Fortran Contracts

Fortran
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fortran skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fortran over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 577 698
Rank change year-on-year +61 +121 +150
Contract jobs citing Fortran 4 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.011% 0.034%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.040% 0.039% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +30.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £563 - £525
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £650 -
% change year-on-year -34.62% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +13.46% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.69% +13.46% -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,965 12,846 20,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,755 9,122 15,089
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £768 £762 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 487 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.70 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fortran.

Daily rate trend for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fortran over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fortran.

Hourly rate trend for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Top 4 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
UK excluding London +62 4 £425 -34.62% 15
England +56 4 £425 -34.62% 18
South West +47 3 £550 - 3
South East - 1 £400 - 9

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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithm Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Fortran Developer
2 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Scientific Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematical Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Intel