Datto Contract Job Trends

Datto
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Datto products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Datto over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Datto.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 539 606
Rank change year-on-year -35 +67 +199
Contract jobs citing Datto 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.011% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.047% 0.025% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £300 -
25th Percentile £725 £338 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £400 £195
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +105.13% -38.58%
75th Percentile £775 - £203
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 - -

All Vendors
UK

Datto falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,187 16,208 20,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.39% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 9,626 13,106
10th Percentile £290 £290 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 500 679
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.35 £62.51 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

Datto
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Datto job vacancy trend in the UK

Datto
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Datto
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Datto
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Datto within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -33 8 £750 +87.50% 64
UK excluding London -34 7 - - 61
South East - 7 - - 15
London -5 1 £750 +87.50% 7

Datto
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) IT Support
2 6 (75.00%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (37.50%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Hardware Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Hardware Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam