Fortran
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Fortran skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fortran over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 669 836
Rank change year-on-year +103 +167 -
Contract jobs citing Fortran 5 18 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.032% 0.009%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.091% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile - £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile - £525 £825
90th Percentile - £645 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +85.71% -22.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 0
10th Percentile £71.38 - -
25th Percentile £71.56 - -
Median hourly rate £73.75 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% - -
75th Percentile £76.56 - -
90th Percentile £77.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.75 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.46% - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,717 19,709 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 34.61% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,044 14,221 23,079
10th Percentile £350 £389 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 440 503
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.05 £19.60
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +23.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fortran.

Daily rate trend for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fortran.

Hourly rate trend for Fortran in the UK

Fortran
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fortran within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +99 5 £650 +85.71% 29
UK excluding London +51 5 £650 +85.71% 25
South West +6 2 - - 5
East of England -3 2 - - 1
Work from Home +105 1 £650 +30.00% 5
North West - 1 £650 -
North of England - 1 £650 -

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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Simulink
2 2 (40.00%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Batch
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (40.00%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 4 (80.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Research Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Research Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Parallel Programming
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (40.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) MathWorks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft