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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 495 586
Rank change year-on-year -98 +91 +105
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 33 29 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.098% 0.025%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.48% 0.52% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £414 £364 £515
25th Percentile £475 £405 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £438 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.44% -32.60% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £554 £700
90th Percentile - £566 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £419 £500
% change year-on-year +40.30% -16.25% -16.67%

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 6,931 5,608 7,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.06% 19.00% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,764 3,862 5,153
10th Percentile £350 £351 £340
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £488
% change year-on-year -4.04% +1.54% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 97 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.19 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £58.94
90th Percentile £84.80 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

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 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Neo4j in the UK

Neo4j
Top 9 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 14 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 -88 29 £572 +30.63% 20
London -64 18 £525 +19.83% 8
Work from Home -37 16 £575 +31.05% 8
UK excluding London -70 10 £588 +40.30% 13
North of England - 8 £575 - 5
Yorkshire - 4 £540 - 1
North West - 4 £625 - 4
South West -27 1 - - 5
Midlands - 1 £650 - 1

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 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) GCP
4 5 (15.15%) GitHub
5 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon Neptune
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (6.06%) ChatGPT
7 2 (6.06%) Collibra
7 2 (6.06%) Datadog
7 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.03%) AuraDB
8 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.03%) Figma
8 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.03%) Semaphore
8 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Pinecone
1 3 (9.09%) Weaviate
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) TigerGraph
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.03%) ArangoDB
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Stardog
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) Gatling
3 4 (12.12%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) JMeter
3 4 (12.12%) LoadRunner
3 4 (12.12%) NeoLoad
3 4 (12.12%) Postman
4 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) Claude Code
5 1 (3.03%) ER Studio
5 1 (3.03%) RStudio
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Architect
3 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 3 (9.09%) Database Specialist
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (6.06%) Database Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Evangelist
4 2 (6.06%) Knowledge Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Test Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Test Automation Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) React
1 6 (18.18%) REST
2 4 (12.12%) LDAP
2 4 (12.12%) Node.js
2 4 (12.12%) OpenID
2 4 (12.12%) Playwright
2 4 (12.12%) PyTorch
2 4 (12.12%) SailPoint
2 4 (12.12%) TensorFlow
3 3 (9.09%) Faiss
3 3 (9.09%) Kafka
3 3 (9.09%) LangChain
4 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.06%) Hugging Face
4 2 (6.06%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (6.06%) NetworkX
4 2 (6.06%) PySpark
4 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.03%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.06%) Blog
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Life Science
4 1 (3.03%) Semantic Web
4 1 (3.03%) W3C
4 1 (3.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 9 (27.27%) ETL
5 8 (24.24%) AI
5 8 (24.24%) Analytics
5 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
5 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
5 8 (24.24%) Data Science
5 8 (24.24%) Machine Learning
5 8 (24.24%) Validation
6 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (15.15%) API Development
8 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
8 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (15.15%) LLM
8 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (75.76%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) Cypher
3 10 (30.30%) Java
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
5 5 (15.15%) Scala
6 4 (12.12%) Go
7 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 2 (6.06%) C#
8 2 (6.06%) C++
8 2 (6.06%) SHACL
9 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 1 (3.03%) PHP
9 1 (3.03%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow
2 3 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 3 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Foundry
3 1 (3.03%) IDERA
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.03%) Siemens