Datadog Contract Job Trends in South London

Datadog
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Datadog 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.94% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £527 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £637 - -
75th Percentile £803 - -
90th Percentile £831 - -
London median daily rate £575 £475 £503
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.47% -16.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 126 74 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 39.50% 43.02% 47.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 46 67
10th Percentile £413 £256 £293
25th Percentile £458 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +12.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £584 £641 £525
90th Percentile £681 £713 £570
London median daily rate £535 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - -
Median hourly rate £17.85 - -
75th Percentile £19.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -44.50%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in South London

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Datadog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Datadog

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog in South London over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in South London

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
Croydon - 3 £637 - 1
Datadog
London

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) IPv4
1 2 (66.67%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) GitOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft