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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 410 445
Rank change year-on-year -202 +35 +98
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 177 297 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.59% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 2.16% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 93 117 237
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £37,574
25th Percentile £49,900 £48,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -0.82% -10.72%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £101,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -2.65% +2.73%

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 18,515 13,740 25,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 27.45% 30.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,176 9,007 17,342
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 August 2026.

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 24 August 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
UK excluding London -163 166 £56,000 +1.82% 98
England -180 165 £60,000 +9.09% 98
South East -53 89 £60,000 - 36
Work from Home -92 44 £56,000 -6.67% 31
East of England -6 26 £53,625 -8.87% 30
Midlands -54 19 £48,750 -25.00% 13
South West -82 15 £55,000 +4.56% 19
West Midlands -20 12 £67,500 -10.00% 6
Scotland +8 11 £60,000 +3.39% 5
London -55 10 £132,500 +26.19% 6
East Midlands -36 7 £45,000 -20.13% 7
North of England -91 5 £51,722 +3.33% 4
North West -54 3 £52,325 +4.54% 2
Yorkshire -38 2 £51,722 -14.30%
Wales -60 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 1 (0.56%) Kinematics
Applications
1 107 (60.45%) Simulink
2 6 (3.39%) Mathcad
3 4 (2.26%) CATIA
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.69%) Lightworks
4 3 (1.69%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.56%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.56%) Revit
5 1 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.56%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.08%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.26%) 5G
2 4 (2.26%) MQTT
2 4 (2.26%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.26%) WAN
2 4 (2.26%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.69%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.69%) Wireless
4 2 (1.13%) Modbus
4 2 (1.13%) RS-422
4 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.56%) FTP
5 1 (0.56%) RS-232
5 1 (0.56%) RS-485
5 1 (0.56%) RTP
5 1 (0.56%) RTSP
5 1 (0.56%) SCTP
5 1 (0.56%) SS7
5 1 (0.56%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.39%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (2.82%) GIS
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (29.94%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (9.60%) LabVIEW
3 15 (8.47%) Git
4 6 (3.39%) PetaLinux
5 4 (2.26%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.69%) JIRA
7 2 (1.13%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (48.59%) Aerospace
2 63 (35.59%) Finance
3 60 (33.90%) Electronics
4 47 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (25.99%) Social Skills
6 32 (18.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (11.86%) Military
8 11 (6.21%) Automotive
9 9 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.95%) Aviation
10 7 (3.95%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.26%) Advertising
11 4 (2.26%) Law
12 3 (1.69%) Swedish Language
12 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.13%) Aeronautics
13 2 (1.13%) Avionics
13 2 (1.13%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.13%) Legal
14 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (46.33%) Systems Engineer
2 55 (31.07%) Senior
3 33 (18.64%) Lead
4 30 (16.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 25 (14.12%) Software Engineer
6 20 (11.30%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 15 (8.47%) Embedded Engineer
8 14 (7.91%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (7.34%) Team Leader
10 11 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (5.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Electronics Engineer
13 8 (4.52%) FPGA Engineer
13 8 (4.52%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.95%) Hardware Engineer
14 7 (3.95%) Senior Hardware Engineer
15 6 (3.39%) Principal Hardware Engineer
15 6 (3.39%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 6 (3.39%) Research Scientist
16 5 (2.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) Yocto
2 4 (2.26%) pytest
3 2 (1.13%) Middleware
4 1 (0.56%) FFmpeg
4 1 (0.56%) GStreamer
4 1 (0.56%) HTML
4 1 (0.56%) JSON
4 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.56%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.56%) Web Services
4 1 (0.56%) WebRTC
4 1 (0.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.12%) Algorithms
2 24 (13.56%) FPGA
3 19 (10.73%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (9.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (8.47%) Verilog
5 15 (8.47%) VHDL
6 11 (6.21%) Robotics
7 10 (5.65%) Analogue Electronics
8 8 (4.52%) Driving Licence
8 8 (4.52%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (4.52%) Reinsurance
8 8 (4.52%) SCADA
9 7 (3.95%) PCIe
10 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.26%) IoT
11 4 (2.26%) Self-Driving Car
12 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
13 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.39%) Linux
1 6 (3.39%) Unix
2 5 (2.82%) FreeRTOS
2 5 (2.82%) Windows
3 3 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (46.33%) Systems Engineering
2 65 (36.72%) Physics
3 56 (31.64%) Mathematics
4 53 (29.94%) Validation
5 45 (25.42%) Software Engineering
6 36 (20.34%) Requirements Management
7 32 (18.08%) Agile
7 32 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (15.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 28 (15.82%) Software Testing
9 27 (15.25%) Coaching
10 25 (14.12%) SysML
10 25 (14.12%) Verification and Validation
11 21 (11.86%) Customer Requirements
11 21 (11.86%) Test Automation
12 19 (10.73%) Decision-Making
12 19 (10.73%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.17%) Signal Processing
14 17 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.29%) Python
2 47 (26.55%) C++
3 37 (20.90%) C
4 19 (10.73%) Embedded C
5 15 (8.47%) C#
5 15 (8.47%) Embedded C++
6 11 (6.21%) Java
6 11 (6.21%) SQL
7 10 (5.65%) Julia
8 9 (5.08%) R
9 4 (2.26%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (1.69%) Delphi
10 3 (1.69%) Rust
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 120 (67.80%) Degree
2 75 (42.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 52 (29.38%) Security Cleared
4 40 (22.60%) SC Cleared
5 31 (17.51%) DV Cleared
6 30 (16.95%) PhD
7 29 (16.38%) Master's Degree
8 12 (6.78%) HND
9 9 (5.08%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.43%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.08%) ARP4754
2 9 (5.08%) DO-254
3 7 (3.95%) Def Stans
3 7 (3.95%) GDPR
4 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (2.26%) QA
5 3 (1.69%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.69%) ECSS
5 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (1.13%) DO-160
6 2 (1.13%) IEC 61508
6 2 (1.13%) MISRA
6 2 (1.13%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.56%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.56%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.56%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 26 (14.69%) Firmware
2 7 (3.95%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.82%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 45 (25.42%) Siemens
2 9 (5.08%) EMC
3 8 (4.52%) IBM
4 7 (3.95%) Xilinx
5 6 (3.39%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (2.26%) Facebook
6 4 (2.26%) Instagram
7 3 (1.69%) DIgSILENT
7 3 (1.69%) YouTube
8 2 (1.13%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.56%) OpenAI