Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

datadog

556 live US technical postings name datadog in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 556 postings naming datadog that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer47.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer37.8%
  3. 3Data Engineer2.9%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer2.7%
  5. 5Backend Engineer2.2%
  6. 6Security Engineer2.2%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.8%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer1.4%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where datadog is named
n = 341
10th
$144k
25th
$165k
Median
$184k
75th
$220k
90th
$254k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote21.9%
  2. 2New York, NY17.3%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA11.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.2%
  5. 5Boston, MA4%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.8%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.5%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.5%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.