Datadog Contract Job Trends in London

Datadog
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Datadog skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 368 345
Rank change year-on-year +39 -23 +123
Contract jobs citing Datadog 40 29 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.18% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.43% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 81
10th Percentile £395 £406 £400
25th Percentile £453 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £553 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -7.92% +4.35%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £717 £669
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,835 6,690 8,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.31% 41.03% 39.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 4,636 6,293
10th Percentile £346 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £501 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 43 61
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £30.59 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% -19.50% +13.43%
75th Percentile £46.94 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.55 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Datadog in London

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Datadog

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog in London over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in London

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the London region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Central London +8 9 £800 +20.98% 41
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (2.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (85.00%) AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Amazon S3
3 16 (40.00%) GitHub
4 14 (35.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (35.00%) Serverless
5 11 (27.50%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (27.50%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 8 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (17.50%) Amazon Cognito
8 7 (17.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (17.50%) GCP
9 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 6 (15.00%) Azure
10 5 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) DynamoDB
2 7 (17.50%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.00%) MySQL
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.50%) ClickHouse
7 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.50%) Power BI
7 1 (2.50%) Redis
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.50%) Git
3 6 (15.00%) GitLab
4 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 3 (7.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.50%) JMeter
6 1 (2.50%) Mocha
6 1 (2.50%) Snyk
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Banking
3 1 (2.50%) Retail
3 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Senior
2 9 (22.50%) Software Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Software Design Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Server Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
2 7 (17.50%) AWS CDK
2 7 (17.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (17.50%) WebSockets
3 5 (12.50%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.00%) OAuth
4 2 (5.00%) OpenID
5 1 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (2.50%) Celery
5 1 (2.50%) Django
5 1 (2.50%) Middleware
5 1 (2.50%) Node.js
5 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) Spring
5 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.50%) Swagger
5 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.50%) BYOD
3 1 (2.50%) CMDB
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) DevOps
2 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 24 (60.00%) Observability
3 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 11 (27.50%) Software Engineering
6 10 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 10 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (22.50%) Clean Code
7 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
7 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (17.50%) Agile
9 7 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (17.50%) Microservices
9 7 (17.50%) User Experience
10 6 (15.00%) Incident Response
10 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) Bash
3 7 (17.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) CodeQL
5 3 (7.50%) Java
6 2 (5.00%) Go
6 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) C
7 1 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) HiveQL
7 1 (2.50%) Perl
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.50%) Rust
7 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) PMO
3 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (47.50%) Terraform
2 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (17.50%) Ansible
5 5 (12.50%) Grafana
6 4 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.00%) Puppet
7 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.50%) Argo
8 1 (2.50%) Istio
8 1 (2.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Splunk
2 2 (5.00%) Confluent
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Dell
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Rollbar
3 1 (2.50%) SAP