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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing Datadog 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.062% 0.051% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
England median daily rate £525 £457 £525
% change year-on-year +15.01% -13.05% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,032 623 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.94% 32.08% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 478 616
10th Percentile £257 £250 £284
25th Percentile £383 £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year - -1.81% -3.25%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 14 65
10th Percentile £24.90 £17.04 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -54.11%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.13 £60.40
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Datadog job vacancy trend 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 May 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
Manchester -32 2 £400 - 4
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform