Datadog Contracts

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 516 630
Rank change year-on-year -38 +114 +17
Contract jobs citing Datadog 48 180 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.89% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 133 151
10th Percentile £400 £500 £413
25th Percentile £453 £553 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £616
90th Percentile £688 £670 £688
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 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 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -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 9 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 9 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 -7 40 £525 -12.50% 48
London +12 28 £513 -14.58% 29
Work from Home +10 22 £575 -4.17% 26
UK excluding London -9 9 £538 -8.51% 19
South East -9 5 £575 -4.17% 4
North of England +5 3 £520 -5.45% 6
Yorkshire -1 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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) nginx
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
2 12 (25.00%) GitHub
3 9 (18.75%) Serverless
4 8 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
6 6 (12.50%) Azure
7 5 (10.42%) GCP
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (6.25%) Anthos
9 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
9 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.17%) Apigee
10 2 (4.17%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (6.25%) DHCP
2 3 (6.25%) HTTP
2 3 (6.25%) SNMP
2 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.08%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Power BI
5 2 (4.17%) MySQL
6 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
6 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.08%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 11 (22.92%) GitLab
3 6 (12.50%) Git
4 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 3 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.17%) Appium
5 2 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.17%) Gradle
5 2 (4.17%) JUnit
5 2 (4.17%) Maven
5 2 (4.17%) Travis CI
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.08%) Hudson
6 1 (2.08%) Mockito
6 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) Spinnaker
6 1 (2.08%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Retail
3 3 (6.25%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Senior
2 12 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Java Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) DevOps Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Kafka
1 6 (12.50%) Spring
1 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.42%) REST
3 4 (8.33%) Spring WebFlux
4 3 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.17%) http4s
5 2 (4.17%) Node.js
5 2 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.17%) React
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Security
5 2 (4.17%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.08%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (2.08%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.08%) Jest
6 1 (2.08%) React Native
6 1 (2.08%) RESTful
6 1 (2.08%) Symfony
6 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) CMDB
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Unix
3 2 (4.17%) Android
3 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.17%) Debian
4 1 (2.08%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Agile
2 22 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 21 (43.75%) DevOps
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 8 (16.67%) Observability
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 7 (14.58%) API Development
6 7 (14.58%) Configuration Management
6 7 (14.58%) Kanban
6 7 (14.58%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (14.58%) Scrum
6 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
7 6 (12.50%) Microservices
8 5 (10.42%) BDD
8 5 (10.42%) TDD
9 4 (8.33%) Data Protection
9 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 4 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Java
2 16 (33.33%) Python
3 11 (22.92%) Bash
4 8 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.42%) Ruby
6 4 (8.33%) C
6 4 (8.33%) C++
6 4 (8.33%) Go
6 4 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.33%) Perl
6 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.33%) SQL
7 3 (6.25%) Scala
8 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 18 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (54.17%) Terraform
2 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (25.00%) Ansible
4 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 6 (12.50%) Puppet
6 5 (10.42%) Grafana
6 5 (10.42%) Nagios
7 4 (8.33%) Kibana
7 4 (8.33%) Rundeck
8 2 (4.17%) Argo
8 2 (4.17%) Istio
8 2 (4.17%) Kiali
9 1 (2.08%) Bugsnag
9 1 (2.08%) Consul
9 1 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.08%) Packer
9 1 (2.08%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Splunk
2 12 (25.00%) New Relic
3 5 (10.42%) BigPanda
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco
5 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.25%) VMware
6 2 (4.17%) Google
6 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.17%) SAP
7 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.08%) Citrix
7 1 (2.08%) Confluent
7 1 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.08%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.08%) Rollbar
7 1 (2.08%) webMethods