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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 476 564
Rank change year-on-year -88 +88 +162
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 22 39 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.12% 0.048%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.35% 0.68% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 15
10th Percentile £460 £373 £500
25th Percentile £475 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £481 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -23.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £643 £555 £675
90th Percentile £765 £602 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £554 £419 £500
% change year-on-year +32.30% -16.25% -16.67%

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 6,229 5,725 7,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.71% 18.30% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,298 3,767 5,044
10th Percentile £333 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 79 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.78 £16.01
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -20.86%
75th Percentile £74.37 £64.61 £63.56
90th Percentile £84.10 £67.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +72.29% -32.59% -22.73%

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Neo4j in the UK

Neo4j
Top 8 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 January 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 -67 21 £554 +15.87% 28
London -42 15 £550 +6.28% 10
Work from Home -29 7 £508 +15.83% 16
UK excluding London -49 6 £554 +32.30% 21
North of England - 5 £554 - 10
Yorkshire - 4 £540 - 3
South West -5 1 - - 3
North West - 1 £600 - 7

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 4 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) Luigi
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (9.09%) ChatGPT
6 2 (9.09%) Datadog
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (4.55%) Azure AI
7 1 (4.55%) Collibra
7 1 (4.55%) Figma
7 1 (4.55%) IaaS
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Pinecone
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
1 3 (13.64%) Weaviate
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
2 2 (9.09%) TigerGraph
3 1 (4.55%) AllegroGraph
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.55%) Azkaban
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) MemSQL
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.55%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) Gatling
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
2 4 (18.18%) JMeter
2 4 (18.18%) LoadRunner
2 4 (18.18%) NeoLoad
2 4 (18.18%) Postman
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) ERwin
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Evangelist
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Test Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Knowledge Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) LDAP
2 4 (18.18%) OpenID
2 4 (18.18%) Playwright
2 4 (18.18%) SailPoint
3 3 (13.64%) Faiss
3 3 (13.64%) LangChain
4 2 (9.09%) Kafka
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
5 1 (4.55%) .NET
5 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) React
5 1 (4.55%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (4.55%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Blog
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
4 1 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) ETL
2 8 (36.36%) Data Science
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) AI
4 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (27.27%) Validation
5 5 (22.73%) Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
5 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (22.73%) LLM
5 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Data Validation
6 4 (18.18%) RDF
6 4 (18.18%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Cypher
3 7 (31.82%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) Scala
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.64%) Go
6 2 (9.09%) C#
6 2 (9.09%) C++
6 2 (9.09%) SPARQL
7 1 (4.55%) Bash
7 1 (4.55%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Puppet
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Google
2 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Foundry
4 1 (4.55%) IDERA
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) Siemens
4 1 (4.55%) SnapLogic
4 1 (4.55%) Zoomdata