MATLAB Contracts in the UK excluding London

MathWorks MATLAB
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MATLAB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MATLAB over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 370 444
Rank change year-on-year +73 +74 -72
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 94 91 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.38% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.29% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 8
10th Percentile £348 £229 £404
25th Percentile £431 £375 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year +22.43% -3.39% -25.78%
75th Percentile £635 £572 £581
90th Percentile £675 £590 £634
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 25
10th Percentile £44.85 £51.25 £55.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.12 £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +31.87%
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +31.87%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

MATLAB is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,870 7,066 8,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.43% 29.23% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 5,053 6,237
10th Percentile £315 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £656 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 352 339
10th Percentile £37.50 £22.57 £17.27
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.92 £27.49
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year - +25.63% +18.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.28
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MATLAB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
East of England +13 27 £388 -13.89% 50
North of England +47 19 £488 +25.81% 15
South East +9 17 £634 +21.92% 51
North West +28 16 £500 +42.86% 10
South West +4 16 £650 +48.57% 47
Midlands +35 15 £528 -10.59% 34
West Midlands +35 13 £550 -6.78% 29
Yorkshire +29 3 £450 +5.88% 4
East Midlands - 2 £505 - 5
MATLAB
UK

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 56 (59.57%) Simulink
2 24 (25.53%) Stateflow
3 5 (5.32%) TargetLink
4 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) InfiniBand
2 5 (5.32%) Wireless
3 1 (1.06%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (14.89%) Git
2 9 (9.57%) Subversion
3 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
3 6 (6.38%) JIRA
4 4 (4.26%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (3.19%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (2.13%) LabVIEW
6 2 (2.13%) Rational Team Concert
7 1 (1.06%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.06%) GitLab
7 1 (1.06%) MagicDraw
General
1 24 (25.53%) Automotive
2 17 (18.09%) Aerospace
3 13 (13.83%) Legal
3 13 (13.83%) Military
4 10 (10.64%) Electronics
5 7 (7.45%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.45%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.38%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.26%) Law
8 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Aviation
8 3 (3.19%) Finance
8 3 (3.19%) Marketing
8 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.13%) Avionics
9 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (30.85%) Software Engineer
2 20 (21.28%) Systems Engineer
3 14 (14.89%) Principal Engineer
4 10 (10.64%) Embedded Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Consultant
7 7 (7.45%) C Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Real Time Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Control Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Senior
10 3 (3.19%) Communications Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) MATLAB Developer
10 3 (3.19%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) .NET
1 3 (3.19%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.06%) Node.js
2 1 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (38.30%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.26%) Analogue Electronics
4 4 (4.26%) Clustering
4 4 (4.26%) Device Driver
5 3 (3.19%) FPGA
5 3 (3.19%) VHDL
6 1 (1.06%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) VxWorks
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Software Engineering
2 33 (35.11%) Validation
3 29 (30.85%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 21 (22.34%) Computer Science
4 21 (22.34%) Verification and Validation
5 15 (15.96%) Test Automation
6 14 (14.89%) Signal Processing
7 13 (13.83%) Mathematics
8 12 (12.77%) Physics
9 11 (11.70%) Agile
9 11 (11.70%) Deep Learning
10 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.57%) Software Testing
10 9 (9.57%) Stress Testing
10 9 (9.57%) Systems Engineering
11 8 (8.51%) Multithreading
11 8 (8.51%) Project Management
11 8 (8.51%) UML
12 7 (7.45%) Data Analysis
12 7 (7.45%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.66%) C
2 23 (24.47%) C++
3 18 (19.15%) Python
4 5 (5.32%) Assembly Language
5 4 (4.26%) Embedded C
5 4 (4.26%) Embedded C++
5 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.19%) C#
6 3 (3.19%) Fortran
6 3 (3.19%) VB.NET
6 3 (3.19%) VBA
7 2 (2.13%) Ada
7 2 (2.13%) Ada 95
7 2 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.11%) Degree
2 33 (35.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) Master's Degree
4 8 (8.51%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.38%) PhD
6 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.06%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) AUTOSAR
2 6 (6.38%) ISO 26262
2 6 (6.38%) MISRA
2 6 (6.38%) MISRA C
3 5 (5.32%) QA
4 4 (4.26%) JTAG
5 1 (1.06%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 16 (17.02%) Firmware
2 11 (11.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (2.13%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Dell
1 11 (11.70%) Isilon
2 9 (9.57%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.32%) MathWorks
4 3 (3.19%) Keysight
4 3 (3.19%) SAP
5 2 (2.13%) BMC
5 2 (2.13%) HP
5 2 (2.13%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.06%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.06%) QinetiQ
6 1 (1.06%) Twitter