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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 357 349
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +135
Contract jobs citing Datadog 26 12 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.066% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.24% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 41
10th Percentile £492 £420 £513
25th Percentile £531 £480 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -13.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £681 £597 -
90th Percentile £700 £639 £644
UK median daily rate £556 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +3.49% -10.42% +11.11%

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 4,731 4,910 6,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.75% 26.88% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,167 3,372 5,079
10th Percentile £253 £243 £223
25th Percentile £385 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 193 236
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.06 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £25.13
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -14.95% +30.55%
75th Percentile £36.00 £53.00 £57.81
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £24.18 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.81% -28.67% +57.66%

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 15 August 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 15 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
North of England -18 9 £575 +10.58% 20
North West - 8 £575 - 15
South East +28 5 £492 -16.96% 28
Scotland -1 5 £600 +50.00% 3
East of England - 5 £690 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 5
Midlands - 2 £575 - 8
Yorkshire -23 1 - - 5
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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Serverless
3 11 (42.31%) GitHub
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (34.62%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (30.77%) GCP
6 7 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (26.92%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (23.08%) Apigee
7 6 (23.08%) Route 53
8 5 (19.23%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (19.23%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (19.23%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (19.23%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (19.23%) Azure
8 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (19.23%) Loggly
9 4 (15.38%) PaaS
9 4 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (30.77%) DynamoDB
3 7 (26.92%) NoSQL
3 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (23.08%) MySQL
4 6 (23.08%) Redis
5 5 (19.23%) BigQuery
5 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
5 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.85%) Big Data
6 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 8 (30.77%) Git
3 7 (26.92%) SonarQube
4 6 (23.08%) Gradle
4 6 (23.08%) Maven
5 5 (19.23%) JIRA
5 5 (19.23%) SonarLint
6 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
6 3 (11.54%) GitLab
7 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (7.69%) SpecFlow
8 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
8 1 (3.85%) JUnit
8 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
8 1 (3.85%) Mocha
8 1 (3.85%) Postman
8 1 (3.85%) Selenium
8 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Java Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Java Technical Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Technical Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Programme Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Deployment Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) RESTful
2 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
3 6 (23.08%) J2EE
4 5 (19.23%) Dropwizard
4 5 (19.23%) JWT
4 5 (19.23%) Micronaut
5 4 (15.38%) Celery
5 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth2
5 4 (15.38%) OpenID
6 3 (11.54%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (11.54%) Node.js
6 3 (11.54%) SAML
7 2 (7.69%) .NET
7 2 (7.69%) Gherkin
7 2 (7.69%) JSON
7 2 (7.69%) Playwright
7 2 (7.69%) Spring
7 2 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 5 (19.23%) N-Tier
2 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Agile
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (50.00%) Microservices
3 12 (46.15%) Observability
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 10 (38.46%) DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (30.77%) Event-Driven
5 8 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (30.77%) Risk Management
5 8 (30.77%) SDLC
6 7 (26.92%) Architectural Design
6 7 (26.92%) BDD
6 7 (26.92%) Design Patterns
6 7 (26.92%) Integration Patterns
6 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
6 7 (26.92%) OWASP
6 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
6 7 (26.92%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) Go
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) APMG
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 15 (57.69%) Terraform
3 7 (26.92%) Grafana
4 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.54%) Ansible
6 2 (7.69%) Puppet
7 1 (3.85%) Podman
7 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Splunk
2 5 (19.23%) Gigya
3 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Google