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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 375 405
Rank change year-on-year +3 +30 +141
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 13 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.093% 0.070% 0.074%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.24% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £351 £371 £496
25th Percentile £405 £450 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +3.00% -20.89%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £595
90th Percentile - £660 £666
England median daily rate £500 £400 £538
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.58% -20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £28.25 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.75 - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +16.00% +25.00% -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 5,344 6,140 7,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.42% 39.10% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,598 4,206 5,626
10th Percentile £370 £368 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -4.24% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 67
10th Percentile £22.99 £35.00 £25.60
25th Percentile £31.83 £40.06 £36.27
Median hourly rate £44.95 £49.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.06 £71.00 £66.05
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.53%

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 7 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB in London over the 6 months to 7 November 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 7 November 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 - 4 £550 - 2
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 4 (30.77%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Mining
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (23.08%) Tableau
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MLflow
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Python Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (7.69%) Social Media
1 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Data Science
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Data Analysis
2 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) MLOps
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 3 (23.08%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) A/B Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Management
6 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
6 2 (15.38%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) R
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (7.69%) Postgraduate
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens