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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 422 482
Rank change year-on-year -124 +60 -28
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 95 328 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.61% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 1.81% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39 186 123
10th Percentile £42,244 £37,574 £36,050
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,438 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% - +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 11,542 18,125 21,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.38% 33.78% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,455 10,579 17,510
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £108,750 £105,000
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 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 13 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 10 January 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
England -109 89 £57,560 +4.65% 95
UK excluding London -121 83 £57,560 +4.65% 93
South East -1 37 £60,000 +9.09% 30
South West -25 17 £40,000 -23.95% 29
North of England -34 16 £57,000 +16.65% 9
Work from Home +51 15 £60,000 +14.29% 36
North West -17 15 £55,897 +17.23% 5
London +7 10 £40,138 -59.86% 4
East of England -7 8 £72,500 +3.57% 15
Scotland -27 4 £62,249 +7.26% 1
West Midlands +5 1 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Midlands -1 1 £65,000 +23.81% 10
Yorkshire -22 1 £63,150 +9.71% 3

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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.16%) SAS
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.05%) Confluence
3 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
Applications
1 30 (31.58%) Simulink
2 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.21%) Mathcad
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.16%) Stata
5 2 (2.11%) OrCAD
6 1 (1.05%) CATIA
6 1 (1.05%) GNU Octave
6 1 (1.05%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.53%) GitHub
2 4 (4.21%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (6.32%) 5G
2 6 (6.32%) SD-WAN
2 6 (6.32%) WAN
3 1 (1.05%) TCAP
3 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.16%) Big Data
2 1 (1.05%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (17.89%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (13.68%) LabVIEW
3 11 (11.58%) Git
4 4 (4.21%) MLflow
4 4 (4.21%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (3.16%) JIRA
6 1 (1.05%) GitLab
6 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.05%) Rational Statemate
General
1 39 (41.05%) Electronics
2 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Military
5 9 (9.47%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.37%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.26%) Finance
7 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.21%) Avionics
8 4 (4.21%) Marketing
9 3 (3.16%) Agriculture
9 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.05%) Advertising
11 1 (1.05%) Automotive
11 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (37.89%) Systems Engineer
2 28 (29.47%) Senior
3 20 (21.05%) Lead
4 12 (12.63%) Test Engineer
5 11 (11.58%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Product Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Product Test Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Verification Engineer
7 9 (9.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Radio Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Graduate
9 4 (4.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Mathematical Modeller
9 4 (4.21%) Radar Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Verification Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Control Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Quantitative Risk Manager
10 3 (3.16%) Research Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) pytest
2 2 (2.11%) Pandas
3 1 (1.05%) Caffe
3 1 (1.05%) NumPy
3 1 (1.05%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (1.05%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Algorithms
2 10 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.37%) Driving Licence
5 6 (6.32%) Self-Driving Car
6 5 (5.26%) FPGA
6 5 (5.26%) GNSS
7 4 (4.21%) Credit Risk
7 4 (4.21%) Satnav
8 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.16%) Arduino
8 3 (3.16%) CAN bus
8 3 (3.16%) Derivative
8 3 (3.16%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (1.05%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.05%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.05%) Robotics
9 1 (1.05%) Verilog
9 1 (1.05%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Unix
2 10 (10.53%) Windows
3 5 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.26%) Physics
2 36 (37.89%) Systems Engineering
3 31 (32.63%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (31.58%) Mathematics
5 29 (30.53%) Validation
6 28 (29.47%) Agile
7 23 (24.21%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 22 (23.16%) SysML
9 21 (22.11%) Signal Processing
10 20 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
11 17 (17.89%) Data Analysis
11 17 (17.89%) Innovative Thinking
12 14 (14.74%) Computer Science
13 13 (13.68%) Test Automation
14 12 (12.63%) Coaching
14 12 (12.63%) Data Science
14 12 (12.63%) Digital Signal Processing
14 12 (12.63%) Kalman Filter
14 12 (12.63%) UML
15 11 (11.58%) AI
Programming Languages
1 47 (49.47%) Python
2 13 (13.68%) C
3 10 (10.53%) C++
4 9 (9.47%) R
5 4 (4.21%) Java
6 3 (3.16%) Assembly Language
6 3 (3.16%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.16%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.16%) Swift
6 3 (3.16%) Tcl
6 3 (3.16%) VBA
7 2 (2.11%) SQL
7 2 (2.11%) VB
8 1 (1.05%) Ada
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 75 (78.95%) Degree
2 51 (53.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (30.53%) Security Cleared
4 24 (25.26%) SC Cleared
5 10 (10.53%) HND
6 8 (8.42%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.26%) PhD
8 3 (3.16%) CFA
8 3 (3.16%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.05%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (2.11%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (2.11%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.05%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) Siemens
2 4 (4.21%) Databricks
2 4 (4.21%) MathWorks
3 3 (3.16%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) ANSYS
4 2 (2.11%) Cadence
4 2 (2.11%) EMC
4 2 (2.11%) IBM
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.05%) Green Hills
5 1 (1.05%) Keysight
5 1 (1.05%) PTC
5 1 (1.05%) SAP
5 1 (1.05%) YouTube