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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 787 918
Rank change year-on-year +85 +131 +336
Permanent jobs citing Fortran 15 117 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.11% 0.028%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.089% 0.34% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 13 88 18
10th Percentile - £39,000 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £58,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +34.10% +3.08%
75th Percentile £60,283 £73,750 £51,625
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £53,275
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £58,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year -10.34% +34.10% +3.08%

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 16,794 34,375 39,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.76% 31.86% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10,842 25,498 26,416
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +53 15 £52,000 -10.34% 26
UK excluding London +75 14 £52,000 -10.34% 23
South East +10 13 £52,000 -10.34% 11
Work from Home +135 12 £52,000 +35.06% 20
London +122 1 £80,000 -54.29% 5
South West +103 1 - - 7

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 (13.33%) Metadata
1 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) CMake
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) LabVIEW
1 1 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (6.67%) TestRail
1 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Scientific Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) OpenGL
1 2 (13.33%) Vulkan
1 2 (13.33%) WinForms
1 2 (13.33%) WPF
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) HTML5
2 1 (6.67%) OpenCL
2 1 (6.67%) QML
2 1 (6.67%) Qt
2 1 (6.67%) VTK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) Acoustics
2 2 (13.33%) CUDA
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Software Engineering
2 13 (86.67%) Computer Science
3 12 (80.00%) Physics
4 11 (73.33%) Mathematics
4 11 (73.33%) Software Testing
5 10 (66.67%) SDLC
6 8 (53.33%) Open Source
6 8 (53.33%) Parallel Programming
6 8 (53.33%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (13.33%) Agile
8 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (13.33%) Project Management
8 2 (13.33%) Web Application Development
9 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
9 1 (6.67%) Requirements Management
9 1 (6.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) C++
2 12 (80.00%) C
2 12 (80.00%) Python
3 11 (73.33%) Bash
4 3 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
6 1 (6.67%) C-shell
6 1 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Degree
2 13 (86.67%) Master's Degree
3 12 (80.00%) PhD
4 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (53.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (6.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Atlassian