Datadog Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Datadog
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Datadog 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.81% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £544 £588 -
% change year-on-year -7.45% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 39 39 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 31.71% 42.39% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 30
10th Percentile £269 £223 £175
25th Percentile £409 £384 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.80% +0.50%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £638
90th Percentile - £720 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £13.70
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -13.67%
75th Percentile - - £17.31
90th Percentile - - £18.95
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £18.28
% change year-on-year +116.98% +44.97% -68.21%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Datadog relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Datadog job vacancy trend in Dorset

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 1 £388 - 1
Datadog
South West

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks