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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +38
Contract jobs citing Datadog 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.50% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 1.21% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £353 £681 £494
25th Percentile £413 - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £800 £505
Median % change year-on-year -29.38% +58.42% -23.77%
75th Percentile £588 - £646
90th Percentile £678 - £724
Central London median daily rate £565 £800 £505
% change year-on-year -29.38% +58.42% -23.77%

All Cloud Computing 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 931 741 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.13% 41.08% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 495 573
10th Percentile £371 £336 £383
25th Percentile £460 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £767
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £59.06 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%

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 26 August 2026.

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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Apigee
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Prefect
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) IPFIX
1 1 (20.00%) SNMP
1 1 (20.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) ClickHouse
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) AIOps
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (20.00%) SevOne