Datadog
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Datadog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Datadog over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 555 644
Rank change year-on-year +15 +89 -15
Contract jobs citing Datadog 51 165 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.76% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 128 147
10th Percentile £405 £496 £413
25th Percentile £488 £544 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +8.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £625
90th Percentile £683 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -8.51% +17.50% +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Datadog is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Datadog.

Daily rate trend for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Datadog over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Datadog in the UK

Datadog
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Datadog within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +22 44 £525 -11.21% 46
London +36 26 £500 -16.67% 32
Work from Home +46 20 £575 -2.13% 33
UK excluding London +27 14 £538 -8.51% 14
South East +8 8 £538 -10.42% 6
North of England +13 6 £525 -4.55% 4
Yorkshire +13 4 £523 -5.00% 2
North West +14 2 £600 +9.09% 2

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 (7.84%) nginx
2 3 (5.88%) Confluence
3 2 (3.92%) Apache
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 31 (60.78%) AWS
2 14 (27.45%) GitHub
3 10 (19.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (17.65%) Azure
4 9 (17.65%) Serverless
5 8 (15.69%) Amazon S3
5 8 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (9.80%) GCP
6 5 (9.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (5.88%) Anthos
8 3 (5.88%) CloudFront
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.92%) Apigee
9 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) DNS
2 3 (5.88%) DHCP
2 3 (5.88%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.92%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (3.92%) SNMP
4 1 (1.96%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.92%) MySQL
4 2 (3.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) Redis
5 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.96%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (19.61%) GitLab
3 8 (15.69%) Git
4 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (3.92%) Appium
5 2 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.92%) Gradle
5 2 (3.92%) JUnit
5 2 (3.92%) Maven
5 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.92%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.96%) Hudson
6 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.96%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.96%) TestNG
6 1 (1.96%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Retail
3 3 (5.88%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Developer
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Java Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Monitoring Specialist
8 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
9 2 (3.92%) DevOps Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 2 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) Kafka
1 6 (11.76%) Spring
1 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 5 (9.80%) REST
3 4 (7.84%) Spring WebFlux
4 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.92%) Django
5 2 (3.92%) HornetQ
5 2 (3.92%) http4s
5 2 (3.92%) Node.js
5 2 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.92%) React
5 2 (3.92%) Spring Security
5 2 (3.92%) VCL
5 2 (3.92%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.96%) RESTful
6 1 (1.96%) Symfony
6 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Linux
2 5 (9.80%) Debian
3 4 (7.84%) Unix
3 4 (7.84%) Windows
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.92%) Android
4 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Agile
2 21 (41.18%) DevOps
3 20 (39.22%) CI/CD
4 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
6 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
7 7 (13.73%) API Development
7 7 (13.73%) Configuration Management
7 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.76%) Kanban
8 6 (11.76%) Microservices
8 6 (11.76%) Observability
8 6 (11.76%) Scrum
8 6 (11.76%) SDLC
8 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 5 (9.80%) BDD
9 5 (9.80%) Task Automation
9 5 (9.80%) TDD
10 4 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) Java
2 17 (33.33%) Python
3 14 (27.45%) Bash
4 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
5 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
6 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.80%) Ruby
7 4 (7.84%) C
7 4 (7.84%) C++
7 4 (7.84%) Kotlin
7 4 (7.84%) Perl
8 3 (5.88%) Go
8 3 (5.88%) Scala
8 3 (5.88%) SQL
9 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 18 (35.29%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.92%) Varnish
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (50.98%) Terraform
2 16 (31.37%) Kubernetes
3 14 (27.45%) Ansible
4 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
5 6 (11.76%) Progress Chef
5 6 (11.76%) Puppet
6 5 (9.80%) Grafana
6 5 (9.80%) Nagios
7 4 (7.84%) Kibana
7 4 (7.84%) Rundeck
8 2 (3.92%) Argo
8 2 (3.92%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.92%) Istio
8 2 (3.92%) Kiali
9 1 (1.96%) Bugsnag
9 1 (1.96%) Consul
9 1 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.96%) Packer
9 1 (1.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Splunk
2 12 (23.53%) New Relic
3 8 (15.69%) Cisco
4 6 (11.76%) Dynatrace
4 6 (11.76%) VMware
5 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.84%) BigPanda
6 4 (7.84%) Citrix
6 4 (7.84%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (3.92%) Google
7 2 (3.92%) SAP
7 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.96%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.96%) Confluent
8 1 (1.96%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.96%) Rollbar
8 1 (1.96%) webMethods