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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 356 392
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 +129
Contract jobs citing Matplotlib 16 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.051% 0.092%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 13
10th Percentile £478 £573 £415
25th Percentile £550 £656 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +57.89% -19.66%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £750
90th Percentile - £790 £770
England median daily rate £725 £650 £500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +30.00% -15.97%

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 3,793 3,610 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.12% 26.17% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,565 2,350 3,496
10th Percentile £363 £380 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £69.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 - 4 £414 - 1
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 7 (43.75%) Jupyter
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.25%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
1 6 (37.50%) Vertex AI
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (18.75%) IBM Watson
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.25%) dbt
5 1 (6.25%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) Tableau
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) Metadata
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 5 (31.25%) Retail
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Data Scientist
1 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) scikit-learn
2 11 (68.75%) Pandas
3 8 (50.00%) NumPy
3 8 (50.00%) Seaborn
3 8 (50.00%) XGBoost
4 4 (25.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (25.00%) TensorFlow
5 3 (18.75%) Plotly
5 3 (18.75%) PySpark
6 2 (12.50%) CrewAI
6 2 (12.50%) HTML
6 2 (12.50%) Keras
6 2 (12.50%) LangChain
6 2 (12.50%) LangGraph
6 2 (12.50%) NLTK
6 2 (12.50%) Node.js
6 2 (12.50%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Algorithms
2 5 (31.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (12.50%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.25%) Acoustics
4 1 (6.25%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 12 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 12 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 11 (68.75%) Data Science
3 11 (68.75%) Deep Learning
4 10 (62.50%) Visualisation
5 8 (50.00%) AI
5 8 (50.00%) Logistic Regression
5 8 (50.00%) LSTM
5 8 (50.00%) Random Forest
6 7 (43.75%) Time Series Forecasting
7 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
7 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
7 6 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (37.50%) Transfer Learning
8 5 (31.25%) Analytics
8 5 (31.25%) Generative AI
8 5 (31.25%) Predictive Modelling
8 5 (31.25%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Ada
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) C++
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) MCP
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubeflow
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Cognos
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) Sage
3 2 (12.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle