Datadog Contract Job Trends in England

Datadog
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 461 475
Rank change year-on-year +42 +14 +127
Contract jobs citing Datadog 118 35 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 0.33% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 21 71
10th Percentile £305 £313 £400
25th Percentile £375 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £603 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +9.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £715 £675
UK median daily rate £498 £575 £544
% change year-on-year -13.48% +5.75% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,009 10,593 12,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.68% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,248 7,079 9,495
10th Percentile £305 £313 £286
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 248
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%
75th Percentile £55.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £68.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in England

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Datadog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Datadog

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in England

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the England region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
London +38 59 £500 - 18
West Midlands - 24 £314 - 10
Midlands - 24 £314 - 10
North of England -31 20 £550 - 6
North West -8 16 £550 - 3
South East -11 13 £462 -31.63% 14
Yorkshire -48 4 £538 - 4
South West - 1 £700 - 1
Datadog
UK

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 14 (11.86%) Confluence
2 5 (4.24%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 96 (81.36%) AWS
2 52 (44.07%) Azure
3 48 (40.68%) GitHub
4 33 (27.97%) GCP
5 32 (27.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (26.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (25.42%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (24.58%) Amazon S3
9 27 (22.88%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (22.88%) Serverless
10 26 (22.03%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (20.34%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (19.49%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (15.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (11.02%) Pulumi
15 11 (9.32%) AWS Fargate
16 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (6.78%) Amazon EMR
18 7 (5.93%) Apigee
18 7 (5.93%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.17%) VSAN
2 5 (4.24%) Firewall
2 5 (4.24%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.69%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.49%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (16.10%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (15.25%) DynamoDB
3 18 (15.25%) NoSQL
4 14 (11.86%) MongoDB
5 13 (11.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (7.63%) MySQL
7 7 (5.93%) BigQuery
7 7 (5.93%) Redis
8 6 (5.08%) HBase
8 6 (5.08%) RDBMS
8 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.69%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (48.31%) Jenkins
2 29 (24.58%) GitLab
3 19 (16.10%) Git
4 16 (13.56%) Gradle
5 15 (12.71%) SonarQube
6 13 (11.02%) Artifactory
7 11 (9.32%) JUnit
7 11 (9.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (8.47%) Maven
9 9 (7.63%) CircleCI
9 9 (7.63%) Cucumber
10 8 (6.78%) Bitbucket
10 8 (6.78%) JIRA
11 7 (5.93%) Cypress.io
12 6 (5.08%) Snyk
13 5 (4.24%) Postman
13 5 (4.24%) Selenium
13 5 (4.24%) SonarLint
13 5 (4.24%) webpack
14 3 (2.54%) Lerna
General
1 32 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.86%) Finance
3 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.93%) Banking
4 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.39%) Games
5 4 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (16.95%) Developer
1 20 (16.95%) Senior
2 18 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.71%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (11.86%) Analyst
5 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (9.32%) Architect
6 11 (9.32%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.78%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Java Architect
10 6 (5.08%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (5.08%) Lead
10 6 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.41%) Elastic Stack
1 17 (14.41%) Kafka
1 17 (14.41%) Node.js
1 17 (14.41%) Spring Boot
2 15 (12.71%) YAML
3 13 (11.02%) Playwright
4 12 (10.17%) GraphQL
4 12 (10.17%) Spring
5 11 (9.32%) REST
6 10 (8.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (7.63%) RESTful
8 8 (6.78%) AWS CDK
8 8 (6.78%) Vitest
9 7 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.24%) Celery
10 5 (4.24%) Dropwizard
10 5 (4.24%) Jest
10 5 (4.24%) JWT
10 5 (4.24%) Micronaut
10 5 (4.24%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.88%) Cloud Native
2 17 (14.41%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (7.63%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.08%) Replication
5 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.24%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.24%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.69%) Blog
8 2 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.85%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.66%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (68.64%) CI/CD
2 70 (59.32%) DevOps
3 60 (50.85%) Observability
4 57 (48.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (44.07%) Containerisation
6 51 (43.22%) Agile
7 37 (31.36%) Microservices
8 32 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (25.42%) Mentoring
10 24 (20.34%) Software Engineering
11 21 (17.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (16.10%) Event-Driven
12 19 (16.10%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (16.10%) Test Automation
13 17 (14.41%) Configuration Management
14 16 (13.56%) Incident Response
14 16 (13.56%) SDLC
15 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (11.86%) High Availability
16 13 (11.02%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 48 (40.68%) Python
2 27 (22.88%) Bash
2 27 (22.88%) Java
3 24 (20.34%) TypeScript
4 14 (11.86%) Go
5 12 (10.17%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.17%) SQL
6 7 (5.93%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.54%) C++
7 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.69%) C#
9 1 (0.85%) Bicep
9 1 (0.85%) C
9 1 (0.85%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.85%) Perl
9 1 (0.85%) PHP
9 1 (0.85%) Ruby
9 1 (0.85%) Rust
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.17%) AWS Certification
2 12 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (8.47%) Degree
4 6 (5.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.08%) OCP
4 6 (5.08%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (53.39%) Docker
2 14 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (11.02%) vSphere
4 1 (0.85%) KVM
Systems Management
1 66 (55.93%) Kubernetes
2 58 (49.15%) Terraform
3 46 (38.98%) Grafana
4 39 (33.05%) Prometheus
5 20 (16.95%) Ansible
6 13 (11.02%) vRealize
7 12 (10.17%) VxRail
8 10 (8.47%) Progress Chef
9 8 (6.78%) Puppet
10 5 (4.24%) Argo
10 5 (4.24%) Podman
11 3 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.69%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.85%) Istio
13 1 (0.85%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (17.80%) Splunk
2 19 (16.10%) AppDynamics
3 14 (11.86%) Cisco
3 14 (11.86%) Commvault
3 14 (11.86%) IBM
3 14 (11.86%) SolarWinds
3 14 (11.86%) VMware
4 12 (10.17%) Dell
4 12 (10.17%) HP
5 7 (5.93%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.24%) Gigya
7 3 (2.54%) Confluent
7 3 (2.54%) Databricks
7 3 (2.54%) Oracle
8 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.69%) CloudEndure
8 2 (1.69%) Google
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.69%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.69%) Qualys