Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
datadog
218 live US technical postings name datadog in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 218 postings naming datadog that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer42.7%
- 2Software Engineer39.4%
- 3Data Engineer3.2%
- 4Frontend Engineer3.2%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer3.2%
- 6Backend Engineer2.8%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer1.8%
- 8Security Engineer1.8%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote27.5%
- 2New York, NY18.3%
- 3San Francisco, CA12.8%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA6%
- 5Los Angeles, CA3.7%
- 6Denver, CO2.8%
- 7Austin, TX2.3%
- 8Boston, MA2.3%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.