Datadog Job Trends in London

Datadog
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Datadog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 352 424
Rank change year-on-year +52 +72 +123
Permanent jobs citing Datadog 97 74 50
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.50% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.11% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 82 40 36
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £66,131 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.20% -4.69%
75th Percentile £109,688 £81,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £129,000 £90,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +3.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

Datadog falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,141 6,688 9,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.30% 44.80% 45.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,977 4,265 8,022
10th Percentile £38,500 £44,590 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in London

Datadog
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Datadog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Datadog

Datadog
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Datadog in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Datadog in London

Datadog
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the London region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +27 15 £100,000 +40.35% 3
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.12%) Appian
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.18%) Azure
2 32 (32.99%) AWS
3 30 (30.93%) GitHub
4 29 (29.90%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (23.71%) Serverless
6 20 (20.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (19.59%) GCP
8 15 (15.46%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (15.46%) Entra ID
9 14 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (13.40%) SaaS
11 12 (12.37%) Azure AKS
11 12 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (12.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (12.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (12.37%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (12.37%) PaaS
12 11 (11.34%) IaaS
12 11 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.87%) Firewall
1 28 (28.87%) VPN
2 16 (16.49%) DNS
2 16 (16.49%) WAN
3 14 (14.43%) VLAN
4 12 (12.37%) DHCP
5 11 (11.34%) SAN
5 11 (11.34%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (7.22%) Network Security
7 4 (4.12%) BGP
7 4 (4.12%) OSPF
7 4 (4.12%) SD-WAN
8 3 (3.09%) BIG-IP
8 3 (3.09%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (3.09%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (3.09%) EIGRP
8 3 (3.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (3.09%) SSL
8 3 (3.09%) VRRP
8 3 (3.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.56%) NoSQL
2 16 (16.49%) SQL Server
3 14 (14.43%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (9.28%) DynamoDB
5 6 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.19%) BigQuery
6 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.12%) Pinecone
7 4 (4.12%) Weaviate
8 2 (2.06%) SQLPlus
9 1 (1.03%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (26.80%) Jenkins
2 18 (18.56%) GitLab
3 13 (13.40%) CircleCI
4 11 (11.34%) Chocolatey
5 6 (6.19%) Git
6 5 (5.15%) JIRA
7 2 (2.06%) JMeter
8 1 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.03%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.03%) Fiddler
8 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.03%) Locust
8 1 (1.03%) Maven
8 1 (1.03%) Postman
8 1 (1.03%) Selenium
8 1 (1.03%) TestNG
8 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (41.24%) Finance
2 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
3 26 (26.80%) Banking
4 19 (19.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.06%) Law
7 1 (1.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.03%) Electronics
7 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (32.99%) Senior
2 26 (26.80%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (22.68%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (22.68%) Developer
4 19 (19.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (18.56%) Senior Developer
6 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (12.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (10.31%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) IT Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) Senior IT Engineer
10 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (8.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (8.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 8 (8.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (7.22%) Consultant
11 7 (7.22%) Technical Consultant
12 6 (6.19%) Engineering Manager
12 6 (6.19%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.43%) Kafka
2 13 (13.40%) OAuth
2 13 (13.40%) SAML
3 12 (12.37%) ADO
3 12 (12.37%) YAML
4 11 (11.34%) Node.js
5 9 (9.28%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (9.28%) gRPC
5 9 (9.28%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (9.28%) RESTful
5 9 (9.28%) web3js
6 7 (7.22%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (5.15%) REST
8 4 (4.12%) Django
8 4 (4.12%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.12%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.12%) PyTorch
8 4 (4.12%) React
8 4 (4.12%) scikit-learn
8 4 (4.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.80%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.53%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.34%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (9.28%) Blockchain
4 9 (9.28%) Web3
5 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.12%) Hackathon
6 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.09%) PKI
6 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.03%) Equities
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Online Gambling
8 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.03%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.59%) Windows
2 12 (12.37%) VMS
3 5 (5.15%) Linux
3 5 (5.15%) Unix
4 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (63.92%) CI/CD
2 58 (59.79%) DevOps
3 47 (48.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (48.45%) Observability
4 33 (34.02%) Containerisation
4 33 (34.02%) Disaster Recovery
5 30 (30.93%) Analytics
6 29 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (26.80%) Test Automation
8 25 (25.77%) Migration
8 25 (25.77%) Software Engineering
9 24 (24.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (23.71%) ITIL
11 22 (22.68%) High Availability
11 22 (22.68%) Incident Management
12 21 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (19.59%) Microservices
14 18 (18.56%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (17.53%) Computer Science
15 17 (17.53%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.52%) Python
2 37 (38.14%) SQL
3 21 (21.65%) Java
4 18 (18.56%) Bash
4 18 (18.56%) Go
5 13 (13.40%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (11.34%) C#
7 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
7 10 (10.31%) TypeScript
8 8 (8.25%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.06%) VB
10 1 (1.03%) Ruby
10 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (20.62%) Degree
2 15 (15.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.28%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.12%) CCNP
4 4 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.06%) CISSP
5 2 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.06%) OSCP
5 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CCIE
6 1 (1.03%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.74%) GDPR
2 18 (18.56%) SLA
3 17 (17.53%) SOC 2
4 13 (13.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (7.22%) PCI DSS
6 6 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (3.09%) NIST
8 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 2 (2.06%) QA
8 2 (2.06%) WCAG
9 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.03%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (37.11%) Docker
2 23 (23.71%) Active Directory
3 12 (12.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (55.67%) Terraform
2 41 (42.27%) Kubernetes
3 30 (30.93%) Ansible
3 30 (30.93%) Prometheus
4 17 (17.53%) Grafana
5 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (11.34%) SCCM
6 1 (1.03%) Argo
6 1 (1.03%) Istio
6 1 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (22.68%) Dynatrace
3 21 (21.65%) AppDynamics
4 18 (18.56%) Splunk
5 16 (16.49%) Palo Alto
6 13 (13.40%) Zscaler
7 11 (11.34%) Guidewire
7 11 (11.34%) Tenable
7 11 (11.34%) VMware
8 7 (7.22%) Google
9 6 (6.19%) BigPanda
9 6 (6.19%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.12%) Cisco
10 4 (4.12%) Infoblox
10 4 (4.12%) OpenAI
11 3 (3.09%) F5
11 3 (3.09%) ForeScout
11 3 (3.09%) New Relic
11 3 (3.09%) SevOne
11 3 (3.09%) SolarWinds