The first table below looks at the demand for MATLAB skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MathWorks MATLAB
Rank 205 189 181
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -8
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 11 26 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.210% 0.470% 0.580%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.343% 0.770% 1.022%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 1
Average salary £55,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -2.59%
All Programming Languages
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
3210 3378 3423
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 61.19% 61.03% 56.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2875 2965 3000
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £25,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West MATLAB Jobs Demand Trend

MATLAB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MATLAB across the South West region.

South West MATLAB Salary Trend

MATLAB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MATLAB across the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West MATLAB Salary Histogram

MATLAB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wiltshire - 3 - -
Gloucestershire +4 2 - -
Somerset -6 1 £25,000 -50.00%
Bristol -17 1 £30,000 -16.66%
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MATLAB.

1 22 (62.86%) Mathematics
2 16 (45.71%) SAS
3 14 (40.00%) C++
3 14 (40.00%) Degree
3 14 (40.00%) Physics
4 13 (37.14%) R
5 11 (31.43%) Analytics
5 11 (31.43%) Wireless
6 10 (28.57%) Finance
6 10 (28.57%) Signal Processing
7 9 (25.71%) C
8 8 (22.86%) SPSS
8 8 (22.86%) Project Management
8 8 (22.86%) Big Data
8 8 (22.86%) Data Analytics
8 8 (22.86%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (22.86%) Data Management
9 7 (20.00%) WiMAX
9 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) LTE
9 7 (20.00%) 3G
10 6 (17.14%) 802.11
10 6 (17.14%) OOD
10 6 (17.14%) Simulink
10 6 (17.14%) Electronics
10 6 (17.14%) Java
10 6 (17.14%) WLAN
10 6 (17.14%) PhD
10 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared

MATLAB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MATLAB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (8.571%) JSF
1 3 (8.571%) J2EE
1 3 (8.571%) EJB
1 3 (8.571%) JSP
1 3 (8.571%) Servlets
1 3 (8.571%) Struts
1 3 (8.571%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 16 (45.71%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) SPSS
2 6 (17.14%) Simulink
3 3 (8.571%) S-PLUS
3 3 (8.571%) Stateflow
4 2 (5.714%) MS Excel
4 2 (5.714%) MS Office
5 1 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) Wireless
2 7 (20.00%) WiMAX
2 7 (20.00%) LTE
2 7 (20.00%) 3G
3 6 (17.14%) 802.11
3 6 (17.14%) WLAN
3 6 (17.14%) OFDM
3 6 (17.14%) MIMO
4 3 (8.571%) Ethernet
4 3 (8.571%) 3GPP
5 1 (2.857%) HSPA
5 1 (2.857%) 4G
5 1 (2.857%) VoIP
5 1 (2.857%) DHCP
5 1 (2.857%) FTP
5 1 (2.857%) TETRA
5 1 (2.857%) 2G
5 1 (2.857%) 2.5G
5 1 (2.857%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.857%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) LabVIEW
2 3 (8.571%) JIRA
2 3 (8.571%) Maven
2 3 (8.571%) JUnit
3 1 (2.857%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Electronics
3 4 (11.43%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.571%) Avionics
5 2 (5.714%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.714%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Data Manager
2 7 (20.00%) DSP Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.571%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.571%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.714%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.714%) Hardware Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) Software Team Leader
8 1 (2.857%) Junior Analyst
8 1 (2.857%) Research Analyst
8 1 (2.857%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (2.857%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.857%) Embedded Software Developer
8 1 (2.857%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) Real Time Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (62.86%) Mathematics
2 14 (40.00%) Physics
3 8 (22.86%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (8.571%) Visualisation
6 2 (5.714%) Firmware
6 2 (5.714%) VHDL
6 2 (5.714%) Device Driver
6 2 (5.714%) Life Science
7 1 (2.857%) Streaming Video
7 1 (2.857%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (2.857%) Applied Mathematics
7 1 (2.857%) Machine Learning
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.571%) Linux
2 1 (2.857%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Analytics
2 10 (28.57%) Signal Processing
3 8 (22.86%) Project Management
3 8 (22.86%) Data Analytics
3 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (22.86%) Data Management
4 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (17.14%) OOD
5 6 (17.14%) Digital Signal Processing
6 5 (14.29%) Statistical Analysis
7 3 (8.571%) Business Development
7 3 (8.571%) TDD
7 3 (8.571%) Data Analysis
7 3 (8.571%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (8.571%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.571%) PRINCE2
7 3 (8.571%) UML
7 3 (8.571%) OO
7 3 (8.571%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) C++
2 13 (37.14%) R
3 9 (25.71%) C
4 6 (17.14%) Java
5 4 (11.43%) Embedded C
5 4 (11.43%) Embedded C++
6 3 (8.571%) Assembly Language
6 3 (8.571%) Tcl
6 3 (8.571%) Ada
6 3 (8.571%) Perl
6 3 (8.571%) Python
7 1 (2.857%) C#
7 1 (2.857%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) PhD
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.571%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) DO-178B
1 2 (5.714%) JTAG
Vendors
1 2 (5.714%) Agilent
2 1 (2.857%) Microsoft
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