Fortran Job Trends

Fortran
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Fortran skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 687 746
Rank change year-on-year +26 +59 +424
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 12 111 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.14% 0.043%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.092% 0.46% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 53 20
10th Percentile £40,015 £38,620 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,848 £39,500 £37,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,509 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +7.07% +25.79%
75th Percentile £60,283 £68,394 £61,975
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,565 £56,509 £52,293
% change year-on-year -1.67% +8.06% +24.63%

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 13,095 24,160 25,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.41% 30.87% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8,447 15,323 20,928
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fortran.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Fortran

Fortran
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fortran over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Top 7 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 13 September 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 +14 12 £60,000 +6.18% 15
Work from Home +77 10 £60,000 +55.84% 6
London +64 6 £60,000 +31.99% 1
UK excluding London +9 6 £55,565 -1.67% 14
South East -46 4 £48,788 -13.66% 6
South West +65 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 £72,500 - 3

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 4 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) CMake
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) LabVIEW
1 1 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Scientific Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Development Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) OpenCL
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5
2 1 (8.33%) OpenGL
2 1 (8.33%) OpenMP
2 1 (8.33%) QML
2 1 (8.33%) Qt
2 1 (8.33%) VTK
2 1 (8.33%) Vulkan
2 1 (8.33%) WinForms
2 1 (8.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Acoustics
1 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (16.67%) CUDA
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) Data Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
3 5 (41.67%) Data Management
3 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (25.00%) Parallel Programming
5 3 (25.00%) Physics
5 3 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) C
3 6 (50.00%) C++
4 5 (41.67%) Bash
4 5 (41.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) C-shell
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 4 (33.33%) PhD
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian