Fortran Job Trends

Fortran
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Fortran skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 645 723
Rank change year-on-year -8 +78 +408
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 12 100 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.14% 0.052%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.096% 0.45% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 20
10th Percentile £40,015 £35,250 £37,220
25th Percentile £52,145 £44,500 £37,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,509 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +7.07% +22.03%
75th Percentile £60,715 £75,000 £61,975
90th Percentile £77,000 - £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,430 £56,509 £52,293
% change year-on-year -0.14% +8.06% +20.91%

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 12,494 22,287 22,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.40% 31.36% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,117 13,315 18,838
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,294
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £109,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Fortran
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Fortran relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Fortran job vacancy trend 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +21 12 £60,000 +6.18% 4
Work from Home +55 10 £60,000 +55.84% 6
London +62 6 £60,000 +31.99%
UK excluding London -9 6 £56,430 -0.14% 4
South East -48 4 £49,220 -12.90% 1
South West +39 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £72,500 - 2

Fortran
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
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 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
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 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
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%) Mathematics
3 5 (41.67%) Parallel Programming
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (41.67%) Physics
3 5 (41.67%) SDLC
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Open Source
4 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) C
2 6 (50.00%) C++
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 5 (41.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) C-shell
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
4 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