West Midlands MATLAB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for The MathWorks MATLAB skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MATLAB over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Birmingham Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Devon Dorking Dudley Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Redditch Rugby Saffron Walden Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South West St Neots Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	213	222
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.723 %	0.345 %
Salaries quoted	14	4
Average minimum salary	£32,500	£31,750
Average salary	£35,977	£36,625
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Average maximum salary	£39,455	£41,500
UK excluding London average salary	£37,305	£36,204
% change on same period last year	+3.03 %
Applications West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1277	1159
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.674 %	0.475 %
Salaries quoted	1068	1002
Average minimum salary	£27,866	£27,949
Average salary	£30,218	£30,427
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum salary	£32,570	£32,906
UK excluding London average salary	£33,332	£33,774
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
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MATLAB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MATLAB across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MATLAB
Salary Trend

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

MATLAB
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MATLAB across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MATLAB
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Coventry	-2	10	£36,000	+19.00 %
Worcestershire	-	6	£36,083	-
Warwickshire	-	4	£40,000	-
Dudley	-	2	£35,000	-
Solihull	-	2	£35,000	-
Birmingham	-	2	£35,000	-
Herefordshire	-	1	£33,000	-

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MATLAB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 14 (46.67 %) Simulink 2 13 (43.33 %) C 3 12 (40.00 %) C++ 4 10 (33.33 %) UML 5 7 (23.33 %) Embedded C 5 7 (23.33 %) Electronics 5 7 (23.33 %) Automotive 6 6 (20.00 %) Pensions 7 5 (16.67 %) Computer Science 7 5 (16.67 %) SQL 7 5 (16.67 %) C# 7 5 (16.67 %) Windows 8 4 (13.33 %) SAS 8 4 (13.33 %) Progress 4GL 8 4 (13.33 %) .NET

8 4 (13.33 %) MFC 8 4 (13.33 %) ABAP 8 4 (13.33 %) Informix 8 4 (13.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 4 (13.33 %) System Testing 9 3 (10.00 %) Mathematics 9 3 (10.00 %) TickIT 9 3 (10.00 %) CAD 9 3 (10.00 %) Python 9 3 (10.00 %) MS Visio 9 3 (10.00 %) Perl 9 3 (10.00 %) Stateflow 10 2 (6.667 %) Project Management 10 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft 10 2 (6.667 %) ISO9000

MATLAB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 4 (13.33 %) .NET 1 4 (13.33 %) MFC 2 1 (3.333 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 4 (13.33 %) SAS
Applications 1 14 (46.67 %) Simulink 2 3 (10.00 %) Stateflow 2 3 (10.00 %) MS Visio 3 2 (6.667 %) MS Project 3 2 (6.667 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.333 %) Bluetooth 1 1 (3.333 %) GSM 1 1 (3.333 %) WAN 1 1 (3.333 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (13.33 %) Informix	Development Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) Visual Studio
General 1 7 (23.33 %) Automotive 1 7 (23.33 %) Electronics 2 6 (20.00 %) Pensions 3 2 (6.667 %) Electric 3 2 (6.667 %) Health 4 1 (3.333 %) Legal 4 1 (3.333 %) Marketing 4 1 (3.333 %) Finance 4 1 (3.333 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 11 (36.67 %) Software Engineer 2 5 (16.67 %) Systems Engineer 3 4 (13.33 %) Programmer 3 4 (13.33 %) Software Programmer 4 3 (10.00 %) Computer Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) Software Developer 5 2 (6.667 %) Developer 5 2 (6.667 %) Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Technical Architect 6 1 (3.333 %) Architect 6 1 (3.333 %) Technical Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) Marketing Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (16.67 %) Computer Science 2 3 (10.00 %) Mathematics 3 1 (3.333 %) Physics 3 1 (3.333 %) Device Driver 3 1 (3.333 %) Neural Network 3 1 (3.333 %) Economics 3 1 (3.333 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 5 (16.67 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (33.33 %) UML 2 4 (13.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 4 (13.33 %) System Testing 3 3 (10.00 %) CAD 4 2 (6.667 %) CAE 4 2 (6.667 %) Project Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Change Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (6.667 %) Software Engineering 4 2 (6.667 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (3.333 %) QMS 5 1 (3.333 %) Econometrics 5 1 (3.333 %) RAD 5 1 (3.333 %) Quality Management	Programming Languages 1 13 (43.33 %) C 2 12 (40.00 %) C++ 3 7 (23.33 %) Embedded C 4 5 (16.67 %) C# 4 5 (16.67 %) SQL 5 4 (13.33 %) ABAP 5 4 (13.33 %) Progress 4GL 6 3 (10.00 %) Python 6 3 (10.00 %) Perl 7 2 (6.667 %) VC++ 8 1 (3.333 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (3.333 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.00 %) TickIT 2 2 (6.667 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft