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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 519 584
Rank change year-on-year +448 +65 -38
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 1,977 427 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.60% 0.42% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.12% 1.27% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 247 132
10th Percentile £41,483 £39,150 £32,500
25th Percentile - £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £60,265 £80,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +23.53%

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 16,314 33,562 41,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.74% 32.71% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10,612 25,071 26,942
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,772 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.28% -2.23% +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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +385 1,893 £47,683 -13.30% 678
England +366 1,502 £47,683 -13.30% 715
Work from Home +366 641 £47,683 -20.53% 319
North of England +301 502 £47,683 -7.41% 110
North West +232 416 £47,683 -4.63% 50
South East +236 380 £47,683 -13.30% 194
Scotland +259 373 £58,033 -10.72% 44
Midlands +203 298 £47,683 -13.30% 126
South West +152 218 £52,600 -3.49% 94
East Midlands +122 151 £47,683 +12.20% 39
West Midlands +145 147 £75,000 +25.00% 80
Yorkshire +130 84 £47,683 -30.64% 42
East of England +38 67 £47,683 -13.30% 111
Wales - 52 £47,683 - 16
London +85 37 £130,000 +62.50% 114
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 6
North East - 2 £115,000 - 19

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 12 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 967 (48.91%) Simulink
2 183 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
3 176 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 175 (8.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 106 (5.36%) Mathcad
6 16 (0.81%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.30%) GNU Octave
8 5 (0.25%) SPSS
9 4 (0.20%) Blender
10 1 (0.051%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.051%) Stata
Business Applications
1 355 (17.96%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (0.25%) Amazon S3
1 5 (0.25%) AWS
2 4 (0.20%) Azure
2 4 (0.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.26%) Software-Defined Radio
2 14 (0.71%) WAN
3 12 (0.61%) 5G
3 12 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.10%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.10%) GPRS
5 2 (0.10%) GSM
5 2 (0.10%) Modbus
5 2 (0.10%) MQTT
5 2 (0.10%) Profibus
6 1 (0.051%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.46%) NoSQL
2 7 (0.35%) Tableau
3 5 (0.25%) Amazon QuickSight
3 5 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (0.25%) Apache Hive
3 5 (0.25%) Data Mining
3 5 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.25%) DynamoDB
3 5 (0.25%) Hadoop
3 5 (0.25%) MySQL
4 4 (0.20%) QGIS
5 3 (0.15%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.10%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.10%) GIS
6 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.051%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 166 (8.40%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (0.56%) Git
3 7 (0.35%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.20%) Subversion
5 1 (0.051%) GitLab
5 1 (0.051%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.051%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 573 (28.98%) Aerospace
2 557 (28.17%) Presentation Skills
3 417 (21.09%) Automotive
4 339 (17.15%) Social Skills
5 240 (12.14%) Electronics
6 30 (1.52%) Military
7 28 (1.42%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 13 (0.66%) Publishing
10 10 (0.51%) Advertising
10 10 (0.51%) Finance
10 10 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.35%) Law
12 5 (0.25%) Marketing
12 5 (0.25%) Retail
13 2 (0.10%) Banking
13 2 (0.10%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.051%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.051%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.051%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,556 (78.71%) Systems Engineer
2 241 (12.19%) Senior
3 145 (7.33%) Junior
3 145 (7.33%) Junior Systems Engineer
4 126 (6.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 119 (6.02%) Software Engineer
6 99 (5.01%) Development Engineer
6 99 (5.01%) Software Development Engineer
7 83 (4.20%) Lead
8 80 (4.05%) Mathematical Modeller
9 71 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
10 66 (3.34%) Principal Software Engineer
11 64 (3.24%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 60 (3.03%) Integration Engineer
12 60 (3.03%) Systems Integration Engineer
13 43 (2.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 36 (1.82%) Senior Development Engineer
14 36 (1.82%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 36 (1.82%) Senior Software Development Engineer
15 22 (1.11%) Radio Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.58%) HTML
2 4 (0.20%) pytest
2 4 (0.20%) React
3 3 (0.15%) Pandas
4 2 (0.10%) .NET
4 2 (0.10%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.10%) gRPC
4 2 (0.10%) Kafka
5 1 (0.051%) NumPy
5 1 (0.051%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.051%) SciPy
5 1 (0.051%) Shiny
5 1 (0.051%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (1.57%) Algorithms
1 31 (1.57%) FPGA
2 20 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (0.81%) Management Information System
4 14 (0.71%) Robotics
5 12 (0.61%) Self-Driving Car
6 9 (0.46%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (0.40%) GNSS
8 4 (0.20%) e-Learning
8 4 (0.20%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (0.20%) VHDL
9 3 (0.15%) MicroBlaze
9 3 (0.15%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.15%) Satnav
10 2 (0.10%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.10%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.10%) IoT
11 1 (0.051%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.051%) Lidar
11 1 (0.051%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.01%) Linux
2 11 (0.56%) Windows
3 7 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.051%) Android
4 1 (0.051%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,730 (87.51%) Systems Engineering
2 1,215 (61.46%) SysML
3 798 (40.36%) Validation
4 794 (40.16%) Agile
5 761 (38.49%) Mathematics
6 706 (35.71%) UML
7 640 (32.37%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 610 (30.85%) Software Engineering
9 580 (29.34%) Verification and Validation
10 566 (28.63%) Cybersecurity
11 556 (28.12%) MODAF
12 476 (24.08%) Digital Twin
13 355 (17.96%) PLM
14 273 (13.81%) Physics
15 257 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
16 211 (10.67%) Computer Science
17 208 (10.52%) Software Testing
18 148 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 148 (7.49%) Project Management
19 145 (7.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 227 (11.48%) Python
2 101 (5.11%) C++
3 78 (3.95%) C
4 74 (3.74%) R
5 65 (3.29%) SQL
6 63 (3.19%) C#
7 57 (2.88%) Java
8 53 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 51 (2.58%) TypeScript
10 50 (2.53%) PHP
11 49 (2.48%) Dart
11 49 (2.48%) Ruby
11 49 (2.48%) Rust
12 8 (0.40%) Perl
13 4 (0.20%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.20%) Tcl
13 4 (0.20%) VB
14 2 (0.10%) Fortran
15 1 (0.051%) Scala
15 1 (0.051%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,610 (81.44%) Degree
2 1,312 (66.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 694 (35.10%) HND
4 683 (34.55%) HNC
5 49 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.02%) Security Cleared
7 34 (1.72%) SC Cleared
8 21 (1.06%) PhD
9 19 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.10%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.10%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.051%) CFA
12 1 (0.051%) MCAD
12 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (0.10%) Def Stans
2 2 (0.10%) IEC 61131
3 1 (0.051%) DO-254
3 1 (0.051%) ECSS
3 1 (0.051%) IFRS
3 1 (0.051%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.051%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.051%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.051%) MISRA
3 1 (0.051%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.051%) QA
System Software
1 33 (1.67%) Firmware
2 27 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.10%) Kibana
2 2 (0.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.051%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 210 (10.62%) ANSYS
2 175 (8.85%) Microsoft
3 145 (7.33%) IBM
4 91 (4.60%) MathWorks
5 20 (1.01%) Siemens
6 10 (0.51%) Oracle
7 7 (0.35%) Mentor Graphics
7 7 (0.35%) Xilinx
8 5 (0.25%) Intel
8 5 (0.25%) Vertica
9 4 (0.20%) EMC
10 3 (0.15%) Altera
10 3 (0.15%) Green Hills
11 1 (0.051%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.051%) Cadence
11 1 (0.051%) QNX