MathWorks MATLAB
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MATLAB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited MATLAB over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 589 551
Rank change year-on-year +71 -38 +26
Permanent jobs citing MATLAB 424 427 968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.43% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 0.99% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 247 130 325
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,938 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £105,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -22.73%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +100 411 £55,000 -15.38% 256
UK excluding London -14 366 £55,000 +4.76% 222
South West +77 116 £54,500 +6.86% 27
Work from Home +105 111 £60,000 +17.65% 74
South East -13 99 £55,000 - 70
East of England +38 68 £55,000 +4.76% 42
Midlands -107 59 £55,000 -12.00% 59
London +104 53 £80,000 +3.23% 37
West Midlands -94 39 £60,000 -7.69% 51
East Midlands +2 20 £42,500 -5.56% 8
North of England +64 15 £50,750 +11.54% 18
Yorkshire - 10 £67,500 - 2
Scotland -73 9 £65,000 +36.84% 16
North West +8 5 £50,000 +29.87% 15

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 23 (5.42%) SAS
2 12 (2.83%) Confluence
3 9 (2.12%) Apache
4 8 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.89%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 187 (44.10%) Simulink
2 50 (11.79%) Stateflow
3 25 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (4.48%) GNU Octave
5 14 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (1.89%) CANalyzer
7 5 (1.18%) Doxygen
8 2 (0.47%) EViews
8 2 (0.47%) SPSS
8 2 (0.47%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.24%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 28 (6.60%) AWS
2 23 (5.42%) GitHub
3 14 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (3.30%) Amazon S3
4 5 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.18%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.18%) PowerApps
5 2 (0.47%) Azure
5 2 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.47%) Serverless
6 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.24%) GCP
6 1 (0.24%) IaaS
6 1 (0.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.60%) J1939
2 14 (3.30%) 5G
3 13 (3.07%) SD-WAN
3 13 (3.07%) WAN
4 9 (2.12%) Wireless
5 8 (1.89%) Ethernet
5 8 (1.89%) OFDM
5 8 (1.89%) PPP
6 5 (1.18%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.71%) Tactical Data Link
8 2 (0.47%) Modbus
8 2 (0.47%) RS-485
9 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.24%) 4G
9 1 (0.24%) 5G NR
9 1 (0.24%) GSM
9 1 (0.24%) LTE
9 1 (0.24%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.72%) Amazon QuickSight
1 20 (4.72%) Tableau
2 16 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 15 (3.54%) Data Mining
4 14 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.30%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.94%) Metadata
6 2 (0.47%) Big Data
6 2 (0.47%) OLAP
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.24%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 40 (9.43%) Git
2 31 (7.31%) LabVIEW
3 29 (6.84%) JIRA
4 22 (5.19%) ClearCase
4 22 (5.19%) Rational DOORS
5 21 (4.95%) Plastic SCM
6 14 (3.30%) ClearQuest
7 13 (3.07%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.89%) GitLab
9 7 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.65%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.65%) Rational Rhapsody
10 5 (1.18%) NetBeans
11 3 (0.71%) Rational Team Concert
11 3 (0.71%) Subversion
12 2 (0.47%) PetaLinux
13 1 (0.24%) CANoe
13 1 (0.24%) Chocolatey
13 1 (0.24%) CMake
13 1 (0.24%) GCC
General
1 93 (21.93%) Electronics
2 88 (20.75%) Automotive
3 85 (20.05%) Social Skills
4 71 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.31%) Retail
6 29 (6.84%) Aerospace
7 25 (5.90%) Military
8 21 (4.95%) Manufacturing
8 21 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (4.25%) Finance
10 16 (3.77%) Legal
11 15 (3.54%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.59%) Aviation
12 11 (2.59%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.89%) Law
14 7 (1.65%) Banking
15 6 (1.42%) Games
15 6 (1.42%) Marketing
16 4 (0.94%) French Language
16 4 (0.94%) German Language
Job Titles
1 109 (25.71%) Software Engineer
2 80 (18.87%) Senior
3 62 (14.62%) Systems Engineer
4 49 (11.56%) Embedded Engineer
5 41 (9.67%) Developer
6 37 (8.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 27 (6.37%) Lead
8 23 (5.42%) Architect
9 21 (4.95%) Data Scientist
10 19 (4.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 16 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.54%) Test Engineer
13 14 (3.30%) Analyst
14 13 (3.07%) Graduate
15 12 (2.83%) .NET Developer
15 12 (2.83%) Control Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.83%) Team Leader
15 12 (2.83%) Verification Engineer
16 11 (2.59%) FPGA Developer
16 11 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.08%) TensorFlow
2 25 (5.90%) NumPy
3 15 (3.54%) Keras
4 12 (2.83%) .NET
4 12 (2.83%) .NET Framework
4 12 (2.83%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.89%) pytest
6 7 (1.65%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.18%) JavaFX
8 4 (0.94%) CSS
8 4 (0.94%) ONNX
8 4 (0.94%) Rendezvous
9 3 (0.71%) Qt
10 2 (0.47%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (0.47%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.47%) Pandas
10 2 (0.47%) POSIX
10 2 (0.47%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.47%) Torch
10 2 (0.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 141 (33.25%) Algorithms
2 47 (11.08%) Embedded Systems
3 32 (7.55%) FPGA
4 27 (6.37%) VHDL
5 22 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (4.72%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.48%) Robotics
8 18 (4.25%) GNSS
9 11 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (2.59%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.89%) Acoustics
10 8 (1.89%) BBC
10 8 (1.89%) MicroBlaze
11 7 (1.65%) PMI
12 5 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
12 5 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.18%) Semantic Web
12 5 (1.18%) Verilog
13 4 (0.94%) Analogue Electronics
13 4 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.96%) Linux
2 22 (5.19%) Windows
3 10 (2.36%) Unix
4 5 (1.18%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (33.96%) Software Engineering
2 113 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (25.71%) Agile
4 91 (21.46%) Mathematics
5 77 (18.16%) Validation
6 71 (16.75%) Signal Processing
7 66 (15.57%) Physics
8 65 (15.33%) Machine Learning
9 64 (15.09%) Computer Science
10 52 (12.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 47 (11.08%) Systems Engineering
12 43 (10.14%) Software Testing
12 43 (10.14%) Visualisation
13 39 (9.20%) Data Science
14 38 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (8.25%) Test Automation
16 33 (7.78%) Analytics
17 32 (7.55%) Data Modelling
17 32 (7.55%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
18 31 (7.31%) UML
Programming Languages
1 219 (51.65%) Python
2 138 (32.55%) C
3 99 (23.35%) C++
4 63 (14.86%) C#
5 38 (8.96%) Embedded C
6 34 (8.02%) R
7 28 (6.60%) Java
8 27 (6.37%) SQL
9 23 (5.42%) JavaScript
9 23 (5.42%) Perl
10 17 (4.01%) VBA
11 12 (2.83%) VB.NET
12 11 (2.59%) PHP
13 10 (2.36%) Fortran
14 8 (1.89%) Tcl
14 8 (1.89%) VB
15 6 (1.42%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.71%) Assembly Language
17 2 (0.47%) Bash
17 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (56.13%) Degree
2 146 (34.43%) Security Cleared
3 58 (13.68%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (7.31%) PhD
6 30 (7.08%) Master's Degree
7 29 (6.84%) DV Cleared
8 22 (5.19%) HND
9 17 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.65%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.24%) CFA
14 1 (0.24%) MCSA
14 1 (0.24%) MCSE
14 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.67%) ISO 26262
2 33 (7.78%) Automotive SPICE
3 29 (6.84%) AUTOSAR
3 29 (6.84%) MISRA
4 9 (2.12%) Def Stans
5 6 (1.42%) IEC 61508
5 6 (1.42%) PMO
6 5 (1.18%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.18%) TickIT
7 4 (0.94%) QA
8 3 (0.71%) JTAG
9 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.24%) MISRA C
System Software
1 27 (6.37%) Firmware
2 15 (3.54%) Docker
3 11 (2.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (5.42%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.24%) Ansible
2 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.24%) SCCM
2 1 (0.24%) SCOM
2 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (5.90%) IBM
2 21 (4.95%) Lauterbach
3 16 (3.77%) Xilinx
4 15 (3.54%) Oracle
5 12 (2.83%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.89%) Altera
6 8 (1.89%) Google
6 8 (1.89%) Green Hills
6 8 (1.89%) Motorola
7 7 (1.65%) Facebook
7 7 (1.65%) Instagram
7 7 (1.65%) SAP
8 6 (1.42%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.18%) MathWorks
10 4 (0.94%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.94%) Rockwell
11 3 (0.71%) ANSYS
11 3 (0.71%) Riverbed
11 3 (0.71%) Thales