F#
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for F# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F# over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 681 825
Rank change year-on-year +124 +144 -125
Contract jobs citing F# 14 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.011% 0.022%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.030% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 17
10th Percentile £474 £363 £575
25th Percentile £504 £374 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £420 £700
Median % change year-on-year +23.10% -40.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £613 £430 £815
90th Percentile £725 £433 £892
UK excluding London median daily rate - £420 -

All Programming Languages
UK

F# is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,717 19,709 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 34.61% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,044 14,221 23,079
10th Percentile £350 £389 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 440 503
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.05 £19.60
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +23.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

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 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F# in the UK

F#
Top 5 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 18 May 2024. 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 +115 12 £515 +22.62% 17
Work from Home +115 11 £517 +23.10% 13
London +103 5 £511 +36.13% 16
UK excluding London +58 4 - - 5
South East +32 4 - - 4

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
1 7 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Site Engineer
1 9 (64.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Applications Support
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) NgRx
2 2 (14.29%) React
2 2 (14.29%) Redux
2 2 (14.29%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 9 (64.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (50.00%) OO
3 7 (50.00%) OOP
3 7 (50.00%) Scrum
3 7 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Analytics
5 5 (35.71%) Data Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
7 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
7 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (14.29%) Functional Programming
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) Workflow
8 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
8 1 (7.14%) DevOps
8 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft