Datadog Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Datadog
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 115 136
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +51
Contract jobs citing Datadog 6 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.96% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £538 £496 £238
25th Percentile - £523 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £661 £431
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% +53.33% -9.21%
75th Percentile - £732 £661
90th Percentile - £756 £669
Central London median daily rate £800 £661 £431
% change year-on-year +20.98% +53.33% -9.21%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Datadog falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 710 832 1,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.64% 39.71% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 536 779
10th Percentile £340 £397 £355
25th Percentile £434 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £684
90th Percentile £750 £765 £776
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Datadog relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Datadog job vacancy trend in the City of London

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Datadog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Datadog

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the City of London

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon Cognito
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (16.67%) Boomi
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) CouchDB
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (66.67%) WebSockets
2 1 (16.67%) Memcached
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) BYOD
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP