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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 666 787 951
Rank change year-on-year +121 +164 +242
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 18 98 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.100% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.29% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 16 85 27
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,783 £52,500 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +21.39% -26.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £51,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £52,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,783 £52,500 £43,250
% change year-on-year +2.44% +21.39% -27.92%

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Top 5 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 30 April 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
UK excluding London +128 18 £53,783 +2.44% 15
England +109 18 £53,783 +2.44% 18
South East +45 17 £53,783 +0.06% 9
Work from Home +179 12 £52,000 +35.06% 27
South West +111 1 - - 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Metadata
1 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) CMake
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (11.11%) TestRail
2 1 (5.56%) LabVIEW
2 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Scientific Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) OpenGL
1 5 (27.78%) Vulkan
1 5 (27.78%) WinForms
1 5 (27.78%) WPF
2 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5
3 2 (11.11%) OpenCL
3 2 (11.11%) QML
3 2 (11.11%) Qt
3 2 (11.11%) VTK
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (27.78%) CUDA
3 3 (16.67%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (11.11%) Acoustics
4 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
1 10 (55.56%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Software Engineering
2 16 (88.89%) Computer Science
3 15 (83.33%) Physics
4 14 (77.78%) Mathematics
5 11 (61.11%) Software Testing
6 10 (55.56%) SDLC
7 8 (44.44%) Open Source
7 8 (44.44%) Parallel Programming
7 8 (44.44%) Performance Analysis
8 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
9 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (16.67%) Mathematical Modelling
11 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
12 2 (11.11%) Agile
12 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
12 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
12 2 (11.11%) Project Management
12 2 (11.11%) Web Application Development
13 1 (5.56%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C++
2 15 (83.33%) C
3 12 (66.67%) Bash
3 12 (66.67%) Python
4 6 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) C-shell
6 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
6 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.56%) Java
7 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) Degree
2 15 (83.33%) Master's Degree
3 12 (66.67%) PhD
4 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (5.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Atlassian