Datadog
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Datadog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 584 585
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 +91
Permanent jobs citing Datadog 229 103 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 0.64% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 154 62 76
10th Percentile £47,875 £41,875 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,002 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,625 £97,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £55,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.70% +1.36% -21.43%

All Cloud Computing 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 27,922 16,046 26,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.07% 31.98% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 18,476 11,093 18,730
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,770 £32,074
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Datadog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Datadog job vacancy trend in the UK

Datadog
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Datadog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Datadog

Datadog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Datadog over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Top 16 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 17 August 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
England +35 205 £70,000 -12.50% 59
London -2 121 £70,000 -17.65% 38
UK excluding London -33 92 £70,079 +25.70% 33
Work from Home -21 48 £70,039 -3.39% 41
North of England -25 44 £85,000 +47.83% 5
South East -14 29 £65,000 -31.58% 16
North West +7 27 £95,000 +46.15% 3
Yorkshire -26 16 £85,000 +70.00% 1
Scotland +5 6 £72,500 - 2
South West -70 5 £76,250 +1.67% 5
Midlands -28 4 £70,079 +36.07% 2
West Midlands -19 3 £70,079 +50.71% 1
Wales - 2 £62,539 - 1
East of England - 2 £82,500 - 1
East Midlands -20 1 £52,500 -2.78% 1
North East - 1 £70,079 - 1

Datadog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (2.62%) Apache
1 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.18%) JBoss
2 5 (2.18%) nginx
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (5.24%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 164 (71.62%) AWS
2 95 (41.48%) Azure
3 67 (29.26%) GitHub
4 62 (27.07%) Serverless
5 56 (24.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (24.02%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (22.27%) GitHub Actions
8 49 (21.40%) SaaS
9 44 (19.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 44 (19.21%) GCP
10 39 (17.03%) Amazon S3
11 36 (15.72%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (10.04%) PaaS
14 21 (9.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 20 (8.73%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (7.86%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (7.42%) IaaS
17 17 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (6.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.28%) DNS
2 33 (14.41%) Firewall
3 29 (12.66%) VPN
4 20 (8.73%) VLAN
5 18 (7.86%) SSL
6 17 (7.42%) DHCP
6 17 (7.42%) SAN
7 15 (6.55%) WAN
7 15 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (6.11%) SD-WAN
8 14 (6.11%) Wireless
9 12 (5.24%) Cisco ISE
9 12 (5.24%) Cisco Wireless
9 12 (5.24%) Network Security
10 7 (3.06%) BIG-IP
10 7 (3.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 7 (3.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (2.18%) BGP
11 5 (2.18%) OSPF
12 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.72%) DynamoDB
2 30 (13.10%) NoSQL
3 27 (11.79%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (9.17%) SQL Server
5 17 (7.42%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.93%) Redis
8 7 (3.06%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.18%) MySQL
11 4 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.75%) Power BI
12 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.31%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.31%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.44%) Big Data
13 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (15.28%) Git
2 33 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 29 (12.66%) GitLab
4 25 (10.92%) CircleCI
5 15 (6.55%) Chocolatey
6 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.18%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.18%) JIRA
6 5 (2.18%) JMeter
6 5 (2.18%) Locust
7 4 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.75%) Subversion
8 3 (1.31%) Appium
8 3 (1.31%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.87%) git-flow
9 2 (0.87%) MSI
9 2 (0.87%) NUnit
9 2 (0.87%) Snyk
10 1 (0.44%) Maven
General
1 75 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 68 (29.69%) Finance
3 51 (22.27%) Banking
4 45 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (6.11%) Retail
7 13 (5.68%) Law
8 11 (4.80%) Aviation
9 8 (3.49%) Legal
9 8 (3.49%) Marketing
10 5 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.31%) Advertising
12 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Billing
14 1 (0.44%) Games
14 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (20.52%) Senior
2 40 (17.47%) Developer
3 36 (15.72%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (13.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 31 (13.54%) Site Engineer
6 30 (13.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (11.79%) Lead
8 25 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 23 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (8.73%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (8.30%) Java Developer
12 16 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (6.55%) AWS Developer
14 13 (5.68%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (5.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (5.24%) Network Engineer
16 11 (4.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 11 (4.80%) Head of Architecture
16 11 (4.80%) Software Engineer
17 10 (4.37%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.97%) Kafka
1 32 (13.97%) Node.js
2 19 (8.30%) OpenTelemetry
2 19 (8.30%) RabbitMQ
3 17 (7.42%) AngularJS
4 16 (6.99%) React
5 15 (6.55%) RESTful
6 13 (5.68%) gRPC
6 13 (5.68%) OAuth
6 13 (5.68%) web3js
7 12 (5.24%) YAML
8 9 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.93%) Spring
8 9 (3.93%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.06%) .NET
9 7 (3.06%) REST
10 6 (2.62%) CSS
10 6 (2.62%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.62%) HTML
10 6 (2.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (26.64%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.42%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.55%) Blockchain
4 15 (6.55%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (5.68%) Web3
6 12 (5.24%) PKI
6 12 (5.24%) Security Posture
7 10 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.49%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.62%) Social Media
11 5 (2.18%) Clustering
11 5 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.18%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.31%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.66%) Linux
2 28 (12.23%) Windows
3 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.18%) Unix
6 4 (1.75%) CentOS
6 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.31%) Android
7 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (58.95%) Observability
2 118 (51.53%) CI/CD
3 107 (46.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (45.41%) DevOps
5 63 (27.51%) Containerisation
5 63 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (23.14%) Software Engineering
8 47 (20.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 41 (17.90%) Platform Engineering
10 40 (17.47%) Microservices
11 38 (16.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 37 (16.16%) Continuous Integration
12 37 (16.16%) Root Cause Analysis
12 37 (16.16%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (15.72%) AI
13 36 (15.72%) Mentoring
14 34 (14.85%) Analytics
14 34 (14.85%) RBAC
15 33 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 124 (54.15%) Python
2 51 (22.27%) PowerShell
3 46 (20.09%) Bash
4 39 (17.03%) Java
5 34 (14.85%) TypeScript
6 31 (13.54%) SQL
7 23 (10.04%) Go
8 22 (9.61%) Kotlin
9 21 (9.17%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.62%) C#
10 6 (2.62%) PHP
11 3 (1.31%) Swift
12 2 (0.87%) C++
12 2 (0.87%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
13 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (9.17%) CCNP
1 21 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (6.99%) Degree
3 14 (6.11%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.75%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
9 1 (0.44%) MBA
9 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
9 1 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.92%) SLA
2 20 (8.73%) PCI DSS
3 12 (5.24%) NIST
4 10 (4.37%) GDPR
5 9 (3.93%) PMO
5 9 (3.93%) QA
6 6 (2.62%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.18%) WCAG
8 3 (1.31%) PSD2
9 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 103 (44.98%) Docker
2 22 (9.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.86%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) vSphere
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 126 (55.02%) Terraform
2 88 (38.43%) Kubernetes
3 84 (36.68%) Grafana
4 66 (28.82%) Prometheus
5 57 (24.89%) Ansible
6 15 (6.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (6.55%) SCCM
7 12 (5.24%) Argo
8 8 (3.49%) Nagios
9 7 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.62%) Rundeck
11 5 (2.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.31%) Scalr
12 3 (1.31%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.87%) logstash
13 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.87%) Puppet
13 2 (0.87%) WhatsUp Gold
14 1 (0.44%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 62 (27.07%) Dynatrace
2 46 (20.09%) Microsoft
3 33 (14.41%) Splunk
4 22 (9.61%) VMware
5 21 (9.17%) AppDynamics
6 16 (6.99%) SolarWinds
7 15 (6.55%) Tenable
8 14 (6.11%) Cisco
9 13 (5.68%) Red Hat
10 12 (5.24%) Arista
10 12 (5.24%) ForeScout
10 12 (5.24%) Infoblox
10 12 (5.24%) New Relic
10 12 (5.24%) Palo Alto
10 12 (5.24%) SevOne
11 9 (3.93%) Databricks
12 8 (3.49%) ServiceNow
13 7 (3.06%) F5
13 7 (3.06%) HubSpot
14 6 (2.62%) Cognizant