Matplotlib Contract Job Trends in London

Matplotlib
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Matplotlib skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 368 380
Rank change year-on-year -72 +12 +65
Contract jobs citing Matplotlib 9 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% 0.037% 0.087%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £320 £455 £541
25th Percentile £531 £500 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £638 £750
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -15.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £775
90th Percentile £768 - £826
England median daily rate £725 £550 £750
% change year-on-year +31.82% -26.67% +56.28%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Matplotlib falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,310 3,934 4,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 29.22% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,736 3,480
10th Percentile £400 £369 £385
25th Percentile £455 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 19
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £30.82
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -35.61%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £57.59
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £67.03
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%

Matplotlib
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Matplotlib relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Matplotlib job vacancy trend in London

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Matplotlib.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Matplotlib

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Matplotlib in London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Matplotlib in London

Matplotlib
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (44.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (44.44%) dbt
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) Vertex AI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) DBA
3 2 (22.22%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Pandas
2 8 (88.89%) scikit-learn
3 4 (44.44%) XGBoost
4 3 (33.33%) GeoJSON
4 3 (33.33%) Polars
5 2 (22.22%) NumPy
5 2 (22.22%) Seaborn
6 1 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (11.11%) NLTK
6 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Transformation
2 5 (55.56%) Data Science
2 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 4 (44.44%) AI
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Experience
3 4 (44.44%) Deep Learning
3 4 (44.44%) Logistic Regression
3 4 (44.44%) LSTM
3 4 (44.44%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (44.44%) Random Forest
3 4 (44.44%) Time Series Forecasting
3 4 (44.44%) Transfer Learning
3 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
4 3 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (33.33%) Data Munging
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (33.33%) Spatial Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft