MATLAB Contracts

MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MATLAB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MATLAB over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 537 728
Rank change year-on-year +68 +191 -85
Contract jobs citing MATLAB 106 146 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 0.76% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 74 45
10th Percentile £325 £350 £416
25th Percentile £413 £416 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £713
90th Percentile £930 £838 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £433
% change year-on-year +12.82% +12.72% -13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 25 30
10th Percentile £34.21 £51.75 £41.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.12 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.24% +30.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +31.87%

All Programming Languages
UK

MATLAB is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MATLAB.

Daily rate trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MATLAB.

Hourly rate trend for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MATLAB over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MATLAB in the UK

MATLAB
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MATLAB within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +40 99 £550 - 236
UK excluding London +8 75 £550 +12.82% 209
Work from Home +100 37 £413 -25.00% 68
East of England +6 26 £350 -28.21% 32
London +80 23 £460 -29.23% 35
South East +5 17 £634 +34.18% 72
Midlands +27 13 £478 -20.42% 55
West Midlands +16 11 £450 -25.00% 42
North of England +25 10 £450 +12.50% 21
South West -25 9 - - 23
North West +19 5 - - 14
Yorkshire +21 4 £450 +5.88% 4
East Midlands - 2 £505 - 13
North East - 2 - - 3

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 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) SAS
Applications
1 67 (63.21%) Simulink
2 30 (28.30%) Stateflow
3 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (4.72%) TargetLink
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (2.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.38%) Power Platform
2 8 (7.55%) Power Automate
2 8 (7.55%) PowerApps
3 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (1.89%) AWS
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.94%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Wireless
2 1 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) Power BI
2 9 (8.49%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.55%) Metadata
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Git
2 9 (8.49%) Subversion
3 6 (5.66%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.66%) JIRA
4 5 (4.72%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.89%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (1.89%) Rational Team Concert
6 1 (0.94%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.94%) GitLab
6 1 (0.94%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.94%) Xcode
General
1 30 (28.30%) Automotive
2 19 (17.92%) Aerospace
2 19 (17.92%) Legal
3 11 (10.38%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.43%) Finance
4 10 (9.43%) Military
5 6 (5.66%) Banking
6 5 (4.72%) Electronics
7 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.83%) Aviation
8 3 (2.83%) Law
8 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.89%) Avionics
10 1 (0.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (32.08%) Software Engineer
2 26 (24.53%) Systems Engineer
3 19 (17.92%) Developer
4 14 (13.21%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Embedded Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Automation Developer
7 7 (6.60%) C Software Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Senior
8 6 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Real Time Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Applications Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Control Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.77%) .NET
1 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.89%) NumPy
3 1 (0.94%) AVFoundation
3 1 (0.94%) COM
3 1 (0.94%) iOS SDK
3 1 (0.94%) Node.js
3 1 (0.94%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.94%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (0.94%) React
3 1 (0.94%) Spring
3 1 (0.94%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.94%) Swagger
3 1 (0.94%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (44.34%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.77%) Analogue Electronics
3 4 (3.77%) Clustering
3 4 (3.77%) Device Driver
4 3 (2.83%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.83%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.83%) VHDL
5 2 (1.89%) FPGA
6 1 (0.94%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.94%) VxWorks
2 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) Software Engineering
2 39 (36.79%) Validation
3 35 (33.02%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 30 (28.30%) Computer Science
5 27 (25.47%) Verification and Validation
6 21 (19.81%) Test Automation
7 16 (15.09%) Data Analysis
7 16 (15.09%) Visualisation
8 13 (12.26%) Agile
8 13 (12.26%) Signal Processing
9 12 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (11.32%) Physics
10 11 (10.38%) Mathematics
10 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (9.43%) Systems Engineering
12 9 (8.49%) Data Visualisation
13 8 (7.55%) Project Management
13 8 (7.55%) Software Testing
14 7 (6.60%) Data Governance
14 7 (6.60%) UML
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.58%) C
2 24 (22.64%) Python
3 22 (20.75%) C++
4 12 (11.32%) SQL
5 7 (6.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.60%) VBA
6 5 (4.72%) Assembly Language
7 4 (3.77%) C#
7 4 (3.77%) Embedded C
7 4 (3.77%) Embedded C++
7 4 (3.77%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.77%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.83%) Fortran
9 2 (1.89%) R
10 1 (0.94%) Java
10 1 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (37.74%) Degree
2 24 (22.64%) Security Cleared
3 21 (19.81%) SC Cleared
4 16 (15.09%) Master's Degree
5 7 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.72%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.77%) PhD
8 3 (2.83%) CFA
8 3 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.83%) MBA
8 3 (2.83%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.60%) AUTOSAR
2 6 (5.66%) ISO 26262
2 6 (5.66%) MISRA
2 6 (5.66%) MISRA C
3 5 (4.72%) QA
4 4 (3.77%) JTAG
5 1 (0.94%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Firmware
2 5 (4.72%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.89%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Databricks
2 5 (4.72%) MathWorks
3 3 (2.83%) Keysight
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.89%) Xilinx
5 1 (0.94%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) QinetiQ
5 1 (0.94%) SAP
5 1 (0.94%) Twitter