Simulink Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Simulink skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Simulink 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 306 325 413
Rank change year-on-year +19 +88 +53
Contract jobs citing Simulink 30 74 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the Applications category 2.37% 3.62% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 10
10th Percentile - £350 £375
25th Percentile £663 £515 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £438
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +42.86% +1.16%
75th Percentile £688 £635 £581
90th Percentile - £638 £596
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% +18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 50 21
10th Percentile £50.50 - £47.50
25th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £56.12
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% +8.33%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

Simulink falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,265 2,042 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.91% 9.83% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 859 1,400
10th Percentile £161 £150 £164
25th Percentile £225 £200 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £391
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.54% +4.33%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £578 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 531 198
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.07 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.32 £13.75 £17.32
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% -50.28% +70.00%
75th Percentile £45.98 £38.85 £52.86
90th Percentile £76.13 £57.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.13% -51.45% +69.77%

Simulink
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Simulink in the UK excluding London

Simulink
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Simulink in the UK excluding London

Simulink
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Simulink in the UK excluding London

Simulink
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Simulink in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Simulink in the UK excluding London

Simulink
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 Simulink within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England +15 20 - - 60
South West +39 4 £675 +22.73% 34
South East +36 2 - - 48
Midlands +13 2 - - 49
North of England +14 1 - - 30
North West +12 1 - - 16
East Midlands +9 1 - - 11
West Midlands +6 1 - - 36
Scotland - 1 - - 16
Simulink
UK

Simulink
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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) CANalyzer
1 1 (3.33%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Rational Statemate
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Automotive
2 5 (16.67%) Electronics
3 4 (13.33%) Military
4 3 (10.00%) Games
5 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 14 (46.67%) Design Engineer
3 13 (43.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Firmware Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Algorithm Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Control Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Lead
8 1 (3.33%) Software Design Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) FPGA
1 17 (56.67%) Verilog
2 14 (46.67%) VHDL
3 11 (36.67%) Algorithms
4 4 (13.33%) PCIe
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) UVM
2 16 (53.33%) Signal Processing
3 14 (46.67%) FPGA Design
4 8 (26.67%) Validation
5 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Application Security
6 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (13.33%) Digital Signal Processing
6 4 (13.33%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 4 (13.33%) Verification and Validation
7 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.00%) Cryptography
7 3 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (10.00%) Model Validation
7 3 (10.00%) Physics
7 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
8 2 (6.67%) Embedded Software Development
8 2 (6.67%) Unit Testing
9 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) MATLAB
1 17 (56.67%) SystemVerilog
2 15 (50.00%) C
3 3 (10.00%) Tcl
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) Fortran
5 1 (3.33%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) Degree
2 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (10.00%) HNC
5 3 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) DO-254
2 1 (3.33%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Intel
1 17 (56.67%) Microsemi
1 17 (56.67%) Xilinx
2 4 (13.33%) Altera
3 3 (10.00%) Actel