Datadog
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Datadog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Datadog over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 653 765
Rank change year-on-year +60 +112 -115
Permanent jobs citing Datadog 91 235 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.66% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 52 81 155
10th Percentile £47,625 £61,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £88,125 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +14.29% +9.80%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Datadog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Datadog.

Salary trend for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Datadog over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +160 86 £75,000 -6.25% 119
London +99 63 £73,750 -13.24% 84
Work from Home +178 41 £72,500 -9.38% 71
UK excluding London +63 22 £73,750 -7.81% 39
North of England +83 7 £57,500 -28.13% 12
South East +99 5 £95,000 +18.75% 13
Midlands +60 5 £71,250 -22.97% 6
Yorkshire +70 4 £57,500 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £85,000 - 3
South West +105 3 £95,000 +18.75% 1
North West +33 3 £52,500 -34.38% 8
Scotland +19 2 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands +44 1 £57,500 -37.84% 3

Datadog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.40%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 60 (65.93%) AWS
2 42 (46.15%) Azure
3 25 (27.47%) Serverless
4 23 (25.27%) Amazon S3
5 22 (24.18%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (24.18%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (17.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (17.58%) GitHub
7 15 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (13.19%) GCP
10 11 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (10.99%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (9.89%) Snowflake
13 8 (8.79%) npm
13 8 (8.79%) SaaS
14 5 (5.49%) Cloudflare
15 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) Firewall
2 4 (4.40%) DNS
3 3 (3.30%) DHCP
3 3 (3.30%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.10%) Network Security
4 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 7 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.40%) MySQL
5 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.10%) Big Data
7 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 26 (28.57%) GitLab
3 18 (19.78%) Git
4 14 (15.38%) Cucumber
4 14 (15.38%) IntelliJ
4 14 (15.38%) JUnit
4 14 (15.38%) Maven
4 14 (15.38%) Mockito
5 8 (8.79%) JIRA
6 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.10%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.10%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.10%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (32.97%) Finance
2 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.78%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Retail Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Retail
6 5 (5.49%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.30%) Automotive
7 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Senior
2 24 (26.37%) Developer
3 16 (17.58%) Lead
3 16 (17.58%) Senior Developer
4 15 (16.48%) AWS Developer
4 15 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (16.48%) Senior DevOps
5 14 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (15.38%) DevOps Developer
5 14 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 14 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (14.29%) Java Pricing Developer
6 13 (14.29%) Pricing Developer
7 12 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 12 (13.19%) Software Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Site Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Analyst
10 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) Spring
2 14 (15.38%) ActiveMQ
2 14 (15.38%) JMS
2 14 (15.38%) Kafka
2 14 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 13 (14.29%) React
3 13 (14.29%) RESTful
4 11 (12.09%) .NET
4 11 (12.09%) GraphQL
5 10 (10.99%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.49%) gRPC
7 5 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.49%) REST
7 5 (5.49%) web3js
8 4 (4.40%) Entity Framework
8 4 (4.40%) SOAP
9 3 (3.30%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.30%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (3.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (35.16%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.78%) Management Information System
3 14 (15.38%) Credit Derivative
3 14 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.49%) Blockchain
4 5 (5.49%) Web3
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.40%) Clustering
5 4 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.40%) Replication
6 3 (3.30%) Eurex
6 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.20%) CMDB
7 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.07%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Windows
3 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.40%) CentOS
5 3 (3.30%) Android
5 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.30%) Unix
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (60.44%) CI/CD
2 54 (59.34%) DevOps
3 48 (52.75%) Observability
4 47 (51.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (39.56%) Software Engineering
6 30 (32.97%) Analytics
7 25 (27.47%) Agile
8 17 (18.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 16 (17.58%) SDLC
10 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 13 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (13.19%) Microservices
13 12 (13.19%) Release Management
14 11 (12.09%) API Integration
14 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
14 11 (12.09%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (12.09%) Strategic Thinking
14 11 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.25%) Python
2 35 (38.46%) Java
3 19 (20.88%) Bash
4 18 (19.78%) TypeScript
5 15 (16.48%) C#
6 14 (15.38%) C++
7 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
8 12 (13.19%) Go
9 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
10 6 (6.59%) SQL
11 3 (3.30%) Gremlin
11 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
13 1 (1.10%) Groovy
13 1 (1.10%) PHP
13 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
1 5 (5.49%) Degree
2 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) PhD
5 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.40%) NIST
2 4 (4.40%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.30%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (36.26%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.30%) LXC
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (51.65%) Terraform
2 42 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 30 (32.97%) Kubernetes
4 25 (27.47%) Ansible
5 24 (26.37%) Grafana
6 4 (4.40%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (4.40%) Puppet
7 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.10%) Bugsnag
8 1 (1.10%) Istio
8 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) IBM
2 12 (13.19%) Splunk
3 9 (9.89%) Databricks
4 8 (8.79%) Google
5 6 (6.59%) Oracle
6 5 (5.49%) Dynatrace
6 5 (5.49%) VMware
7 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.30%) Bloomberg
8 3 (3.30%) CQG
8 3 (3.30%) ION Trading
8 3 (3.30%) New Relic
8 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.30%) Reuters
8 3 (3.30%) Trayport
9 2 (2.20%) Optimizely
9 2 (2.20%) Patsystems
9 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.10%) BigPanda
10 1 (1.10%) Zend