The first table below looks at the demand for MATLAB skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MATLAB over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MathWorks MATLAB
Rank 198 210 225
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +15
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 5 8 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.102% 0.204%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.188% 0.277% 0.483%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 13
Average daily rate £538 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.15% -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £511 £327 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £495 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £280 £375
% change year-on-year
+29.46% -25.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-10.81% +5.71%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2664 2885 4138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.76% 36.68% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2061 2166 3141
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.39 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
MATLAB
London

MATLAB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MATLAB across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London MATLAB Jobs Demand Trend

MATLAB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MATLAB across the City of London region.

City of London MATLAB Daily Rate Trend

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MATLAB across the City of London region.

City of London MATLAB Hourly Rate Trend

MATLAB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MATLAB also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MATLAB.

1 10 (83.33%) C#
1 10 (83.33%) .NET
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Control-M
2 6 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (50.00%) Derivative
2 6 (50.00%) Fund Management
2 6 (50.00%) thinkFolio
2 6 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 6 (50.00%) Cadis
3 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) XML
3 4 (33.33%) ASP
4 3 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft

MATLAB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MATLAB also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MATLAB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (83.33%) .NET
2 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) XML
3 4 (33.33%) ASP
4 2 (16.67%) WinForms
5 1 (8.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SAS
2 1 (8.333%) Mathematica
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) SPSS
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (8.333%) Data Mining
4 1 (8.333%) Hadoop
4 1 (8.333%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 6 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Developer
1 6 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Development Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Software Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 6 (50.00%) Derivative
2 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (8.333%) Mathematics
3 1 (8.333%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 6 (50.00%) Fund Management
1 6 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (8.333%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.333%) System Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.333%) Data Analytics
4 1 (8.333%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) thinkFolio
1 6 (50.00%) Cadis
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) Algorithmics
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