Fortran
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Fortran skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fortran over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 727 763 865
Rank change year-on-year +36 +102 +395
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 10 122 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.12% 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.060% 0.39% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 8 70 17
10th Percentile £50,848 £39,000 -
25th Percentile £52,087 £40,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,818 £40,885
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% +31.63% -2.55%
75th Percentile £75,625 £68,750 £52,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £75,000 £74,780
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £53,818 £40,885
% change year-on-year +16.66% +31.63% -2.55%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,770 31,493 34,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.88% 31.36% 40.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10,704 22,964 24,997
10th Percentile £36,650 £35,195 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Top 6 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 17 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +17 10 £60,000 +11.49% 19
Work from Home +82 6 £57,783 +50.08% 8
UK excluding London +23 6 £62,783 +16.66% 16
South East -45 5 £62,783 +16.66% 6
London - 4 £60,000 - 6
South West +86 1 - - 8

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) CMake
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) LabVIEW
1 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (10.00%) TestRail
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Scientific Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) OpenGL
1 2 (20.00%) Vulkan
1 2 (20.00%) WinForms
1 2 (20.00%) WPF
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) OpenCL
2 1 (10.00%) QML
2 1 (10.00%) Qt
2 1 (10.00%) VTK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Acoustics
1 2 (20.00%) CUDA
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Physics
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Data Management
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) C++
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) C
4 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 3 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
6 1 (10.00%) C-shell
6 1 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (40.00%) PhD
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian