MATLAB Job Trends in England

MathWorks MATLAB
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring MATLAB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 406 490
Rank change year-on-year -99 +84 -47
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 88 294 191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.60% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.77% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 37 153 112
10th Percentile £41,717 £37,515 £36,375
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -5.98% +11.43%
75th Percentile £75,900 £71,250 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £92,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% +13.33%

All Programming Languages
England

MATLAB falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,199 16,584 18,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.63% 33.94% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,688 9,767 15,198
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +4.00% -3.85%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MATLAB relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

MATLAB job vacancy trend in England

MATLAB
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MATLAB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MATLAB in England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in England

MATLAB
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -14 37 £60,000 -0.83% 38
South West -19 16 £40,000 -23.95% 30
North of England -25 16 £57,000 +16.65% 9
North West -10 15 £55,897 +17.23% 5
London +16 10 £40,138 -61.77% 3
East of England +2 8 £72,500 +3.57% 12
West Midlands +11 1 £65,000 +23.81% 1
Midlands -7 1 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Yorkshire -13 1 £63,150 +9.71% 2
MATLAB
UK

MATLAB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.41%) SAS
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (29.55%) Simulink
2 11 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.41%) Stata
4 2 (2.27%) Mathcad
4 2 (2.27%) OrCAD
5 1 (1.14%) CATIA
5 1 (1.14%) GNU Octave
5 1 (1.14%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) GitHub
2 4 (4.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (5.68%) 5G
2 5 (5.68%) SD-WAN
2 5 (5.68%) WAN
3 1 (1.14%) TCAP
3 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Big Data
2 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (13.64%) LabVIEW
3 10 (11.36%) Git
4 4 (4.55%) MLflow
5 3 (3.41%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (2.27%) JIRA
7 1 (1.14%) GitLab
7 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (39.77%) Electronics
2 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.50%) Military
5 8 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.68%) Finance
7 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.55%) Marketing
9 3 (3.41%) Agriculture
9 3 (3.41%) Avionics
9 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.27%) Automotive
10 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.14%) Advertising
11 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (39.77%) Systems Engineer
2 23 (26.14%) Senior
3 18 (20.45%) Lead
4 11 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Product Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Product Test Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Verification Engineer
7 8 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Radio Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Graduate
10 4 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Mathematical Modeller
10 4 (4.55%) Radar Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Verification Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Control Systems Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Quantitative Risk Manager
11 3 (3.41%) Senior Manager
11 3 (3.41%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) pytest
2 2 (2.27%) Pandas
3 1 (1.14%) Caffe
3 1 (1.14%) NumPy
3 1 (1.14%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.14%) REST
3 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Algorithms
2 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.95%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.82%) FPGA
5 5 (5.68%) GNSS
5 5 (5.68%) Self-Driving Car
6 4 (4.55%) Credit Risk
6 4 (4.55%) Satnav
7 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.41%) Arduino
7 3 (3.41%) CAN bus
7 3 (3.41%) Derivative
7 3 (3.41%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (2.27%) Robotics
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.14%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.14%) Verilog
9 1 (1.14%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Unix
2 9 (10.23%) Windows
3 6 (6.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.45%) Physics
2 31 (35.23%) Systems Engineering
3 27 (30.68%) Agile
3 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (28.41%) Mathematics
4 25 (28.41%) Validation
5 22 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 21 (23.86%) Signal Processing
6 21 (23.86%) SysML
7 17 (19.32%) Innovative Thinking
7 17 (19.32%) Verification and Validation
8 16 (18.18%) Data Analysis
9 13 (14.77%) Computer Science
9 13 (14.77%) Digital Signal Processing
10 12 (13.64%) Data Science
10 12 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 11 (12.50%) AI
11 11 (12.50%) Coaching
11 11 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
11 11 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.86%) Python
2 13 (14.77%) C
3 10 (11.36%) C++
4 9 (10.23%) R
5 4 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (3.41%) Assembly Language
6 3 (3.41%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.41%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.41%) Swift
6 3 (3.41%) Tcl
6 3 (3.41%) VBA
7 2 (2.27%) SQL
7 2 (2.27%) VB
8 1 (1.14%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 69 (78.41%) Degree
2 44 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (32.95%) Security Cleared
4 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 9 (10.23%) HND
6 8 (9.09%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.68%) PhD
8 3 (3.41%) CFA
8 3 (3.41%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (2.27%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (2.27%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (6.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Siemens
2 4 (4.55%) Databricks
3 3 (3.41%) Google
4 2 (2.27%) ANSYS
4 2 (2.27%) Cadence
4 2 (2.27%) EMC
4 2 (2.27%) MathWorks
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.14%) IBM
5 1 (1.14%) Keysight
5 1 (1.14%) PTC
5 1 (1.14%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) YouTube