MATLAB Contract Job Trends in England

MathWorks MATLAB
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MATLAB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 446 433
Rank change year-on-year -38 -13 +204
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 60 61 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.20% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 0.62% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 70
10th Percentile £315 £356 £413
25th Percentile £405 £371 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £584
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -27.23% -13.48%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £663
90th Percentile - £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £583
% change year-on-year +17.65% -27.13% -10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 14
10th Percentile £36.75 £44.78 £33.30
25th Percentile £66.56 £46.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% +17.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £69.69 £60.69
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +20.00% -23.08%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,722 9,862 11,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.40% 32.53% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,420 8,650
10th Percentile £346 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 254 404
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MATLAB job vacancy trend in England

MATLAB
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MATLAB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MATLAB in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MATLAB in England

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MATLAB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in England

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
East of England -9 24 £500 +33.33% 17
London -1 12 £425 -22.73% 3
Midlands -31 11 £550 +37.50% 4
South West -9 10 - - 24
West Midlands -28 7 £550 +37.50% 2
East Midlands -14 4 - - 2
South East -20 2 £365 +1.67% 28
MATLAB
UK

MATLAB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (5.00%) SAS
2 1 (1.67%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 32 (53.33%) Simulink
2 7 (11.67%) Stateflow
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.67%) Windchill
4 1 (1.67%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.67%) AWS
2 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.33%) Tableau
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (10.00%) Rational Team Concert
3 5 (8.33%) MLflow
3 5 (8.33%) Rational Rhapsody
4 4 (6.67%) JIRA
4 4 (6.67%) LabVIEW
5 2 (3.33%) CANoe
5 2 (3.33%) Git
5 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.67%) Polyspace
General
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Law
3 7 (11.67%) Electronics
4 6 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 5 (8.33%) Games
6 4 (6.67%) Aviation
6 4 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (6.67%) Finance
7 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Automotive
8 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.67%) Advertising
9 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Legal
9 1 (1.67%) Marketing
9 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Firmware Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) FPGA Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) RF Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Ada Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Assembler Developer
6 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (3.33%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.33%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Software Test Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Algorithms
2 10 (16.67%) FPGA
3 5 (8.33%) PCIe
3 5 (8.33%) Verilog
3 5 (8.33%) VHDL
4 4 (6.67%) CUDA
4 4 (6.67%) Synthetic Data
5 3 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) Mathematics
2 15 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 14 (23.33%) Machine Learning
4 13 (21.67%) Signal Processing
5 11 (18.33%) Data Analysis
6 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.00%) Data Science
8 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.33%) Digital Signal Processing
9 7 (11.67%) Agile
9 7 (11.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 7 (11.67%) Physics
10 6 (10.00%) AI
10 6 (10.00%) Mathematical Modelling
10 6 (10.00%) Requirements Management
10 6 (10.00%) SDLC
10 6 (10.00%) Visualisation
11 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (8.33%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) C
2 15 (25.00%) Python
3 12 (20.00%) C++
4 10 (16.67%) R
5 8 (13.33%) Ada
6 7 (11.67%) Fortran
7 5 (8.33%) SystemVerilog
7 5 (8.33%) Tcl
8 4 (6.67%) SQL
9 2 (3.33%) Assembly Language
9 2 (3.33%) C#
9 2 (3.33%) Java
10 1 (1.67%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 24 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (26.67%) Degree
4 5 (8.33%) HNC
4 5 (8.33%) HND
5 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) PhD
7 1 (1.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) DO-254
3 3 (5.00%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (3.33%) ISO 26262
5 1 (1.67%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (1.67%) MISRA
5 1 (1.67%) MISRA C
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Lustre
2 1 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Ansible
1 1 (1.67%) Functional Safety
1 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Xilinx
2 6 (10.00%) Databricks
2 6 (10.00%) MathWorks
3 5 (8.33%) Actel
3 5 (8.33%) Altera
3 5 (8.33%) Intel
3 5 (8.33%) Microsemi
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Siemens
6 1 (1.67%) DIgSILENT
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.67%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) QNX