MATLAB Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

MathWorks MATLAB
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring MATLAB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 34 32
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.17% 0.52% 0.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.41% 1.10% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £505
East Midlands median daily rate £375 - £505

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 88 91 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 34.24% 47.64% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 81 48
10th Percentile £368 £260 £356
25th Percentile £397 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £368 £430
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -14.42% +9.21%
75th Percentile £575 £430 £500
90th Percentile £583 £488 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £402 £425
% change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -1.45%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MATLAB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

MATLAB job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

MATLAB
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing MATLAB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. 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
Northampton -8 3 £375 - 2
MATLAB
East Midlands

MATLAB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Superset
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metabase
1 3 (100.00%) Parquet
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Software Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Plotly
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Rust
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft