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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 531 548
Rank change year-on-year -66 +17 +88
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 70 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.064% 0.044%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.86% 0.35% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 13 11
10th Percentile £450 £463 £410
25th Percentile £525 £480 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £690 £675 £631
90th Percentile £755 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £420
% change year-on-year +0.96% +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 8,170 5,955 7,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.14% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,460 4,003 4,949
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
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 251 96 100
10th Percentile £15.75 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%
75th Percentile £58.13 £62.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -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 20 August 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 20 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 -89 57 £590 +12.38% 15
London -48 37 £625 +19.05% 6
Work from Home -46 21 £638 +13.33% 9
UK excluding London -104 18 £525 +0.96% 10
North of England -48 12 £500 -3.85% 2
Yorkshire - 12 £500 - 1
South West -36 3 £500 - 1
Scotland -14 1 £550 -4.35%
East of England -19 1 - - 2
South East -57 1 £670 +52.27% 6

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 6 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.29%) Apache
2 3 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 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%) GCP
3 14 (20.00%) AWS
4 13 (18.57%) Amazon Neptune
5 10 (14.29%) Serverless
5 10 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 8 (11.43%) Azure AI
7 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.57%) SaaS
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.71%) GitHub
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%) GitHub Actions
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 10 (14.29%) Metadata
2 7 (10.00%) Stardog
3 6 (8.57%) TigerGraph
4 5 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.29%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (4.29%) Triplestore
6 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.43%) ArangoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.43%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.43%) OLAP
7 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Git
2 12 (17.14%) JIRA
3 10 (14.29%) 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 27 (38.57%) Finance
2 21 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Banking
4 7 (10.00%) 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 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Architect
2 11 (15.71%) Developer
3 8 (11.43%) Lead
4 7 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 7 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 5 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Associate Director
7 3 (4.29%) Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Data Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Knowledge Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Senior
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Performance Test Leader
8 2 (2.86%) Portal Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) REST
2 10 (14.29%) React
2 10 (14.29%) Terraform
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%) pytest
5 6 (8.57%) GraphQL
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%) Apache Jena
9 2 (2.86%) Bootstrap
9 2 (2.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) AI Agents
2 10 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 9 (12.86%) Taxonomies
4 7 (10.00%) Life Science
5 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
6 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
7 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
7 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
8 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
8 3 (4.29%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.43%) Linked Data
9 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 38 (54.29%) AI
2 31 (44.29%) CI/CD
3 20 (28.57%) DevOps
4 19 (27.14%) LLM
5 18 (25.71%) Machine Learning
5 18 (25.71%) Ontologies
6 17 (24.29%) Analytics
6 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
7 16 (22.86%) Data Science
8 15 (21.43%) Test Automation
9 14 (20.00%) Agile
9 14 (20.00%) RDF
10 13 (18.57%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (17.14%) Data Engineering
11 12 (17.14%) Data Modelling
11 12 (17.14%) ETL
11 12 (17.14%) Observability
11 12 (17.14%) Validation
12 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (15.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 46 (65.71%) Python
2 25 (35.71%) Cypher
3 24 (34.29%) SQL
4 11 (15.71%) Gremlin
5 10 (14.29%) SPARQL
6 5 (7.14%) Java
6 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.71%) Bash
7 4 (5.71%) SHACL
8 3 (4.29%) Scala
8 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.86%) R
10 1 (1.43%) Bicep
10 1 (1.43%) C#
10 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) 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 5 (7.14%) Ansible
2 5 (7.14%) Grafana
3 4 (5.71%) Kustomize
4 3 (4.29%) Podman
5 2 (2.86%) Argo
6 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Databricks
2 6 (8.57%) OpenAI
3 5 (7.14%) Foundry
3 5 (7.14%) Google
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.86%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.86%) FactSet
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Sparx