Hybrid/Remote Cypher Contract Job Trends

Cypher Query Language (Neo4j)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cypher skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 312 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Cypher 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.035% 0.019% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.10% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £487 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £574 - -
90th Percentile £582 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £550 -
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Cypher falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,871 3,886 5,205
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.71% 36.71% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,619 2,663 3,746
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 51 163
10th Percentile £48.75 £21.25 £26.75
25th Percentile £61.69 £26.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.34%

Cypher
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cypher and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cypher job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cypher
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cypher.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cypher

Cypher
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Gatling
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (50.00%) NeoLoad
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Test Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Google