Datadog Contract Job Trends in the South West

Datadog
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Datadog 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.045% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -13.93% +1.67% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 691 707 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.31% 29.20% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 449 728
10th Percentile £225 £250 £263
25th Percentile £375 £425 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 47
10th Percentile - £19.83 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.00 £14.56
Median hourly rate £20.69 £67.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.36% +170.00% -58.68%
75th Percentile £35.51 £70.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.45%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in the South West

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Datadog

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Bristol - 1 £700 - 7
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform