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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 110 121
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Datadog 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.48% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 1.15% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £353 £681 £494
25th Percentile £413 - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £505
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +58.42% -23.77%
75th Percentile £588 - £621
90th Percentile £678 - £684
Central London median daily rate £575 £800 £505
% change year-on-year -28.13% +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 939 785 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.42% 41.62% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 512 596
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £671
90th Percentile £750 £756 £752
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 4
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £17.03
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 £23.44
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £43.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £72.85
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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 July 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
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%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
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%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
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 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) ClickHouse
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
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%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) AIOps
4 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) SevOne