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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 121 133
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing Datadog 16 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.64% 0.048% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 0.15% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £348 - £576
25th Percentile £400 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.36%
75th Percentile £583 - £659
90th Percentile £605 - £669
England median daily rate £456 £603 £538
% change year-on-year -24.36% +12.09% -2.27%

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 862 661 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.56% 31.43% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 437 697
10th Percentile £214 £250 £265
25th Percentile £358 £380 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £565 £582
90th Percentile £628 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 46
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.73
Median hourly rate £40.53 £29.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.76% -25.16% -22.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.14 £75.95 £62.88
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.46 £22.75
% change year-on-year -2.62% +25.08% +0.79%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog in the North West over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the North West

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 8 January 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 +4 13 £563 - 7
Cheshire - 3 £358 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (81.25%) GCP
3 11 (68.75%) Azure
3 11 (68.75%) GitHub
4 8 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (50.00%) Serverless
5 6 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (37.50%) Apigee
5 6 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (31.25%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (31.25%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (31.25%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (31.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (31.25%) Loggly
6 5 (31.25%) Route 53
7 4 (25.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
1 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (31.25%) BigQuery
2 5 (31.25%) MySQL
2 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
2 5 (31.25%) Redis
2 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (43.75%) Git
2 7 (43.75%) GitLab
3 6 (37.50%) SonarQube
4 5 (31.25%) Gradle
4 5 (31.25%) Maven
4 5 (31.25%) SonarLint
5 3 (18.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
6 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.25%) JIRA
6 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Games
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Java Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Technical Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) RESTful
2 6 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (31.25%) Dropwizard
3 5 (31.25%) J2EE
3 5 (31.25%) JWT
3 5 (31.25%) Micronaut
4 4 (25.00%) Celery
5 3 (18.75%) Node.js
5 3 (18.75%) REST
6 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
6 2 (12.50%) NestJS
6 2 (12.50%) Playwright
7 1 (6.25%) .NET
7 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
7 1 (6.25%) Jest
7 1 (6.25%) React
7 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
1 5 (31.25%) N-Tier
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 10 (62.50%) Microservices
3 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (50.00%) Observability
6 6 (37.50%) BDD
6 6 (37.50%) Clean Code
6 6 (37.50%) CQRS
6 6 (37.50%) Design Patterns
6 6 (37.50%) Event-Driven
6 6 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 6 (37.50%) SOLID
6 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (37.50%) Task Automation
6 6 (37.50%) TDD
6 6 (37.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Bash
3 6 (37.50%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) Go
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Terraform
2 13 (81.25%) Kubernetes
3 8 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (37.50%) Grafana
5 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Gigya
2 2 (12.50%) Ping Identity
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian