MATLAB Job Trends

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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 422 480
Rank change year-on-year -46 +58 -23
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 202 351 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.64% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 56 185 141
10th Percentile £42,770 £37,574 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,600 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -4.07% +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,225 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +14.58%

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 12,264 21,356 21,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.99% 31.57% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,477 12,676 18,078
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 16 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 8 November 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
England -26 182 £60,000 +4.24% 108
UK excluding London -21 173 £60,000 +4.35% 117
Work from Home +94 82 £60,000 - 46
South East +25 78 £75,000 +25.00% 34
North of England -7 33 £55,897 +17.23% 5
South West +12 26 £52,600 - 26
North West -4 23 £54,793 +14.91% 3
Midlands +61 21 £65,000 +23.81% 14
London +29 16 £75,000 -34.78% 5
East Midlands +28 13 £65,000 +23.59% 11
Yorkshire +4 9 £63,150 +9.71% 1
West Midlands +33 8 - - 3
East of England -3 8 £72,500 +11.54% 33
Scotland -28 6 £58,033 - 9
North East - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £85,700 - 2

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 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.49%) SAS
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (20.79%) Simulink
2 14 (6.93%) Mathcad
3 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (2.97%) Blender
6 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (1.49%) GNU Octave
7 3 (1.49%) Stata
8 2 (0.99%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.50%) CATIA
9 1 (0.50%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (1.98%) GitHub
1 4 (1.98%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.34%) Software-Defined Radio
2 12 (5.94%) 5G
2 12 (5.94%) SD-WAN
2 12 (5.94%) WAN
3 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.97%) QGIS
2 3 (1.49%) Big Data
3 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Git
1 7 (3.47%) LabVIEW
2 6 (2.97%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.98%) GitLab
3 4 (1.98%) MLflow
3 4 (1.98%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.99%) JIRA
6 1 (0.50%) Rational Statemate
General
1 34 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.37%) Electronics
3 16 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.45%) Military
5 10 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.46%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.47%) Finance
8 6 (2.97%) Retail
9 5 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.48%) Marketing
10 4 (1.98%) Automotive
10 4 (1.98%) Avionics
11 3 (1.49%) Agriculture
11 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.50%) Aviation
13 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (35.15%) Systems Engineer
2 32 (15.84%) Lead
3 30 (14.85%) Radio Engineer
4 27 (13.37%) Senior
5 11 (5.45%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 10 (4.95%) Mathematical Modeller
7 7 (3.47%) Hardware Engineer
8 6 (2.97%) GNSS Engineer
8 6 (2.97%) Professional Services Engineer
8 6 (2.97%) Radar Engineer
8 6 (2.97%) RF Engineer
9 5 (2.48%) Analyst
9 5 (2.48%) Test Engineer
10 4 (1.98%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (1.98%) Product Engineer
10 4 (1.98%) Qualitative Analyst
10 4 (1.98%) Quantitative Analyst
10 4 (1.98%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (1.98%) Senior Verification Engineer
10 4 (1.98%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (24.26%) HTML
2 4 (1.98%) pytest
3 1 (0.50%) Caffe
3 1 (0.50%) NumPy
3 1 (0.50%) Pandas
3 1 (0.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.85%) FPGA
2 22 (10.89%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.94%) Self-Driving Car
4 11 (5.45%) GNSS
5 9 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.47%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.48%) Robotics
9 4 (1.98%) Satnav
10 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.49%) Arduino
10 3 (1.49%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.49%) Derivative
10 3 (1.49%) Raspberry Pi
11 1 (0.50%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.50%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.50%) Verilog
11 1 (0.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.46%) Linux
2 6 (2.97%) Unix
3 5 (2.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.65%) Computer Science
2 68 (33.66%) Physics
3 64 (31.68%) AI
4 56 (27.72%) Machine Learning
5 52 (25.74%) Mathematics
5 52 (25.74%) Systems Engineering
6 51 (25.25%) Signal Processing
7 49 (24.26%) Data Privacy
8 45 (22.28%) Validation
9 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (21.29%) Innovative Thinking
11 37 (18.32%) Digital Signal Processing
12 28 (13.86%) Mathematical Modelling
12 28 (13.86%) Verification and Validation
13 26 (12.87%) Data Analysis
13 26 (12.87%) SysML
14 24 (11.88%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
15 22 (10.89%) Agile
16 20 (9.90%) Test Automation
17 18 (8.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (58.91%) Python
2 81 (40.10%) C++
3 67 (33.17%) C
4 57 (28.22%) R
5 55 (27.23%) Java
6 54 (26.73%) C#
7 52 (25.74%) JavaScript
8 50 (24.75%) SQL
9 49 (24.26%) Dart
9 49 (24.26%) PHP
9 49 (24.26%) Ruby
9 49 (24.26%) Rust
9 49 (24.26%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.98%) Tcl
11 3 (1.49%) Assembly Language
11 3 (1.49%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.49%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.49%) Swift
11 3 (1.49%) VBA
12 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 138 (68.32%) Degree
2 58 (28.71%) Security Cleared
3 55 (27.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (24.75%) SC Cleared
5 49 (24.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (7.43%) HND
7 11 (5.45%) HNC
8 9 (4.46%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.97%) PhD
10 3 (1.49%) CFA
11 2 (0.99%) MCAD
11 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (0.99%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (0.99%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (14.85%) Embedded Firmware
1 30 (14.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.99%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 15 (7.43%) MathWorks
2 6 (2.97%) ANSYS
2 6 (2.97%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.98%) Databricks
4 3 (1.49%) EMC
4 3 (1.49%) Google
5 2 (0.99%) Cadence
5 2 (0.99%) IBM
5 2 (0.99%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.50%) Green Hills
6 1 (0.50%) Keysight
6 1 (0.50%) PTC
6 1 (0.50%) QNX
6 1 (0.50%) Sparx
6 1 (0.50%) YouTube