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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 541 463
Rank change year-on-year +212 -78 +121
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 600 227 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.38% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.63% 0.94% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 337 145 288
10th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,683 £47,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +21.21% -23.85%
75th Percentile £61,250 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £94,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,714 £55,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -0.52% +17.02% -10.48%

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 22,808 24,089 68,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.15% 40.52% 48.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,275 18,693 38,261
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,646 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 2024. 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 +176 533 £54,714 -0.52% 222
England +160 490 £52,600 -12.33% 230
North of England +109 162 £50,055 -6.70% 49
North West +97 137 £50,055 -2.81% 34
South East +31 120 £60,000 - 45
Work from Home +79 118 £47,683 -22.15% 323
Scotland +77 104 £58,033 +5.51% 15
South West +35 71 £52,600 -38.12% 34
London +30 64 £110,000 +37.50% 18
East of England -5 44 £60,000 -7.69% 46
Midlands -40 29 £52,500 -6.67% 40
Yorkshire +48 25 £48,749 -11.37% 12
West Midlands -52 18 £52,500 -8.70% 18
East Midlands -18 11 £47,683 +15.60% 22
Wales +38 3 £47,683 +79.94% 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 42 (7.00%) SAS
2 8 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 190 (31.67%) Simulink
2 120 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 117 (19.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 115 (19.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (3.50%) Stateflow
6 12 (2.00%) Mathcad
6 12 (2.00%) SOLIDWORKS
7 9 (1.50%) Weka
8 8 (1.33%) CANalyzer
9 5 (0.83%) GNU Octave
10 3 (0.50%) Windchill
11 2 (0.33%) Maple
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 152 (25.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (4.83%) AWS
2 28 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
2 28 (4.67%) Amazon S3
3 8 (1.33%) Azure
3 8 (1.33%) GitHub
4 2 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.17%) Datadog
5 1 (0.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.50%) Ethernet
1 21 (3.50%) Software-Defined Radio
2 18 (3.00%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.00%) RS-232
4 11 (1.83%) FlexRay
5 7 (1.17%) RS-422
6 6 (1.00%) 5G
6 6 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.00%) WAN
7 5 (0.83%) Firewall
7 5 (0.83%) ICMP
7 5 (0.83%) J1939
7 5 (0.83%) Network Security
8 4 (0.67%) OFDM
8 4 (0.67%) PPP
9 3 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.17%) Amazon QuickSight
1 37 (6.17%) Tableau
2 34 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 28 (4.67%) NoSQL
4 26 (4.33%) Data Mining
5 25 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 55 (9.17%) Rational DOORS
2 37 (6.17%) Git
3 28 (4.67%) LabVIEW
4 19 (3.17%) Subversion
5 17 (2.83%) JIRA
5 17 (2.83%) Rational Rhapsody
6 14 (2.33%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.17%) NetBeans
8 6 (1.00%) CANoe
9 5 (0.83%) CppUnit
9 5 (0.83%) JUnit
10 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.17%) GitLab
General
1 205 (34.17%) Aerospace
2 196 (32.67%) Social Skills
3 178 (29.67%) Automotive
4 117 (19.50%) Electronics
5 84 (14.00%) Presentation Skills
6 74 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
7 42 (7.00%) Military
8 26 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.17%) Legal
10 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.50%) Aviation
12 3 (0.50%) Games
13 2 (0.33%) Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Finance
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) Marketing
14 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 214 (35.67%) Systems Engineer
2 160 (26.67%) Senior
3 93 (15.50%) Engineering Manager
3 93 (15.50%) Software Engineer
3 93 (15.50%) Systems Engineering Manager
3 93 (15.50%) Systems Manager
4 65 (10.83%) Senior Manager
5 43 (7.17%) Embedded Engineer
6 39 (6.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 32 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
8 31 (5.17%) Junior
9 27 (4.50%) Junior Systems Engineer
10 25 (4.17%) Lead
11 24 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 17 (2.83%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (2.67%) Electronics Engineer
13 16 (2.67%) Principal Software Engineer
14 15 (2.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 14 (2.33%) Analyst
16 13 (2.17%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.17%) JavaFX
2 6 (1.00%) HTML
2 6 (1.00%) NumPy
3 5 (0.83%) .NET
3 5 (0.83%) pytest
3 5 (0.83%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.67%) Keras
5 3 (0.50%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.50%) Flash
5 3 (0.50%) Pandas
5 3 (0.50%) React
6 2 (0.33%) SciPy
7 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.17%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.17%) Torch
7 1 (0.17%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 91 (15.17%) Algorithms
2 31 (5.17%) FPGA
3 28 (4.67%) VHDL
4 19 (3.17%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.00%) Acoustics
8 9 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.33%) PMI
9 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.17%) CAN bus
11 6 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.00%) GNSS
12 5 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
12 5 (0.83%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.50%) Robotics
13 3 (0.50%) Semantic Web
14 2 (0.33%) 3D Graphics
14 2 (0.33%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.83%) Linux
2 32 (5.33%) Windows
3 26 (4.33%) Embedded Linux
4 20 (3.33%) VxWorks
5 10 (1.67%) Unix
6 5 (0.83%) VMS
7 2 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (52.50%) Systems Engineering
2 180 (30.00%) SysML
3 152 (25.33%) PLM
3 152 (25.33%) UML
4 147 (24.50%) Agile
5 146 (24.33%) Software Engineering
6 139 (23.17%) Mathematics
7 117 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (17.50%) Validation
9 104 (17.33%) Physics
10 89 (14.83%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 85 (14.17%) Cybersecurity
12 84 (14.00%) Computer Science
13 79 (13.17%) Verification and Validation
14 77 (12.83%) MODAF
15 65 (10.83%) Requirements Management
16 54 (9.00%) Signal Processing
17 45 (7.50%) Machine Learning
18 42 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
18 42 (7.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 182 (30.33%) Python
2 109 (18.17%) C
3 105 (17.50%) C++
4 62 (10.33%) SQL
5 56 (9.33%) R
6 39 (6.50%) Java
7 34 (5.67%) C#
8 14 (2.33%) Embedded C
9 13 (2.17%) Fortran
10 9 (1.50%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.50%) Perl
11 6 (1.00%) PHP
12 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.67%) VBA
14 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.33%) Bash
15 2 (0.33%) Embedded C++
15 2 (0.33%) Tcl
15 2 (0.33%) VB
16 1 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 470 (78.33%) Degree
2 160 (26.67%) HND
3 155 (25.83%) HNC
4 68 (11.33%) Security Cleared
5 45 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 31 (5.17%) Master's Degree
7 19 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.17%) PhD
8 13 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.50%) ISO 26262
2 21 (3.50%) AUTOSAR
3 13 (2.17%) ISO 9001
4 10 (1.67%) MISRA
4 10 (1.67%) MISRA C
5 9 (1.50%) Automotive SPICE
6 8 (1.33%) TickIT
7 5 (0.83%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.83%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.83%) JTAG
8 3 (0.50%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 15765
9 1 (0.17%) QA
System Software
1 28 (4.67%) Firmware
2 6 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.17%) Functional Safety
2 4 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 118 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 115 (19.17%) ANSYS
3 42 (7.00%) IBM
4 26 (4.33%) Oracle
5 18 (3.00%) Atlassian
6 15 (2.50%) Xilinx
7 14 (2.33%) Wind River
8 4 (0.67%) Siemens
9 2 (0.33%) Altera
9 2 (0.33%) Green Hills
9 2 (0.33%) Lotus
9 2 (0.33%) MathWorks
9 2 (0.33%) Motorola
9 2 (0.33%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.17%) Freescale
10 1 (0.17%) Mentor Graphics
10 1 (0.17%) New Relic
10 1 (0.17%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.17%) SAP