Datadog Contracts in the Midlands

Datadog
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Datadog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Datadog over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +68
Contract jobs citing Datadog 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.081% - 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £500
75th Percentile £588 - £513
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +0.96% -13.33% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 756 685 1,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.56% 25.77% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 490 820
10th Percentile £277 £200 £210
25th Percentile £381 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 25
10th Percentile £15.21 £14.14 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.56 £14.52
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.41 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +2.05% +8.11%
75th Percentile £30.00 £29.11 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.29 £50.11 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +11.78% -35.34% +61.84%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Datadog in the Midlands

Datadog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Datadog in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Datadog in the Midlands

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 5
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) npm
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Snyk
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk