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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 589 550
Rank change year-on-year +66 -39 +30
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 429 389 1,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.41% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 0.97% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 245 133 327
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £37,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,660
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +7.15% +1.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £109,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -29.17%

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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +111 414 £55,000 -15.38% 234
UK excluding London -1 370 £55,000 +4.76% 204
South West +73 118 £54,500 +6.86% 21
Work from Home +82 112 £60,000 +17.65% 68
South East -30 101 £55,000 - 74
East of England +33 70 £55,000 +4.76% 32
Midlands -82 55 £50,000 -11.11% 48
London +103 54 £80,000 +3.23% 37
West Midlands -89 35 £60,000 - 34
East Midlands -4 20 £42,500 -5.56% 14
North of England +45 15 £51,500 +13.19% 23
Scotland -77 11 £65,000 +36.84% 12
Yorkshire - 10 £68,750 - 4
North West -9 5 £50,000 +29.87% 15

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 20 (4.66%) SAS
2 12 (2.80%) Confluence
3 8 (1.86%) Apache
3 8 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 190 (44.29%) Simulink
2 50 (11.66%) Stateflow
3 23 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (4.43%) GNU Octave
5 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (1.63%) CANalyzer
7 5 (1.17%) Doxygen
8 2 (0.47%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 27 (6.29%) AWS
2 23 (5.36%) GitHub
3 14 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (3.26%) Amazon S3
4 5 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.17%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.17%) PowerApps
5 2 (0.47%) Serverless
6 1 (0.23%) Azure
6 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.53%) J1939
2 12 (2.80%) 5G
3 11 (2.56%) PPP
3 11 (2.56%) SD-WAN
3 11 (2.56%) WAN
4 9 (2.10%) Wireless
5 8 (1.86%) OFDM
6 6 (1.40%) Ethernet
7 5 (1.17%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.70%) Tactical Data Link
9 2 (0.47%) Modbus
9 2 (0.47%) RS-485
10 1 (0.23%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.23%) 4G
10 1 (0.23%) 5G NR
10 1 (0.23%) GSM
10 1 (0.23%) LTE
10 1 (0.23%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.43%) Amazon QuickSight
1 19 (4.43%) Tableau
2 16 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (3.73%) NoSQL
3 14 (3.26%) Data Mining
3 14 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 4 (0.93%) Metadata
5 2 (0.47%) Big Data
5 2 (0.47%) OLAP
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.23%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 39 (9.09%) Git
2 30 (6.99%) JIRA
3 28 (6.53%) LabVIEW
4 24 (5.59%) Rational DOORS
5 22 (5.13%) ClearCase
6 21 (4.90%) Plastic SCM
7 14 (3.26%) ClearQuest
7 14 (3.26%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.86%) GitLab
9 7 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.63%) Rational Rhapsody
10 6 (1.40%) Jenkins
10 6 (1.40%) NetBeans
11 3 (0.70%) Rational Team Concert
11 3 (0.70%) Subversion
12 2 (0.47%) PetaLinux
13 1 (0.23%) CANoe
13 1 (0.23%) CMake
13 1 (0.23%) CppUnit
13 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (21.45%) Electronics
2 90 (20.98%) Automotive
3 79 (18.41%) Social Skills
4 70 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.23%) Aerospace
6 29 (6.76%) Military
7 27 (6.29%) Retail
8 20 (4.66%) Manufacturing
9 19 (4.43%) Legal
9 19 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 13 (3.03%) Finance
12 11 (2.56%) Aviation
12 11 (2.56%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.63%) Law
14 6 (1.40%) Games
14 6 (1.40%) Marketing
15 5 (1.17%) Banking
16 4 (0.93%) French Language
16 4 (0.93%) German Language
Job Titles
1 109 (25.41%) Software Engineer
2 83 (19.35%) Senior
3 67 (15.62%) Systems Engineer
4 49 (11.42%) Embedded Engineer
5 41 (9.56%) Developer
6 37 (8.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 26 (6.06%) Lead
8 22 (5.13%) Architect
8 22 (5.13%) Data Scientist
9 19 (4.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 16 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (3.50%) Test Engineer
12 13 (3.03%) Analyst
13 12 (2.80%) .NET Developer
13 12 (2.80%) Control Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.56%) FPGA Developer
14 11 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.56%) Team Leader
15 10 (2.33%) Graduate
15 10 (2.33%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.23%) TensorFlow
2 26 (6.06%) NumPy
3 16 (3.73%) Keras
4 12 (2.80%) .NET
4 12 (2.80%) .NET Framework
4 12 (2.80%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.86%) pytest
6 7 (1.63%) OpenCV
7 6 (1.40%) JavaFX
8 4 (0.93%) CSS
8 4 (0.93%) ONNX
8 4 (0.93%) Rendezvous
9 3 (0.70%) Qt
10 2 (0.47%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (0.47%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.47%) Pandas
10 2 (0.47%) POSIX
10 2 (0.47%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.47%) Torch
10 2 (0.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 141 (32.87%) Algorithms
2 48 (11.19%) Embedded Systems
3 32 (7.46%) FPGA
4 27 (6.29%) VHDL
5 19 (4.43%) GNSS
5 19 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.43%) Robotics
5 19 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (2.56%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.10%) Acoustics
8 8 (1.86%) BBC
8 8 (1.86%) MicroBlaze
9 7 (1.63%) PMI
10 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.17%) Fibre Optics
10 5 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.17%) Semantic Web
10 5 (1.17%) Verilog
11 4 (0.93%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.86%) Linux
2 19 (4.43%) Windows
3 8 (1.86%) Unix
4 5 (1.17%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (34.50%) Software Engineering
2 111 (25.87%) Agile
3 109 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (21.68%) Mathematics
5 80 (18.65%) Validation
6 74 (17.25%) Signal Processing
7 67 (15.62%) Physics
8 66 (15.38%) Machine Learning
9 64 (14.92%) Computer Science
10 53 (12.35%) Artificial Intelligence
11 52 (12.12%) Systems Engineering
12 43 (10.02%) Software Testing
12 43 (10.02%) Visualisation
13 40 (9.32%) Data Science
14 38 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (7.69%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
15 33 (7.69%) Test Automation
15 33 (7.69%) UML
16 32 (7.46%) Kalman Filter
16 32 (7.46%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 219 (51.05%) Python
2 137 (31.93%) C
3 98 (22.84%) C++
4 63 (14.69%) C#
5 40 (9.32%) Embedded C
6 30 (6.99%) R
7 28 (6.53%) Java
7 28 (6.53%) SQL
8 24 (5.59%) JavaScript
9 23 (5.36%) Perl
10 17 (3.96%) VBA
11 12 (2.80%) VB.NET
12 11 (2.56%) Fortran
12 11 (2.56%) PHP
13 8 (1.86%) Tcl
13 8 (1.86%) VB
14 6 (1.40%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.70%) Assembly Language
16 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 243 (56.64%) Degree
2 149 (34.73%) Security Cleared
3 60 (13.99%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (7.23%) PhD
6 30 (6.99%) DV Cleared
6 30 (6.99%) Master's Degree
7 21 (4.90%) HND
8 16 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.63%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.47%) HNC
14 1 (0.23%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.62%) ISO 26262
2 34 (7.93%) Automotive SPICE
3 30 (6.99%) AUTOSAR
4 27 (6.29%) MISRA
5 10 (2.33%) Def Stans
6 7 (1.63%) IEC 61508
7 6 (1.40%) ISO 9001
8 5 (1.17%) PMO
8 5 (1.17%) TickIT
9 4 (0.93%) QA
10 3 (0.70%) JTAG
11 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.23%) IFRS
12 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.23%) MISRA C
System Software
1 26 (6.06%) Firmware
2 15 (3.50%) Docker
3 11 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (5.36%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (5.59%) IBM
2 21 (4.90%) Lauterbach
3 16 (3.73%) Xilinx
4 14 (3.26%) Oracle
5 11 (2.56%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.86%) Altera
6 8 (1.86%) Google
6 8 (1.86%) Green Hills
6 8 (1.86%) Motorola
7 7 (1.63%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.63%) Facebook
7 7 (1.63%) Instagram
8 6 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.40%) SAP
9 5 (1.17%) MathWorks
10 4 (0.93%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.93%) Rockwell
11 3 (0.70%) ANSYS
11 3 (0.70%) Riverbed
11 3 (0.70%) Thales