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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - 155
Rank change year-on-year - - +77
Permanent jobs citing Datadog 13 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.47% - 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% - 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39,234 - -
25th Percentile £43,710 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,789 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,237 - £62,500
90th Percentile £70,535 - -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -10.34%

All Cloud 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 686 1,015 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.86% 31.98% 36.44%
Number of salaries quoted 258 501 690
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £71,532 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.14%

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Datadog in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Datadog in Scotland

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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 12 £70,079 - 4
Glasgow - 1 £37,500 -
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 11 (84.62%) Azure
1 11 (84.62%) GitHub
1 11 (84.62%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.69%) JMeter
1 1 (7.69%) Locust
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (84.62%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Development Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Support
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) .NET
1 11 (84.62%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Onboarding
2 11 (84.62%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
1 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
1 12 (92.31%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
1 12 (92.31%) Observability
1 12 (92.31%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) Asset Management
2 11 (84.62%) Brown Bag Session
2 11 (84.62%) Coaching
2 11 (84.62%) Code Quality
2 11 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (84.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) OWASP
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Security Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (92.31%) Grafana
2 12 (92.31%) Terraform
3 11 (84.62%) Prometheus