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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Datadog 13 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.59% - 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £339 - £194
25th Percentile £460 - £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £631 - £644
90th Percentile £680 - £663
England median daily rate £568 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -7.35% +2.08% +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 760 728 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.28% 30.23% 36.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 452 775
10th Percentile £310 £303 £265
25th Percentile £375 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 59
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.44 £15.95
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.61 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £36.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.58% +9.09% -42.83%
75th Percentile £51.19 £63.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.51 £73.30 £64.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 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 - 9 £575 - 9
Cheshire - 4 £504 -
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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) GCP
3 10 (76.92%) GitHub
4 9 (69.23%) Azure
5 6 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (46.15%) Apigee
5 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (46.15%) Serverless
6 5 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (38.46%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (38.46%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (38.46%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (38.46%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (38.46%) Loggly
6 5 (38.46%) Route 53
7 4 (30.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
1 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (38.46%) BigQuery
2 5 (38.46%) MySQL
2 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
2 5 (38.46%) Redis
2 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Git
2 6 (46.15%) SonarQube
3 5 (38.46%) GitLab
3 5 (38.46%) Gradle
3 5 (38.46%) Maven
3 5 (38.46%) SonarLint
4 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
4 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Games
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Java Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Technical Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) RESTful
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Dropwizard
2 5 (38.46%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (38.46%) J2EE
2 5 (38.46%) JWT
2 5 (38.46%) Micronaut
3 4 (30.77%) Celery
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
4 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 2 (15.38%) Playwright
5 1 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
1 5 (38.46%) N-Tier
1 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
3 8 (61.54%) Microservices
4 7 (53.85%) BDD
4 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
4 7 (53.85%) OWASP
4 7 (53.85%) SOLID
4 7 (53.85%) TDD
5 6 (46.15%) Clean Code
5 6 (46.15%) CQRS
5 6 (46.15%) Design Patterns
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (46.15%) TOGAF
6 5 (38.46%) Asynchronous Programming
6 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) Bash
4 3 (23.08%) Go
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Grafana
2 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Gigya
2 2 (15.38%) Atlassian