The first table below looks at the demand for MATLAB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 57 51 60
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +9
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 3 19 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.463% 1.979% 0.586%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.099% 4.680% 1.672%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £200 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £280 £350
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +1.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £37.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
-10.81% +6.47%
All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
273 406 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 42.13% 42.29% 35.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 163 106
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 37 56
Average hourly rate £20.00 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.44% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.55 £31.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
MATLAB
East of England

MATLAB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire MATLAB Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire 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
Royston - 2 - -
MATLAB
East of England

MATLAB
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) 3GPP
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded C
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded C++
2 2 (28.57%) Teradata
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (28.57%) LTE
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Signal Processing
2 2 (28.57%) Signal Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) SysML
3 1 (14.29%) Physics
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Simulink
3 1 (14.29%) UML

MATLAB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) 3GPP
1 2 (28.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DSP Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Teradata Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Physics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Signal Processing
1 2 (28.57%) Signal Processing
2 1 (14.29%) SysML
2 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded C
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded C++
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Teradata