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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 157 175
Rank change year-on-year -38 +18 +50
Contract jobs citing Datadog 20 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.42% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 0.34% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 8
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 - £645
90th Percentile £587 - £658
England median daily rate £462 £603 £550
% change year-on-year -23.40% +9.55% -

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 1,808 1,171 1,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.92% 33.39% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 771 1,180
10th Percentile £214 £275 £263
25th Percentile £362 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £588
90th Percentile £627 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 22 59
10th Percentile £15.20 £17.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.69 £35.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +21.96% +48.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60.94 £66.81 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.14 £95.73 £54.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £23.61
% change year-on-year -5.36% +21.77% +4.86%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 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
North West -10 16 £550 - 32
Yorkshire -43 4 £538 - 35
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) GCP
3 12 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (60.00%) Serverless
4 11 (55.00%) Azure
4 11 (55.00%) GitHub
5 10 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (45.00%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (30.00%) Apigee
8 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (30.00%) Pulumi
9 5 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (25.00%) Loggly
9 5 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (30.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 5 (25.00%) MySQL
3 5 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (25.00%) Redis
3 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (45.00%) Git
3 7 (35.00%) GitLab
4 6 (30.00%) SonarQube
5 5 (25.00%) Gradle
5 5 (25.00%) Maven
5 5 (25.00%) SonarLint
6 3 (15.00%) CircleCI
7 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (5.00%) JIRA
7 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (20.00%) Games
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
1 6 (30.00%) Java Architect
1 6 (30.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (30.00%) Technical Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) RESTful
2 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (25.00%) Dropwizard
3 5 (25.00%) J2EE
3 5 (25.00%) JWT
3 5 (25.00%) Micronaut
4 4 (20.00%) Celery
5 3 (15.00%) Node.js
5 3 (15.00%) REST
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
6 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (10.00%) NestJS
6 2 (10.00%) Playwright
7 1 (5.00%) .NET
7 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
7 1 (5.00%) Jest
7 1 (5.00%) React
7 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 12 (60.00%) Agile
4 11 (55.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (50.00%) Microservices
5 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (40.00%) Observability
6 8 (40.00%) TDD
7 6 (30.00%) BDD
7 6 (30.00%) Clean Code
7 6 (30.00%) CQRS
7 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven
7 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (30.00%) OWASP
7 6 (30.00%) SOLID
7 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
7 6 (30.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Bash
3 6 (30.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (20.00%) Go
5 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Terraform
2 14 (70.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (30.00%) Grafana
5 4 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Gigya
2 2 (10.00%) CloudEndure
2 2 (10.00%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian