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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 486 577
Rank change year-on-year -101 +91 +80
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 38 30 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.10% 0.014%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.53% 0.55% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 2
10th Percentile £425 £364 £417
25th Percentile £475 £406 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £452 £460
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% -1.74% -24.90%
75th Percentile £680 £556 £501
90th Percentile £738 £606 £516
UK excluding London median daily rate £572 £550 £460
% change year-on-year +3.91% +19.57% -23.33%

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 7,207 5,497 7,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 18.97% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,861 3,770 5,185
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 97 145
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -27.27%

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 May 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 14 May 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 33 £568 +27.82% 14
London -63 20 £525 +19.83% 8
Work from Home -42 16 £650 +44.44% 6
UK excluding London -95 12 £572 +3.91% 7
North of England -63 7 £572 +9.90% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £540 - 3
North West -37 3 £650 +25.00% 1
South West - 3 £500 - 1
South East - 1 £670 - 1
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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 14 (36.84%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) GitHub
4 5 (13.16%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon Neptune
5 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (5.26%) Azure AI
6 2 (5.26%) ChatGPT
6 2 (5.26%) Collibra
6 2 (5.26%) Datadog
6 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
6 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.63%) AuraDB
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.63%) PaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Semaphore
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (10.53%) TigerGraph
2 3 (7.89%) Metadata
2 3 (7.89%) Pinecone
2 3 (7.89%) Weaviate
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Stardog
4 1 (2.63%) ArangoDB
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.63%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (2.63%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) JIRA
3 5 (13.16%) Git
4 4 (10.53%) Gatling
4 4 (10.53%) GitLab
4 4 (10.53%) JMeter
4 4 (10.53%) LoadRunner
4 4 (10.53%) NeoLoad
4 4 (10.53%) Postman
5 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.63%) Claude Code
6 1 (2.63%) ER Studio
6 1 (2.63%) ERwin
6 1 (2.63%) MLflow
6 1 (2.63%) RStudio
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Legal
6 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Data Scientist
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Database Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Database Developer
5 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Evangelist
5 2 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Test Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) React
2 5 (13.16%) Node.js
2 5 (13.16%) PySpark
2 5 (13.16%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) LDAP
3 4 (10.53%) OpenID
3 4 (10.53%) Playwright
3 4 (10.53%) PyTorch
3 4 (10.53%) SailPoint
3 4 (10.53%) TensorFlow
4 3 (7.89%) Faiss
4 3 (7.89%) GraphQL
4 3 (7.89%) Kafka
4 3 (7.89%) LangChain
4 3 (7.89%) scikit-learn
5 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.26%) Hugging Face
5 2 (5.26%) NetworkX
5 2 (5.26%) NumPy
5 2 (5.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
1 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.26%) Blog
3 2 (5.26%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.26%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Life Science
4 1 (2.63%) Semantic Web
4 1 (2.63%) W3C
4 1 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Agile
2 14 (36.84%) AI
3 12 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 11 (28.95%) Data Science
4 11 (28.95%) DevOps
4 11 (28.95%) Machine Learning
5 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 10 (26.32%) Validation
6 8 (21.05%) Analytics
6 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.42%) ETL
8 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (15.79%) Ontologies
8 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (15.79%) RDF
8 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven
9 5 (13.16%) LLM
9 5 (13.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 29 (76.32%) Python
2 14 (36.84%) SQL
3 11 (28.95%) Java
4 10 (26.32%) Cypher
5 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (15.79%) Scala
7 4 (10.53%) Go
7 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 3 (7.89%) C#
8 3 (7.89%) SPARQL
9 2 (5.26%) C++
9 2 (5.26%) PHP
9 2 (5.26%) SHACL
10 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Databricks
2 4 (10.53%) Dynatrace
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) IDERA
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Sparx