Matplotlib Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Matplotlib
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Matplotlib skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Matplotlib 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.084% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £541 - -
90th Percentile £561 - -
South East median daily rate £488 - £620

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 400 301 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.90% 18.01% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 212 219
10th Percentile £363 £383 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £662 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 16
10th Percentile £56.01 - £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £77.19 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +25.31% -21.53%
75th Percentile - - £64.00
90th Percentile £81.50 - £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%

Matplotlib
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Matplotlib job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Matplotlib.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Matplotlib

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Matplotlib in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Matplotlib in the Thames Valley

Matplotlib
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Matplotlib within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Berkshire - 1 £425 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Matplotlib
South East

Matplotlib
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (50.00%) Plotly
2 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (50.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality