MATLAB Job Trends in London

MathWorks MATLAB
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring MATLAB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 361 451
Rank change year-on-year -43 +90 +106
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 5 36 53
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.024% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.096% 0.72% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 31
10th Percentile £113,000 £67,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £128,750 £90,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £132,500 £150,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +100.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £136,250 £175,000 £100,000
90th Percentile - - £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.07% -4.36% -15.38%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,229 5,011 9,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.51% 40.57% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,698 3,716 7,574
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £131,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MATLAB job vacancy trend in London

MATLAB
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MATLAB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MATLAB in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in London

MATLAB
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Central London -22 4 £132,500 -11.67% 3
MATLAB
England

MATLAB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (60.00%) Portfolio Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Parallel Processing
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Linear Algebra
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Physics
5 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (20.00%) Pricing Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Julia
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) R
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft