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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 414 466
Rank change year-on-year -144 +52 0
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 97 331 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.59% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 1.73% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 41 184 126
10th Percentile £42,770 £37,574 £34,875
25th Percentile £48,875 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,900 £70,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £91,250
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 11,650 19,168 19,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.75% 33.94% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,566 11,436 16,276
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
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 20 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 20 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 -103 90 £60,000 +9.09% 79
UK excluding London -108 85 £60,000 +9.09% 83
South East 0 38 £72,500 +18.85% 20
North of England -19 17 £57,280 +20.13% 7
North West +1 16 £57,000 +19.54% 5
South West -24 16 £40,000 -23.95% 31
Work from Home +33 15 £60,000 - 31
London +19 10 £40,138 -63.51% 2
East of England +4 8 £72,500 +3.57% 19
Scotland -23 4 £62,249 +7.26%
West Midlands +13 1 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Wales -3 1 £85,700 +55.82% 2
Midlands -4 1 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Yorkshire -6 1 £63,150 +9.71% 1

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 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.09%) SAS
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (28.87%) Simulink
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.15%) Mathcad
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.09%) Stata
5 2 (2.06%) OrCAD
6 1 (1.03%) CATIA
6 1 (1.03%) GNU Octave
6 1 (1.03%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.22%) GitHub
2 4 (4.12%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (3.09%) 5G
2 3 (3.09%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.09%) WAN
3 1 (1.03%) TCAP
3 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) Big Data
2 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (10.31%) Git
2 10 (10.31%) LabVIEW
3 4 (4.12%) MLflow
3 4 (4.12%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (3.09%) GitLab
4 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.09%) JIRA
5 1 (1.03%) Rational Statemate
General
1 33 (34.02%) Electronics
2 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Military
5 6 (6.19%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Finance
6 5 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.12%) Avionics
7 4 (4.12%) Marketing
8 3 (3.09%) Agriculture
8 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.06%) Automotive
9 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (37.11%) Systems Engineer
2 25 (25.77%) Senior
3 21 (21.65%) Lead
4 11 (11.34%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Radio Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Test Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Product Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Product Test Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Verification Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Mathematical Modeller
7 5 (5.15%) Radar Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Graduate
8 4 (4.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Verification Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Quantitative Risk Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) pytest
2 2 (2.06%) Pandas
3 1 (1.03%) Caffe
3 1 (1.03%) NumPy
3 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.03%) REST
3 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Algorithms
2 9 (9.28%) FPGA
3 7 (7.22%) Driving Licence
4 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.15%) GNSS
6 4 (4.12%) Credit Risk
6 4 (4.12%) Satnav
7 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.09%) Arduino
7 3 (3.09%) CAN bus
7 3 (3.09%) Derivative
7 3 (3.09%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (3.09%) Self-Driving Car
8 2 (2.06%) Robotics
9 1 (1.03%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.03%) Verilog
9 1 (1.03%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Unix
2 7 (7.22%) Windows
3 6 (6.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.24%) Physics
2 35 (36.08%) Systems Engineering
3 31 (31.96%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (29.90%) Validation
5 27 (27.84%) Agile
5 27 (27.84%) Signal Processing
6 26 (26.80%) Mathematics
7 21 (21.65%) Innovative Thinking
8 19 (19.59%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 19 (19.59%) SysML
9 18 (18.56%) Data Analysis
9 18 (18.56%) Verification and Validation
10 16 (16.49%) Digital Signal Processing
11 14 (14.43%) Computer Science
12 13 (13.40%) UML
13 12 (12.37%) Data Science
13 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
14 11 (11.34%) AI
14 11 (11.34%) MODAF
15 9 (9.28%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 45 (46.39%) Python
2 16 (16.49%) C
3 13 (13.40%) C++
4 9 (9.28%) R
5 4 (4.12%) Java
6 3 (3.09%) Assembly Language
6 3 (3.09%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.09%) Swift
6 3 (3.09%) Tcl
6 3 (3.09%) VBA
7 2 (2.06%) SQL
7 2 (2.06%) VB
8 1 (1.03%) Ada
8 1 (1.03%) C#
8 1 (1.03%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 69 (71.13%) Degree
2 49 (50.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 33 (34.02%) Security Cleared
4 28 (28.87%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.25%) Master's Degree
6 7 (7.22%) HND
7 5 (5.15%) PhD
8 3 (3.09%) CFA
8 3 (3.09%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.03%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (2.06%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (2.06%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (9.28%) Embedded Firmware
1 9 (9.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) MathWorks
1 5 (5.15%) Siemens
2 4 (4.12%) Databricks
3 3 (3.09%) Google
4 2 (2.06%) ANSYS
4 2 (2.06%) Cadence
4 2 (2.06%) EMC
4 2 (2.06%) IBM
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.03%) Green Hills
5 1 (1.03%) Keysight
5 1 (1.03%) PTC
5 1 (1.03%) SAP
5 1 (1.03%) YouTube