The first table below looks at the demand for MATLAB skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MATLAB over the 3 months to 20 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 England 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MathWorks MATLAB
Rank 442 483 467
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -16
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 61 83 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.146% 0.155% 0.186%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.390% 0.439% 0.486%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 24
Average daily rate £450 £310 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.16% -31.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £94 £286
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £540 £635
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £280 £350
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 32
Average hourly rate £33.00 £37.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.81% +7.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £35.00 £31.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.85 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £37.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
-10.81% +6.47%
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15621 18916 21187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.46% 35.44% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9825 11461 12455
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 671 882
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.66
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
MATLAB
UK

MATLAB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England MATLAB Daily Rate Trend

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MATLAB across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England MATLAB Daily Rate Histogram

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England MATLAB Hourly Rate Trend

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MATLAB across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England MATLAB Hourly Rate Histogram

MATLAB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +23 15 £400 +25.00%
East of England +11 13 £275 -
South West +22 11 £450 -
London +14 11 £505 +27.04%
West Midlands +9 4 - -
South Coast - 4 - -
Midlands -1 1 - -
East Midlands -3 1 - -
MATLAB
UK

MATLAB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 37 (32.17%) C++
2 31 (26.96%) Simulink
3 28 (24.35%) C
3 28 (24.35%) C#
3 28 (24.35%) SQL
4 24 (20.87%) .NET
5 23 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 23 (20.00%) Finance
6 21 (18.26%) Electronics
7 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
8 19 (16.52%) Multithreading
9 15 (13.04%) Degree
9 15 (13.04%) Signal Processing
9 15 (13.04%) OO
10 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
11 13 (11.30%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (11.30%) Embedded C
11 13 (11.30%) Automotive
12 12 (10.43%) UML
12 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
13 11 (9.565%) Data Analysis
13 11 (9.565%) Wireless
14 10 (8.696%) Embedded C++
14 10 (8.696%) MS Excel
14 10 (8.696%) Software Engineering
14 10 (8.696%) LTE
14 10 (8.696%) R
15 9 (7.826%) Waterfall
15 9 (7.826%) SQL Server 2008
15 9 (7.826%) Field-Programmable Gate Array

MATLAB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 24 (20.87%) .NET
2 8 (6.957%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.087%) WPF
4 5 (4.348%) XML
5 4 (3.478%) Web Services
5 4 (3.478%) .NET Framework
5 4 (3.478%) ASP
6 3 (2.609%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (2.609%) HTML5
6 3 (2.609%) SciPy
7 2 (1.739%) WCF
7 2 (1.739%) WinForms
7 2 (1.739%) STL
8 1 (0.870%) J2EE
8 1 (0.870%) COM
8 1 (0.870%) CSS
8 1 (0.870%) SOAP
8 1 (0.870%) Spring
8 1 (0.870%) Ajax
8 1 (0.870%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.348%) SAS
2 1 (0.870%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.870%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 31 (26.96%) Simulink
2 10 (8.696%) MS Excel
3 8 (6.957%) MS Office
4 4 (3.478%) SPSS
4 4 (3.478%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.739%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.870%) Pro/ENGINEER
6 1 (0.870%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.565%) Wireless
2 10 (8.696%) LTE
3 9 (7.826%) 3GPP
4 4 (3.478%) 4G
4 4 (3.478%) OFDM
4 4 (3.478%) MIMO
5 2 (1.739%) CDMA
5 2 (1.739%) GSM
5 2 (1.739%) UMTS
5 2 (1.739%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.739%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.739%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.739%) IPv4
5 2 (1.739%) IPv6
5 2 (1.739%) Internet
6 1 (0.870%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.826%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (6.957%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (5.217%) Big Data
5 5 (4.348%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.739%) TOAD
6 2 (1.739%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.739%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.739%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.739%) DB2
6 2 (1.739%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.739%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (1.739%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.739%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.870%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.870%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.870%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.870%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.957%) LabVIEW
2 5 (4.348%) Expression Blend
2 5 (4.348%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (3.478%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (3.478%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.478%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.609%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (1.739%) PowerBuilder
5 2 (1.739%) ERwin
6 1 (0.870%) Maven
6 1 (0.870%) Gradle
General
1 23 (20.00%) Finance
2 21 (18.26%) Electronics
3 13 (11.30%) Automotive
4 7 (6.087%) Military
4 7 (6.087%) Banking
5 6 (5.217%) Aerospace
5 6 (5.217%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.478%) Front Office
6 4 (3.478%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.609%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.870%) Games
8 1 (0.870%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.870%) French Language
8 1 (0.870%) German Language
8 1 (0.870%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.870%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (26.09%) Software Engineer
1 30 (26.09%) Developer
2 14 (12.17%) DSP Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) SQL Developer
4 10 (8.696%) C# Developer
5 8 (6.957%) Analyst
6 7 (6.087%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (5.217%) Software Developer
7 6 (5.217%) .NET Developer
7 6 (5.217%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (4.348%) WPF Developer
8 5 (4.348%) FPGA Engineer
9 4 (3.478%) Systems Developer
9 4 (3.478%) Design Engineer
9 4 (3.478%) Team Leader
10 3 (2.609%) Data Analyst
10 3 (2.609%) Hardware Engineer
10 3 (2.609%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (2.609%) Data Manager
11 2 (1.739%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.826%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 9 (7.826%) Derivative
2 8 (6.957%) Fixed Income
3 6 (5.217%) VHDL
3 6 (5.217%) Visualisation
4 4 (3.478%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.478%) Statistics
4 4 (3.478%) Mathematics
4 4 (3.478%) Physics
5 3 (2.609%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.609%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.609%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.609%) Telematics
6 2 (1.739%) CAN bus
6 2 (1.739%) Firmware
6 2 (1.739%) ASIC
6 2 (1.739%) Equities
7 1 (0.870%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.870%) Biometrics
7 1 (0.870%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.478%) Linux
2 3 (2.609%) UNIX
2 3 (2.609%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.52%) Multithreading
2 15 (13.04%) OO
2 15 (13.04%) Signal Processing
3 13 (11.30%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (10.43%) UML
5 11 (9.565%) Data Analysis
6 10 (8.696%) Software Engineering
7 9 (7.826%) Waterfall
8 8 (6.957%) Asset Management
9 7 (6.087%) Scrum
9 7 (6.087%) Digital Signal Processing
9 7 (6.087%) Embedded Software Development
9 7 (6.087%) Analytics
10 6 (5.217%) Investment Management
10 6 (5.217%) Fund Management
10 6 (5.217%) Validation
11 5 (4.348%) MVVM
11 5 (4.348%) Data Visualisation
12 4 (3.478%) Test Strategy
12 4 (3.478%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.17%) C++
2 28 (24.35%) C
2 28 (24.35%) C#
2 28 (24.35%) SQL
3 13 (11.30%) Embedded C
4 10 (8.696%) Embedded C++
4 10 (8.696%) R
5 9 (7.826%) VBA
6 8 (6.957%) Java
7 6 (5.217%) Python
8 4 (3.478%) Perl
8 4 (3.478%) VB
9 3 (2.609%) Ruby
10 2 (1.739%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.739%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.739%) Delphi
11 1 (0.870%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.870%) Erlang
11 1 (0.870%) Groovy
11 1 (0.870%) F#
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) Degree
3 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.609%) PhD
5 1 (0.870%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.870%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.870%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.217%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.217%) thinkFolio
2 6 (5.217%) Cadis
3 5 (4.348%) Oracle
4 3 (2.609%) Motorola
5 2 (1.739%) Borland
5 2 (1.739%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.739%) Xilinx
5 2 (1.739%) Twitter
5 2 (1.739%) Teradata
6 1 (0.870%) Green Hills
6 1 (0.870%) Altera
6 1 (0.870%) Facebook
6 1 (0.870%) EMC
6 1 (0.870%) Algorithmics
6 1 (0.870%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.870%) SIMUL8
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