Matplotlib Contracts

Matplotlib
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Matplotlib skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Matplotlib over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 571 708
Rank change year-on-year +77 +137 +86
Contract jobs citing Matplotlib 26 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.025% 0.017%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.12% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 10
10th Percentile £463 £458 £416
25th Percentile £525 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £628
90th Percentile - £775 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £475
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -20.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Matplotlib
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Matplotlib as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Matplotlib in the UK

Matplotlib
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Matplotlib.

Daily rate trend for Matplotlib in the UK

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Matplotlib over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Matplotlib in the UK

Matplotlib
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +67 21 £650 +36.84% 36
UK excluding London +79 17 £650 +4.00% 18
East of England - 16 £650 - 1
Work from Home +46 7 £613 -18.33% 19
London +32 4 £613 +28.95% 24
North West - 1 £475 - 2
North of England - 1 £475 - 8

Matplotlib
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (57.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) Vertex AI
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (76.92%) Tableau
2 15 (57.69%) Big Data
3 14 (53.85%) Hadoop
4 3 (11.54%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
General
1 16 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 14 (53.85%) Data Science Developer
3 11 (42.31%) Senior
4 10 (38.46%) Senior Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Data Scientist
6 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Gen AI Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Analyst
9 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
9 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Lead
9 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (92.31%) Pandas
1 24 (92.31%) scikit-learn
2 20 (76.92%) NumPy
3 18 (69.23%) TensorFlow
4 17 (65.38%) PyTorch
5 16 (61.54%) Seaborn
6 3 (11.54%) Plotly
7 2 (7.69%) PySpark
7 2 (7.69%) XGBoost
8 1 (3.85%) Bokeh
Miscellaneous
1 18 (69.23%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Data Science
2 23 (88.46%) Machine Learning
3 21 (80.77%) Data Analysis
3 21 (80.77%) Visualisation
4 18 (69.23%) Analytics
4 18 (69.23%) Generative AI
4 18 (69.23%) LLM
5 17 (65.38%) Decision-Making
5 17 (65.38%) Time Series Forecasting
6 16 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (61.54%) Computer Science
6 16 (61.54%) Data Analytics
6 16 (61.54%) Data Munging
6 16 (61.54%) Reinforcement Learning
7 15 (57.69%) Statistical Modelling
8 14 (53.85%) Predictive Analytics
9 12 (46.15%) Feature Engineering
10 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 4 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Python
2 16 (61.54%) R
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) Degree
2 12 (46.15%) Master's Degree
2 12 (46.15%) PhD
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (65.38%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) OpenAI