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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 440 428
Rank change year-on-year -126 -12 +106
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 249 248 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.50% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.94% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 131 79 204
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,554 £37,574
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,869 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year - +4.24% -4.07%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £71,063
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,700 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £58,033 £56,750
% change year-on-year -3.50% +2.26% +3.18%

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 18,536 12,797 22,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 25.77% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 13,096 8,193 13,930
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 14 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 5 October 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 -91 237 £62,500 +4.17% 451
UK excluding London -105 236 £56,000 -3.50% 357
South East -36 108 £56,000 -20.00% 93
Work from Home -90 52 £56,000 -6.67% 156
East of England +2 46 £63,250 -9.64% 100
Midlands -33 46 £45,000 -20.13% 65
West Midlands -18 29 £67,500 - 32
South West -80 22 £62,500 +18.82% 31
East Midlands -40 17 £45,000 -20.13% 33
Scotland +6 12 £60,000 +3.39% 27
London -78 12 £132,500 +65.63% 73
North of England -89 4 £52,500 -4.18% 36
Yorkshire -49 2 £51,722 -18.10% 8
North West -61 2 £53,625 -2.13% 19

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 3 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 151 (60.64%) Simulink
2 7 (2.81%) Mathcad
3 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.01%) Stateflow
5 4 (1.61%) Lightworks
5 4 (1.61%) Mathematica
5 4 (1.61%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (0.80%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.80%) MicroStation
6 2 (0.80%) Revit
7 1 (0.40%) CATIA
7 1 (0.40%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.40%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (1.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.02%) Ethernet
1 10 (4.02%) Wireless
2 9 (3.61%) Wireshark
3 6 (2.41%) Software-Defined Radio
4 5 (2.01%) MQTT
5 4 (1.61%) 5G
5 4 (1.61%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.61%) WAN
6 3 (1.20%) LTE
7 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.40%) Modbus
8 1 (0.40%) RS-232
8 1 (0.40%) RS-422
8 1 (0.40%) RS-485
8 1 (0.40%) RTP
8 1 (0.40%) RTSP
8 1 (0.40%) SCTP
8 1 (0.40%) SS7
8 1 (0.40%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.41%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (2.01%) GIS
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 59 (23.69%) Rational DOORS
2 23 (9.24%) LabVIEW
3 21 (8.43%) Git
4 9 (3.61%) Eclipse
4 9 (3.61%) PetaLinux
5 4 (1.61%) JIRA
5 4 (1.61%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (42.97%) Aerospace
2 74 (29.72%) Finance
3 70 (28.11%) Electronics
4 61 (24.50%) Social Skills
5 53 (21.29%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (12.85%) Military
7 30 (12.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (5.62%) Automotive
8 14 (5.62%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.61%) Aviation
11 7 (2.81%) Advertising
11 7 (2.81%) Retail
12 5 (2.01%) Law
12 5 (2.01%) Swedish Language
13 3 (1.20%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.20%) Police
13 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.40%) Avionics
14 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 92 (36.95%) Systems Engineer
2 59 (23.69%) Senior
3 53 (21.29%) Lead
4 32 (12.85%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 31 (12.45%) Software Engineer
6 28 (11.24%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 20 (8.03%) Embedded Engineer
8 16 (6.43%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (6.43%) Team Leader
9 15 (6.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 14 (5.62%) Electronics Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) FPGA Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (4.02%) DSP Engineer
12 10 (4.02%) Research Scientist
12 10 (4.02%) Test Engineer
13 9 (3.61%) Applications Engineer
14 6 (2.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 6 (2.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 5 (2.01%) Radar Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.61%) Yocto
2 4 (1.61%) pytest
2 4 (1.61%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.20%) React
4 2 (0.80%) HTML
4 2 (0.80%) Middleware
5 1 (0.40%) FFmpeg
5 1 (0.40%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.40%) JSON
5 1 (0.40%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.40%) Web Services
5 1 (0.40%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.40%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.68%) Algorithms
2 39 (15.66%) FPGA
3 31 (12.45%) Embedded Systems
4 21 (8.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 21 (8.43%) VHDL
5 18 (7.23%) Robotics
6 17 (6.83%) Verilog
7 12 (4.82%) SCADA
8 10 (4.02%) Driving Licence
9 9 (3.61%) PCIe
10 8 (3.21%) Analogue Electronics
10 8 (3.21%) Fibre Optics
10 8 (3.21%) Reinsurance
11 5 (2.01%) Acoustics
11 5 (2.01%) IoT
11 5 (2.01%) Self-Driving Car
12 4 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.61%) Synthetic Data
13 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.02%) Linux
2 10 (4.02%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (2.41%) Unix
4 5 (2.01%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (2.01%) Windows
5 4 (1.61%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (36.95%) Physics
2 90 (36.14%) Systems Engineering
3 81 (32.53%) Mathematics
4 71 (28.51%) Validation
5 56 (22.49%) Software Engineering
6 51 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (18.07%) Agile
8 41 (16.47%) Requirements Management
9 34 (13.65%) Signal Processing
9 34 (13.65%) Verification and Validation
10 32 (12.85%) Software Testing
11 30 (12.05%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 29 (11.65%) SysML
12 29 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (10.44%) Customer Requirements
14 25 (10.04%) AI
14 25 (10.04%) Coaching
14 25 (10.04%) Test Automation
15 22 (8.84%) Roadmaps
16 21 (8.43%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 90 (36.14%) Python
2 70 (28.11%) C++
3 61 (24.50%) C
4 30 (12.05%) Embedded C
5 22 (8.84%) Embedded C++
6 17 (6.83%) C#
6 17 (6.83%) Java
7 11 (4.42%) R
7 11 (4.42%) SQL
8 10 (4.02%) Julia
9 6 (2.41%) SystemVerilog
10 5 (2.01%) Delphi
11 4 (1.61%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.61%) Rust
12 3 (1.20%) Go
12 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.80%) Perl
14 1 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 163 (65.46%) Degree
2 83 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 76 (30.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 59 (23.69%) SC Cleared
5 50 (20.08%) Master's Degree
6 46 (18.47%) PhD
7 34 (13.65%) DV Cleared
8 13 (5.22%) Chartered Engineer
9 12 (4.82%) HND
10 2 (0.80%) HNC
11 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.84%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.82%) DO-254
3 8 (3.21%) ARP4754
4 7 (2.81%) Def Stans
4 7 (2.81%) GDPR
5 4 (1.61%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (1.61%) ECSS
6 3 (1.20%) DO-160
6 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.20%) QA
7 2 (0.80%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.40%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.40%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.40%) MIL-STD-1553
8 1 (0.40%) MISRA
8 1 (0.40%) MISRA C
System Software
1 34 (13.65%) Firmware
2 11 (4.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.01%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 51 (20.48%) Siemens
2 13 (5.22%) EMC
3 11 (4.42%) Xilinx
4 7 (2.81%) DIgSILENT
4 7 (2.81%) IBM
4 7 (2.81%) YouTube
5 6 (2.41%) Thales
6 4 (1.61%) Facebook
6 4 (1.61%) Instagram
6 4 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.80%) Intel
7 2 (0.80%) MathWorks
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.40%) Cadence
8 1 (0.40%) Mentor Graphics