Datadog Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Datadog
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Datadog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 526 505
Rank change year-on-year -39 -21 +59
Permanent jobs citing Datadog 87 28 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.082% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.31% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 44 19 30
10th Percentile £52,375 £33,750 £48,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £36,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.07% -1.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,625 £84,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £75,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% -1.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,758 9,082 15,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.71% 26.52% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12,076 6,154 9,617
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Datadog
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Datadog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Datadog

Datadog
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Datadog in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Datadog in the UK excluding London

Datadog
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
North of England -29 45 £87,500 +52.17% 27
North West +5 27 £95,000 +35.71% 19
South East - 25 £65,000 - 20
Yorkshire -34 17 £85,000 +70.00% 3
Scotland -1 6 £72,500 +93.33% 28
South West -77 5 £76,250 +1.67% 13
Midlands -39 3 £70,079 +36.07% 17
West Midlands -35 2 £86,289 +67.55% 8
East of England - 2 £82,500 - 5
East Midlands -34 1 £52,500 +14.75% 9
North East - 1 £70,079 - 5
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 2
Datadog
UK

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (5.75%) Apache
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.60%) JBoss
2 4 (4.60%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (80.46%) AWS
2 39 (44.83%) AWS Lambda
2 39 (44.83%) Serverless
3 38 (43.68%) Azure
4 29 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (33.33%) GitHub
5 27 (31.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (31.03%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (29.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (26.44%) SaaS
8 21 (24.14%) Amazon S3
9 16 (18.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 16 (18.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (12.64%) Route 53
11 7 (8.05%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (8.05%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (8.05%) Azure AKS
12 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
12 6 (6.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) SSL
2 3 (3.45%) DNS
3 2 (2.30%) BGP
3 2 (2.30%) IPFIX
3 2 (2.30%) OSPF
3 2 (2.30%) SNMP
3 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.30%) VLAN
4 1 (1.15%) Firewall
4 1 (1.15%) LAN
4 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.44%) DynamoDB
2 13 (14.94%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (14.94%) NoSQL
3 11 (12.64%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.30%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.30%) MySQL
7 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.15%) Big Data
8 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.15%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.15%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.15%) Power BI
8 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) Git
2 9 (10.34%) GitLab
2 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.45%) Subversion
5 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.30%) JMeter
5 2 (2.30%) Locust
5 2 (2.30%) MSI
6 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.15%) Flyway
6 1 (1.15%) git-flow
6 1 (1.15%) JIRA
6 1 (1.15%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.15%) Mocha
6 1 (1.15%) Postman
6 1 (1.15%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.15%) Selenium
6 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Finance
3 12 (13.79%) Retail
4 11 (12.64%) Aviation
5 7 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (8.05%) Law
6 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.90%) Legal
7 5 (5.75%) Marketing
8 4 (4.60%) Banking
8 4 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.15%) Games
10 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Developer
2 16 (18.39%) Java Developer
2 16 (18.39%) Lead
3 12 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Head of Architecture
4 11 (12.64%) Site Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) AWS Developer
6 7 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Integration Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (44.83%) Terraform
2 26 (29.89%) Node.js
3 16 (18.39%) AngularJS
4 14 (16.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (12.64%) Kafka
6 9 (10.34%) Spring
6 9 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 8 (9.20%) React
8 7 (8.05%) OAuth
8 7 (8.05%) YAML
9 5 (5.75%) Loki
9 5 (5.75%) OpenTofu
10 4 (4.60%) .NET
10 4 (4.60%) CSS
10 4 (4.60%) CSS3
10 4 (4.60%) HTML
10 4 (4.60%) HTML5
10 4 (4.60%) Keycloak
10 4 (4.60%) OAuth2
10 4 (4.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (16.09%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.75%) Social Media
4 4 (4.60%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.60%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.45%) IoT
5 3 (3.45%) Robotics
6 1 (1.15%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (1.15%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.09%) Linux
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.15%) VMS
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (67.82%) Observability
2 50 (57.47%) DevOps
3 48 (55.17%) CI/CD
4 31 (35.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (29.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (28.74%) Containerisation
7 24 (27.59%) Mentoring
8 21 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (21.84%) Cost Optimisation
9 19 (21.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (21.84%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (20.69%) Workflow
11 17 (19.54%) Secrets Management
12 16 (18.39%) AI
12 16 (18.39%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (18.39%) DevSecOps
12 16 (18.39%) Roadmaps
12 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
12 16 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.13%) Python
2 28 (32.18%) TypeScript
3 23 (26.44%) Java
4 21 (24.14%) SQL
5 20 (22.99%) Bash
5 20 (22.99%) PowerShell
6 16 (18.39%) Kotlin
7 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.45%) Go
9 2 (2.30%) Ruby
10 1 (1.15%) Bicep
10 1 (1.15%) C#
10 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
2 4 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (4.60%) Degree
3 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) QA
1 3 (3.45%) SLA
2 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.30%) WCAG
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 53 (60.92%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 35 (40.23%) Grafana
3 31 (35.63%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.05%) Ansible
5 6 (6.90%) Nagios
6 5 (5.75%) Argo
7 4 (4.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.45%) Scalr
9 2 (2.30%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.15%) Puppet
10 1 (1.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Dynatrace
2 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) HubSpot
3 7 (8.05%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.05%) Splunk
4 6 (6.90%) New Relic
5 4 (4.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.60%) VMware
6 3 (3.45%) Databricks
6 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.30%) Google
7 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle
8 1 (1.15%) SGI