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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 535 557
Rank change year-on-year -55 +22 +76
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 70 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.061% 0.028%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.86% 0.34% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 12 6
10th Percentile £450 £464 £360
25th Percentile £525 £484 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £690 £678 £694
90th Percentile £755 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £520 £420
% change year-on-year +5.77% +23.81% -23.64%

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 8,147 5,961 7,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,430 4,022 4,961
10th Percentile £358 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 92 102
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.87 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.38 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% +1.52% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.63 £59.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.58 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -58 57 £593 +7.73% 33
London -53 36 £625 +13.64% 25
Work from Home -35 22 £638 +10.87% 14
UK excluding London -94 19 £550 +5.77% 10
North of England -54 12 £500 -3.85% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £500 - 1
South West -36 3 £500 - 1
Scotland -9 1 £550 -4.35% 2
East of England -20 1 - -
South East -62 1 £670 +52.27% 4
Midlands - 1 £650 -

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 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
3 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.29%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) AWS
2 15 (21.43%) GCP
3 13 (18.57%) Amazon Neptune
4 10 (14.29%) Serverless
5 9 (12.86%) Snowflake
6 7 (10.00%) Azure AI
7 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.14%) GitHub
8 5 (7.14%) SaaS
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (4.29%) dbt
10 3 (4.29%) Vertex AI
11 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) DSL
2 2 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.43%) MQTT
3 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Metadata
2 7 (10.00%) Stardog
3 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.57%) TigerGraph
4 5 (7.14%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.29%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.29%) Triplestore
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.43%) ArangoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.43%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (22.86%) Git
2 12 (17.14%) JIRA
3 11 (15.71%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.00%) GitLab
5 5 (7.14%) Zephyr
6 4 (5.71%) Gatling
6 4 (5.71%) JMeter
6 4 (5.71%) MLflow
6 4 (5.71%) NeoLoad
7 2 (2.86%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.86%) Postman
8 1 (1.43%) ERwin
General
1 26 (37.14%) Finance
2 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.29%) Legal
7 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Architect
2 10 (14.29%) Developer
3 7 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 7 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) Lead
4 6 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Associate Director
6 3 (4.29%) Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) Data Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) Knowledge Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Senior
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Architect
7 2 (2.86%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 2 (2.86%) Performance Test Leader
7 2 (2.86%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) REST
2 10 (14.29%) React
3 9 (12.86%) Kafka
3 9 (12.86%) NumPy
3 9 (12.86%) Pandas
3 9 (12.86%) scikit-learn
4 7 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 7 (10.00%) pytest
5 6 (8.57%) PySpark
6 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.71%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.71%) JSON
8 3 (4.29%) JSON-LD
8 3 (4.29%) LangGraph
8 3 (4.29%) NetworkX
8 3 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.86%) JWT
9 2 (2.86%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (2.86%) OpenID
9 2 (2.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) AI Agents
2 10 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 9 (12.86%) Taxonomies
4 6 (8.57%) Life Science
4 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.29%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.43%) Linked Data
7 1 (1.43%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Unix
1 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.86%) AI
2 31 (44.29%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.00%) DevOps
4 19 (27.14%) Machine Learning
5 18 (25.71%) LLM
6 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
6 17 (24.29%) Ontologies
7 16 (22.86%) Analytics
7 16 (22.86%) Data Science
8 15 (21.43%) Agile
9 14 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (20.00%) RDF
9 14 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 13 (18.57%) ETL
10 13 (18.57%) Observability
11 12 (17.14%) Data Engineering
11 12 (17.14%) Data Modelling
11 12 (17.14%) Validation
12 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (67.14%) Python
2 26 (37.14%) Cypher
3 25 (35.71%) SQL
4 11 (15.71%) Gremlin
5 10 (14.29%) SPARQL
6 6 (8.57%) Java
6 6 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.71%) Bash
7 4 (5.71%) Scala
7 4 (5.71%) SHACL
8 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.86%) C#
9 2 (2.86%) PHP
9 2 (2.86%) R
10 1 (1.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) Degree
3 6 (8.57%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) PhD
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (38.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.71%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) Ansible
4 5 (7.14%) Grafana
5 4 (5.71%) Kustomize
6 3 (4.29%) Podman
7 2 (2.86%) Argo
8 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Databricks
1 7 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (5.71%) Foundry
5 2 (2.86%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.86%) FactSet
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) SAP
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) Sparx