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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 124 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Datadog 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.086% 0.050% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £427 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% - -
75th Percentile £489 £688 -
90th Percentile £507 - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -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 1,064 662 895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.67% 33.13% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 504 631
10th Percentile £314 £313 £283
25th Percentile £400 £392 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £454 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -5.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 20 60
10th Percentile £25.38 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.36 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -28.34%
75th Percentile £77.50 £54.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.54
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%

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 15 June 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 - 2 £456 - 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk