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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 389 481
Rank change year-on-year -225 +92 +95
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 147 315 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.64% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 2.18% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 82 140 244
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,100 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -6.38% -9.62%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £127,750 £115,750 £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 17,726 14,432 30,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.75% 29.26% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,703 9,594 22,361
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,280 £35,475
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 20 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 20 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 -181 143 £62,500 +13.64% 73
UK excluding London -190 135 £60,000 +9.50% 70
South East -38 95 £60,000 +4.35% 26
Work from Home -105 20 £56,000 -17.04% 26
East of England -8 15 £65,000 +36.32% 14
South West -82 12 £55,000 +4.56% 16
London -42 11 £132,500 -11.67% 9
North of England -78 5 £51,722 +3.33% 3
Midlands -63 4 £67,500 +41.56% 12
West Midlands -31 3 £67,500 -10.00% 3
North West -47 3 £52,325 +4.54% 3
Wales -56 3 £55,000 -10.57% 1
Yorkshire -36 2 £51,722 -10.14%
Scotland +3 1 - - 2
East Midlands -42 1 £52,500 +10.10% 9

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 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 80 (54.42%) Simulink
2 9 (6.12%) CATIA
3 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.04%) Lightworks
4 3 (2.04%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.68%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.68%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.68%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (3.40%) GitHub
2 1 (0.68%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.44%) Ethernet
2 5 (3.40%) 5G
2 5 (3.40%) SD-WAN
2 5 (3.40%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (3.40%) WAN
3 4 (2.72%) MQTT
4 3 (2.04%) Wireless
5 2 (1.36%) Modbus
5 2 (1.36%) RS-422
5 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.68%) FTP
6 1 (0.68%) HTTP
6 1 (0.68%) RS-232
6 1 (0.68%) RS-485
6 1 (0.68%) RTP
6 1 (0.68%) RTSP
6 1 (0.68%) SS7
6 1 (0.68%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.08%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (3.40%) GIS
3 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (31.29%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (11.56%) Git
3 15 (10.20%) LabVIEW
4 6 (4.08%) PetaLinux
5 3 (2.04%) JIRA
6 2 (1.36%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (38.78%) Aerospace
2 54 (36.73%) Electronics
3 45 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (24.49%) Finance
5 27 (18.37%) Social Skills
6 21 (14.29%) Military
7 12 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.08%) Aviation
10 5 (3.40%) Automotive
11 4 (2.72%) Advertising
11 4 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.04%) Swedish Language
13 2 (1.36%) Avionics
13 2 (1.36%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.36%) Legal
14 1 (0.68%) Aeronautics
14 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (47.62%) Systems Engineer
2 60 (40.82%) Senior
3 29 (19.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 24 (16.33%) Software Engineer
5 19 (12.93%) Lead
6 14 (9.52%) Embedded Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) Principal Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) Team Leader
8 12 (8.16%) Hardware Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Senior Hardware Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Principal Hardware Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.80%) FPGA Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) Test Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) Electronics Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Product Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Security Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.08%) Yocto
2 5 (3.40%) pytest
3 2 (1.36%) Middleware
4 1 (0.68%) FFmpeg
4 1 (0.68%) GStreamer
4 1 (0.68%) HTML
4 1 (0.68%) JSON
4 1 (0.68%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.68%) Web Services
4 1 (0.68%) WebRTC
4 1 (0.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.65%) Algorithms
2 19 (12.93%) FPGA
3 17 (11.56%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (10.20%) Analogue Electronics
5 13 (8.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (7.48%) Verilog
6 11 (7.48%) VHDL
7 9 (6.12%) Management Information System
7 9 (6.12%) PCIe
7 9 (6.12%) Reinsurance
8 8 (5.44%) Fibre Optics
8 8 (5.44%) SCADA
9 7 (4.76%) Robotics
10 5 (3.40%) Driving Licence
10 5 (3.40%) Self-Driving Car
11 4 (2.72%) IoT
12 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (1.36%) ARM Cortex
13 2 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (1.36%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.76%) Unix
2 6 (4.08%) Linux
2 6 (4.08%) Windows
3 5 (3.40%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.04%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (46.26%) Systems Engineering
2 54 (36.73%) Physics
3 49 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 44 (29.93%) Software Engineering
5 34 (23.13%) Validation
6 29 (19.73%) Coaching
6 29 (19.73%) Requirements Management
7 27 (18.37%) Agile
8 24 (16.33%) Software Testing
8 24 (16.33%) SysML
9 22 (14.97%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 22 (14.97%) Test Automation
10 20 (13.61%) Customer Requirements
10 20 (13.61%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (12.93%) Decision-Making
12 18 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (11.56%) Kalman Filter
14 16 (10.88%) Signal Processing
15 15 (10.20%) Roadmaps
16 14 (9.52%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 64 (43.54%) Python
2 47 (31.97%) C++
3 34 (23.13%) C
4 18 (12.24%) C#
5 14 (9.52%) Embedded C
6 13 (8.84%) Embedded C++
7 12 (8.16%) SQL
8 11 (7.48%) Julia
9 10 (6.80%) R
10 8 (5.44%) Java
11 3 (2.04%) Delphi
11 3 (2.04%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 99 (67.35%) Degree
2 63 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (17.01%) Security Cleared
4 18 (12.24%) HND
5 17 (11.56%) SC Cleared
6 13 (8.84%) Master's Degree
6 13 (8.84%) PhD
7 10 (6.80%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.04%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) ARP4754
1 9 (6.12%) DO-254
1 9 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (4.76%) Def Stans
2 7 (4.76%) GDPR
3 4 (2.72%) QA
4 3 (2.04%) ECSS
4 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.36%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (1.36%) DO-160
5 2 (1.36%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.36%) MISRA
5 2 (1.36%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.68%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.68%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.68%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 20 (13.61%) Firmware
2 4 (2.72%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 34 (23.13%) Siemens
2 11 (7.48%) Mentor Graphics
3 10 (6.80%) IBM
4 7 (4.76%) EMC
5 4 (2.72%) Facebook
5 4 (2.72%) Instagram
5 4 (2.72%) Xilinx
6 3 (2.04%) Altera
7 1 (0.68%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft