Fortran Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Fortran
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Fortran skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 344 391
Rank change year-on-year -41 +47 +80
Contract jobs citing Fortran 8 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.087% 0.051%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.32% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 7
10th Percentile - £474 £350
25th Percentile - £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £551 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -26.60% -
75th Percentile - £622 £850
90th Percentile - £688 £915
UK median daily rate - £551 £670
% change year-on-year - -17.84% +34.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £74.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Fortran 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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,648 4,026 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.60% 26.85% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,000 2,424 3,440
10th Percentile £315 £336 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -2.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £570 £580 £600
90th Percentile £644 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 197 318
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -1.93% -
75th Percentile £69.40 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

Fortran
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fortran relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Fortran job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Fortran
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fortran.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fortran

Fortran
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fortran.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fortran

Fortran
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortran within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
South West -13 7 - - 3
South East - 1 - -
Fortran
UK

Fortran
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Simulink
1 6 (75.00%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Rational DOORS
1 6 (75.00%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 6 (75.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (50.00%) Aviation
3 1 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Scientific Software Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) OpenMP
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Mathematics
2 6 (75.00%) Requirements Management
3 4 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (12.50%) Physics
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Trade-off Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C
2 6 (75.00%) Ada
2 6 (75.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) ProC
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) MathWorks
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle