Datadog Job Trends in the North West

Datadog
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Datadog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 189 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Permanent jobs citing Datadog 6 20 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.097% 0.39% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 1.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 0
10th Percentile £57,000 - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 -
90th Percentile £71,440 - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -10.34%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,736 1,601 1,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.20% 31.21% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 991 904 1,357
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,247 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in the North West

Datadog
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Datadog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Datadog

Datadog
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Manchester +4 4 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Cheshire - 2 £60,000 - 4
Datadog
England

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) dbt
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) Locust
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (16.67%) FinOps
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Nagios
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (16.67%) Argo
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) New Relic
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk