AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS CDK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CDK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 815 904 920
Rank change year-on-year +89 +16 -94
Permanent jobs citing AWS CDK 73 91 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.090% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 0.30% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 53 52 118
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -6.67% +16.28%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,063 £95,625
90th Percentile £99,500 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,250 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

AWS CDK is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,097 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.27% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,763 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

AWS CDK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CDK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS CDK.

Salary trend for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CDK within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 69 £71,250 +1.79% 17
UK excluding London -13 38 £59,250 +12.86% 12
London +112 34 £85,000 +17.24% 9
Work from Home +36 33 £65,000 -3.70% 14
North of England +46 18 £57,500 +9.52% 4
North West +15 14 £57,500 +15.00% 4
Midlands +7 11 £70,000 -
West Midlands +10 6 £67,500 -
South East +16 5 £52,500 -30.00% 1
East Midlands - 5 £92,500 -
North East 0 4 £53,750 -25.86%
Scotland -57 3 £70,576 - 5
East of England - 1 £75,000 -

AWS CDK
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 5 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (47.95%) AWS CloudFormation
3 34 (46.58%) Serverless
4 25 (34.25%) Azure
4 25 (34.25%) GitHub
5 23 (31.51%) Amazon ECS
6 20 (27.40%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (24.66%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (16.44%) AWS CodePipeline
9 10 (13.70%) Amazon S3
9 10 (13.70%) GCP
10 8 (10.96%) AWS CodeBuild
10 8 (10.96%) AWS Fargate
10 8 (10.96%) Datadog
11 7 (9.59%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (6.85%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (6.85%) CloudFront
13 4 (5.48%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (5.48%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) MQTT
1 2 (2.74%) Network Security
1 2 (2.74%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.37%) SMS
2 1 (1.37%) VSAN
2 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) DynamoDB
2 8 (10.96%) MySQL
3 7 (9.59%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.74%) Big Data
7 2 (2.74%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.74%) Redis
8 1 (1.37%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.37%) Power BI
8 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (23.29%) Jenkins
2 16 (21.92%) GitLab
3 12 (16.44%) Git
4 5 (6.85%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.48%) Mocha
5 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (5.48%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.74%) ESLint
7 2 (2.74%) Spinnaker
7 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.74%) Vite
8 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.37%) JIRA
8 1 (1.37%) Storybook
8 1 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Finance
3 9 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Retail
4 5 (6.85%) Retail Finance
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Billing
7 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (39.73%) Senior
2 25 (34.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (32.88%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (16.44%) Data Engineer
4 12 (16.44%) Software Engineer
5 11 (15.07%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (15.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (13.70%) Lead
7 9 (12.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (12.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Developer
8 7 (9.59%) Full Stack Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (9.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) Node.js
2 10 (13.70%) Lambda Expressions
2 10 (13.70%) PySpark
3 9 (12.33%) AWS SAM
3 9 (12.33%) React
4 8 (10.96%) Jest
5 7 (9.59%) Kafka
6 5 (6.85%) JSON
6 5 (6.85%) RESTful
6 5 (6.85%) Serverless Framework
7 4 (5.48%) Next.js
7 4 (5.48%) Pandas
8 3 (4.11%) .NET
8 3 (4.11%) Express.js
8 3 (4.11%) REST
8 3 (4.11%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.74%) CSS
9 2 (2.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.44%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.85%) Social Media
4 4 (5.48%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.11%) PMI
5 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (79.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 50 (68.49%) DevOps
3 47 (64.38%) CI/CD
4 29 (39.73%) Agile
4 29 (39.73%) Containerisation
5 21 (28.77%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (27.40%) Microservices
6 20 (27.40%) Software Engineering
7 13 (17.81%) Design Patterns
8 12 (16.44%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (13.70%) Event-Driven
9 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.33%) Machine Learning
11 8 (10.96%) Coaching
11 8 (10.96%) Software Delivery
12 7 (9.59%) Computer Science
12 7 (9.59%) Data Engineering
12 7 (9.59%) Scrum
12 7 (9.59%) TDD
13 6 (8.22%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 40 (54.79%) Python
2 20 (27.40%) TypeScript
3 16 (21.92%) Bash
4 10 (13.70%) Java
5 8 (10.96%) C#
5 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.59%) SQL
7 6 (8.22%) R
8 4 (5.48%) C++
8 4 (5.48%) Go
8 4 (5.48%) Rust
9 3 (4.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) AWS Certification
2 8 (10.96%) Degree
3 7 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (4.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 27 (36.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (57.53%) Terraform
2 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.59%) Ansible
4 6 (8.22%) Progress Chef
4 6 (8.22%) Puppet
5 5 (6.85%) Grafana
6 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.74%) Istio
8 1 (1.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Databricks
3 5 (6.85%) Splunk
4 1 (1.37%) VMware