Fortran
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Fortran skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Fortran over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 788 961 1208
Rank change year-on-year +173 +247 -317
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 100 34 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.033% 0.017%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 0.077% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 85 26 20
10th Percentile £39,000 - £34,753
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,875 £35,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,250 £49,729
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% -13.03% +97.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £51,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £52,188 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £43,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.39% -24.78% +128.19%

All Programming Languages
UK

Fortran is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,235 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,988 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Top 10 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 8 May 2024. 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 +147 100 £52,500 +21.39% 19
UK excluding London +56 99 £52,500 +21.39% 17
South East +86 87 £53,750 +24.28% 8
Work from Home +78 14 £38,500 - 5
North of England +39 5 - -
South West - 5 - - 6
North West - 5 - -
Midlands +5 2 £49,990 +27.30% 2
East Midlands -12 2 £49,990 +27.30%
London - 1 £175,000 -

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:

Development Applications
1 16 (16.00%) Visual Studio
2 12 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.00%) GitLab
4 9 (9.00%) CMake
5 7 (7.00%) Git
5 7 (7.00%) JIRA
5 7 (7.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (7.00%) TestRail
6 5 (5.00%) Clang
6 5 (5.00%) LabVIEW
6 5 (5.00%) NetBeans
General
1 37 (37.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) Senior
1 26 (26.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (15.00%) Junior
3 11 (11.00%) Architect
3 11 (11.00%) Physicist
3 11 (11.00%) Software Architect
4 9 (9.00%) Computer Scientist
4 9 (9.00%) Research Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Research Scientist
4 9 (9.00%) Research Software Engineer
5 8 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Scientific Software Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Senior Computer Scientist
6 6 (6.00%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Compiler Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Software Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Graduate
8 3 (3.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 3 (3.00%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.00%) OpenMP
2 17 (17.00%) OpenACC
3 9 (9.00%) OpenCL
4 7 (7.00%) HTML
4 7 (7.00%) HTML5
4 7 (7.00%) OpenGL
4 7 (7.00%) QML
4 7 (7.00%) Qt
4 7 (7.00%) VTK
4 7 (7.00%) Vulkan
4 7 (7.00%) WinForms
4 7 (7.00%) WPF
5 5 (5.00%) JavaFX
5 5 (5.00%) LLVM
6 1 (1.00%) Keras
6 1 (1.00%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (70.00%) Algorithms
2 30 (30.00%) CUDA
3 18 (18.00%) Data Structures
4 17 (17.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.00%) PMI
7 1 (1.00%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 37 (37.00%) Linux
2 34 (34.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (86.00%) Physics
2 76 (76.00%) Computer Science
3 61 (61.00%) Mathematics
4 54 (54.00%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (49.00%) Parallel Programming
6 31 (31.00%) Chemistry
7 26 (26.00%) Machine Learning
7 26 (26.00%) Software Engineering
8 24 (24.00%) Software Testing
9 18 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 17 (17.00%) Complexity Analysis
10 17 (17.00%) OO
10 17 (17.00%) OOD
11 16 (16.00%) Agile
11 16 (16.00%) Monte Carlo Method
12 14 (14.00%) Code Optimisation
12 14 (14.00%) Open Source
12 14 (14.00%) Prototyping
13 12 (12.00%) SDLC
14 7 (7.00%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (87.00%) Python
2 67 (67.00%) C++
3 59 (59.00%) C
4 20 (20.00%) Bash
5 18 (18.00%) C#
6 16 (16.00%) SQL
7 10 (10.00%) MATLAB
8 7 (7.00%) C-shell
8 7 (7.00%) Perl
8 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 99 (99.00%) Degree
2 63 (63.00%) PhD
3 50 (50.00%) Master's Degree
4 41 (41.00%) Security Cleared
5 10 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.00%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) ISO 9001
1 5 (5.00%) TickIT
System Software
1 2 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.00%) Ansible
1 5 (5.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) Atlassian