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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 +54
Contract jobs citing Datadog 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% 0.16% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.39% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £398 £616 £403
25th Percentile £450 £649 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £710 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% +57.78% -30.50%
75th Percentile £600 £726 £591
90th Percentile £608 £733 £681
Central London median daily rate £575 £661 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +46.94% -30.50%

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 827 765 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 41.62% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 492 640
10th Percentile £334 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

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 27 February 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (66.67%) Sumo Logic
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Memcached
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Server Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian