Fortran
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Fortran skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Fortran over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 920 1241
Rank change year-on-year +131 +321 -315
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 116 26 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.027% 0.014%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 0.065% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 88 18 16
10th Percentile £39,000 - £33,808
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,875 £35,724
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £43,250 £41,957
Median % change year-on-year +34.10% +3.08% +66.51%
75th Percentile £73,750 £51,625 £60,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £53,275 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £43,250 £41,957
% change year-on-year +34.10% +3.08% +66.51%

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Fortran
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fortran.

Salary trend for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fortran over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fortran within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +157 116 £58,000 +34.10% 20
UK excluding London +52 115 £58,000 +34.10% 16
South East +78 104 £58,000 +34.10% 12
Work from Home +55 12 £38,500 - 2
South West - 6 - - 1
North of England +34 5 - -
North West - 5 - -
London - 1 £175,000 - 1

Fortran
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:

Development Applications
1 23 (19.83%) Visual Studio
2 17 (14.66%) GitLab
3 13 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.90%) CMake
4 8 (6.90%) Git
4 8 (6.90%) JIRA
4 8 (6.90%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (6.90%) TestRail
5 6 (5.17%) LabVIEW
5 6 (5.17%) NetBeans
6 5 (4.31%) Clang
7 1 (0.86%) CppUnit
7 1 (0.86%) JUnit
7 1 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
General
1 38 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (31.03%) Software Engineer
2 30 (25.86%) Senior
3 17 (14.66%) Architect
3 17 (14.66%) Software Architect
4 15 (12.93%) Junior
5 12 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (9.48%) Physicist
7 9 (7.76%) Computer Scientist
7 9 (7.76%) Research Scientist
8 7 (6.03%) Research Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Research Software Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Scientific Software Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Computer Scientist
9 6 (5.17%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Compiler Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Software Manager
11 3 (2.59%) Graduate
11 3 (2.59%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 3 (2.59%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.24%) OpenMP
2 15 (12.93%) OpenACC
3 9 (7.76%) HTML
4 8 (6.90%) HTML5
4 8 (6.90%) OpenCL
4 8 (6.90%) OpenGL
4 8 (6.90%) QML
4 8 (6.90%) Qt
4 8 (6.90%) VTK
4 8 (6.90%) Vulkan
4 8 (6.90%) WinForms
4 8 (6.90%) WPF
5 6 (5.17%) JavaFX
6 5 (4.31%) LLVM
7 1 (0.86%) Keras
7 1 (0.86%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (67.24%) Algorithms
2 29 (25.00%) CUDA
3 18 (15.52%) Data Structures
4 17 (14.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.59%) PMI
7 1 (0.86%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.86%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 47 (40.52%) Linux
2 42 (36.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (88.79%) Physics
2 93 (80.17%) Computer Science
3 72 (62.07%) Mathematics
4 57 (49.14%) Parallel Programming
5 56 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (34.48%) Software Testing
7 36 (31.03%) Software Engineering
8 31 (26.72%) Chemistry
9 28 (24.14%) Machine Learning
10 23 (19.83%) Agile
10 23 (19.83%) SDLC
11 22 (18.97%) Monte Carlo Method
11 22 (18.97%) Open Source
12 20 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
13 17 (14.66%) Complexity Analysis
13 17 (14.66%) OO
13 17 (14.66%) OOD
13 17 (14.66%) Performance Analysis
14 14 (12.07%) Code Optimisation
14 14 (12.07%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 102 (87.93%) Python
2 80 (68.97%) C++
3 70 (60.34%) C
4 31 (26.72%) Bash
5 25 (21.55%) C#
6 23 (19.83%) SQL
7 11 (9.48%) MATLAB
8 8 (6.90%) C-shell
8 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.03%) Perl
10 6 (5.17%) Java
11 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 115 (99.14%) Degree
2 71 (61.21%) PhD
3 60 (51.72%) Master's Degree
4 57 (49.14%) Security Cleared
5 11 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.59%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) ISO 9001
2 5 (4.31%) TickIT
3 1 (0.86%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.86%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) Ansible
1 5 (4.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.17%) Atlassian