MATLAB Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

MathWorks MATLAB
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring MATLAB skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 46 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 16 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.54% 2.28% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.76% 9.79% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 - £488
% change year-on-year - - +83.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile - £62.38 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £64.06 £65.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile - - £71.88
90th Percentile £78.50 - £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £73.75 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.95% -8.46% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 164 143 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 36.28% 23.29% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 48 106
10th Percentile £451 £325 £384
25th Percentile £495 £349 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £684
90th Percentile £635 £625 £731
East of England median daily rate £503 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +18.24% -15.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 54 87
10th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £88.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in Hertfordshire

MATLAB
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Stevenage +6 16 £500 - 5
MATLAB
East of England

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Simulink
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (25.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
1 4 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
1 4 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (12.50%) Rational Statemate
General
1 8 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) RF Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) CUDA Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) CUDA Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Digital Signal Processing
2 5 (31.25%) Signal Processing
3 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) PLM
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Mathematical Modelling
4 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
4 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
5 2 (12.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 2 (12.50%) Memory Management
5 2 (12.50%) OOP
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C++
2 5 (31.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Lustre
2 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP