MATLAB Contracts in London

MathWorks MATLAB
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 377 447
Rank change year-on-year +21 +70 +111
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 9 22 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 32
10th Percentile £418 £325 £503
25th Percentile £438 £384 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £605 £560
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +8.04% -17.04%
75th Percentile £756 £897 £705
90th Percentile - £1,200 £903
England median daily rate £469 £505 £538
% change year-on-year -7.18% -6.05% -13.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £38.75 - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £60.74
% change year-on-year +31.82% -9.44% +10.43%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,203 6,802 10,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.35% 38.60% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,653 5,159 7,620
10th Percentile £370 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £835
England median daily rate £521 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.61% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 50 77
10th Percentile £27.08 £23.80 £25.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £34.82 £48.60
Median hourly rate £41.66 £49.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -17.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.81 £62.23 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £72.75 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in London

MATLAB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in London.

Daily rate trend for MATLAB in London

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MATLAB in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MATLAB in London

MATLAB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in London.

Hourly rate trend for MATLAB in London

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in London

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Central London - 1 - - 25
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (55.56%) SAS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Data Mining
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Scientist
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) D3.js
1 1 (11.11%) Prophet
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) SCADA
1 1 (11.11%) Social Media
1 1 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Science
2 5 (55.56%) Data Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) A/B Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Mathematics
3 4 (44.44%) Quantitative Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
4 3 (33.33%) Statistics
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
5 2 (22.22%) Data Lineage
5 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Economics
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Physics
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) R
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Spotify
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle