Datadog Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Datadog
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 328 374
Rank change year-on-year +51 +46 +131
Contract jobs citing Datadog 24 20 102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.13% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.37% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 83
10th Percentile £389 £443 £500
25th Percentile £436 £488 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% +17.94%
75th Percentile £635 £600 -
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £512 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -3.40% -11.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Datadog falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,945 5,470 10,096
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.87% 36.10% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 3,932 7,416
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 87 129
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.82 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +87.83%
75th Percentile £71.25 £46.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.25 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Datadog
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Datadog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Datadog trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Datadog
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Datadog.

Datadog daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Datadog over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Datadog daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) GitHub
3 7 (29.17%) GCP
4 6 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (16.67%) Serverless
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.33%) Akamai
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.33%) Apigee
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (4.17%) IaaS
8 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.17%) Route 53
8 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.50%) DHCP
3 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) Network Security
3 3 (12.50%) SSL
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) DOCSIS
4 2 (8.33%) HTTP
4 2 (8.33%) VLAN
4 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.17%) BGP
5 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
5 1 (4.17%) IPsec
5 1 (4.17%) OSPF
5 1 (4.17%) SMTP
5 1 (4.17%) SNMP
5 1 (4.17%) Wireless
5 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) InfluxDB
2 2 (8.33%) Looker
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (37.50%) GitLab
3 6 (25.00%) Git
4 3 (12.50%) JIRA
5 2 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
6 1 (4.17%) JMeter
6 1 (4.17%) JProfiler
6 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.17%) Spinnaker
6 1 (4.17%) Toad
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Engagement Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (8.33%) boto
2 2 (8.33%) Flask
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) YAML
3 1 (4.17%) LangChain
3 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (8.33%) IoT
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (4.17%) CMDB
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 15 (62.50%) Observability
2 11 (45.83%) DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
6 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
6 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 4 (16.67%) High Availability
7 4 (16.67%) Scrum
7 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Kanban
8 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing
8 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) Go
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) C
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Terraform
2 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (33.33%) Grafana
4 6 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (20.83%) Ansible
6 2 (8.33%) Argo
7 1 (4.17%) Consul
7 1 (4.17%) Istio
7 1 (4.17%) Kibana
7 1 (4.17%) linkerd
7 1 (4.17%) logstash
7 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Splunk
2 4 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (12.50%) New Relic
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.17%) VMware