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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 501 583
Rank change year-on-year -101 +82 +71
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 43 21 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.073% 0.009%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.38% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 1
10th Percentile £425 £388 -
25th Percentile £475 £419 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £505 £420
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% +20.24% -28.51%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £430
90th Percentile £730 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £567 £550 £420
% change year-on-year +3.00% +30.95% -30.00%

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 7,365 5,467 7,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.05% 18.96% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,930 3,732 5,208
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 101 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.44% -15.30% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.62 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Neo4j in the UK

Neo4j
Top 10 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 4 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
England -97 38 £550 +8.91% 31
London -67 19 £525 +7.80% 17
UK excluding London -90 18 £567 +3.00% 16
Work from Home -40 16 £650 +32.32% 12
North of England -64 13 £567 +8.94% 12
Yorkshire - 10 £540 - 7
North West -30 3 £650 +25.00% 5
South West - 3 £500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £650 -
South East - 1 £670 - 3

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 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) Azure
2 16 (37.21%) AWS
3 10 (23.26%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
4 5 (11.63%) Serverless
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon Neptune
5 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (4.65%) Azure AI
7 2 (4.65%) Collibra
7 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.33%) AuraDB
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.33%) Datadog
8 1 (2.33%) PaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.33%) Semaphore
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) Metadata
2 3 (6.98%) TigerGraph
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.65%) Stardog
4 1 (2.33%) ArangoDB
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (2.33%) Pinecone
4 1 (2.33%) Triplestore
4 1 (2.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
1 11 (25.58%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) Git
3 4 (9.30%) Gatling
3 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 4 (9.30%) JMeter
3 4 (9.30%) LoadRunner
3 4 (9.30%) NeoLoad
3 4 (9.30%) Postman
4 2 (4.65%) MLflow
4 2 (4.65%) Zephyr
5 1 (2.33%) ER Studio
5 1 (2.33%) ERwin
5 1 (2.33%) RStudio
5 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Law
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Data Scientist
4 4 (9.30%) Lead
4 4 (9.30%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Database Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) Associate Director
6 2 (4.65%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Database Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Test Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Kafka
1 7 (16.28%) React
2 6 (13.95%) PySpark
3 5 (11.63%) REST
4 4 (9.30%) LDAP
4 4 (9.30%) Node.js
4 4 (9.30%) OpenID
4 4 (9.30%) Playwright
4 4 (9.30%) SailPoint
4 4 (9.30%) scikit-learn
5 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
5 3 (6.98%) NumPy
5 3 (6.98%) Pandas
5 3 (6.98%) PyTorch
5 3 (6.98%) TensorFlow
6 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.65%) NetworkX
6 2 (4.65%) pytest
7 1 (2.33%) Next.js
7 1 (2.33%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.65%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.33%) Blog
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Semantic Web
5 1 (2.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 18 (41.86%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) DevOps
4 13 (30.23%) AI
4 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
5 11 (25.58%) Machine Learning
5 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (23.26%) Data Science
6 10 (23.26%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (23.26%) Test Automation
6 10 (23.26%) Validation
7 9 (20.93%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (18.60%) Data Modelling
9 7 (16.28%) Analytics
9 7 (16.28%) ETL
9 7 (16.28%) Observability
10 6 (13.95%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (13.95%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) Cypher
3 10 (23.26%) Java
4 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.95%) Scala
6 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.98%) Go
7 3 (6.98%) SPARQL
8 2 (4.65%) C#
8 2 (4.65%) PHP
8 2 (4.65%) SHACL
9 1 (2.33%) C++
9 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.65%) PhD
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
1 10 (23.26%) Terraform
2 6 (13.95%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Databricks
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.98%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.98%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) IDERA
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Sparx