F# Contracts

F#
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring F# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited F# over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 568 713
Rank change year-on-year +55 +145 +122
Contract jobs citing F# 7 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.032% 0.008%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.070% 0.11% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 5
10th Percentile £660 £474 £382
25th Percentile £744 £504 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £517 £420
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% +23.10% -44.00%
75th Percentile £800 £613 £430
90th Percentile £805 £725 £434
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £420

All Programming Languages
UK

F# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,965 12,846 20,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,755 9,122 15,089
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £768 £762 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 487 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.70 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%

F#
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F# in the UK

F#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F#.

Daily rate trend for F# in the UK

F#
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F# over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F# in the UK

F#
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F# within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 7 £775 +50.49% 5
London +39 6 £788 +54.26% 3
Work from Home +36 6 £775 +49.90% 3

F#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) C# Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (42.86%) SOA Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) .NET Framework
3 5 (71.43%) Akka.NET
3 5 (71.43%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Functional Programming
2 5 (71.43%) Requirements Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft