Matplotlib Contract Job Trends

Matplotlib
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Matplotlib skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 525 583
Rank change year-on-year -39 +58 +192
Contract jobs citing Matplotlib 18 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.050% 0.055%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.23% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 20
10th Percentile £413 £561 £390
25th Percentile £514 £597 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £573
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +31.00% -3.17%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile - £801 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £638 £620
% change year-on-year -20.78% +2.82% +7.83%

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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

Matplotlib
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Matplotlib job vacancy trend in the UK

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Matplotlib
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Matplotlib over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Matplotlib in the UK

Matplotlib
Top 6 Contract Job 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 13 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
England -35 17 £725 -3.33% 4
London -2 13 £725 -3.33% 2
Work from Home 0 11 £725 -3.33%
UK excluding London -39 4 £505 -20.78% 3
East of England -13 3 £515 -20.77% 2
South East - 1 £425 -

Matplotlib
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (38.89%) Jupyter
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
1 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
1 7 (38.89%) Vertex AI
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (11.11%) IBM Watson
5 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (5.56%) dbt
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Tableau
2 7 (38.89%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) Big Data
3 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
1 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Retail
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Data Science Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (88.89%) scikit-learn
2 12 (66.67%) Pandas
3 10 (55.56%) Seaborn
4 9 (50.00%) NumPy
5 7 (38.89%) PyTorch
5 7 (38.89%) TensorFlow
6 6 (33.33%) XGBoost
7 2 (11.11%) Plotly
8 1 (5.56%) JSON
8 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
8 1 (5.56%) pytest
8 1 (5.56%) REST
8 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Algorithms
2 5 (27.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Data Science
1 16 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 13 (72.22%) Data Analysis
3 12 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 11 (61.11%) Computer Science
4 11 (61.11%) Time Series Forecasting
5 10 (55.56%) AI
6 9 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
7 8 (44.44%) Analytics
7 8 (44.44%) Data Visualisation
7 8 (44.44%) Deep Learning
8 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
9 6 (33.33%) Generative AI
9 6 (33.33%) Logistic Regression
9 6 (33.33%) LSTM
9 6 (33.33%) Random Forest
9 6 (33.33%) Transfer Learning
10 5 (27.78%) Feature Engineering
10 5 (27.78%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) R
4 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 3 (16.67%) PhD
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Cognos
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
2 2 (11.11%) Sage
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Progress