MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MATLAB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MATLAB over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 579 551
Rank change year-on-year +57 -28 +39
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 419 443 929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.44% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 1.01% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 243 131 321
10th Percentile £39,050 £32,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £45,625 £42,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MATLAB.

Salary trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +100 406 £55,000 -15.38% 201
UK excluding London -7 361 £55,000 +2.33% 176
South West +85 115 £55,000 +10.00% 30
Work from Home +100 108 £60,000 - 48
South East -20 96 £55,000 - 52
East of England +52 67 £55,000 +4.76% 36
Midlands -118 59 £55,000 -12.00% 41
London +98 53 £75,000 -3.23% 29
West Midlands -107 39 £60,000 -7.69% 35
East Midlands -6 20 £42,500 -5.56% 6
North of England +66 15 £50,750 +11.54% 12
Yorkshire - 10 £67,500 - 2
Scotland -76 9 £65,000 +36.84% 11
North West +17 5 £50,000 +29.87% 9

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 23 (5.49%) SAS
2 11 (2.63%) Confluence
3 9 (2.15%) Apache
4 8 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.91%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 185 (44.15%) Simulink
2 50 (11.93%) Stateflow
3 26 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (4.30%) GNU Octave
5 14 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (1.91%) CANalyzer
7 5 (1.19%) Doxygen
8 2 (0.48%) EViews
8 2 (0.48%) SPSS
8 2 (0.48%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.24%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 27 (6.44%) AWS
2 23 (5.49%) GitHub
3 13 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (3.10%) Amazon S3
4 5 (1.19%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.19%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.19%) PowerApps
5 2 (0.48%) Azure
5 2 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.48%) Serverless
6 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.24%) GCP
6 1 (0.24%) IaaS
6 1 (0.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.68%) J1939
2 15 (3.58%) 5G
3 14 (3.34%) SD-WAN
3 14 (3.34%) WAN
4 9 (2.15%) Wireless
5 8 (1.91%) Ethernet
5 8 (1.91%) PPP
6 7 (1.67%) OFDM
7 5 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.72%) Tactical Data Link
9 2 (0.48%) Modbus
9 2 (0.48%) RS-485
10 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.24%) 4G
10 1 (0.24%) 5G NR
10 1 (0.24%) GSM
10 1 (0.24%) LTE
10 1 (0.24%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.77%) Amazon QuickSight
1 20 (4.77%) Tableau
2 17 (4.06%) Data Mining
3 15 (3.58%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (3.58%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.10%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.95%) Metadata
6 2 (0.48%) Big Data
6 2 (0.48%) OLAP
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.24%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 39 (9.31%) Git
2 31 (7.40%) LabVIEW
3 28 (6.68%) JIRA
4 22 (5.25%) ClearCase
5 21 (5.01%) Plastic SCM
5 21 (5.01%) Rational DOORS
6 14 (3.34%) ClearQuest
7 13 (3.10%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.67%) GitLab
8 7 (1.67%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.67%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.19%) NetBeans
11 3 (0.72%) Rational Team Concert
12 2 (0.48%) PetaLinux
12 2 (0.48%) Subversion
13 1 (0.24%) CANoe
13 1 (0.24%) Chocolatey
13 1 (0.24%) CMake
13 1 (0.24%) GCC
General
1 92 (21.96%) Electronics
2 87 (20.76%) Automotive
3 84 (20.05%) Social Skills
4 73 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.64%) Retail
6 30 (7.16%) Aerospace
7 25 (5.97%) Military
8 23 (5.49%) Finance
9 22 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (5.01%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.58%) Legal
11 15 (3.58%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.63%) Aviation
12 11 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.91%) Banking
13 8 (1.91%) Law
14 6 (1.43%) Games
14 6 (1.43%) Marketing
15 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.95%) French Language
Job Titles
1 107 (25.54%) Software Engineer
2 80 (19.09%) Senior
3 62 (14.80%) Systems Engineer
4 46 (10.98%) Embedded Engineer
5 41 (9.79%) Developer
6 35 (8.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 27 (6.44%) Lead
8 23 (5.49%) Architect
9 19 (4.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 18 (4.30%) Data Scientist
11 16 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.58%) Test Engineer
13 14 (3.34%) Analyst
14 13 (3.10%) Graduate
14 13 (3.10%) Verification Engineer
15 12 (2.86%) .NET Developer
15 12 (2.86%) Control Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.86%) Team Leader
16 11 (2.63%) Product Engineer
16 11 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.92%) TensorFlow
2 24 (5.73%) NumPy
3 14 (3.34%) Keras
4 12 (2.86%) .NET
4 12 (2.86%) .NET Framework
4 12 (2.86%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.91%) pytest
6 7 (1.67%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.19%) JavaFX
8 4 (0.95%) CSS
8 4 (0.95%) ONNX
8 4 (0.95%) Rendezvous
9 3 (0.72%) Qt
10 2 (0.48%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (0.48%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.48%) Pandas
10 2 (0.48%) POSIX
10 2 (0.48%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.48%) Torch
10 2 (0.48%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 138 (32.94%) Algorithms
2 47 (11.22%) Embedded Systems
3 31 (7.40%) FPGA
4 26 (6.21%) VHDL
5 23 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (4.77%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.53%) GNSS
7 19 (4.53%) Robotics
8 11 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (2.63%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.91%) Acoustics
9 8 (1.91%) BBC
9 8 (1.91%) MicroBlaze
10 7 (1.67%) PMI
11 5 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
11 5 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.19%) Verilog
12 4 (0.95%) Analogue Electronics
12 4 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.83%) Linux
2 23 (5.49%) Windows
3 11 (2.63%) Unix
4 5 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (33.89%) Software Engineering
2 110 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (25.30%) Agile
4 87 (20.76%) Mathematics
5 77 (18.38%) Validation
6 68 (16.23%) Signal Processing
7 65 (15.51%) Physics
8 64 (15.27%) Machine Learning
9 61 (14.56%) Computer Science
10 49 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (11.22%) Systems Engineering
12 43 (10.26%) Software Testing
13 42 (10.02%) Visualisation
14 39 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (9.07%) Data Science
16 36 (8.59%) Analytics
16 36 (8.59%) Test Automation
17 33 (7.88%) Data Modelling
18 32 (7.64%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
19 31 (7.40%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 216 (51.55%) Python
2 135 (32.22%) C
3 95 (22.67%) C++
4 62 (14.80%) C#
5 38 (9.07%) Embedded C
6 33 (7.88%) R
7 28 (6.68%) SQL
8 27 (6.44%) Java
9 23 (5.49%) JavaScript
9 23 (5.49%) Perl
10 18 (4.30%) VBA
11 12 (2.86%) VB.NET
12 11 (2.63%) PHP
13 10 (2.39%) Fortran
14 8 (1.91%) Tcl
14 8 (1.91%) VB
15 6 (1.43%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.72%) Assembly Language
17 2 (0.48%) Bash
17 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 235 (56.09%) Degree
2 143 (34.13%) Security Cleared
3 57 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (7.16%) PhD
6 29 (6.92%) Master's Degree
7 28 (6.68%) DV Cleared
8 23 (5.49%) HND
9 15 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.67%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.48%) CFA
15 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.24%) HNC
15 1 (0.24%) MCSA
15 1 (0.24%) MCSE
15 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.79%) ISO 26262
2 33 (7.88%) Automotive SPICE
3 29 (6.92%) AUTOSAR
4 28 (6.68%) MISRA
5 9 (2.15%) Def Stans
5 9 (2.15%) PMO
6 6 (1.43%) IEC 61508
7 5 (1.19%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.19%) TickIT
8 4 (0.95%) QA
9 3 (0.72%) JTAG
10 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (5.97%) Firmware
2 15 (3.58%) Docker
3 11 (2.63%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (5.49%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.24%) Ansible
2 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.24%) SCCM
2 1 (0.24%) SCOM
2 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (5.97%) IBM
2 21 (5.01%) Lauterbach
3 15 (3.58%) Xilinx
4 14 (3.34%) Oracle
5 12 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.91%) Altera
6 8 (1.91%) Google
6 8 (1.91%) Green Hills
6 8 (1.91%) Motorola
7 7 (1.67%) Facebook
7 7 (1.67%) Instagram
7 7 (1.67%) SAP
8 6 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.19%) MathWorks
10 4 (0.95%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.95%) Rockwell
11 3 (0.72%) ANSYS
11 3 (0.72%) Riverbed
11 3 (0.72%) Thales