Datadog Contracts

Datadog
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Datadog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Datadog over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 518 642
Rank change year-on-year -26 +124 +11
Contract jobs citing Datadog 50 180 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.89% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 133 149
10th Percentile £400 £500 £413
25th Percentile £459 £553 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £688 £670 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -8.51% +17.50% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,136 20,254 33,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,997 14,662 24,493
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 £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 323 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.17 £27.10 £19.09
% change year-on-year -29.26% +41.96% -4.55%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +1 42 £525 -12.50% 48
London +13 30 £515 -14.17% 29
Work from Home +1 23 £575 -4.17% 26
UK excluding London -7 9 £538 -8.51% 19
South East -7 5 £575 -4.17% 4
North of England +9 3 £520 -5.45% 6
Yorkshire -8 3 £520 -5.45% 3
Scotland - 1 £400 -

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 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) AWS
2 12 (24.00%) GitHub
3 9 (18.00%) Serverless
4 8 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.00%) Azure
6 6 (12.00%) GCP
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.00%) Anthos
7 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.00%) Apigee
9 2 (4.00%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (4.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) DNS
2 3 (6.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (6.00%) DHCP
2 3 (6.00%) HTTP
2 3 (6.00%) SNMP
2 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.00%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.00%) Power BI
5 2 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.00%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (22.00%) GitLab
3 6 (12.00%) Git
4 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 3 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.00%) Appium
5 2 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.00%) Gradle
5 2 (4.00%) JUnit
5 2 (4.00%) Maven
5 2 (4.00%) Travis CI
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.00%) Hudson
6 1 (2.00%) Mockito
6 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.00%) TestNG
6 1 (2.00%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Retail
3 3 (6.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Senior
2 12 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Developer
3 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) DevOps Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Network Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Kafka
1 6 (12.00%) Spring
1 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.00%) REST
3 4 (8.00%) Spring WebFlux
4 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.00%) http4s
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.00%) React
5 2 (4.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (4.00%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.00%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (2.00%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.00%) Jest
6 1 (2.00%) Redux
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) Symfony
6 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
3 2 (4.00%) Android
3 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.00%) Debian
4 1 (2.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Agile
2 22 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (42.00%) DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (18.00%) Observability
6 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.00%) API Development
7 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
7 7 (14.00%) Kanban
7 7 (14.00%) Scrum
8 6 (12.00%) Microservices
9 5 (10.00%) BDD
9 5 (10.00%) TDD
10 4 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (8.00%) Data Protection
10 4 (8.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) Java
3 12 (24.00%) Bash
4 8 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.00%) Go
5 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.00%) Ruby
6 4 (8.00%) C
6 4 (8.00%) C++
6 4 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.00%) Perl
6 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.00%) SQL
7 3 (6.00%) Scala
8 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (56.00%) Terraform
2 20 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (26.00%) Ansible
4 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.00%) Grafana
5 6 (12.00%) Progress Chef
5 6 (12.00%) Puppet
6 5 (10.00%) Nagios
7 4 (8.00%) Kibana
7 4 (8.00%) Rundeck
8 2 (4.00%) Argo
8 2 (4.00%) Istio
8 2 (4.00%) Kiali
9 1 (2.00%) Bugsnag
9 1 (2.00%) Consul
9 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.00%) Packer
9 1 (2.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Splunk
2 13 (26.00%) New Relic
3 5 (10.00%) BigPanda
4 4 (8.00%) Cisco
5 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (6.00%) Google
5 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.00%) VMware
6 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.00%) Citrix
7 1 (2.00%) Confluent
7 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.00%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.00%) Rollbar
7 1 (2.00%) webMethods