Hybrid/Remote MATLAB Contract Job Trends

MathWorks MATLAB
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring MATLAB skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 321 378
Rank change year-on-year +24 +57 +202
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 9 10 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.093% 0.079% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.25% 0.22% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 13
10th Percentile - £347 £284
25th Percentile £358 £359 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £455 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -11.22% -2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £580
90th Percentile - £764 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £538
% change year-on-year -0.99% -6.05% -20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.13
25th Percentile - - £36.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £59.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +21.85% -6.67% +15.91%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

MATLAB falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,550 4,516 6,920
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.58% 35.66% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,413 3,124 5,122
10th Percentile £340 £326 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £788 £825 £762
UK median daily rate £505 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -4.27% -4.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 65 170
10th Percentile £33.83 £28.25 £38.63
25th Percentile £54.63 £37.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.51% +5.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £85.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +10.53%

MATLAB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MATLAB trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MATLAB
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing MATLAB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

MATLAB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing MATLAB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MLflow
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Ada Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Assembler Developer
2 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
2 2 (22.22%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) CUDA
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
1 4 (44.44%) Data Science
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
1 4 (44.44%) MLOps
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Signal Processing
3 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
3 2 (22.22%) Memory Management
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) OOP
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Signal Processing
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Model Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) R
2 2 (22.22%) Ada
2 2 (22.22%) Assembly Language
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) DIgSILENT