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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 534 537
Rank change year-on-year +70 +3 +96
Contract jobs citing Datadog 61 50 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.36% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 45 121
10th Percentile £250 £400 £500
25th Percentile £406 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -11.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £644
90th Percentile £652 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £530 £588
% change year-on-year -0.94% -9.79% +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 10,953 13,864 21,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.48% 32.58% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,522 9,859 15,234
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £620 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 348 335
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.90 £36.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.11 £17.72 £25.87
% change year-on-year +13.46% -31.49% +31.80%

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 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Top 12 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 20 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 +66 46 £459 -12.57% 188
London +60 36 £428 -14.40% 134
Work from Home +46 26 £538 -6.52% 118
UK excluding London +47 9 £525 -0.94% 93
East of England - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 £512 - 14
South West - 2 £588 -
West Midlands - 2 £512 - 7
South East +36 1 - - 45
North of England +12 1 - - 17
Scotland +6 1 - - 3
North West - 1 - - 6

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 (6.56%) Apache
2 3 (4.92%) Confluence
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Shopify
1 2 (3.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (65.57%) AWS
2 19 (31.15%) GitHub
3 17 (27.87%) Serverless
4 16 (26.23%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (21.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (21.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (18.03%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (18.03%) Azure
7 10 (16.39%) Amazon S3
7 10 (16.39%) GCP
8 7 (11.48%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (9.84%) Apigee
9 6 (9.84%) IaaS
10 5 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (6.56%) Akamai
11 4 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) DNS
2 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) SSL
2 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.92%) VPN
3 2 (3.28%) DSL
3 2 (3.28%) HTTP
3 2 (3.28%) Network Security
4 1 (1.64%) BGP
4 1 (1.64%) DHCP
4 1 (1.64%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.64%) IPsec
4 1 (1.64%) OSPF
4 1 (1.64%) SMTP
4 1 (1.64%) SNMP
4 1 (1.64%) VLAN
4 1 (1.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.11%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.28%) Big Data
5 2 (3.28%) Flink
5 2 (3.28%) MySQL
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.64%) DataStage
6 1 (1.64%) DB2
6 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (42.62%) Jenkins
2 16 (26.23%) Git
3 14 (22.95%) GitLab
4 6 (9.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (8.20%) JMeter
6 3 (4.92%) IntelliJ
6 3 (4.92%) JIRA
7 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
7 2 (3.28%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.28%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.64%) Gradle
8 1 (1.64%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (1.64%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.64%) JUnit
8 1 (1.64%) Maven
8 1 (1.64%) Snyk
8 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.64%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.64%) Toad
General
1 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Retail
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Military
6 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Senior
3 8 (13.11%) Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Lead
3 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Site Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Architect
6 4 (6.56%) AWS Developer
6 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Lead DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Node.js
2 5 (8.20%) AWS CDK
2 5 (8.20%) GraphQL
2 5 (8.20%) Kafka
2 5 (8.20%) Spring
3 4 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.92%) WebSockets
5 2 (3.28%) boto
5 2 (3.28%) Express.js
5 2 (3.28%) Flask
5 2 (3.28%) React
5 2 (3.28%) REST
5 2 (3.28%) VML
5 2 (3.28%) YAML
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.64%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.11%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) CMDB
4 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) Clustering
5 1 (1.64%) PKI
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Unix
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) DevOps
2 35 (57.38%) Observability
3 34 (55.74%) CI/CD
4 24 (39.34%) Agile
4 24 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (31.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (26.23%) Containerisation
6 16 (26.23%) Test Automation
7 15 (24.59%) Software Engineering
8 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (19.67%) Mentoring
10 10 (16.39%) Microservices
11 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
11 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
12 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (13.11%) Incident Management
12 8 (13.11%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (13.11%) Scrum
13 7 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (11.48%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) Python
2 18 (29.51%) SQL
3 14 (22.95%) Bash
4 8 (13.11%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.28%) Go
5 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.64%) CodeQL
6 1 (1.64%) Groovy
6 1 (1.64%) Scala
6 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) APMG
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.28%) PMO
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (24.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (54.10%) Terraform
2 23 (37.70%) Kubernetes
3 17 (27.87%) Prometheus
4 13 (21.31%) Grafana
5 10 (16.39%) Ansible
6 3 (4.92%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.92%) Puppet
7 2 (3.28%) Argo
7 2 (3.28%) Kustomize
7 2 (3.28%) Packer
7 2 (3.28%) Salt
8 1 (1.64%) Consul
8 1 (1.64%) Istio
8 1 (1.64%) Kibana
8 1 (1.64%) linkerd
8 1 (1.64%) logstash
8 1 (1.64%) QRadar
8 1 (1.64%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Splunk
2 9 (14.75%) Dynatrace
3 7 (11.48%) New Relic
4 5 (8.20%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.56%) LogRhythm
6 3 (4.92%) Confluent
6 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.92%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.28%) Adobe
7 2 (3.28%) Databricks
7 2 (3.28%) Dell
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
7 2 (3.28%) SAP
7 2 (3.28%) Sitecore
7 2 (3.28%) VMware
8 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.64%) Google
8 1 (1.64%) IBM
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat