MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MATLAB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MATLAB over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 558 717
Rank change year-on-year +80 +159 -82
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 109 148 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.74% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 43
10th Percentile £333 £350 £416
25th Percentile £431 £425 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £666 £656 £713
90th Percentile £896 £870 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £488 £479
% change year-on-year +21.03% +1.83% -4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 32 31
10th Percentile £33.89 £52.50 £42.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.45 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +45.45%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £73.83 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +45.45%

All Programming Languages
UK

MATLAB 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 12,679 20,015 31,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.71% 34.72% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,008 14,436 23,302
10th Percentile £350 £394 £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 £653
90th Percentile £763 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 461 514
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.25 £19.64
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.83 £78.00 £73.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +70 102 £595 +8.18% 241
UK excluding London +39 77 £590 +21.03% 213
Work from Home +102 37 £413 -25.00% 71
East of England +10 26 £350 -28.21% 41
London +66 24 £625 -3.85% 32
South East +18 17 £634 +34.18% 64
Midlands +31 15 £528 -12.08% 49
West Midlands +26 13 £550 -8.33% 44
North of England +27 10 £550 +37.50% 23
South West -17 9 - - 29
North West +27 6 £650 +73.33% 18
Yorkshire +24 4 £450 +5.88% 3
East Midlands - 2 £505 - 5
North East - 1 - - 2

MATLAB
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 70 (64.22%) Simulink
2 31 (28.44%) Stateflow
3 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (4.59%) TargetLink
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (2.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.17%) Power Platform
2 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Purview
2 7 (6.42%) Power Automate
2 7 (6.42%) PowerApps
3 1 (0.92%) AWS
3 1 (0.92%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Wireless
2 1 (0.92%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Power BI
2 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.42%) Metadata
4 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Git
2 9 (8.26%) Subversion
3 7 (6.42%) JIRA
4 6 (5.50%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.59%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.83%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (1.83%) Rational Team Concert
7 1 (0.92%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.92%) GitLab
7 1 (0.92%) MagicDraw
7 1 (0.92%) Xcode
General
1 30 (27.52%) Automotive
2 19 (17.43%) Aerospace
2 19 (17.43%) Legal
3 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.09%) Military
5 10 (9.17%) Finance
6 6 (5.50%) Banking
6 6 (5.50%) Electronics
7 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.75%) Aviation
9 3 (2.75%) Law
10 2 (1.83%) Avionics
11 1 (0.92%) Marketing
11 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (31.19%) Software Engineer
2 26 (23.85%) Systems Engineer
3 19 (17.43%) Developer
4 14 (12.84%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Embedded Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Automation Developer
7 7 (6.42%) C Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior
8 6 (5.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Real Time Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Applications Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Control Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) .NET
1 4 (3.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.83%) NumPy
3 1 (0.92%) AVFoundation
3 1 (0.92%) COM
3 1 (0.92%) iOS SDK
3 1 (0.92%) Node.js
3 1 (0.92%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.92%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (0.92%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.92%) React
3 1 (0.92%) Spring
3 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.92%) Swagger
3 1 (0.92%) SwiftUI
3 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (45.87%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.67%) Analogue Electronics
3 4 (3.67%) Clustering
3 4 (3.67%) Device Driver
4 3 (2.75%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.75%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.75%) VHDL
5 2 (1.83%) FPGA
6 1 (0.92%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.92%) VxWorks
2 1 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.53%) Software Engineering
2 41 (37.61%) Validation
3 35 (32.11%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 30 (27.52%) Computer Science
5 29 (26.61%) Verification and Validation
6 21 (19.27%) Test Automation
7 15 (13.76%) Data Analysis
8 14 (12.84%) Physics
8 14 (12.84%) Visualisation
9 13 (11.93%) Mathematics
9 13 (11.93%) Signal Processing
10 12 (11.01%) Agile
11 11 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (8.26%) Systems Engineering
14 8 (7.34%) Project Management
14 8 (7.34%) Software Testing
15 7 (6.42%) Data Science
15 7 (6.42%) Mathematical Modelling
15 7 (6.42%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.85%) Python
2 25 (22.94%) C
3 24 (22.02%) C++
4 11 (10.09%) SQL
5 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.42%) VBA
6 5 (4.59%) Assembly Language
7 4 (3.67%) C#
7 4 (3.67%) Embedded C
7 4 (3.67%) Embedded C++
7 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.67%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.75%) Fortran
9 1 (0.92%) Java
9 1 (0.92%) R
9 1 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (38.53%) Degree
2 29 (26.61%) Security Cleared
3 26 (23.85%) SC Cleared
4 16 (14.68%) Master's Degree
5 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.50%) PhD
7 5 (4.59%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.75%) CFA
8 3 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.75%) MBA
8 3 (2.75%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.92%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) AUTOSAR
2 6 (5.50%) ISO 26262
2 6 (5.50%) MISRA
2 6 (5.50%) MISRA C
3 5 (4.59%) QA
4 4 (3.67%) JTAG
5 1 (0.92%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 8 (7.34%) Firmware
2 5 (4.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.83%) Docker
4 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 7 (6.42%) Databricks
2 5 (4.59%) MathWorks
3 3 (2.75%) Keysight
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.83%) SAP
4 2 (1.83%) Xilinx
5 1 (0.92%) BMC
5 1 (0.92%) Dell
5 1 (0.92%) Isilon
5 1 (0.92%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.92%) QinetiQ
5 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.92%) Twitter