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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 546 541
Rank change year-on-year -50 -5 +72
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 93 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.057% 0.061%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 0.31% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 12 13
10th Percentile £450 £442 £405
25th Percentile £528 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £636 £625
90th Percentile £879 £686 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £520 £400
% change year-on-year +8.41% +30.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 8,169 6,043 6,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 18.16% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,433 4,055 4,509
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -5.21% -2.31%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £736 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 82 90
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.63 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +18.86% -34.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.19
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -40.63%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -77 79 £625 +16.28% 24
London -51 49 £650 +30.00% 17
UK excluding London -69 29 £564 +8.41% 12
Work from Home -60 23 £625 +19.05% 7
North of England -44 22 £565 -5.83% 4
Yorkshire - 20 £564 - 4
South East -56 3 £610 +38.64% 1
Scotland - 3 £550 -
North West -44 2 £750 +25.00%
East of England -27 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 7 (7.53%) Confluence
1 7 (7.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.30%) Apache
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.56%) Azure
2 25 (26.88%) GCP
3 22 (23.66%) AWS
4 17 (18.28%) Amazon Neptune
5 14 (15.05%) Snowflake
6 10 (10.75%) Serverless
7 9 (9.68%) Azure AI
8 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.60%) GitHub
9 7 (7.53%) SaaS
10 6 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.38%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.30%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (4.30%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.23%) dbt
13 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Network Security
2 2 (2.15%) DSL
2 2 (2.15%) HTTP
3 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.08%) MQTT
3 1 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.13%) Metadata
2 8 (8.60%) BigQuery
2 8 (8.60%) TigerGraph
3 7 (7.53%) Stardog
4 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.30%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (3.23%) Triplestore
7 2 (2.15%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (2.15%) JanusGraph
7 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.15%) Power BI
7 2 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.08%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 16 (17.20%) JIRA
2 13 (13.98%) Git
3 7 (7.53%) GitLab
4 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.38%) Zephyr
5 4 (4.30%) Gatling
5 4 (4.30%) JMeter
5 4 (4.30%) MLflow
5 4 (4.30%) NeoLoad
6 2 (2.15%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.15%) Postman
7 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.08%) JUnit
7 1 (1.08%) Maven
7 1 (1.08%) Mockito
General
1 34 (36.56%) Finance
2 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Banking
4 9 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.15%) Legal
8 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.08%) Aviation
9 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Law
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (16.13%) Architect
1 15 (16.13%) Data Scientist
2 10 (10.75%) Data Engineer
2 10 (10.75%) Developer
3 9 (9.68%) Lead
4 8 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.38%) Senior
6 5 (5.38%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Consultant
7 4 (4.30%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.23%) Associate Director
8 3 (3.23%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.23%) Databricks Consultant
8 3 (3.23%) Knowledge Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (2.15%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.20%) REST
2 12 (12.90%) Terraform
3 11 (11.83%) Kafka
4 10 (10.75%) NumPy
4 10 (10.75%) Pandas
4 10 (10.75%) scikit-learn
5 8 (8.60%) AngularJS
5 8 (8.60%) LangGraph
5 8 (8.60%) PySpark
6 7 (7.53%) pytest
7 5 (5.38%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (5.38%) React
8 4 (4.30%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.30%) JSON
9 3 (3.23%) HTML
9 3 (3.23%) JSON-LD
9 3 (3.23%) LangChain
9 3 (3.23%) NetworkX
9 3 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) AI Agents
2 15 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.75%) Taxonomies
4 8 (8.60%) Life Science
5 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
6 6 (6.45%) Onboarding
7 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
7 5 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
9 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.23%) Reference Data
10 2 (2.15%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (2.15%) Clustering
10 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (1.08%) Data Fabric
11 1 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.08%) Insider Threat
11 1 (1.08%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) Linux
1 1 (1.08%) Unix
1 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (64.52%) AI
2 36 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 30 (32.26%) Machine Learning
4 29 (31.18%) LLM
5 27 (29.03%) Data Science
6 25 (26.88%) Analytics
7 24 (25.81%) Data Engineering
7 24 (25.81%) ETL
8 23 (24.73%) Data Modelling
8 23 (24.73%) DevOps
9 22 (23.66%) Ontologies
9 22 (23.66%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 20 (21.51%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (21.51%) Validation
11 18 (19.35%) Microservices
11 18 (19.35%) Test Automation
12 17 (18.28%) Containerisation
13 16 (17.20%) Agile
13 16 (17.20%) RDF
14 14 (15.05%) Data Matching
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) Python
2 30 (32.26%) Cypher
3 29 (31.18%) SQL
4 15 (16.13%) Gremlin
5 12 (12.90%) SPARQL
6 8 (8.60%) Java
7 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.30%) Bash
8 4 (4.30%) SHACL
9 3 (3.23%) Scala
9 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.15%) R
11 1 (1.08%) Bicep
11 1 (1.08%) C#
11 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) Degree
3 6 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.23%) PhD
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (1.08%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (25.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.45%) Kustomize
3 5 (5.38%) Ansible
3 5 (5.38%) Grafana
4 4 (4.30%) Podman
5 2 (2.15%) Argo
6 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.83%) Databricks
2 11 (11.83%) OpenAI
3 7 (7.53%) Google
4 6 (6.45%) Foundry
5 2 (2.15%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.15%) FactSet
6 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow