Datadog Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Datadog
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 165 182
Rank change year-on-year -50 +17 +38
Contract jobs citing Datadog 14 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.030% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 0.088% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile £362 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.27%
75th Percentile £550 - £631
90th Percentile £573 - £643
England median daily rate £450 £488 £534
% change year-on-year -7.69% -8.67% -2.95%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,001 1,142 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.03% 34.46% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 803 1,122
10th Percentile £225 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £383 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -1.04% -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £630 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 21 91
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £26.13 £24.18 £16.06
Median hourly rate £57.00 £28.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +98.26% +62.25% -64.05%
75th Percentile £74.00 £41.50 £35.13
90th Percentile £80.10 £96.64 £62.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.42
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.41% -14.34%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in the North of England

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Datadog

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the North of England

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
North West -30 7 £400 - 5
Yorkshire - 6 £525 - 3
North East - 1 £475 - 1
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (50.00%) GCP
4 6 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
5 5 (35.71%) Azure
5 5 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (28.57%) Pulumi
7 3 (21.43%) GitHub
7 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
9 1 (7.14%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
3 3 (21.43%) CircleCI
3 3 (21.43%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Developer
1 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
1 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (7.14%) Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (21.43%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 2 (14.29%) NestJS
4 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) Jest
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) Playwright
5 1 (7.14%) React
5 1 (7.14%) Web Services
5 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
1 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Observability
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 3 (21.43%) API Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Business Case
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) Bash
3 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
4 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) Go
5 2 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) R
6 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Grafana
2 6 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
4 4 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) CloudEndure
2 2 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (14.29%) New Relic
2 2 (14.29%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.14%) Cribl.io
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow