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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 531 554
Rank change year-on-year -72 +23 +82
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 68 22 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.067% 0.026%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.83% 0.37% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 6
10th Percentile £450 £451 £360
25th Percentile £519 £467 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -14.29% +4.26%
75th Percentile £703 £659 £694
90th Percentile £765 £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 8,172 6,015 7,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 18.28% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 4,071 4,991
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.78%
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 257 90 102
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.51 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.75 £20.19
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% -0.74% -35.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.31 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.83 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 6 August 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 6 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 -51 59 £593 +18.50% 30
London -36 36 £625 +25.00% 24
Work from Home -45 21 £595 +8.18% 11
UK excluding London -96 21 £550 +5.77% 9
North of England -59 14 £533 +2.40% 2
Yorkshire - 12 £500 - 1
South West - 3 £500 -
North West -53 2 £650 +25.00% 1
Scotland -4 1 £550 -4.35% 2
East of England -19 1 - -
South East -57 1 £670 +52.27% 5
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 4 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.41%) Apache
2 3 (4.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.88%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) AWS
3 16 (23.53%) GCP
4 13 (19.12%) Amazon Neptune
5 10 (14.71%) Serverless
6 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.88%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.41%) Azure AI
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.41%) dbt
8 3 (4.41%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.94%) Datadog
9 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Network Security
2 2 (2.94%) DSL
2 2 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.47%) MQTT
3 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) Metadata
2 7 (10.29%) Stardog
3 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.82%) TigerGraph
4 5 (7.35%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.41%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.41%) Triplestore
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.47%) ArangoDB
7 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.47%) Big Data
7 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.47%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Git
2 12 (17.65%) JIRA
3 11 (16.18%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.29%) GitLab
5 5 (7.35%) Zephyr
6 4 (5.88%) Gatling
6 4 (5.88%) JMeter
6 4 (5.88%) MLflow
6 4 (5.88%) NeoLoad
7 2 (2.94%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.94%) Postman
8 1 (1.47%) ER Studio
8 1 (1.47%) ERwin
8 1 (1.47%) RStudio
General
1 26 (38.24%) Finance
2 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Banking
4 5 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.41%) Legal
6 3 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.94%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (19.12%) Architect
2 8 (11.76%) Data Scientist
2 8 (11.76%) Developer
3 7 (10.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Lead
5 5 (7.35%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Associate Director
6 3 (4.41%) Consultant
6 3 (4.41%) Data Consultant
6 3 (4.41%) Database Specialist
6 3 (4.41%) Senior
7 2 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 2 (2.94%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) Kafka
1 10 (14.71%) scikit-learn
2 9 (13.24%) NumPy
2 9 (13.24%) Pandas
2 9 (13.24%) React
3 8 (11.76%) GraphQL
4 7 (10.29%) PySpark
4 7 (10.29%) pytest
4 7 (10.29%) REST
5 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.88%) JSON
5 4 (5.88%) NetworkX
6 3 (4.41%) JSON-LD
6 3 (4.41%) Node.js
6 3 (4.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.94%) OpenID
7 2 (2.94%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.94%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.94%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
1 11 (16.18%) Taxonomies
2 8 (11.76%) AI Agents
3 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.41%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Life Science
6 2 (2.94%) Semantic Web
7 1 (1.47%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.47%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Unix
1 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) AI
2 27 (39.71%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.88%) Machine Learning
4 20 (29.41%) Analytics
5 19 (27.94%) Ontologies
6 18 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 18 (26.47%) Data Science
7 16 (23.53%) Agile
7 16 (23.53%) DevOps
7 16 (23.53%) RDF
8 15 (22.06%) Data Modelling
9 14 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (20.59%) ETL
10 13 (19.12%) LLM
10 13 (19.12%) Observability
10 13 (19.12%) Validation
11 12 (17.65%) Data Engineering
11 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (13.24%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) Python
2 28 (41.18%) Cypher
3 24 (35.29%) SQL
4 11 (16.18%) Gremlin
5 10 (14.71%) SPARQL
6 8 (11.76%) Java
7 6 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 5 (7.35%) SHACL
9 4 (5.88%) Bash
9 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.88%) Scala
10 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.94%) C#
11 2 (2.94%) PHP
11 2 (2.94%) R
12 1 (1.47%) Bicep
12 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) Degree
3 6 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.41%) PhD
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (32.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.65%) Terraform
3 6 (8.82%) Ansible
4 5 (7.35%) Grafana
5 4 (5.88%) Kustomize
6 3 (4.41%) Podman
7 2 (2.94%) Argo
8 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Databricks
2 6 (8.82%) OpenAI
3 5 (7.35%) Google
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.94%) FactSet
5 1 (1.47%) IBM
5 1 (1.47%) IDERA
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Sparx