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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 931 1219
Rank change year-on-year +134 +288 -306
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 114 30 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.031% 0.014%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 0.072% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 88 21 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 £52,750 £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 33,687 41,724 90,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.62% 42.94% 54.23%
Number of salaries quoted 25,114 26,852 43,374
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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +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 29 May 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 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +140 114 £58,000 +34.10% 26
UK excluding London +65 113 £58,000 +34.10% 20
South East +82 103 £58,000 +34.10% 14
Work from Home +63 12 £38,500 - 3
North of England +29 5 - - 1
South West - 5 - - 2
North West - 5 - -
London - 1 £175,000 - 2

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 21 (18.42%) Visual Studio
2 16 (14.04%) GitLab
3 13 (11.40%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.02%) CMake
4 8 (7.02%) Git
4 8 (7.02%) JIRA
4 8 (7.02%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (7.02%) TestRail
5 5 (4.39%) Clang
5 5 (4.39%) LabVIEW
5 5 (4.39%) NetBeans
General
1 38 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (30.70%) Software Engineer
2 30 (26.32%) Senior
3 16 (14.04%) Architect
3 16 (14.04%) Software Architect
4 15 (13.16%) Junior
5 12 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Physicist
7 9 (7.89%) Computer Scientist
7 9 (7.89%) Research Scientist
8 7 (6.14%) Research Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Research Software Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Scientific Software Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior Computer Scientist
9 6 (5.26%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Compiler Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Software Manager
11 3 (2.63%) Graduate
11 3 (2.63%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.54%) OpenMP
2 15 (13.16%) OpenACC
3 8 (7.02%) HTML
3 8 (7.02%) HTML5
3 8 (7.02%) OpenCL
3 8 (7.02%) OpenGL
3 8 (7.02%) QML
3 8 (7.02%) Qt
3 8 (7.02%) VTK
3 8 (7.02%) Vulkan
3 8 (7.02%) WinForms
3 8 (7.02%) WPF
4 5 (4.39%) JavaFX
4 5 (4.39%) LLVM
5 1 (0.88%) Keras
5 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (68.42%) Algorithms
2 29 (25.44%) CUDA
3 18 (15.79%) Data Structures
4 17 (14.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.63%) PMI
7 1 (0.88%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 47 (41.23%) Linux
2 42 (36.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (89.47%) Physics
2 92 (80.70%) Computer Science
3 72 (63.16%) Mathematics
4 57 (50.00%) Parallel Programming
5 55 (48.25%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (34.21%) Software Testing
7 35 (30.70%) Software Engineering
8 31 (27.19%) Chemistry
9 27 (23.68%) Machine Learning
10 22 (19.30%) Open Source
10 22 (19.30%) SDLC
11 21 (18.42%) Agile
11 21 (18.42%) Monte Carlo Method
12 19 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
13 17 (14.91%) Complexity Analysis
13 17 (14.91%) OO
13 17 (14.91%) OOD
13 17 (14.91%) Performance Analysis
14 14 (12.28%) Code Optimisation
14 14 (12.28%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 100 (87.72%) Python
2 78 (68.42%) C++
3 70 (61.40%) C
4 31 (27.19%) Bash
5 24 (21.05%) C#
6 21 (18.42%) SQL
7 10 (8.77%) MATLAB
8 8 (7.02%) C-shell
8 8 (7.02%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.14%) Perl
10 5 (4.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 113 (99.12%) Degree
2 71 (62.28%) PhD
3 60 (52.63%) Master's Degree
4 56 (49.12%) Security Cleared
5 11 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.63%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.39%) ISO 9001
1 5 (4.39%) TickIT
Systems Management
1 5 (4.39%) Ansible
1 5 (4.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 51 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Atlassian