MATLAB Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

MathWorks MATLAB
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring MATLAB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 59 65
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.27% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 0.61% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £505
England median daily rate £492 £650 £590
% change year-on-year -24.31% +10.17% +7.27%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

MATLAB falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 223 163 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.91% 28.10% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 138 146
10th Percentile £361 £269 £281
25th Percentile £406 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -1.45%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £539 £600
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.59% -4.55% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.26 £15.66
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.35 £22.12
Median hourly rate £25.42 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.76% -24.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £83.25 £21.25 £31.00
90th Percentile £84.45 £22.30 £40.71
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MATLAB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

MATLAB job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

MATLAB
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MATLAB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MATLAB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -8 3 £375 - 2
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Superset
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metabase
1 3 (100.00%) Parquet
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Software Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Plotly
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Rust
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft