MATLAB Job Trends

MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MATLAB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 418 467
Rank change year-on-year -131 +49 -4
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 96 336 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.60% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 1.76% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40 186 125
10th Percentile £42,507 £37,574 £34,650
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -5.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £76,925 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £91,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +12.24%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,643 19,071 19,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.64% 33.95% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,539 11,351 16,124
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,416
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,890
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 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MATLAB job vacancy trend in the UK

MATLAB
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MATLAB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MATLAB

MATLAB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the UK over the 6 months to 24 December 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
England -110 89 £58,780 +6.87% 106
UK excluding London -107 84 £60,000 +9.09% 104
South East -7 38 £65,000 +6.56% 38
South West -15 16 £40,000 -23.95% 32
North of England -25 16 £57,000 +16.65% 8
Work from Home +55 15 £60,000 - 38
North West -7 15 £55,897 +17.23% 5
London +5 10 £40,138 -63.51% 6
East of England +3 8 £72,500 +3.57% 18
Scotland -30 4 £62,249 +7.26% 1
West Midlands +20 1 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Wales -1 1 £85,700 +55.82% 1
Midlands -5 1 £65,000 +23.81% 9
Yorkshire -9 1 £63,150 +9.71% 2

MATLAB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.13%) SAS
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 29 (30.21%) Simulink
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.21%) Mathcad
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.13%) Stata
5 2 (2.08%) OrCAD
6 1 (1.04%) CATIA
6 1 (1.04%) GNU Octave
6 1 (1.04%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.33%) GitHub
2 4 (4.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.46%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (4.17%) 5G
2 4 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (1.04%) TCAP
3 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Big Data
2 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (11.46%) LabVIEW
3 10 (10.42%) Git
4 4 (4.17%) MLflow
4 4 (4.17%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (3.13%) JIRA
6 2 (2.08%) GitLab
6 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.04%) Rational Statemate
General
1 35 (36.46%) Electronics
2 19 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.46%) Military
5 7 (7.29%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.21%) Finance
7 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.21%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.17%) Avionics
8 4 (4.17%) Marketing
9 3 (3.13%) Agriculture
9 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.08%) Automotive
10 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.04%) Advertising
11 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 27 (28.13%) Senior
3 19 (19.79%) Lead
4 10 (10.42%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 10 (10.42%) Test Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Product Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Product Test Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Radio Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Verification Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Mathematical Modeller
7 5 (5.21%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Graduate
8 4 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Radar Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Verification Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Control Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Quantitative Risk Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) pytest
2 2 (2.08%) Pandas
3 1 (1.04%) Caffe
3 1 (1.04%) NumPy
3 1 (1.04%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.04%) REST
3 1 (1.04%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.33%) FPGA
2 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.29%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.21%) GNSS
5 4 (4.17%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.17%) Satnav
5 4 (4.17%) Self-Driving Car
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.13%) Arduino
6 3 (3.13%) CAN bus
6 3 (3.13%) Derivative
6 3 (3.13%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (2.08%) Robotics
8 1 (1.04%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.04%) Verilog
8 1 (1.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.42%) Unix
2 8 (8.33%) Windows
3 6 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (42.71%) Physics
2 35 (36.46%) Systems Engineering
3 31 (32.29%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (30.21%) Validation
5 28 (29.17%) Mathematics
6 27 (28.13%) Agile
7 25 (26.04%) Signal Processing
8 21 (21.88%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 20 (20.83%) Innovative Thinking
9 20 (20.83%) SysML
10 19 (19.79%) Verification and Validation
11 17 (17.71%) Data Analysis
12 15 (15.63%) Digital Signal Processing
13 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
14 12 (12.50%) Data Science
14 12 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 12 (12.50%) UML
15 11 (11.46%) AI
16 10 (10.42%) Kalman Filter
16 10 (10.42%) MODAF
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.92%) Python
2 15 (15.63%) C
3 12 (12.50%) C++
4 9 (9.38%) R
5 4 (4.17%) Java
6 3 (3.13%) Assembly Language
6 3 (3.13%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.13%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.13%) Swift
6 3 (3.13%) Tcl
6 3 (3.13%) VBA
7 2 (2.08%) SQL
7 2 (2.08%) VB
8 1 (1.04%) Ada
8 1 (1.04%) C#
8 1 (1.04%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 70 (72.92%) Degree
2 49 (51.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 32 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 27 (28.13%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.33%) HND
5 8 (8.33%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.21%) PhD
7 3 (3.13%) CFA
7 3 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (2.08%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (2.08%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 7 (7.29%) Siemens
2 5 (5.21%) MathWorks
3 4 (4.17%) Databricks
4 3 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) ANSYS
5 2 (2.08%) Cadence
5 2 (2.08%) EMC
5 2 (2.08%) IBM
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.04%) Green Hills
6 1 (1.04%) Keysight
6 1 (1.04%) PTC
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) YouTube