Datadog Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Datadog
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Datadog 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.10% - 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% - 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.45%
75th Percentile - - £530
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £535 - £523
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 440 109 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.09% 30.45% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 88 74
10th Percentile £331 £185 £185
25th Percentile £413 £400 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £506 £430
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +17.73% -21.82%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £542
90th Percentile £635 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 April 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
Sheffield - 1 £519 - 3
Datadog
Yorkshire

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VNX
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) NCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SRDF
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (100.00%) SnapVault
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware