Polyspace Contract Job Trends

MathWorks Polyspace
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Polyspace skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 - 639
Rank change year-on-year - - +216
Contract jobs citing Polyspace 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.020% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Polyspace falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,058 5,052 6,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.32% 13.29% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,419 3,161 4,547
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £723 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 174 243
10th Percentile £21.93 £31.80 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £51.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.25 £73.93 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Polyspace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Polyspace job vacancy trend in the UK

Polyspace
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Polyspace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Polyspace

Polyspace
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Polyspace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Polyspace

Polyspace
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Polyspace within the UK over the 6 months to 5 October 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 - 1 £475 - 2
East of England - 1 £475 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £475 - 2

Polyspace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 26262
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) QNX