MATLAB Contracts in the East of England

MathWorks MATLAB
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring MATLAB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MATLAB over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 83 97
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 29 25 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.51% 1.32% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 6.05% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile £379 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -26.32% -25.31%
75th Percentile £550 £375 £494
90th Percentile - - £538
England median daily rate £469 £505 £538
% change year-on-year -7.18% -6.05% -13.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 11
10th Percentile £28.27 £35.52 £31.50
25th Percentile £52.69 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +10.17%
75th Percentile £79.38 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £64.25 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £60.74
% change year-on-year +31.82% -9.44% +10.43%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 376 413 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.58% 21.81% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 171 366
10th Percentile £306 £325 £313
25th Percentile £406 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% +1.58%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £575
90th Percentile £635 £625 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 145 103
10th Percentile £31.64 £52.50 £48.25
25th Percentile £53.13 £58.75 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.69% +4.00% +17.37%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in the East of England

MATLAB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for MATLAB in the East of England

MATLAB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for MATLAB in the East of England

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in the East of England

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 July 2025. 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
Bedfordshire - 11 - - 7
Hertfordshire +26 10 - - 19
Cambridgeshire +13 5 £408 +16.43% 19
Essex +9 3 £500 - 14
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Confluence
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (72.41%) Simulink
2 3 (10.34%) Stateflow
3 2 (6.90%) CANalyzer
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.90%) Windchill
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Teamcenter
2 2 (6.90%) SAP PLM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
1 2 (6.90%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) CANoe
1 3 (10.34%) LabVIEW
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (6.90%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (6.90%) Rational Statemate
General
1 10 (34.48%) Electronics
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Games
4 4 (13.79%) Aerospace
4 4 (13.79%) Automotive
4 4 (13.79%) Law
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) FPGA Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Firmware Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Information Scientist
5 2 (6.90%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) RF Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Control Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Embedded Software Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Algorithms
2 7 (24.14%) FPGA
2 7 (24.14%) PCIe
3 6 (20.69%) Verilog
4 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (6.90%) CUDA
5 2 (6.90%) Life Science
5 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) Cryptography
3 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
3 7 (24.14%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (24.14%) Digital Signal Processing
3 7 (24.14%) Physics
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (24.14%) Signal Processing
4 6 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
4 6 (20.69%) UVM
5 5 (17.24%) Validation
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Data Management
6 4 (13.79%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 4 (13.79%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
6 4 (13.79%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SystemVerilog
1 6 (20.69%) Tcl
2 4 (13.79%) C++
3 3 (10.34%) C
4 2 (6.90%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Degree
2 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
3 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
4 7 (24.14%) HNC
4 7 (24.14%) HND
5 2 (6.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) DO-254
2 2 (6.90%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Firmware
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Actel
1 6 (20.69%) Altera
1 6 (20.69%) Intel
1 6 (20.69%) Microsemi
1 6 (20.69%) Xilinx
2 4 (13.79%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft