Matplotlib Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Matplotlib
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Matplotlib skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 358 403
Rank change year-on-year -46 +45 +95
Contract jobs citing Matplotlib 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.033% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £431 £472 £530
25th Percentile £458 £588 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -22.31% +4.84% +7.83%
75th Percentile £516 £675 £745
90th Percentile £522 - £783
UK median daily rate £550 £750 £620
% change year-on-year -26.67% +20.97% +5.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,320 2,710 3,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.50% 17.90% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 1,684 2,429
10th Percentile £333 £340 £325
25th Percentile £405 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 76 139
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £36.29
25th Percentile £46.25 £44.64 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

Matplotlib
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Matplotlib job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Matplotlib

Matplotlib
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
East of England -23 3 £515 -20.77% 2
South East - 1 £425 - 1
Matplotlib
UK

Matplotlib
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
2 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (75.00%) Pandas
2 3 (75.00%) Seaborn
3 2 (50.00%) NumPy
4 1 (25.00%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Munging
2 3 (75.00%) Feature Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (75.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) PhD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality