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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 367 451
Rank change year-on-year +24 +84 +108
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 10 24 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.20% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 29
10th Percentile £441 £325 £490
25th Percentile £547 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £530 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -18.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £703 £825 £875
90th Percentile £756 £1,106 £916
England median daily rate £650 £583 £550
% change year-on-year +11.59% +5.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +100.00%
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +8.33%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 1 May 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
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 3 (30.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (30.00%) KDB
1 3 (30.00%) Kdb+
2 2 (20.00%) Tableau
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Front Office
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Data Scientist
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) KDB Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Asset Management Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Asset Management Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) D3.js
1 1 (10.00%) Prophet
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
4 3 (30.00%) Quantitative Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
5 2 (20.00%) A/B Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Data Lineage
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Statistics
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) R
4 3 (30.00%) C++
4 3 (30.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Spotify
2 1 (10.00%) Intel
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle