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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 512 582
Rank change year-on-year -80 +70 +71
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 63 24 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.078% 0.012%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.80% 0.42% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 2
10th Percentile £425 £393 £320
25th Percentile £506 £427 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £510 £370
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% +37.84% -35.65%
75th Percentile £703 £594 £405
90th Percentile £765 £688 £420
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £550 £420
% change year-on-year +2.73% +30.95% -25.13%

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 7,849 5,674 7,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.32% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,195 3,844 5,413
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £759 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 101 150
10th Percentile £15.21 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.75 £20.82
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% -29.76%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £53.29
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.31 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -4.12% -40.00%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -81 56 £565 +10.78% 23
London -54 32 £625 +25.00% 18
Work from Home -46 23 £558 +13.49% 12
UK excluding London -103 21 £565 +2.73% 7
North of England -63 15 £565 +8.65% 2
Yorkshire - 12 £520 -
North West -51 3 £650 +25.00% 2
South West - 3 £500 - 1
East of England -20 1 - - 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 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) AWS
1 20 (31.75%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) GCP
3 12 (19.05%) Amazon Neptune
4 8 (12.70%) Serverless
5 5 (7.94%) GitHub
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.76%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.17%) dbt
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Network Security
2 2 (3.17%) DSL
3 1 (1.59%) HTTP
3 1 (1.59%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.59%) MQTT
3 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Metadata
2 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.52%) Stardog
2 6 (9.52%) TigerGraph
3 3 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.17%) ArangoDB
4 2 (3.17%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (3.17%) Triplestore
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
5 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.59%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) JIRA
2 13 (20.63%) Jenkins
3 12 (19.05%) Git
4 8 (12.70%) GitLab
5 5 (7.94%) Gatling
5 5 (7.94%) JMeter
5 5 (7.94%) NeoLoad
5 5 (7.94%) Postman
6 4 (6.35%) LoadRunner
6 4 (6.35%) MLflow
6 4 (6.35%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.59%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.59%) ERwin
7 1 (1.59%) RStudio
General
1 22 (34.92%) Finance
2 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.76%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) Architect
2 8 (12.70%) Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Data Scientist
4 6 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Lead
6 3 (4.76%) Associate Director
6 3 (4.76%) Database Specialist
6 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (3.17%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.17%) Database Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Lead Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Test Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) scikit-learn
2 9 (14.29%) Kafka
2 9 (14.29%) NumPy
2 9 (14.29%) Pandas
2 9 (14.29%) React
3 8 (12.70%) REST
4 7 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 7 (11.11%) PySpark
5 6 (9.52%) pytest
6 5 (7.94%) LDAP
6 5 (7.94%) OpenID
6 5 (7.94%) Playwright
7 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.35%) FastAPI
7 4 (6.35%) NetworkX
7 4 (6.35%) SailPoint
8 3 (4.76%) JSON
8 3 (4.76%) Node.js
8 3 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.29%) Taxonomies
3 6 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.94%) AI Agents
5 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.76%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.59%) Life Science
7 1 (1.59%) Semantic Web
7 1 (1.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) AI
2 25 (39.68%) CI/CD
3 18 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 18 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 17 (26.98%) Analytics
4 17 (26.98%) DevOps
4 17 (26.98%) Ontologies
5 16 (25.40%) Agile
6 15 (23.81%) RDF
7 14 (22.22%) Data Science
7 14 (22.22%) Validation
8 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
9 12 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (19.05%) ETL
9 12 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (19.05%) RBAC
9 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (15.87%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (66.67%) Python
2 27 (42.86%) Cypher
3 21 (33.33%) SQL
4 9 (14.29%) Java
4 9 (14.29%) SPARQL
4 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.70%) Gremlin
6 7 (11.11%) Scala
7 6 (9.52%) SHACL
8 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.76%) Bash
10 2 (3.17%) C#
10 2 (3.17%) PHP
10 2 (3.17%) R
10 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.59%) Go
11 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Degree
3 6 (9.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.76%) PhD
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 19 (30.16%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.46%) Terraform
3 6 (9.52%) Ansible
4 5 (7.94%) Grafana
5 4 (6.35%) Kustomize
6 3 (4.76%) Podman
7 2 (3.17%) Argo
7 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Databricks
2 5 (7.94%) Google
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.17%) FactSet
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) IDERA
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) Sparx