Datadog Job Trends in Scotland

Datadog
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Datadog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 120 164
Rank change year-on-year -13 +44 +43
Permanent jobs citing Datadog 9 2 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.27% 0.11% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 0.38% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £72,500 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 913 533 2,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.15% 28.25% 43.78%
Number of salaries quoted 341 366 1,023
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,300
25th Percentile £33,500 £45,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,307
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,538
UK median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -11.54%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in Scotland

Datadog
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Datadog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Datadog

Datadog
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Edinburgh +11 9 - -
Datadog
UK

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) GitHub
1 9 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Development Engineer
2 8 (88.89%) Senior
2 8 (88.89%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 9 (100.00%) Brown Bag Session
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Coaching
1 9 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 9 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Observability
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform