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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 340 381
Rank change year-on-year -47 +41 +123
Contract jobs citing Matplotlib 25 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.040% 0.055%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 10
10th Percentile £356 - £424
25th Percentile £413 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 £475
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +57.89% -2.56%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £684
90th Percentile - - £753
England median daily rate £550 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -15.38% +36.84% -0.51%

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 4,171 3,291 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.69% 26.07% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 2,299 3,344
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £713 £691
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £545
% change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.42%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Matplotlib in London

Matplotlib
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Matplotlib within the London region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 7 £414 -
Matplotlib
England

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 6 (24.00%) Jupyter
2 4 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.00%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
1 8 (32.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Vertex AI
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (12.00%) dbt
4 3 (12.00%) IBM Watson
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Geospatial Data
2 7 (28.00%) Power BI
3 4 (16.00%) Tableau
4 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (8.00%) Big Data
5 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
5 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (8.00%) MySQL
5 2 (8.00%) Spatial Data
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) MLflow
General
1 9 (36.00%) Publishing
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) DBA
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) MySQL DBA
5 2 (8.00%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (92.00%) Pandas
2 21 (84.00%) scikit-learn
3 9 (36.00%) GeoJSON
3 9 (36.00%) NumPy
3 9 (36.00%) Polars
3 9 (36.00%) Seaborn
4 7 (28.00%) XGBoost
5 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
5 4 (16.00%) TensorFlow
6 3 (12.00%) Plotly
6 3 (12.00%) PySpark
7 2 (8.00%) CrewAI
7 2 (8.00%) HTML
7 2 (8.00%) Keras
7 2 (8.00%) LangChain
7 2 (8.00%) LangGraph
7 2 (8.00%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (8.00%) NLTK
7 2 (8.00%) Node.js
7 2 (8.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Acoustics
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 13 (52.00%) Machine Learning
3 12 (48.00%) Data Transformation
4 11 (44.00%) AI
4 11 (44.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 10 (40.00%) Data Science
5 10 (40.00%) Deep Learning
6 9 (36.00%) Anomaly Detection
6 9 (36.00%) Data Analysis
6 9 (36.00%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (32.00%) Statistics
8 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (28.00%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (28.00%) Logistic Regression
8 7 (28.00%) LSTM
8 7 (28.00%) Random Forest
8 7 (28.00%) Spatial Analysis
9 6 (24.00%) Analytics
9 6 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (24.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Python
2 22 (88.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Ada
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) C++
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) R
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Cognos
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) IBM
2 3 (12.00%) Sage
3 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle