Cypher Contract Job Trends in England

Cypher Query Language (Neo4j)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cypher skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 485 558
Rank change year-on-year -58 +73 -
Contract jobs citing Cypher 4 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% 0.035% 0.003%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.041% 0.11% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £483 £543 -
25th Percentile £513 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -13.73% -
75th Percentile £631 £647 £656
90th Percentile £658 £713 -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +4.55% -13.73% -

All Programming Languages
England

Cypher falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,818 9,319 11,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.89% 32.56% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,520 6,047 8,191
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 223 391
10th Percentile £36.08 £25.46 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.25 £46.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £69.13 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

Cypher
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cypher job vacancy trend in England

Cypher
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cypher.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cypher

Cypher
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cypher in England over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cypher in England

Cypher
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cypher within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London -8 3 £575 +4.55% 1
South West - 1 - -
Cypher
UK

Cypher
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (25.00%) TigerGraph
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Linked Data
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Graph Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) RDF
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google