (1.538 %)Technical Team Leader
101 (1.538 %)Java Team Leader
101 (1.538 %)Junior Java Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
128 (43.08 %)Computer Science
215 (23.08 %)Derivative
313 (20.00 %)Mathematics
48 (12.31 %)Physics
55 (7.692 %)Equity Derivative
55 (7.692 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
64 (6.154 %)Fixed Income
73 (4.615 %)Interest Rate Derivative
73 (4.615 %)Applied Mathematics
73 (4.615 %)Equities
82 (3.077 %)Swaptions
82 (3.077 %)Multithreading
82 (3.077 %)Credit Derivative
82 (3.077 %)VAX
91 (1.538 %)Hybrid Derivative
91 (1.538 %)Open Source
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
113 (20.00 %)Windows
113 (20.00 %)Linux
23 (4.615 %)Windows 7
31 (1.538 %)UNIX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
120 (30.77 %)Agile Software Development
219 (29.23 %)Risk Management
314 (21.54 %)OO
49 (13.85 %)UML
58 (12.31 %)Continuous Integration
63 (4.615 %)Parallel Computing
63 (4.615 %)SOA
72 (3.077 %)OOP
72 (3.077 %)Financial Modelling
72 (3.077 %)Software Engineering
81 (1.538 %)Web Development
81 (1.538 %)Content Management
81 (1.538 %)TDD
81 (1.538 %)Electronic Trading
81 (1.538 %)RAD
81 (1.538 %)Scrum
81 (1.538 %)OOD
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
152 (80.00 %)C#
242 (64.62 %)C++
326 (40.00 %)Erlang
424 (36.92 %)Java
517 (26.15 %)Scala
614 (21.54 %)Haskell
710 (15.38 %)SQL
88 (12.31 %)PL/SQL
88 (12.31 %)T-SQL
96 (9.231 %)Python
105 (7.692 %)VB6
105 (7.692 %)VB
114 (6.154 %)Lisp
114 (6.154 %)Smalltalk
123 (4.615 %)VBA
123 (4.615 %)C
123 (4.615 %)Perl
132 (3.077 %)OCaml
141 (1.538 %)Ruby
141 (1.538 %)JavaScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
133 (50.77 %)Degree
26 (9.231 %)PhD
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
121 (32.31 %)Oracle
27 (10.77 %)Microsoft
33 (4.615 %)TIBCO
42 (3.077 %)Reuters
42 (3.077 %)Bloomberg