MATLAB Contracts

MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 490 728
Rank change year-on-year -7 +238 +8
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 66 148 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.30% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.96% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 70 49
10th Percentile £354 £409 £420
25th Percentile £375 £481 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% -20.37% +28.57%
75th Percentile £634 £646 £713
90th Percentile £990 £675 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -25.58% +19.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 33
10th Percentile £39.85 £35.20 £33.40
25th Percentile £46.22 £50.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.65% +14.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.75 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.65% +14.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,083 15,484 31,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.07% 31.77% 37.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,959 11,033 22,760
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £446 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +7.62%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 438 491
10th Percentile £26.22 £33.67 £20.25
25th Percentile £46.05 £48.32 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £57.95
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +8.71% +27.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.63 £82.33 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 5 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 5 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 October 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
England +5 65 £460 -14.42% 151
UK excluding London -17 49 £400 -25.58% 145
East of England +14 20 £375 -23.08% 32
London +53 16 £575 -4.17% 18
Midlands +14 10 £400 -33.33% 25
Work from Home +74 9 £450 -12.20% 42
North of England +28 9 £588 +20.51% 15
West Midlands +15 9 £400 -33.33% 12
South East +24 5 £360 -39.37% 42
North West +20 5 - - 13
South West -31 5 - - 28
North East - 5 £725 - 1
Yorkshire +18 2 £450 -10.00% 1
East Midlands +2 1 - - 12

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.03%) Apache
1 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (54.55%) Simulink
2 9 (13.64%) Stateflow
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.52%) SPSS
6 1 (1.52%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.61%) Power Automate
2 7 (10.61%) PowerApps
3 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (3.03%) AWS
4 2 (3.03%) Azure
4 2 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.52%) Google Docs
5 1 (1.52%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Ethernet
2 5 (7.58%) FlexRay
3 2 (3.03%) RS-422
4 1 (1.52%) Internet
4 1 (1.52%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Power BI
2 7 (10.61%) Metadata
3 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.55%) Tableau
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (4.55%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) JIRA
3 2 (3.03%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.52%) GitLab
4 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.52%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 10 (15.15%) Automotive
3 10 (15.15%) Finance
4 8 (12.12%) Banking
5 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.58%) Law
7 4 (6.06%) Electronics
8 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Developer
2 9 (13.64%) Software Engineer
3 8 (12.12%) C++ Developer
3 8 (12.12%) Linux Developer
3 8 (12.12%) Senior
4 7 (10.61%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Automation Developer
5 6 (9.09%) C Software Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Applications Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Power Apps Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Real Time Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) .NET
1 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
1 2 (3.03%) Shiny
2 1 (1.52%) COM
2 1 (1.52%) NumPy
2 1 (1.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.55%) VHDL
3 2 (3.03%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.03%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.03%) FPGA
3 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.52%) CAN bus
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 23 (34.85%) Visualisation
3 22 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 22 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 21 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (28.79%) Mathematical Modelling
6 17 (25.76%) Validation
7 15 (22.73%) Multithreading
8 10 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
9 8 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (12.12%) Requirements Management
10 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.61%) Software Testing
11 6 (9.09%) Agile
11 6 (9.09%) Data Governance
11 6 (9.09%) Technical Analysis
12 5 (7.58%) SDLC
12 5 (7.58%) SysML
13 4 (6.06%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) C
2 17 (25.76%) C++
3 14 (21.21%) Python
4 8 (12.12%) SQL
5 6 (9.09%) Fortran
6 5 (7.58%) R
7 4 (6.06%) VBA
8 2 (3.03%) C#
8 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.03%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.52%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.52%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Degree
2 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 18 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) CFA
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) HNC
5 2 (3.03%) HND
5 2 (3.03%) MBA
5 2 (3.03%) PhD
5 2 (3.03%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) ISO 26262
2 3 (4.55%) DO-160
2 3 (4.55%) DO-254
3 2 (3.03%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (3.03%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
1 1 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.52%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Databricks
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.03%) ANSYS
3 2 (3.03%) Mentor Graphics
4 1 (1.52%) EMC
4 1 (1.52%) Google
4 1 (1.52%) MathWorks
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle
4 1 (1.52%) Qualtrics