The first table below looks at the demand for Fortran skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Fortran over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the South West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fortran
Rank 210 214 201
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -13
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 6 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.114% 0.018% 0.069%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.186% 0.029% 0.120%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 4
Average salary £27,127 £30,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.57% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £30,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+26.66% -25.00%
All Programming Languages
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
3229 3398 3328
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 61.11% 61.32% 57.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2892 2977 2910
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £23,575
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Fortran
England

Fortran
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Fortran across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South West Fortran Jobs Demand Trend

Fortran
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Fortran across the South West region.

South West Fortran Salary Trend

Fortran
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fortran within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Devon - 4 £27,127 -
Dorset -9 1 £32,500 +8.33%
Fortran
England

Fortran
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Fortran 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 Fortran.

1 7 (70.00%) C
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) MS Office
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Solaris
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Apache
2 4 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 4 (40.00%) FTP
2 4 (40.00%) NFS
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) Nagios
2 4 (40.00%) Fedora
2 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (40.00%) VLAN
2 4 (40.00%) CentOS
2 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
2 4 (40.00%) Ganglia
3 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (30.00%) Physics
3 3 (30.00%) LabVIEW
3 3 (30.00%) Games
3 3 (30.00%) OpenGL
3 3 (30.00%) DirectX
3 3 (30.00%) Pascal
3 3 (30.00%) OOD

Fortran
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Fortran 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 Fortran. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) OpenGL
1 3 (30.00%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
1 4 (40.00%) FTP
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (30.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Support
2 2 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (30.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Solaris
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Fedora
1 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (40.00%) CentOS
1 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) OOD
1 3 (30.00%) UML
1 3 (30.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Pascal
3 3 (30.00%) C++
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Nagios
1 4 (40.00%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat