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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 489 517
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 +240
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 48 107 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 0.81% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 88
10th Percentile £379 £325 £350
25th Percentile £410 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -14.42% -10.42%
75th Percentile £550 £778 £593
90th Percentile £756 £1,050 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.56% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 57 25
10th Percentile £31.55 £34.21 £47.69
25th Percentile £60.75 £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £55.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +31.22% -7.92% +3.54%

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 10,687 13,281 19,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.52% 30.70% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,205 9,329 13,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 536 461
10th Percentile £27.00 £31.25 £30.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.22 £75.00 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%

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 7 July 2025.

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 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 10 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 7 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
England 0 47 £469 -7.18% 387
UK excluding London +11 37 £425 -15.00% 327
East of England +24 29 £454 +29.64% 64
London +16 9 £475 -21.49% 87
South West +36 5 - - 51
Work from Home -1 3 - - 116
Midlands 0 2 £425 +21.43% 50
East Midlands +1 1 - - 12
West Midlands -7 1 £425 +21.43% 38
Scotland - 1 - - 24

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 8 (16.67%) SAS
2 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (58.33%) Simulink
2 4 (8.33%) CANalyzer
2 4 (8.33%) Stateflow
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.17%) Windchill
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Teamcenter
2 2 (4.17%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
1 1 (2.08%) AWS
1 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (4.17%) Tableau
3 2 (4.17%) Text Mining
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.08%) Big Data
4 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) LabVIEW
2 4 (8.33%) CANoe
2 4 (8.33%) Rational Statemate
3 3 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (4.17%) Git
4 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (4.17%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (2.08%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Electronics
3 6 (12.50%) Games
4 5 (10.42%) Aerospace
4 5 (10.42%) Automotive
5 4 (8.33%) Finance
5 4 (8.33%) Law
5 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.17%) Marketing
7 2 (4.17%) Military
7 2 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Aviation
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Data Scientist
5 4 (8.33%) FPGA Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Asset Management Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Firmware Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Information Scientist
7 2 (4.17%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) RF Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) D3.js
1 1 (2.08%) Prophet
1 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.08%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (37.50%) Algorithms
2 7 (14.58%) FPGA
2 7 (14.58%) PCIe
3 6 (12.50%) Verilog
4 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.25%) CUDA
6 2 (4.17%) Acoustics
6 2 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (4.17%) Life Science
6 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.08%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.08%) IoT
7 1 (2.08%) Replication
7 1 (2.08%) SCADA
7 1 (2.08%) Social Media
7 1 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Signal Processing
2 12 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 11 (22.92%) Digital Signal Processing
3 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
3 11 (22.92%) Validation
4 10 (20.83%) Physics
5 9 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 9 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.67%) Cryptography
6 8 (16.67%) Data Science
6 8 (16.67%) Mathematics
7 7 (14.58%) Analytics
7 7 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (14.58%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (12.50%) UVM
8 6 (12.50%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (10.42%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) C
3 7 (14.58%) C++
3 7 (14.58%) R
4 6 (12.50%) SystemVerilog
4 6 (12.50%) Tcl
5 1 (2.08%) Ada
5 1 (2.08%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) Degree
3 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.58%) HNC
4 7 (14.58%) HND
5 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.25%) PhD
6 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) DO-254
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 26262
4 1 (2.08%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Actel
1 6 (12.50%) Altera
1 6 (12.50%) Intel
1 6 (12.50%) Microsemi
1 6 (12.50%) SAP
1 6 (12.50%) Xilinx
2 2 (4.17%) Databricks
2 2 (4.17%) Spotify
3 1 (2.08%) MathWorks
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Twitter