Datadog Contract Job Trends in the North West

Datadog
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Datadog skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing Datadog 10 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% - 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% - 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile £565 - £216
25th Percentile £568 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 - £639
90th Percentile £683 - £653
England median daily rate £575 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 711 723 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.07% 30.34% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 477 749
10th Percentile £313 £300 £265
25th Percentile £378 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £535 £575 £588
90th Percentile £630 £653 £663
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 58
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.09 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.50 £17.44 £17.09
Median hourly rate £18.87 £36.00 £30.10
Median % change year-on-year -47.58% +19.60% +14.04%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £71.15 £65.10
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Datadog in the North West

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester - 8 £575 -
Cheshire - 2 £663 -
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) GitHub
3 8 (80.00%) GCP
4 6 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (60.00%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (60.00%) Apigee
4 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (60.00%) Azure
4 6 (60.00%) Serverless
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (50.00%) Loggly
5 5 (50.00%) Route 53
6 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (40.00%) PaaS
6 4 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (60.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 5 (50.00%) Redis
2 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) Git
2 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (50.00%) Gradle
3 5 (50.00%) Maven
3 5 (50.00%) SonarLint
4 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (20.00%) GitLab
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Games
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Java Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) RESTful
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) Dropwizard
2 5 (50.00%) J2EE
2 5 (50.00%) JWT
2 5 (50.00%) Micronaut
3 4 (40.00%) Celery
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (20.00%) Playwright
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (50.00%) N-Tier
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
3 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) BDD
3 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
3 7 (70.00%) OWASP
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (70.00%) SOLID
3 7 (70.00%) TDD
4 6 (60.00%) Clean Code
4 6 (60.00%) CQRS
4 6 (60.00%) Design Patterns
4 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven
4 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (60.00%) TOGAF
5 5 (50.00%) API Design
5 5 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
5 5 (50.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (80.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Gigya
2 2 (20.00%) Atlassian