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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 361 374
Rank change year-on-year -94 +13 +49
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 2 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% 0.090% 0.099%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.032% 0.23% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 15
10th Percentile - £351 £364
25th Percentile - £405 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £785 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +84.71% -26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile - £550 £894
90th Percentile - - £1,200
England median daily rate £498 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -0.50% +8.70% -14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
England median hourly rate £71.50 £72.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.38% +16.00% -1.96%

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 6,337 5,199 6,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.44% 38.78% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,301 3,529 4,533
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 67 47
10th Percentile £26.51 £26.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -5.48% -19.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.50 £71.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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
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
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
1 1 (50.00%) Verilog
1 1 (50.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Equity Research
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PhD
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes