MATLAB Jobs in the UK excluding London

MathWorks MATLAB
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MATLAB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MATLAB over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 440 442
Rank change year-on-year +392 +2 -66
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 1,898 367 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.88% 0.50% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.60% 1.62% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 212 89
10th Percentile £42,415 £39,000 £32,500
25th Percentile - £45,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £58,943 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £60,265 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.30% -15.38% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,207 22,714 23,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.25% 30.84% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,599 16,483 13,211
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,296 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,963
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MATLAB in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MATLAB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK excluding London

MATLAB
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
North of England +308 510 £47,683 -7.41% 151
North West +227 424 £47,683 -4.63% 65
South East +231 377 £47,683 -13.30% 238
Scotland +264 373 £58,033 -10.72% 54
Midlands +206 298 £47,683 -13.30% 167
South West +148 218 £52,600 -3.49% 135
East Midlands +126 151 £47,683 +12.20% 55
West Midlands +151 147 £75,000 +25.00% 101
Yorkshire +132 84 £47,683 -30.64% 58
East of England +37 67 £47,683 -13.30% 147
Wales - 52 £47,683 - 23
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 8
North East - 2 £115,000 - 29
MATLAB
UK

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 952 (50.16%) Simulink
2 181 (9.54%) Microsoft Office
3 174 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 174 (9.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 111 (5.85%) Mathcad
5 24 (1.26%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.32%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.053%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 347 (18.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (0.21%) GitHub
2 2 (0.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (0.47%) WAN
3 7 (0.37%) 5G
3 7 (0.37%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.11%) GPRS
4 2 (0.11%) GSM
4 2 (0.11%) MQTT
5 1 (0.053%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.16%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (0.11%) GIS
2 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 159 (8.38%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (0.58%) Git
3 7 (0.37%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.21%) Subversion
5 1 (0.053%) GitLab
5 1 (0.053%) Visual Studio
General
1 565 (29.77%) Aerospace
2 529 (27.87%) Presentation Skills
3 415 (21.87%) Automotive
4 318 (16.75%) Social Skills
5 233 (12.28%) Electronics
6 29 (1.53%) Military
7 28 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 15 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (0.37%) Law
10 5 (0.26%) Finance
11 4 (0.21%) Advertising
11 4 (0.21%) Retail
11 4 (0.21%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.11%) Marketing
13 1 (0.053%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,509 (79.50%) Systems Engineer
2 243 (12.80%) Senior
3 138 (7.27%) Junior
3 138 (7.27%) Junior Systems Engineer
4 126 (6.64%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 117 (6.16%) Software Engineer
6 99 (5.22%) Development Engineer
6 99 (5.22%) Software Development Engineer
7 79 (4.16%) Mathematical Modeller
8 71 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
9 69 (3.64%) Lead
10 66 (3.48%) Principal Software Engineer
11 64 (3.37%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 60 (3.16%) Integration Engineer
12 60 (3.16%) Systems Integration Engineer
13 41 (2.16%) Senior Software Engineer
14 36 (1.90%) Senior Development Engineer
14 36 (1.90%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 36 (1.90%) Senior Software Development Engineer
15 18 (0.95%) Radio Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.63%) HTML
2 4 (0.21%) pytest
3 2 (0.11%) .NET
3 2 (0.11%) gRPC
3 2 (0.11%) Kafka
3 2 (0.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (1.42%) FPGA
2 26 (1.37%) Algorithms
3 16 (0.84%) Management Information System
4 15 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (0.47%) Analogue Electronics
6 7 (0.37%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (0.21%) e-Learning
7 4 (0.21%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (0.21%) VHDL
8 3 (0.16%) GNSS
8 3 (0.16%) MicroBlaze
8 3 (0.16%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.16%) Satnav
9 2 (0.11%) Acoustics
9 2 (0.11%) IoT
10 1 (0.053%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.053%) Infotainment
10 1 (0.053%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.053%) Verilog
10 1 (0.053%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.05%) Linux
2 11 (0.58%) Windows
3 7 (0.37%) Unix
4 1 (0.053%) Android
4 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,688 (88.94%) Systems Engineering
2 1,179 (62.12%) SysML
3 786 (41.41%) Validation
4 767 (40.41%) Agile
5 737 (38.83%) Mathematics
6 673 (35.46%) UML
7 630 (33.19%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 604 (31.82%) Software Engineering
9 574 (30.24%) Verification and Validation
10 540 (28.45%) Cybersecurity
11 530 (27.92%) MODAF
12 473 (24.92%) Digital Twin
13 347 (18.28%) PLM
14 252 (13.28%) Physics
15 239 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
16 208 (10.96%) Software Testing
17 199 (10.48%) Computer Science
18 141 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
19 139 (7.32%) Project Management
20 138 (7.27%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 183 (9.64%) Python
2 78 (4.11%) C++
3 77 (4.06%) C
4 58 (3.06%) R
5 56 (2.95%) C#
6 52 (2.74%) Java
6 52 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 51 (2.69%) SQL
8 50 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 48 (2.53%) Dart
9 48 (2.53%) PHP
9 48 (2.53%) Ruby
9 48 (2.53%) Rust
10 7 (0.37%) Perl
11 4 (0.21%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.21%) Tcl
11 4 (0.21%) VB
12 2 (0.11%) Fortran
13 1 (0.053%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.053%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,565 (82.46%) Degree
2 1,283 (67.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 690 (36.35%) HND
4 679 (35.77%) HNC
5 48 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (1.90%) Security Cleared
7 30 (1.58%) SC Cleared
8 16 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.37%) PhD
10 6 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.11%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.053%) MCAD
12 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.053%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (0.11%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (0.11%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.053%) DO-254
3 1 (0.053%) ECSS
3 1 (0.053%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.053%) MISRA
3 1 (0.053%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.053%) QA
System Software
1 29 (1.53%) Firmware
2 23 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.11%) Kibana
1 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.053%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 209 (11.01%) ANSYS
2 173 (9.11%) Microsoft
3 138 (7.27%) IBM
4 88 (4.64%) MathWorks
5 20 (1.05%) Siemens
6 7 (0.37%) Mentor Graphics
6 7 (0.37%) Xilinx
7 4 (0.21%) EMC
8 3 (0.16%) Altera
8 3 (0.16%) Green Hills
9 1 (0.053%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.053%) Cadence
9 1 (0.053%) QNX