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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 510 582
Rank change year-on-year -84 +72 +70
Contract jobs citing Neo4j 50 23 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.077% 0.011%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 0.41% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 2
10th Percentile £420 £393 £320
25th Percentile £464 £427 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £510 £370
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% +37.84% -26.00%
75th Percentile £665 £594 £405
90th Percentile £738 £688 £420
UK excluding London median daily rate £567 £550 £420
% change year-on-year +3.00% +30.95% -30.00%

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 7,664 5,546 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.63% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,780 5,361
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 101 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.01 £20.88
Median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.58 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £78.31 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.85 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.51% -7.60% -39.48%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -97 44 £550 +7.84% 13
London -45 23 £525 +5.00% 6
UK excluding London -87 19 £567 +3.00% 7
Work from Home -43 18 £600 +22.14% 6
North of England -62 13 £567 +8.94% 6
Yorkshire - 10 £540 - 5
North West -37 3 £650 +25.00% 1
South West - 3 £500 -
East of England -27 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £670 - 1
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 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.00%) AWS
3 12 (24.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) Serverless
5 5 (10.00%) GitHub
6 4 (8.00%) Amazon Neptune
6 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.00%) Azure AI
8 2 (4.00%) Collibra
8 2 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.00%) Semaphore
8 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.00%) PaaS
9 1 (2.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) DSL
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.00%) MQTT
2 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Metadata
1 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.00%) Stardog
2 4 (8.00%) TigerGraph
3 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.00%) Triplestore
5 1 (2.00%) ArangoDB
5 1 (2.00%) Big Data
5 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.00%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) JIRA
2 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.00%) Git
3 6 (12.00%) GitLab
4 4 (8.00%) Gatling
4 4 (8.00%) JMeter
4 4 (8.00%) LoadRunner
4 4 (8.00%) MLflow
4 4 (8.00%) NeoLoad
4 4 (8.00%) Postman
5 2 (4.00%) Zephyr
6 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
6 1 (2.00%) ERwin
6 1 (2.00%) RStudio
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Architect
2 8 (16.00%) Developer
3 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Associate Director
6 3 (6.00%) Database Specialist
6 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.00%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) Test Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) Kafka
2 8 (16.00%) PySpark
2 8 (16.00%) React
3 6 (12.00%) REST
4 5 (10.00%) scikit-learn
5 4 (8.00%) GraphQL
5 4 (8.00%) LDAP
5 4 (8.00%) NumPy
5 4 (8.00%) OpenID
5 4 (8.00%) Pandas
5 4 (8.00%) Playwright
5 4 (8.00%) SailPoint
6 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.00%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.00%) NetworkX
6 3 (6.00%) Node.js
6 3 (6.00%) pytest
7 2 (4.00%) Hugging Face
7 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
7 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.00%) Taxonomies
3 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.00%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Life Science
5 1 (2.00%) Semantic Web
5 1 (2.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (34.00%) AI
3 16 (32.00%) DevOps
4 15 (30.00%) Agile
5 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (24.00%) Machine Learning
6 12 (24.00%) Ontologies
7 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (22.00%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (22.00%) RDF
8 10 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 10 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (20.00%) Validation
9 9 (18.00%) ETL
9 9 (18.00%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (16.00%) Analytics
10 8 (16.00%) Data Science
10 8 (16.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 34 (68.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) Cypher
3 14 (28.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.00%) Java
5 7 (14.00%) Scala
5 7 (14.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (12.00%) SPARQL
7 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.00%) SHACL
8 2 (4.00%) Bash
8 2 (4.00%) C#
8 2 (4.00%) Go
8 2 (4.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.00%) Gremlin
9 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.00%) R
9 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.00%) PhD
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.00%) Terraform
3 6 (12.00%) Ansible
4 4 (8.00%) Kustomize
5 2 (4.00%) Grafana
6 1 (2.00%) Argo
6 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Databricks
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) FactSet
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) IDERA
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Sparx