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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 172 159
Rank change year-on-year -66 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing Datadog 10 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.80% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile £470 £565 £462
25th Percentile £505 £568 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +10.58% -6.52%
75th Percentile £576 £675 £530
90th Percentile £625 £683 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £548
% change year-on-year - +0.46% -8.75%

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 2,523 1,370 1,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.55% 34.22% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 984 872
10th Percentile £288 £300 £288
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £485
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -4.90% -4.90%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 34 28
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.75 £16.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.59 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.14% +93.29% -22.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £61.53
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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
Yorkshire -33 6 £519 - 1
North West -44 4 £513 -10.87% 8
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 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (20.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) NAS
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
1 2 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Gatling
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (20.00%) NeoLoad
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Jaeger
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Robot Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Test Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Storage Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Loki
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (20.00%) EMC VNX
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Observability
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Key Management
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Cypher
4 1 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) NCDA
2 2 (20.00%) NCIE
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISM
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) GIAC
3 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) NFS
2 2 (20.00%) SRDF
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Grafana
2 5 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Argo
4 2 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (20.00%) EMC VPLEX
4 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (20.00%) SnapMirror
4 2 (20.00%) SnapVault
4 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) 3PAR
2 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (20.00%) Brocade
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) EMC
2 2 (20.00%) NetApp
2 2 (20.00%) Pure Storage
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (20.00%) Veeam
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Thales