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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 397 472
Rank change year-on-year -230 +75 +83
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 150 315 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.64% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 2.19% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 81 140 225
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,921 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -10.72%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £110,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,793 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.50% -0.38% -

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 18,034 14,390 27,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.80% 29.11% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12,842 9,549 19,721
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -186 144 £61,250 +11.36% 72
UK excluding London -175 138 £60,000 +9.50% 66
South East -39 96 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Work from Home -114 25 £56,000 -10.40% 40
East of England -4 16 £65,000 +36.32% 19
London -31 11 £132,500 -11.67% 8
South West -84 11 £55,000 +4.56% 15
North of England -86 5 £51,722 +3.33% 3
Midlands -62 4 £67,500 +41.56% 11
Scotland +4 3 - - 1
West Midlands -36 3 £67,500 -10.00% 3
North West -48 3 £52,325 +4.54% 2
Wales -56 3 £55,000 -19.12%
Yorkshire -45 2 £51,722 -10.14% 1
East Midlands -48 1 £52,500 +10.10% 8

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 (0.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 84 (56.00%) Simulink
2 9 (6.00%) CATIA
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.00%) Lightworks
4 3 (2.00%) Stateflow
5 2 (1.33%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.67%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.67%) GitHub
2 1 (0.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.67%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.67%) 5G
2 4 (2.67%) MQTT
2 4 (2.67%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.67%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (2.67%) WAN
3 3 (2.00%) Wireless
4 2 (1.33%) Modbus
4 2 (1.33%) RS-422
4 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.67%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.67%) FTP
5 1 (0.67%) HTTP
5 1 (0.67%) RS-232
5 1 (0.67%) RS-485
5 1 (0.67%) RTP
5 1 (0.67%) RTSP
5 1 (0.67%) SS7
5 1 (0.67%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (3.33%) GIS
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (34.00%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (10.67%) Git
3 15 (10.00%) LabVIEW
4 6 (4.00%) PetaLinux
5 3 (2.00%) JIRA
6 2 (1.33%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (42.00%) Aerospace
2 53 (35.33%) Electronics
3 44 (29.33%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (28.00%) Finance
5 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 21 (14.00%) Military
7 17 (11.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.00%) Aviation
10 5 (3.33%) Automotive
11 4 (2.67%) Advertising
11 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.00%) Swedish Language
13 2 (1.33%) Avionics
13 2 (1.33%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.33%) Legal
13 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.67%) Aeronautics
14 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 60 (40.00%) Senior
3 29 (19.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (15.33%) Lead
4 23 (15.33%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 15 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (9.33%) Team Leader
7 13 (8.67%) Embedded Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Hardware Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Senior Hardware Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Principal Hardware Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) FPGA Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Test Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Electronics Engineer
13 5 (3.33%) Security Engineer
13 5 (3.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 4 (2.67%) Electronics Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.00%) Yocto
2 4 (2.67%) pytest
3 2 (1.33%) Middleware
4 1 (0.67%) FFmpeg
4 1 (0.67%) GStreamer
4 1 (0.67%) HTML
4 1 (0.67%) JSON
4 1 (0.67%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.67%) Web Services
4 1 (0.67%) WebRTC
4 1 (0.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Algorithms
2 18 (12.00%) FPGA
3 16 (10.67%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (10.00%) Analogue Electronics
5 13 (8.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (8.00%) Verilog
6 12 (8.00%) VHDL
7 9 (6.00%) Management Information System
7 9 (6.00%) Reinsurance
8 8 (5.33%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (5.33%) PCIe
8 8 (5.33%) SCADA
9 7 (4.67%) Robotics
10 5 (3.33%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.67%) IoT
11 4 (2.67%) Self-Driving Car
12 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (1.33%) ARM Cortex
13 2 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.00%) Linux
1 6 (4.00%) Unix
2 5 (3.33%) FreeRTOS
2 5 (3.33%) Windows
3 3 (2.00%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (2.00%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.67%) Systems Engineering
2 54 (36.00%) Physics
3 50 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 44 (29.33%) Software Engineering
5 36 (24.00%) Validation
6 31 (20.67%) Requirements Management
7 30 (20.00%) Coaching
8 28 (18.67%) Agile
9 24 (16.00%) Software Testing
9 24 (16.00%) SysML
10 23 (15.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 21 (14.00%) Customer Requirements
11 21 (14.00%) Decision-Making
11 21 (14.00%) Test Automation
12 20 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 15 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
14 15 (10.00%) Roadmaps
14 15 (10.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.33%) Python
2 45 (30.00%) C++
3 32 (21.33%) C
4 17 (11.33%) C#
5 14 (9.33%) Embedded C
6 13 (8.67%) Embedded C++
7 12 (8.00%) SQL
8 11 (7.33%) Julia
9 10 (6.67%) R
10 8 (5.33%) Java
11 3 (2.00%) Delphi
11 3 (2.00%) Rust
12 2 (1.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 101 (67.33%) Degree
2 69 (46.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (19.33%) Security Cleared
4 21 (14.00%) SC Cleared
5 17 (11.33%) HND
6 15 (10.00%) DV Cleared
7 14 (9.33%) PhD
8 13 (8.67%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.67%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) ARP4754
1 9 (6.00%) DO-254
1 9 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.67%) Def Stans
2 7 (4.67%) GDPR
3 4 (2.67%) QA
4 3 (2.00%) ECSS
4 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (1.33%) DO-160
5 2 (1.33%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.33%) MISRA
5 2 (1.33%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.67%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.67%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.67%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 20 (13.33%) Firmware
2 4 (2.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.67%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 37 (24.67%) Siemens
2 11 (7.33%) IBM
2 11 (7.33%) Mentor Graphics
3 7 (4.67%) EMC
4 5 (3.33%) Xilinx
5 4 (2.67%) Facebook
5 4 (2.67%) Instagram
6 2 (1.33%) Altera
7 1 (0.67%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft