MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MATLAB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MATLAB over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 481 437 565
Rank change year-on-year -44 +128 +26
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 260 883 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.72% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.56% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 132 228 207
10th Percentile £33,975 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,813 £44,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,250 £94,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.24% -6.67% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

MATLAB is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,547 56,460 66,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 45.96% 52.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 35,996 45,555
10th Percentile £39,730 £38,442 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,788 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

MATLAB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MATLAB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MATLAB.

Salary trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 15 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 7 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London -70 214 £55,000 +12.24% 279
England -69 199 £60,000 +14.29% 318
Work from Home +97 68 £61,250 +2.08% 101
Scotland +73 55 £55,000 - 16
South East -14 52 £60,000 +20.00% 72
Midlands -53 45 £56,250 +15.98% 62
London +238 42 £85,000 - 55
West Midlands -43 39 £57,500 +17.35% 50
South West +61 31 £85,000 +41.67% 40
North of England +116 17 £55,000 -6.78% 27
East of England +46 12 £65,000 +8.33% 65
North West +129 11 £51,900 +44.17% 14
Yorkshire +65 6 £55,000 -21.43% 6
East Midlands +32 6 £45,000 +5.88% 12
Wales -25 2 £27,000 -27.03% 5

MATLAB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (8.08%) SAS
2 9 (3.46%) Apache
2 9 (3.46%) IIS
2 9 (3.46%) MS Exchange
2 9 (3.46%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 100 (38.46%) Simulink
2 42 (16.15%) Stateflow
3 16 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.85%) AutoCAD
4 10 (3.85%) SOLIDWORKS
5 9 (3.46%) PTC Creo
6 7 (2.69%) OrCAD
7 5 (1.92%) CANalyzer
7 5 (1.92%) SPSS
8 3 (1.15%) Stata
9 2 (0.77%) EViews
9 2 (0.77%) Mathcad
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
9 2 (0.77%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.46%) AWS
2 18 (6.92%) Azure
3 16 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.46%) Entra ID
5 7 (2.69%) GCP
5 7 (2.69%) IaaS
5 7 (2.69%) PaaS
6 2 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.77%) SaaS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.31%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (6.15%) Wireless
3 12 (4.62%) 5G
4 8 (3.08%) SD-WAN
4 8 (3.08%) WAN
5 7 (2.69%) J1939
6 5 (1.92%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.54%) 3GPP
7 4 (1.54%) 4G
7 4 (1.54%) 5G NR
7 4 (1.54%) LTE
8 3 (1.15%) GSM
8 3 (1.15%) UMTS
9 2 (0.77%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.77%) Amazon QuickSight
1 15 (5.77%) Data Mining
1 15 (5.77%) Tableau
2 12 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.46%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) Dremio
6 1 (0.38%) Flink
6 1 (0.38%) GIS
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (7.69%) Git
1 20 (7.69%) LabVIEW
2 13 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.23%) JIRA
4 9 (3.46%) Chocolatey
5 6 (2.31%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (1.92%) Subversion
6 5 (1.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.15%) CANoe
7 3 (1.15%) NUnit
7 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.38%) CMake
8 1 (0.38%) GCC
8 1 (0.38%) GitLab
8 1 (0.38%) Poetry
8 1 (0.38%) Polyspace
8 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.38%) VectorCAST
General
1 60 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.92%) Finance
3 53 (20.38%) Electronics
4 45 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (17.31%) Automotive
5 27 (10.38%) Manufacturing
6 21 (8.08%) Public Sector
7 17 (6.54%) Marketing
8 15 (5.77%) Aerospace
9 14 (5.38%) Telecoms
10 13 (5.00%) Retail
11 11 (4.23%) Banking
11 11 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.69%) Military
13 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.15%) Social Science
16 2 (0.77%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (23.46%) Lead
2 59 (22.69%) Senior
3 54 (20.77%) Systems Engineer
4 32 (12.31%) Control Systems Engineer
5 24 (9.23%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) Embedded Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) Team Leader
7 20 (7.69%) Graduate
8 18 (6.92%) Analyst
8 18 (6.92%) Software Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (6.15%) Data Scientist
10 16 (6.15%) Developer
10 16 (6.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 15 (5.77%) Electronics Engineer
12 12 (4.62%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 11 (4.23%) Qualitative Analyst
13 11 (4.23%) Quantitative Analyst
14 9 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.77%) NumPy
2 14 (5.38%) TensorFlow
3 12 (4.62%) Keras
4 11 (4.23%) .NET
5 9 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (3.46%) XML
5 9 (3.46%) YAML
6 7 (2.69%) WPF
7 3 (1.15%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.15%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.15%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.15%) WCF
8 2 (0.77%) CSS
8 2 (0.77%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.77%) HTML
8 2 (0.77%) OpenCV
8 2 (0.77%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.77%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.77%) STL
9 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 85 (32.69%) Algorithms
2 44 (16.92%) Embedded Systems
3 42 (16.15%) Renewable Energy
4 27 (10.38%) FPGA
4 27 (10.38%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (10.38%) VHDL
5 15 (5.77%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (4.62%) Hedge funds
7 11 (4.23%) Verilog
8 9 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.46%) Operational Technology
9 8 (3.08%) Credit Risk
9 8 (3.08%) GNSS
10 7 (2.69%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.69%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.31%) Analogue Electronics
12 5 (1.92%) ARM Cortex
13 3 (1.15%) CAN bus
14 2 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.31%) Linux
2 19 (7.31%) Windows
3 9 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.08%) Unix
5 7 (2.69%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (2.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.92%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.77%) Android
7 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.85%) Validation
2 59 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (22.31%) Prototyping
4 52 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 49 (18.85%) Mathematics
6 48 (18.46%) Verification and Validation
7 46 (17.69%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 44 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (16.92%) Machine Learning
9 42 (16.15%) Commercialisation
9 42 (16.15%) Decarbonisation
10 41 (15.77%) Data Science
11 38 (14.62%) Analytics
11 38 (14.62%) Change Management
12 36 (13.85%) Agile
12 36 (13.85%) Rapid Prototyping
13 32 (12.31%) Physics
14 31 (11.92%) Programme Management
15 29 (11.15%) Data Modelling
16 28 (10.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 126 (48.46%) Python
2 65 (25.00%) C++
3 53 (20.38%) C
3 53 (20.38%) R
4 42 (16.15%) C#
5 38 (14.62%) SQL
6 18 (6.92%) Java
7 9 (3.46%) Bash
7 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.31%) Embedded C
9 5 (1.92%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.54%) Rust
11 3 (1.15%) VBA
12 2 (0.77%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.77%) PHP
12 2 (0.77%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (41.54%) Degree
2 38 (14.62%) Security Cleared
3 32 (12.31%) PhD
4 28 (10.77%) Master's Degree
5 17 (6.54%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.46%) MCSA
7 9 (3.46%) MCSE
7 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.08%) HND
9 7 (2.69%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.69%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.77%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.85%) ISO 26262
2 17 (6.54%) PMO
3 11 (4.23%) Automotive SPICE
4 9 (3.46%) AUTOSAR
5 8 (3.08%) MISRA
6 5 (1.92%) QA
7 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.38%) JTAG
System Software
1 20 (7.69%) Firmware
2 9 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.31%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.38%) Docker
4 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (3.85%) Functional Safety
2 9 (3.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (3.46%) Ansible
2 9 (3.46%) SCCM
2 9 (3.46%) SCOM
2 9 (3.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.85%) SAP
2 20 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.00%) Xilinx
4 9 (3.46%) IBM
4 9 (3.46%) MathWorks
4 9 (3.46%) Oracle
4 9 (3.46%) PTC
4 9 (3.46%) TOWER Software
5 7 (2.69%) Cadence
5 7 (2.69%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.54%) QNX
7 3 (1.15%) EMC
8 2 (0.77%) ANSYS
8 2 (0.77%) Lauterbach
8 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.77%) Siemens
9 1 (0.38%) Murex
9 1 (0.38%) QAD
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce