MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring MATLAB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited MATLAB over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 494 593
Rank change year-on-year +383 +99 -62
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 1,591 461 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.65% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.45% 1.41% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,054 261 141
10th Percentile £37,574 £39,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £60,265 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,842 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.02% - +22.22%

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 16,841 32,617 35,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.03% 31.50% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,777 23,870 25,423
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 17 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 12 July 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
UK excluding London +343 1,522 £47,842 -13.02% 218
England +315 1,235 £47,683 -13.30% 261
Work from Home +298 501 £47,683 -20.53% 136
South East +209 391 £55,000 -1.35% 73
North of England +273 384 £47,683 -7.41% 25
North West +210 316 £50,055 +0.11% 14
Scotland +228 264 £58,033 -10.72% 16
Midlands +197 228 £47,683 -4.63% 33
South West +107 153 £47,683 -13.30% 36
East Midlands +124 115 £47,683 +12.20% 7
West Midlands +141 113 £75,000 +20.00% 26
Yorkshire +93 66 £47,683 -30.64% 11
East of England +14 50 £47,683 -13.30% 43
Wales - 49 £47,683 - 2
London +58 29 £150,000 +50.00% 63
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
North East - 2 £115,000 - 2

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 6 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 754 (47.39%) Simulink
2 125 (7.86%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 121 (7.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 113 (7.10%) Mathcad
6 8 (0.50%) Blender
7 5 (0.31%) GNU Octave
8 4 (0.25%) SPSS
9 1 (0.063%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.063%) CATIA
9 1 (0.063%) Stata
Business Applications
1 262 (16.47%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (0.19%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.07%) Software-Defined Radio
2 18 (1.13%) WAN
3 16 (1.01%) 5G
3 16 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.13%) Modbus
5 2 (0.13%) MQTT
5 2 (0.13%) Profibus
6 1 (0.063%) GPRS
6 1 (0.063%) GSM
6 1 (0.063%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.50%) QGIS
2 4 (0.25%) Apache Hive
2 4 (0.25%) Hadoop
2 4 (0.25%) MySQL
3 3 (0.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.13%) GIS
4 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.063%) Big Data
5 1 (0.063%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 120 (7.54%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (0.63%) Git
3 4 (0.25%) GitLab
3 4 (0.25%) Subversion
4 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.19%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio
General
1 428 (26.90%) Aerospace
2 409 (25.71%) Presentation Skills
3 313 (19.67%) Automotive
4 260 (16.34%) Social Skills
5 220 (13.83%) Electronics
6 28 (1.76%) Military
7 22 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (0.82%) Publishing
9 9 (0.57%) Retail
9 9 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 8 (0.50%) Advertising
10 8 (0.50%) Finance
11 7 (0.44%) Law
12 4 (0.25%) Marketing
13 3 (0.19%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.13%) Banking
14 2 (0.13%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.063%) Aviation
15 1 (0.063%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.063%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,188 (74.67%) Systems Engineer
2 196 (12.32%) Senior
3 133 (8.36%) Lead
4 119 (7.48%) Software Engineer
5 105 (6.60%) Junior
5 105 (6.60%) Junior Systems Engineer
6 99 (6.22%) Development Engineer
6 99 (6.22%) Software Development Engineer
7 97 (6.10%) Mathematical Modeller
8 92 (5.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 74 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
10 66 (4.15%) Principal Software Engineer
11 64 (4.02%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 60 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
12 60 (3.77%) Systems Integration Engineer
13 43 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 36 (2.26%) Senior Development Engineer
14 36 (2.26%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 36 (2.26%) Senior Software Development Engineer
15 30 (1.89%) Radio Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.21%) HTML
2 3 (0.19%) React
3 2 (0.13%) .NET
3 2 (0.13%) gRPC
3 2 (0.13%) Kafka
4 1 (0.063%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.063%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 41 (2.58%) Algorithms
2 35 (2.20%) FPGA
3 19 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (1.01%) Robotics
4 16 (1.01%) Self-Driving Car
5 9 (0.57%) GNSS
5 9 (0.57%) Management Information System
6 8 (0.50%) Analogue Electronics
7 7 (0.44%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.25%) e-Learning
8 4 (0.25%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.13%) Acoustics
9 2 (0.13%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.13%) IoT
10 1 (0.063%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.063%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.063%) Infotainment
10 1 (0.063%) Lidar
10 1 (0.063%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.063%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.13%) Linux
2 4 (0.25%) Windows
3 3 (0.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.063%) Android
4 1 (0.063%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,319 (82.90%) Systems Engineering
2 888 (55.81%) SysML
3 634 (39.85%) Validation
4 601 (37.77%) Agile
5 600 (37.71%) Mathematics
6 529 (33.25%) UML
7 460 (28.91%) Verification and Validation
8 452 (28.41%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 418 (26.27%) MODAF
10 417 (26.21%) Software Engineering
11 411 (25.83%) Cybersecurity
12 333 (20.93%) Digital Twin
13 277 (17.41%) Physics
14 261 (16.40%) PLM
15 241 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
16 173 (10.87%) Computer Science
17 158 (9.93%) Software Testing
18 140 (8.80%) Signal Processing
19 131 (8.23%) Mathematical Modelling
20 117 (7.35%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 245 (15.40%) Python
2 111 (6.98%) C++
3 78 (4.90%) C
4 64 (4.02%) R
5 63 (3.96%) C#
6 56 (3.52%) SQL
7 55 (3.46%) Java
8 53 (3.33%) JavaScript
9 51 (3.21%) TypeScript
10 50 (3.14%) PHP
11 49 (3.08%) Dart
11 49 (3.08%) Ruby
11 49 (3.08%) Rust
12 5 (0.31%) Perl
13 4 (0.25%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.13%) Fortran
15 1 (0.063%) Scala
15 1 (0.063%) Tcl
15 1 (0.063%) VB
15 1 (0.063%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,250 (78.57%) Degree
2 1,065 (66.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 493 (30.99%) HND
4 486 (30.55%) HNC
5 50 (3.14%) Security Cleared
6 49 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (2.70%) SC Cleared
8 21 (1.32%) PhD
9 20 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.13%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.13%) MCAD
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.13%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.063%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
2 2 (0.13%) IEC 61131
3 1 (0.063%) DO-254
3 1 (0.063%) ECSS
3 1 (0.063%) IFRS
3 1 (0.063%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.063%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.063%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.063%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (0.063%) MISRA
3 1 (0.063%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.063%) QA
System Software
1 37 (2.33%) Firmware
2 31 (1.95%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.063%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.063%) Terraform
Vendors
1 156 (9.81%) ANSYS
2 121 (7.61%) Microsoft
3 115 (7.23%) MathWorks
4 106 (6.66%) IBM
5 13 (0.82%) Siemens
6 7 (0.44%) Mentor Graphics
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle
7 4 (0.25%) Vertica
7 4 (0.25%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.19%) EMC
9 1 (0.063%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.063%) Cadence
9 1 (0.063%) QNX
9 1 (0.063%) SAP
9 1 (0.063%) Sparx