AWS CDK Contract Job Trends in Scotland

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS CDK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 61 85
Rank change year-on-year -29 +24 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 23 55 56
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.50% 3.28% 2.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.82% 14.67% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 47 54
10th Percentile £468 £426 £413
25th Percentile £490 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £480 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.69%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £538
90th Percentile £546 £556 £541
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +3.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

AWS CDK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 337 375 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.93% 22.39% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 242 333
10th Percentile £359 £356 £400
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -6.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £49.50
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +229.36%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +16.82% -17.69%

AWS CDK
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS CDK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

AWS CDK job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS CDK
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS CDK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS CDK

AWS CDK
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CDK in Scotland

AWS CDK
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CDK within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Edinburgh -11 22 £516 +7.55% 4
Glasgow -7 1 £543 +9.92%
AWS CDK
UK

AWS CDK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (95.65%) Amazon S3
3 20 (86.96%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (86.96%) Serverless
4 10 (43.48%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (43.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (43.48%) OpenShift
5 8 (34.78%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (13.04%) Textract
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (8.70%) Dagster
9 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (4.35%) GitHub
10 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.70%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Cypress.io
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) MLflow
General
1 13 (56.52%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Python Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Developer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) PyTorch
2 9 (39.13%) Pandas
2 9 (39.13%) SQLAlchemy
3 8 (34.78%) FastAPI
3 8 (34.78%) Hugging Face
3 8 (34.78%) NumPy
3 8 (34.78%) OAuth
3 8 (34.78%) OpenCV
3 8 (34.78%) REST
4 7 (30.43%) React
5 6 (26.09%) boto
6 5 (21.74%) CSS
6 5 (21.74%) HTML
6 5 (21.74%) JWT
7 3 (13.04%) Next.js
7 3 (13.04%) OAuth2
7 3 (13.04%) SpaCy
7 3 (13.04%) Spring
7 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
8 2 (8.70%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) Derivative
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Agile
2 17 (73.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (52.17%) AI
3 12 (52.17%) Machine Learning
3 12 (52.17%) TDD
4 11 (47.83%) Kanban
5 10 (43.48%) Scrum
6 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
6 9 (39.13%) LLM
6 9 (39.13%) OCR
7 8 (34.78%) API Development
7 8 (34.78%) OOP
8 7 (30.43%) DevOps
8 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (30.43%) Pair Programming
8 7 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (26.09%) Service Design
10 5 (21.74%) Product Management
10 5 (21.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) TypeScript
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Grafana
2 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 2 (8.70%) Nagios
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (4.35%) Fluentd
5 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Commvault
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat