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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 485 596
Rank change year-on-year +376 +111 -66
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 1,585 461 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.64% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.44% 1.42% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 262 144
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% +32.65%
75th Percentile £60,265 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £112,000
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 16,797 32,353 34,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.96% 31.36% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,741 23,717 25,237
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 16 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 16 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 +335 1,518 £47,842 -13.02% 216
England +320 1,229 £47,683 -13.30% 259
Work from Home +308 500 £47,683 -20.53% 101
South East +207 387 £55,000 -2.65% 63
North of England +276 384 £47,683 -7.41% 23
North West +205 316 £50,055 +0.11% 14
Scotland +217 264 £58,033 -10.72% 16
Midlands +200 228 £47,683 -4.63% 33
South West +109 153 £47,683 -13.30% 43
East Midlands +128 115 £47,683 +12.20% 8
West Midlands +142 113 £75,000 +20.00% 25
Yorkshire +97 66 £47,683 -30.64% 9
East of England +13 50 £47,683 -13.30% 46
Wales - 49 £47,683 - 1
London +76 27 £150,000 +50.00% 67
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 5 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 752 (47.44%) Simulink
2 125 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (7.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 121 (7.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 113 (7.13%) Mathcad
6 8 (0.50%) Blender
7 5 (0.32%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.19%) SPSS
9 1 (0.063%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.063%) CATIA
9 1 (0.063%) Stata
Business Applications
1 262 (16.53%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (0.19%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.15%) Software-Defined Radio
2 18 (1.14%) WAN
3 16 (1.01%) 5G
3 16 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.19%) 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 3 (0.19%) Apache Hive
2 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
2 3 (0.19%) MySQL
2 3 (0.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.13%) GIS
3 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.063%) Big Data
4 1 (0.063%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 120 (7.57%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (0.50%) Git
3 4 (0.25%) GitLab
4 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.19%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.13%) Subversion
6 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio
General
1 426 (26.88%) Aerospace
2 409 (25.80%) Presentation Skills
3 313 (19.75%) Automotive
4 260 (16.40%) Social Skills
5 216 (13.63%) Electronics
6 24 (1.51%) Military
7 22 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (0.76%) Publishing
9 9 (0.57%) Retail
10 8 (0.50%) Finance
10 8 (0.50%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.44%) Advertising
11 7 (0.44%) Law
12 4 (0.25%) Marketing
13 2 (0.13%) Banking
13 2 (0.13%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.13%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.063%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.063%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.063%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,189 (75.02%) Systems Engineer
2 194 (12.24%) Senior
3 132 (8.33%) Lead
4 115 (7.26%) Software Engineer
5 105 (6.62%) Junior
5 105 (6.62%) Junior Systems Engineer
6 99 (6.25%) Development Engineer
6 99 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
7 97 (6.12%) Mathematical Modeller
8 92 (5.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 72 (4.54%) Principal Engineer
10 64 (4.04%) Principal Software Engineer
10 64 (4.04%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 60 (3.79%) Integration Engineer
11 60 (3.79%) Systems Integration Engineer
12 41 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (2.27%) Senior Development Engineer
13 36 (2.27%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 36 (2.27%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 31 (1.96%) Radio Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.22%) 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 (2.59%) Algorithms
2 36 (2.27%) FPGA
3 19 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (1.01%) Self-Driving Car
5 15 (0.95%) Robotics
6 9 (0.57%) GNSS
6 9 (0.57%) Management Information System
7 8 (0.50%) Analogue Electronics
8 7 (0.44%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.25%) e-Learning
9 4 (0.25%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.13%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.13%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.13%) IoT
11 1 (0.063%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.063%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.063%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.063%) Infotainment
11 1 (0.063%) Lidar
11 1 (0.063%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.14%) 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 (83.22%) Systems Engineering
2 888 (56.03%) SysML
3 630 (39.75%) Validation
4 601 (37.92%) Agile
5 598 (37.73%) Mathematics
6 527 (33.25%) UML
7 456 (28.77%) Verification and Validation
8 452 (28.52%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 418 (26.37%) MODAF
10 413 (26.06%) Software Engineering
11 411 (25.93%) Cybersecurity
12 333 (21.01%) Digital Twin
13 274 (17.29%) Physics
14 261 (16.47%) PLM
15 241 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
16 173 (10.91%) Computer Science
17 158 (9.97%) Software Testing
18 141 (8.90%) Signal Processing
19 131 (8.26%) Mathematical Modelling
20 117 (7.38%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 238 (15.02%) Python
2 110 (6.94%) C++
3 74 (4.67%) C
4 63 (3.97%) R
5 61 (3.85%) C#
6 55 (3.47%) Java
6 55 (3.47%) SQL
7 53 (3.34%) JavaScript
8 51 (3.22%) TypeScript
9 50 (3.15%) PHP
10 49 (3.09%) Dart
10 49 (3.09%) Ruby
10 49 (3.09%) Rust
11 5 (0.32%) Perl
12 4 (0.25%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.13%) Fortran
14 1 (0.063%) Scala
14 1 (0.063%) Tcl
14 1 (0.063%) VB
14 1 (0.063%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,246 (78.61%) Degree
2 1,061 (66.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 493 (31.10%) HND
4 486 (30.66%) HNC
5 51 (3.22%) Security Cleared
6 49 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (2.78%) SC Cleared
8 20 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.26%) PhD
9 6 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.13%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.13%) MCAD
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.13%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.063%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.75%) 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 38 (2.40%) Firmware
2 32 (2.02%) 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 (9.84%) ANSYS
2 121 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 115 (7.26%) MathWorks
4 106 (6.69%) IBM
5 13 (0.82%) Siemens
6 7 (0.44%) Mentor Graphics
7 4 (0.25%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.19%) EMC
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle
8 3 (0.19%) Vertica
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