Datadog Contracts

Datadog
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 532 552
Rank change year-on-year +68 +20 +105
Contract jobs citing Datadog 56 50 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.36% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 130
10th Percentile £250 £424 £486
25th Percentile £407 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £534 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -9.15% +6.82%
75th Percentile £626 £602 £638
90th Percentile £644 £684 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £588
% change year-on-year -2.33% -8.51% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Top 11 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 1 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
England +57 42 £459 -13.40% 146
London +48 34 £450 -14.29% 105
Work from Home +46 25 £538 -6.52% 88
UK excluding London +56 7 £525 -2.33% 65
South East +40 2 - - 34
South West - 2 £588 - 2
North West +16 1 - - 10
North of England +14 1 - - 14
West Midlands - 1 £512 - 3
Midlands - 1 £512 - 7
Scotland - 1 - - 3

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 3 (5.36%) Apache
1 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Shopify
2 1 (1.79%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (64.29%) AWS
2 18 (32.14%) GitHub
3 16 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (25.00%) Azure
5 13 (23.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (23.21%) GCP
6 12 (21.43%) Serverless
7 11 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.71%) IaaS
10 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (7.14%) Akamai
11 4 (7.14%) Apigee
11 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (7.14%) SaaS
12 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) DNS
2 6 (10.71%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.14%) DHCP
3 4 (7.14%) Network Security
4 3 (5.36%) DOCSIS
4 3 (5.36%) Firewall
4 3 (5.36%) SSL
4 3 (5.36%) VLAN
4 3 (5.36%) VPN
4 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.57%) DSL
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) Wireless
6 1 (1.79%) BGP
6 1 (1.79%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.79%) IPsec
6 1 (1.79%) OSPF
6 1 (1.79%) SMTP
6 1 (1.79%) SNMP
6 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.36%) InfluxDB
4 3 (5.36%) Looker
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.57%) Flink
6 1 (1.79%) Big Data
6 1 (1.79%) DataStage
6 1 (1.79%) DB2
6 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.79%) MySQL
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (44.64%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.00%) GitLab
3 12 (21.43%) Git
4 4 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (7.14%) JMeter
5 3 (5.36%) JIRA
6 2 (3.57%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.57%) IntelliJ
6 2 (3.57%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.57%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.79%) Gradle
7 1 (1.79%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.79%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.79%) JUnit
7 1 (1.79%) Maven
7 1 (1.79%) Snyk
7 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.79%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.79%) Toad
General
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Retail
5 2 (3.57%) Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Military
6 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Lead
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
3 7 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Architect
4 4 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native Developer
6 2 (3.57%) GCP Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) React Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.71%) Node.js
3 5 (8.93%) AWS CDK
4 4 (7.14%) GraphQL
4 4 (7.14%) Kafka
4 4 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (5.36%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.57%) boto
6 2 (3.57%) Express.js
6 2 (3.57%) Flask
6 2 (3.57%) React
6 2 (3.57%) REST
6 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.57%) VML
6 2 (3.57%) WebSockets
6 2 (3.57%) YAML
7 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.79%) LangChain
7 1 (1.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.36%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (5.36%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (3.57%) CMDB
5 2 (3.57%) IoT
5 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) PKI
6 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Android
3 2 (3.57%) Unix
3 2 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) Observability
2 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 30 (53.57%) DevOps
4 24 (42.86%) Agile
5 23 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (30.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 16 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (21.43%) Software Engineering
10 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
11 10 (17.86%) Incident Response
12 9 (16.07%) Microservices
13 8 (14.29%) Scrum
14 7 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (12.50%) Incident Management
15 6 (10.71%) API Development
15 6 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
15 6 (10.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 33 (58.93%) Python
2 14 (25.00%) Bash
2 14 (25.00%) SQL
3 10 (17.86%) Java
4 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.93%) Go
6 3 (5.36%) C
6 3 (5.36%) C++
6 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.79%) C#
8 1 (1.79%) Groovy
8 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PMO
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (55.36%) Terraform
2 24 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 14 (25.00%) Grafana
3 14 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (17.86%) Ansible
5 4 (7.14%) Puppet
6 3 (5.36%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.57%) Argo
7 2 (3.57%) Kustomize
7 2 (3.57%) Packer
7 2 (3.57%) Salt
8 1 (1.79%) Consul
8 1 (1.79%) Istio
8 1 (1.79%) Kibana
8 1 (1.79%) linkerd
8 1 (1.79%) logstash
8 1 (1.79%) QRadar
8 1 (1.79%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (39.29%) Splunk
2 7 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 7 (12.50%) New Relic
3 5 (8.93%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.14%) LogRhythm
4 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.36%) Confluent
5 3 (5.36%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.57%) Adobe
6 2 (3.57%) Dell
6 2 (3.57%) SAP
6 2 (3.57%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.57%) VMware
7 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.79%) Google
7 1 (1.79%) IBM
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat