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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 123 149
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing Datadog 9 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 0.83% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £681 £496 £238
25th Percentile - £500 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £613 £663
Median % change year-on-year +30.61% -7.55% +32.50%
75th Percentile - £738 £669
90th Percentile - £760 £711
Central London median daily rate £800 £613 £663
% change year-on-year +30.61% -7.55% +32.50%

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 708 847 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 40.37% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 562 846
10th Percentile £339 £388 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.10% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +30.12% -38.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Datadog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Datadog 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the City of London

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Boomi
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
1 5 (55.56%) GraphQL
1 5 (55.56%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (55.56%) WebSockets
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) BYOD
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Observability
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
4 5 (55.56%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
4 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (55.56%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk