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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 427 480
Rank change year-on-year -97 +53 +15
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 84 261 290
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 1.66% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 35 134 179
10th Percentile £45,162 £36,311 £32,734
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £94,375 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.58%

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 10,755 15,693 23,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.86% 34.06% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,063 9,298 20,467
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -2 41 £60,000 +9.09% 34
South West -20 17 £40,000 -23.95% 18
North of England -52 10 £57,560 +20.71% 6
North West -43 9 £57,560 +20.71% 4
East of England +9 8 £72,500 +31.82% 8
London +12 7 £70,069 -33.27% 3
West Midlands +10 1 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Midlands -4 1 £65,000 +26.83% 16
Yorkshire -24 1 £63,150 +9.71% 1
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 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.38%) SAS
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 34 (40.48%) Simulink
2 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.57%) CATIA
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.38%) OrCAD
4 2 (2.38%) Stata
5 1 (1.19%) GNU Octave
5 1 (1.19%) Mathcad
5 1 (1.19%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) GitHub
2 4 (4.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.52%) 5G
1 8 (9.52%) SD-WAN
1 8 (9.52%) WAN
2 4 (4.76%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (3.57%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.19%) TCAP
4 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
2 14 (16.67%) LabVIEW
3 12 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (3.57%) MLflow
5 2 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 47 (55.95%) Electronics
2 18 (21.43%) Military
3 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 11 (13.10%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (10.71%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.76%) Finance
9 3 (3.57%) Agriculture
9 3 (3.57%) Avionics
9 3 (3.57%) Marketing
10 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.19%) Advertising
11 1 (1.19%) Automotive
11 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (38.10%) Systems Engineer
2 29 (34.52%) Senior
3 14 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 13 (15.48%) Lead
5 12 (14.29%) Product Engineer
5 12 (14.29%) Product Test Engineer
5 12 (14.29%) Verification Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Graduate
8 4 (4.76%) Radar Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Verification Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Control Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Electrical Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) FPGA Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Research Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Team Leader
10 2 (2.38%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) pytest
2 2 (2.38%) Pandas
3 1 (1.19%) Caffe
3 1 (1.19%) NumPy
3 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.19%) REST
3 1 (1.19%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Management Information System
2 14 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (9.52%) Self-Driving Car
5 6 (7.14%) GNSS
6 4 (4.76%) FPGA
6 4 (4.76%) Satnav
7 3 (3.57%) Arduino
7 3 (3.57%) CAN bus
7 3 (3.57%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.57%) PCIe
7 3 (3.57%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (2.38%) Analogue Electronics
8 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.38%) Derivative
9 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.19%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.19%) Robotics
9 1 (1.19%) Verilog
9 1 (1.19%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.48%) Unix
2 12 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Physics
2 32 (38.10%) Systems Engineering
3 29 (34.52%) Mathematics
4 25 (29.76%) Agile
5 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (25.00%) Validation
6 19 (22.62%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 18 (21.43%) Coaching
7 18 (21.43%) SysML
8 17 (20.24%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (20.24%) Information Assurance
8 17 (20.24%) Kalman Filter
9 15 (17.86%) Data Analysis
9 15 (17.86%) Requirements Management
9 15 (17.86%) Verification and Validation
10 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 13 (15.48%) Signal Processing
12 12 (14.29%) B2B
12 12 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 11 (13.10%) AI
Programming Languages
1 45 (53.57%) Python
2 15 (17.86%) C
3 12 (14.29%) C++
4 7 (8.33%) R
5 4 (4.76%) Java
6 3 (3.57%) Assembly Language
6 3 (3.57%) C#
6 3 (3.57%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.57%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.57%) Swift
6 3 (3.57%) Tcl
7 2 (2.38%) SQL
7 2 (2.38%) VB
7 2 (2.38%) VBA
8 1 (1.19%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 76 (90.48%) Degree
2 49 (58.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
4 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
5 14 (16.67%) HND
6 7 (8.33%) Master's Degree
6 7 (8.33%) PhD
7 2 (2.38%) CFA
7 2 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (1.19%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (1.19%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (20.24%) Siemens
2 3 (3.57%) Altera
2 3 (3.57%) Databricks
2 3 (3.57%) Google
2 3 (3.57%) IBM
3 2 (2.38%) ANSYS
3 2 (2.38%) Cadence
3 2 (2.38%) EMC
3 2 (2.38%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.19%) Keysight
4 1 (1.19%) MathWorks
4 1 (1.19%) PTC
4 1 (1.19%) SAP
4 1 (1.19%) YouTube