Datadog Contracts in the South East

Datadog
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Datadog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Datadog over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 184 181
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 +81
Contract jobs citing Datadog 5 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.061% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 0.25% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 28
10th Percentile £478 £566 £573
25th Percentile £484 £571 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% -1.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £647 -
90th Percentile - £671 £631
England median daily rate £525 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +0.96% -13.33% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,037 1,191 1,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.46% 24.21% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 846 1,133
10th Percentile £220 £300 £213
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £584 £629 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 33 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.12 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £48.55 £61.49 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.15 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.66% -25.23% +50.23%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Datadog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Datadog in the South East

Datadog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Datadog in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Datadog in the South East

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Surrey - 3 £492 - 3
Thames Valley - 1 £475 - 7
Berkshire - 1 £475 - 1
East Sussex - 1 - -
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Akamai
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Fastify
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) FinOps
2 3 (60.00%) RBAC
2 3 (60.00%) Scorecard
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Blocking Code
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk