Cypher Contract Job Trends

Cypher Query Language (Neo4j)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cypher skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 514 -
Rank change year-on-year -62 - -
Contract jobs citing Cypher 11 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.010% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.088% 0.029% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £566 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,519 10,212 12,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.71% 33.99% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,352 6,639 9,132
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £650
90th Percentile £721 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £488 £496
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.76% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 237 506
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.25 £30.94
25th Percentile £53.88 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £68.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% +2.81% -4.62%

Cypher
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cypher job vacancy trend in the UK

Cypher
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cypher
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cypher over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cypher in the UK

Cypher
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 Cypher within the UK over the 6 months to 4 March 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
England -77 10 £520 -5.45% 3
London -43 6 £500 -9.09% 2
Work from Home -11 4 £540 -1.82% 2
UK excluding London - 4 £540 - 1
North of England - 4 £540 -
Yorkshire - 4 £540 -

Cypher
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 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) AuraDB
6 1 (9.09%) PaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Gatling
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
1 4 (36.36%) JMeter
1 4 (36.36%) LoadRunner
1 4 (36.36%) NeoLoad
1 4 (36.36%) Postman
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Database Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Database Specialist
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) LDAP
2 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 4 (36.36%) Playwright
2 4 (36.36%) SailPoint
3 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) Data Ingestion
3 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
4 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) Data Validation
4 4 (36.36%) GitOps
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) RBAC
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Validation
4 4 (36.36%) Volume Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) Scala
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Google