Datadog Contracts in the UK excluding London

Datadog
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 385 394
Rank change year-on-year +54 +9 +78
Contract jobs citing Datadog 8 14 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.067% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.26% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 37
10th Percentile £512 £511 £520
25th Percentile £512 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -8.51% +17.50%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £600
90th Percentile £628 £621 £626
UK median daily rate £512 £530 £588
% change year-on-year -3.40% -9.79% +6.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,099 5,425 7,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 26.14% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 3,831 5,919
10th Percentile £240 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.51 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Datadog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Datadog in the UK excluding London

Datadog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Datadog in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Datadog in the UK excluding London

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the UK excluding London

Datadog
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +40 2 - - 40
South West - 2 £588 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £512 - 3
Midlands - 2 £512 - 7
North of England +18 1 - - 13
North West +13 1 - - 9
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Datadog
UK

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) SaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Route 53
5 1 (12.50%) Akamai
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Apigee
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Integration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Apigee Developer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Confluent
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) PagerDuty