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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 520 584
Rank change year-on-year -67 +64 +63
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 64 17 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.052% 0.019%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.79% 0.29% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 11 4
10th Percentile £425 £450 £340
25th Percentile £516 £470 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +0.46% -1.35%
75th Percentile £714 £650 £713
90th Percentile £768 £688 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £520 £420
% change year-on-year +8.65% +23.81% -24.32%

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 8,091 5,923 7,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.23% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,349 4,011 5,367
10th Percentile £350 £350 £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 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 101 139
10th Percentile £16.56 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £25.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +21.29% +1.25% -40.48%

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 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Neo4j in the UK

Neo4j
Top 12 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 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 -69 55 £575 +9.52% 15
London -42 34 £625 +19.05% 13
Work from Home -53 22 £565 +0.44% 4
UK excluding London -92 19 £565 +8.65% 5
North of England -74 12 £570 +9.62% 2
Yorkshire - 9 £500 - 1
North West -52 3 £650 +25.00% 1
South West - 3 £500 -
Scotland -12 1 £550 -4.35% 1
East of England -21 1 - -
South East -60 1 £670 +52.27% 2
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 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) AWS
1 17 (26.56%) Azure
2 13 (20.31%) Amazon Neptune
3 12 (18.75%) GCP
4 8 (12.50%) Serverless
5 5 (7.81%) GitHub
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.69%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.13%) Collibra
8 2 (3.13%) dbt
8 2 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (3.13%) DSL
2 2 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.56%) MQTT
3 1 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Metadata
2 7 (10.94%) Stardog
3 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.38%) TigerGraph
4 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.69%) Triplestore
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.13%) ArangoDB
5 2 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.56%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.56%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) Git
2 12 (18.75%) JIRA
3 11 (17.19%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.81%) GitLab
4 5 (7.81%) Zephyr
5 4 (6.25%) MLflow
6 2 (3.13%) Gatling
6 2 (3.13%) JMeter
6 2 (3.13%) NeoLoad
6 2 (3.13%) Postman
7 1 (1.56%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.56%) ERwin
7 1 (1.56%) RStudio
General
1 23 (35.94%) Finance
2 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.94%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.69%) Legal
6 3 (4.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.13%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Architect
2 8 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 8 (12.50%) Developer
3 6 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Data Architect
4 5 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (7.81%) Test Automation Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Test Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (4.69%) Associate Director
6 3 (4.69%) Database Specialist
6 3 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Consultant
7 2 (3.13%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.13%) Database Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 2 (3.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) scikit-learn
2 10 (15.63%) Kafka
2 10 (15.63%) NumPy
2 10 (15.63%) Pandas
3 9 (14.06%) React
4 7 (10.94%) GraphQL
4 7 (10.94%) PySpark
4 7 (10.94%) pytest
5 6 (9.38%) REST
6 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.25%) FastAPI
6 4 (6.25%) NetworkX
7 3 (4.69%) JSON
7 3 (4.69%) Node.js
7 3 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
7 3 (4.69%) TensorFlow
8 2 (3.13%) OpenID
8 2 (3.13%) WebSockets
8 2 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Cloud Native
1 9 (14.06%) Taxonomies
2 6 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.81%) AI Agents
4 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.69%) Reference Data
6 2 (3.13%) Life Science
6 2 (3.13%) Semantic Web
7 1 (1.56%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.56%) Linked Data
7 1 (1.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) AI
2 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
3 21 (32.81%) Machine Learning
4 18 (28.13%) Analytics
4 18 (28.13%) Ontologies
5 17 (26.56%) Data Science
6 16 (25.00%) RDF
7 15 (23.44%) Containerisation
7 15 (23.44%) Data Modelling
8 14 (21.88%) Agile
8 14 (21.88%) DevOps
9 13 (20.31%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (18.75%) Validation
11 11 (17.19%) Data Engineering
11 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (17.19%) LLM
11 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (15.63%) ETL
12 10 (15.63%) Observability
13 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (65.63%) Python
2 26 (40.63%) Cypher
3 22 (34.38%) SQL
4 10 (15.63%) Gremlin
4 10 (15.63%) SPARQL
5 6 (9.38%) Java
5 6 (9.38%) SHACL
5 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.69%) Bash
7 3 (4.69%) Scala
8 2 (3.13%) C#
8 2 (3.13%) PHP
8 2 (3.13%) R
8 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) Degree
3 6 (9.38%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.69%) PhD
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (29.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 12 (18.75%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Ansible
2 6 (9.38%) Grafana
3 4 (6.25%) Kustomize
4 3 (4.69%) Podman
5 2 (3.13%) Argo
5 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Databricks
1 6 (9.38%) OpenAI
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.13%) FactSet
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) IDERA
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) Sparx