Neo4j Contract Job Trends

Neo Technology Neo4j
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Neo4j skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 538 549
Rank change year-on-year -59 +11 +63
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 84 21 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.064% 0.063%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.02% 0.35% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 13 13
10th Percentile £439 £445 £433
25th Percentile £525 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.09% -3.08%
75th Percentile £738 £623 £625
90th Percentile £874 £685 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £520 £420
% change year-on-year +5.77% +23.81% -23.64%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Neo4j falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,243 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 93 86
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.50 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.40 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

Neo4j
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Neo4j relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Neo4j job vacancy trend in the UK

Neo4j
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Neo4j.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Neo4j

Neo4j
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Neo4j over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Neo4j in the UK

Neo4j
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Neo4j within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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 -76 70 £601 +21.31% 81
London -57 47 £650 +32.65% 51
Work from Home -35 25 £638 +21.43% 37
UK excluding London -97 23 £550 +5.77% 32
North of England -67 16 £565 +8.65% 21
Yorkshire - 14 £533 - 4
Scotland -21 3 £550 -4.35% 5
South West -42 2 £500 - 1
North West -43 2 £750 +44.23% 16
East of England -29 1 - - 1
South East -70 1 £670 +52.27% 4

Neo4j
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 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) Apache
2 3 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.52%) Azure
2 21 (25.00%) GCP
3 16 (19.05%) AWS
4 14 (16.67%) Amazon Neptune
5 12 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 10 (11.90%) Serverless
7 9 (10.71%) Azure AI
8 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (8.33%) SaaS
10 6 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (5.95%) GitHub
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (3.57%) dbt
13 3 (3.57%) Vertex AI
14 2 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Network Security
2 2 (2.38%) DSL
2 2 (2.38%) HTTP
3 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.19%) MQTT
3 1 (1.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.67%) Metadata
2 8 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 7 (8.33%) Stardog
4 6 (7.14%) TigerGraph
5 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (3.57%) Triplestore
7 2 (2.38%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.19%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.19%) Milvus
8 1 (1.19%) OLAP
8 1 (1.19%) Pinecone
8 1 (1.19%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) JIRA
3 7 (8.33%) GitLab
4 6 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.95%) Zephyr
6 4 (4.76%) Gatling
6 4 (4.76%) JMeter
6 4 (4.76%) MLflow
6 4 (4.76%) NeoLoad
7 2 (2.38%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.38%) Postman
8 1 (1.19%) ERwin
General
1 34 (40.48%) Finance
2 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Banking
4 8 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.57%) Legal
6 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (16.67%) Architect
2 11 (13.10%) Data Scientist
3 10 (11.90%) Data Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) Lead
5 8 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Senior
7 5 (5.95%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Associate Director
8 3 (3.57%) Consultant
8 3 (3.57%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Knowledge Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Performance Test Leader
9 2 (2.38%) Portal Developer
9 2 (2.38%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) REST
2 12 (14.29%) Terraform
3 11 (13.10%) Kafka
4 10 (11.90%) NumPy
4 10 (11.90%) Pandas
4 10 (11.90%) scikit-learn
5 7 (8.33%) PySpark
5 7 (8.33%) pytest
6 6 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 6 (7.14%) LangGraph
6 6 (7.14%) React
7 5 (5.95%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.76%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.76%) JSON
9 3 (3.57%) JSON-LD
9 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (3.57%) NetworkX
9 3 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.38%) OpenID
10 2 (2.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 14 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.90%) Taxonomies
3 8 (9.52%) Life Science
4 7 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.57%) Reference Data
9 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
10 1 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.19%) Linked Data
10 1 (1.19%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Unix
1 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.10%) AI
2 35 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 23 (27.38%) DevOps
3 23 (27.38%) ETL
3 23 (27.38%) Machine Learning
4 22 (26.19%) Analytics
4 22 (26.19%) Data Science
4 22 (26.19%) LLM
4 22 (26.19%) Ontologies
5 20 (23.81%) Data Modelling
5 20 (23.81%) Validation
6 19 (22.62%) Data Engineering
7 18 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (20.24%) Containerisation
9 16 (19.05%) RDF
9 16 (19.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 14 (16.67%) Data Matching
10 14 (16.67%) Microservices
11 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 53 (63.10%) Python
2 30 (35.71%) Cypher
3 25 (29.76%) SQL
4 12 (14.29%) Gremlin
4 12 (14.29%) SPARQL
5 5 (5.95%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.76%) Bash
6 4 (4.76%) Java
6 4 (4.76%) SHACL
7 3 (3.57%) Scala
7 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.38%) R
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) C#
9 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) Degree
3 6 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.57%) PhD
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 25 (29.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.14%) Kustomize
3 5 (5.95%) Ansible
3 5 (5.95%) Grafana
4 4 (4.76%) Podman
5 2 (2.38%) Argo
6 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) Databricks
2 8 (9.52%) OpenAI
3 7 (8.33%) Google
4 6 (7.14%) Foundry
5 2 (2.38%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.38%) FactSet
6 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.19%) IBM
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle
6 1 (1.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) Sparx