MATLAB Contracts in the Midlands

MathWorks MATLAB
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 127 141
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +73
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 2 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.083% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 1.59% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £564
25th Percentile - - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -41.67% +24.35%
75th Percentile - £413 -
90th Percentile - £450 -
England median daily rate £469 £460 £538
% change year-on-year +1.90% -14.42% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £60.74
% change year-on-year +31.82% -9.44% +10.43%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 638 630 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.40% 22.03% 25.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 452 590
10th Percentile £268 £298 £306
25th Percentile £363 £358 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £591 £628 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 16
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.50 £18.75
25th Percentile £28.18 £32.15 £23.81
Median hourly rate £33.91 £55.00 £41.69
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +31.92% +19.12%
75th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £57.81
90th Percentile - £72.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +15.74%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in the Midlands

MATLAB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for MATLAB in the Midlands

MATLAB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for MATLAB in the Midlands

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
West Midlands -4 1 £425 +21.43% 37
East Midlands - 1 - - 13
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CANalyzer
2 1 (50.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CANoe
1 1 (50.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) FMEA
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 26262