Datadog Contract Job Trends

Datadog
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Datadog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 467 508
Rank change year-on-year -50 +41 -18
Contract jobs citing Datadog 155 83 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 0.67% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 55 41
10th Percentile £385 £408 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.95% -1.25%
75th Percentile £606 £664 £638
90th Percentile £745 £760 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -9.74% +10.58% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £66.77 - -
90th Percentile £73.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,981 12,340 13,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 37.41% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,589 8,206 8,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 306 207
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.63 £54.69 £60.83
90th Percentile £81.45 £71.73 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -33.33% +11.11%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in the UK

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Datadog

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Datadog.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Datadog

Datadog
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Datadog over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Top 12 Contract Job 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 10 September 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
England -39 150 £550 -4.35% 155
London -17 104 £550 -3.93% 115
UK excluding London -100 44 £519 -9.74% 73
Work from Home -61 33 £550 +10.00% 80
South East -55 15 £425 -13.62% 12
North of England -69 12 £519 -9.74% 19
Yorkshire -37 8 £519 - 3
West Midlands -39 7 £600 +4.35% 7
Midlands -50 7 £600 +4.35% 9
South West - 7 £513 - 8
North West -60 4 £513 -10.87% 13
East of England -30 3 £450 -34.78% 3

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.52%) Confluence
2 6 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 101 (65.16%) AWS
2 76 (49.03%) Azure
3 55 (35.48%) GitHub
4 36 (23.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 36 (23.23%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (20.65%) GCP
6 28 (18.06%) Serverless
7 27 (17.42%) SaaS
8 25 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (14.19%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (13.55%) Amazon S3
11 21 (13.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (12.90%) Entra ID
13 18 (11.61%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (9.03%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (7.10%) Akamai
17 10 (6.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.61%) Firewall
2 17 (10.97%) DNS
3 12 (7.74%) SSL
4 10 (6.45%) VPN
5 7 (4.52%) SAN
6 6 (3.87%) Network Security
6 6 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.23%) DHCP
7 5 (3.23%) HTTP
7 5 (3.23%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.23%) VLAN
7 5 (3.23%) WAN
8 3 (1.94%) WinSCP
9 2 (1.29%) IPFIX
9 2 (1.29%) NAS
9 2 (1.29%) SNMP
9 2 (1.29%) VSAN
10 1 (0.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.81%) Redis
4 7 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.87%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.29%) Flink
8 2 (1.29%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.29%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.29%) Power BI
9 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.65%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (27.74%) Jenkins
2 33 (21.29%) GitLab
3 24 (15.48%) Git
4 9 (5.81%) JIRA
5 6 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (3.23%) Chocolatey
6 5 (3.23%) Claude Code
6 5 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.58%) Maven
8 3 (1.94%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.94%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.94%) Gatling
8 3 (1.94%) JMeter
8 3 (1.94%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.94%) NeoLoad
8 3 (1.94%) Selenium
9 2 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.29%) Postman
9 2 (1.29%) Snyk
9 2 (1.29%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (25.81%) Finance
2 32 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 30 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.32%) Banking
5 9 (5.81%) Legal
6 4 (2.58%) Back Office
6 4 (2.58%) Publishing
7 3 (1.94%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.94%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.29%) Aviation
8 2 (1.29%) Games
8 2 (1.29%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Billing
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Retail
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (16.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 21 (13.55%) Site Engineer
3 20 (12.90%) Senior
4 19 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.32%) Architect
6 15 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (9.03%) Lead
8 10 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Developer
9 9 (5.81%) Service Owner
10 7 (4.52%) Analyst
10 7 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Lead DevOps
10 7 (4.52%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) CyberArk Architect
11 6 (3.87%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (49.03%) Terraform
2 16 (10.32%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (7.74%) Kafka
4 9 (5.81%) Node.js
5 8 (5.16%) REST
6 7 (4.52%) .NET
6 7 (4.52%) SailPoint
7 6 (3.87%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (2.58%) React
10 3 (1.94%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.94%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.94%) Spring
10 3 (1.94%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.94%) Web Services
11 2 (1.29%) AWS CDK
11 2 (1.29%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.29%) Pulumi
11 2 (1.29%) RESTful
11 2 (1.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 24 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (11.61%) Onboarding
4 13 (8.39%) CMDB
5 10 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (5.81%) Security Posture
7 7 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (4.52%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.87%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.58%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.58%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.94%) Autonomous Agent
11 3 (1.94%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (1.29%) Replication
12 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (27.10%) Linux
2 20 (12.90%) Windows
3 19 (12.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.16%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.23%) Unix
6 3 (1.94%) VMS
6 3 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.29%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (65.81%) Observability
2 101 (65.16%) CI/CD
3 88 (56.77%) DevOps
4 68 (43.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (29.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 43 (27.74%) AI
7 42 (27.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (25.16%) Containerisation
9 34 (21.94%) ITIL
10 33 (21.29%) Agile
11 32 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (18.71%) Runbook
13 25 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (14.19%) Roadmaps
15 21 (13.55%) Incident Response
15 21 (13.55%) ITSM
16 20 (12.90%) Configuration Management
16 20 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (12.90%) Incident Management
17 19 (12.26%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 85 (54.84%) Python
2 51 (32.90%) Bash
3 33 (21.29%) PowerShell
4 28 (18.06%) Java
5 18 (11.61%) SQL
6 16 (10.32%) Go
7 10 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.16%) C#
8 8 (5.16%) Groovy
9 7 (4.52%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.58%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.94%) Delphi
12 2 (1.29%) C
12 2 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.29%) Perl
12 2 (1.29%) Rust
13 1 (0.65%) Bicep
13 1 (0.65%) Cypher
13 1 (0.65%) Korn
13 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.10%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.10%) Degree
4 10 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.81%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (5.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.58%) CISSP
10 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.29%) CISM
10 2 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.29%) NCDA
10 2 (1.29%) NCIE
10 2 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.55%) QA
2 10 (6.45%) SLA
3 6 (3.87%) NIST
4 4 (2.58%) GDPR
5 3 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (25.16%) Docker
2 20 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.10%) IAG
4 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.94%) Squid
7 2 (1.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.29%) NFS
7 2 (1.29%) SRDF
7 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.29%) vSphere
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (46.45%) Kubernetes
2 65 (41.94%) Ansible
2 65 (41.94%) Grafana
3 50 (32.26%) Prometheus
4 17 (10.97%) Puppet
5 10 (6.45%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.23%) SCCM
8 4 (2.58%) Packer
9 3 (1.94%) systemd
9 3 (1.94%) yum
10 2 (1.29%) Argo
10 2 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.29%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.29%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.29%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.29%) SnapVault
10 2 (1.29%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.65%) Podman
11 1 (0.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 36 (23.23%) Splunk
2 32 (20.65%) ServiceNow
3 30 (19.35%) Dynatrace
3 30 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 17 (10.97%) AppDynamics
5 15 (9.68%) Google
6 11 (7.10%) Nexthink
6 11 (7.10%) VMware
7 8 (5.16%) CyberArk
7 8 (5.16%) PagerDuty
7 8 (5.16%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.87%) New Relic
8 6 (3.87%) SolarWinds
8 6 (3.87%) Tenable
9 5 (3.23%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.94%) Cisco
10 3 (1.94%) Foundry
10 3 (1.94%) Okta
10 3 (1.94%) Teradata
10 3 (1.94%) Trend Micro