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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 113 122
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +38
Contract jobs citing Datadog 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.36% 0.093%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.84% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £633 -
25th Percentile £563 £740 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +23.08% +9.24%
75th Percentile £663 - £725
90th Percentile £708 - -
Central London median daily rate £575 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -28.13% +23.08% +9.24%

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 897 712 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.58% 42.74% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 448 603
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £661
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.03 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £31.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.91% +40.33% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £108.75 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -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
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 28 May 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%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Prefect
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) IPFIX
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) ClickHouse
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network 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
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SevOne
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk