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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 408 488
Rank change year-on-year -117 +80 +3
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 83 282 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.59% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.75% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 35 149 125
10th Percentile £41,191 £37,500 £36,100
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £75,988 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £88,000
UK median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% - -4.35%

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 10,382 16,074 20,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.29% 33.76% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,790 9,419 17,098
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%

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 20 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 20 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 -2 34 £60,000 +9.09% 34
South West -19 17 £40,000 -23.95% 27
North of England -47 14 £57,280 +14.46% 7
North West -25 13 £57,000 +16.65% 3
London +13 9 £40,138 -59.86% 4
East of England +11 8 £72,500 +20.83% 12
West Midlands +10 1 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Midlands -1 1 £65,000 +23.81% 12
Yorkshire -19 1 £63,150 +9.71% 4
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 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.41%) SAS
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (33.73%) Simulink
2 13 (15.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.41%) OrCAD
3 2 (2.41%) Stata
4 1 (1.20%) CATIA
4 1 (1.20%) GNU Octave
4 1 (1.20%) Mathcad
4 1 (1.20%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.25%) GitHub
2 4 (4.82%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) 5G
1 7 (8.43%) SD-WAN
1 7 (8.43%) WAN
2 4 (4.82%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.20%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.20%) TCAP
3 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Big Data
2 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (19.28%) Rational DOORS
2 14 (16.87%) LabVIEW
3 11 (13.25%) Git
4 4 (4.82%) MLflow
5 2 (2.41%) JIRA
5 2 (2.41%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 41 (49.40%) Electronics
2 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.87%) Military
4 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.05%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (8.43%) Aerospace
7 5 (6.02%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.82%) Finance
8 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.61%) Agriculture
9 3 (3.61%) Avionics
9 3 (3.61%) Marketing
10 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.20%) Advertising
11 1 (1.20%) Automotive
11 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (37.35%) Systems Engineer
2 24 (28.92%) Senior
3 17 (20.48%) Lead
4 13 (15.66%) Test Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Product Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Product Test Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Verification Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Graduate
8 4 (4.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Radar Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Verification Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Control Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Electrical Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Mathematical Modeller
9 3 (3.61%) Research Engineer
10 2 (2.41%) Risk Manager
10 2 (2.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) pytest
2 2 (2.41%) Pandas
3 1 (1.20%) Caffe
3 1 (1.20%) NumPy
3 1 (1.20%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.20%) REST
3 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Algorithms
2 12 (14.46%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.84%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (8.43%) Self-Driving Car
5 5 (6.02%) Driving Licence
5 5 (6.02%) GNSS
6 4 (4.82%) Satnav
7 3 (3.61%) Arduino
7 3 (3.61%) CAN bus
7 3 (3.61%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.61%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.41%) Derivative
8 2 (2.41%) FPGA
9 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.20%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.20%) PCIe
9 1 (1.20%) Robotics
9 1 (1.20%) Verilog
9 1 (1.20%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Unix
2 11 (13.25%) Windows
3 5 (6.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.19%) Physics
2 30 (36.14%) Systems Engineering
3 26 (31.33%) Agile
3 26 (31.33%) Mathematics
4 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (28.92%) Validation
6 22 (26.51%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 21 (25.30%) SysML
8 17 (20.48%) Verification and Validation
9 16 (19.28%) Data Analysis
10 15 (18.07%) Signal Processing
11 14 (16.87%) Kalman Filter
12 13 (15.66%) Coaching
12 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
13 12 (14.46%) Computer Science
13 12 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (14.46%) Information Assurance
13 12 (14.46%) Innovative Thinking
13 12 (14.46%) Requirements Management
14 11 (13.25%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 44 (53.01%) Python
2 12 (14.46%) C
3 9 (10.84%) C++
4 8 (9.64%) R
5 4 (4.82%) Java
6 3 (3.61%) Assembly Language
6 3 (3.61%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.61%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.61%) Swift
6 3 (3.61%) Tcl
7 2 (2.41%) SQL
7 2 (2.41%) VB
7 2 (2.41%) VBA
8 1 (1.20%) C#
8 1 (1.20%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 72 (86.75%) Degree
2 45 (54.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (27.71%) Security Cleared
4 18 (21.69%) SC Cleared
5 11 (13.25%) HND
6 7 (8.43%) Master's Degree
7 6 (7.23%) PhD
8 3 (3.61%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (2.41%) CFA
10 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) AUTOSAR
1 2 (2.41%) ISO 26262
1 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Firmware
2 1 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Siemens
2 4 (4.82%) Databricks
3 3 (3.61%) Google
4 2 (2.41%) ANSYS
4 2 (2.41%) Cadence
4 2 (2.41%) EMC
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.20%) Altera
5 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.20%) IBM
5 1 (1.20%) Keysight
5 1 (1.20%) MathWorks
5 1 (1.20%) PTC
5 1 (1.20%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) YouTube