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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 112 123
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +43
Contract jobs citing Datadog 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.23% 0.091%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.53% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £543 £585 £463
25th Percentile £550 £621 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £686 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.21% +24.77% -15.06%
75th Percentile £600 £746 £656
90th Percentile £608 £778 £698
Central London median daily rate £575 £573 £550
% change year-on-year +0.44% +4.09% -15.06%

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 904 758 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.53% 42.85% 38.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 487 606
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £763
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.68% +54.78% -66.67%

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
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%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) Prefect
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Server Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk