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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 356 371
Rank change year-on-year -93 +15 +65
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 1 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% 0.090% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.016% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 17
10th Percentile - £351 £344
25th Percentile - £405 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £785 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +84.71% -22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £550 £888
90th Percentile - - £1,200
England median daily rate £425 £463 £460
% change year-on-year -8.11% +0.54% -13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £28.25 -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -31.82% -
75th Percentile - £51.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -3.45% +21.85% -6.67%

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 6,364 5,127 6,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.55% 38.52% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,270 3,548 4,680
10th Percentile £385 £373 £370
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £689 £704
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 64 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.90 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.95 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% -5.37% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.75 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Equity Research
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Quantitative Research
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes