MATLAB Contract Job Trends in London

MathWorks MATLAB
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring MATLAB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 361 387
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 +133
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 10 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.080% 0.096%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 11
10th Percentile £344 £441 £500
25th Percentile £388 £531 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £534
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.34% -20.89%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £633
90th Percentile - £650 £666
England median daily rate £500 £500 £584
% change year-on-year - -14.38% -10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.75 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +34.09% +10.00% -23.08%

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 5,389 5,759 6,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.65% 38.38% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,615 3,878 5,113
10th Percentile £369 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 39 65
10th Percentile £25.75 £35.60 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.10%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MATLAB job vacancy trend in London

MATLAB
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MATLAB in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MATLAB in London

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MATLAB

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 21 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
Central London - 3 £550 - 1
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MLflow
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (70.00%) Data Science
2 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 5 (50.00%) MLOps
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (20.00%) Data Management
6 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) R
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Siemens