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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 440 449
Rank change year-on-year -82 +9 +51
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 75 38 100
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 0.45% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 25
10th Percentile £375 £379 £325
25th Percentile £461 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £519 £650 £825
90th Percentile £525 £756 £1,080
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +1.58% +3.26% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 52
10th Percentile £53.53 £28.36 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £46.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% -15.38%

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 11,428 8,381 11,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.62% 33.88% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,471 5,816 8,125
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -3.25% -3.93%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 196 488
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

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 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 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
South West +9 39 £500 - 29
East of England -25 24 £480 +17.85% 32
Midlands -51 7 £375 - 17
West Midlands - 4 £410 - 11
East Midlands -18 3 £375 - 6
North of England - 2 - - 7
London -72 1 £775 +37.78% 10
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 3
South East - 1 £718 - 43
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 (4.00%) Apache Superset
1 3 (4.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (26.67%) Simulink
2 4 (5.33%) Stateflow
3 3 (4.00%) LaTeX
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.33%) CANalyzer
4 1 (1.33%) CPLEX
4 1 (1.33%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.67%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.33%) SAN
3 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Metabase
1 3 (4.00%) Parquet
1 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.33%) Big Data
2 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.33%) MySQL
2 1 (1.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) Git
2 11 (14.67%) GitLab
2 11 (14.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 30 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.67%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (13.33%) Electronics
5 4 (5.33%) Aviation
5 4 (5.33%) Avionics
5 4 (5.33%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Games
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Finance
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Software Engineer
2 21 (28.00%) Algorithm Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Administrator
3 11 (14.67%) Linux Administrator
3 11 (14.67%) Systems Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Lead
5 8 (10.67%) Test Leader
6 5 (6.67%) FPGA Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Senior
7 4 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.00%) .NET Software Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Mathematician
8 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Validation Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) LDAP
1 11 (14.67%) Middleware
2 3 (4.00%) .NET
2 3 (4.00%) Plotly
2 3 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.33%) Algorithms
2 12 (16.00%) FPGA
3 11 (14.67%) Data Centre
3 11 (14.67%) Embedded Systems
4 10 (13.33%) Management Information System
5 7 (9.33%) PCIe
6 6 (8.00%) Cloud Native
6 6 (8.00%) Verilog
6 6 (8.00%) VHDL
7 4 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.33%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (26.67%) Linux
2 11 (14.67%) CentOS
2 11 (14.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) Software Engineering
2 16 (21.33%) Validation
3 12 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (14.67%) Information Management
4 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 10 (13.33%) Workflow
5 10 (13.33%) Workflow Management
6 9 (12.00%) Verification and Validation
7 8 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (10.67%) TDD
7 8 (10.67%) Test Automation
7 8 (10.67%) Test Strategy
8 7 (9.33%) Machine Learning
8 7 (9.33%) Systems Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) UVM
9 6 (8.00%) AI
9 6 (8.00%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.67%) Agile
10 5 (6.67%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) Ada
2 20 (26.67%) C
3 11 (14.67%) C++
3 11 (14.67%) Shell Script
4 8 (10.67%) Python
5 7 (9.33%) SystemVerilog
6 5 (6.67%) C#
7 3 (4.00%) Rust
8 2 (2.67%) Tcl
9 1 (1.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 26 (34.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) HNC
5 2 (2.67%) HND
5 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) SLA
2 7 (9.33%) QA
3 6 (8.00%) DO-254
4 4 (5.33%) Def Stans
5 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.00%) Firmware
3 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Ansible
1 11 (14.67%) Check_MK
1 11 (14.67%) Podman
1 11 (14.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Red Hat
1 11 (14.67%) VMware
2 10 (13.33%) IBM
2 10 (13.33%) MathWorks
3 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.67%) Xilinx
4 7 (9.33%) Microsemi
5 6 (8.00%) Altera
6 3 (4.00%) Intel
7 2 (2.67%) Actel
8 1 (1.33%) Ariba
8 1 (1.33%) Cadence
8 1 (1.33%) Infor
8 1 (1.33%) SAP
8 1 (1.33%) Siemens