Cypher Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cypher Query Language (Neo4j)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cypher skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 338 -
Rank change year-on-year -109 - -
Contract jobs citing Cypher 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.007% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.069% 0.026% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £487 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £564 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £563 -
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,830 3,844 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.81% 28.77% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 2,549 3,319
10th Percentile £335 £315 £319
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £576
90th Percentile £650 £626 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 165 448
10th Percentile £37.65 £26.60 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.25 £42.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -3.88% +3.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £84.80 £78.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +3.09%

Cypher
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cypher job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cypher
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Cypher
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 Cypher within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Yorkshire - 4 £540 - 1
North of England - 4 £540 - 1
Cypher
UK

Cypher
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Gatling
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (100.00%) NeoLoad
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LDAP
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
1 4 (100.00%) Volume Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Google