Datadog
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Datadog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Datadog over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 550 654
Rank change year-on-year +6 +104 -31
Contract jobs citing Datadog 50 166 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.75% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 130 141
10th Percentile £424 £486 £413
25th Percentile £488 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +6.82% +11.68%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £619
90th Percentile £684 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -8.51% +17.50% +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Datadog is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,985 22,031 34,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,926 15,923 24,891
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Datadog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Datadog.

Daily rate trend for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
England +27 42 £530 -9.79% 51
London +41 24 £525 -12.50% 33
Work from Home +39 19 £575 -2.13% 39
UK excluding London +26 14 £538 -8.51% 18
South East +6 8 £538 -10.42% 5
North of England +19 6 £525 -4.55% 5
Yorkshire +15 4 £523 -5.00% 2
North West +18 2 £600 +9.09% 2

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (8.00%) nginx
2 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 2 (4.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) AWS
2 13 (26.00%) GitHub
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (18.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) Serverless
4 8 (16.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.00%) GCP
5 5 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.00%) Anthos
7 3 (6.00%) CloudFront
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.00%) Apigee
8 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) DNS
2 3 (6.00%) DHCP
2 3 (6.00%) HTTP
2 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.00%) SNMP
4 1 (2.00%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.00%) MySQL
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.00%) GitLab
3 8 (16.00%) Git
4 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.00%) Gradle
5 2 (4.00%) JIRA
5 2 (4.00%) JUnit
5 2 (4.00%) Maven
5 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.00%) Travis CI
6 1 (2.00%) Appium
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.00%) Hudson
6 1 (2.00%) Mockito
6 1 (2.00%) Spinnaker
6 1 (2.00%) TestNG
6 1 (2.00%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Retail
3 3 (6.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Senior
4 8 (16.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Developer
7 5 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Monitoring Specialist
9 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) DevOps Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Kafka
2 5 (10.00%) Spring
2 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.00%) REST
4 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.00%) Spring WebFlux
5 2 (4.00%) Django
5 2 (4.00%) HornetQ
5 2 (4.00%) http4s
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.00%) React
5 2 (4.00%) VCL
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.00%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) Spring Security
6 1 (2.00%) Symfony
6 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Debian
3 4 (8.00%) Unix
3 4 (8.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) Android
4 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Agile
1 21 (42.00%) DevOps
2 19 (38.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (22.00%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (18.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
6 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (12.00%) API Development
7 6 (12.00%) Kanban
7 6 (12.00%) Microservices
7 6 (12.00%) Observability
7 6 (12.00%) Scrum
7 6 (12.00%) SDLC
7 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (10.00%) BDD
8 5 (10.00%) Task Automation
9 4 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Java
1 18 (36.00%) Python
2 14 (28.00%) Bash
3 8 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (14.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.00%) Perl
5 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.00%) C
6 4 (8.00%) C++
6 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.00%) Ruby
7 3 (6.00%) Scala
8 2 (4.00%) Go
8 2 (4.00%) SQL
9 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) Docker
2 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.00%) KVM
5 2 (4.00%) Varnish
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (54.00%) Terraform
2 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (32.00%) Ansible
4 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.00%) Progress Chef
5 6 (12.00%) Puppet
6 5 (10.00%) Nagios
7 4 (8.00%) Grafana
7 4 (8.00%) Rundeck
8 3 (6.00%) Kibana
8 3 (6.00%) Salt
9 2 (4.00%) Argo
9 2 (4.00%) Check_MK
9 2 (4.00%) HAProxy
9 2 (4.00%) Istio
9 2 (4.00%) Kiali
9 2 (4.00%) ZABBIX
10 1 (2.00%) Consul
10 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (2.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Splunk
2 11 (22.00%) New Relic
3 8 (16.00%) Cisco
4 7 (14.00%) VMware
5 5 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (8.00%) BigPanda
6 4 (8.00%) Citrix
6 4 (8.00%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (4.00%) Google
7 2 (4.00%) SAP
7 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
8 1 (2.00%) Confluent
8 1 (2.00%) webMethods