AWS CDK Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS CDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS CDK over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 325 304
Rank change year-on-year +36 -21 +150
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 47 74 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.36% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 2.25% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 70 143
10th Percentile £414 £415 £425
25th Percentile £453 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £538 £517 £513
90th Percentile £563 £541 £545
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.25% -12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

AWS CDK
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS CDK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CDK in the UK excluding London

AWS CDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CDK in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS CDK in the UK excluding London

AWS CDK
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CDK in the UK excluding London

AWS CDK
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Scotland -15 35 £525 +12.66% 4
North of England +19 6 £400 -25.58% 26
North West +18 6 £400 -25.58% 14
Midlands +22 2 £512 -16.41% 16
West Midlands +15 2 £512 +2.40% 9
East of England - 2 £500 - 15
South West +45 1 - - 13
South East - 1 - - 30
AWS CDK
UK

AWS CDK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (4.26%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (85.11%) Serverless
3 39 (82.98%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (78.72%) Amazon S3
5 26 (55.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (38.30%) AWS CodePipeline
7 13 (27.66%) GitHub
7 13 (27.66%) OpenShift
8 11 (23.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (21.28%) Amazon Cognito
9 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (21.28%) AWS CodeBuild
10 7 (14.89%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (14.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (12.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudTrail
11 6 (12.77%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (12.77%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (12.77%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) FTP
2 1 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (25.53%) DynamoDB
3 11 (23.40%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (17.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (12.77%) Parquet
7 5 (10.64%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
8 4 (8.51%) GIS
9 3 (6.38%) InfluxDB
10 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
10 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
10 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
10 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (2.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.15%) GitLab
3 6 (12.77%) Cypress.io
3 6 (12.77%) Git
4 4 (8.51%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.51%) Storybook
5 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.13%) Mockito
6 1 (2.13%) Toad
General
1 17 (36.17%) Public Sector
2 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Developer
2 10 (21.28%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (19.15%) Senior
4 8 (17.02%) AWS Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Data Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Cloud Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Software Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Software Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Architect
7 5 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 1 (2.13%) AWS Architect
11 1 (2.13%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) React
2 8 (17.02%) Spring Boot
3 7 (14.89%) REST
4 6 (12.77%) JSON
4 6 (12.77%) Node.js
4 6 (12.77%) PostGIS
4 6 (12.77%) Spring
5 4 (8.51%) CSS
5 4 (8.51%) Jest
5 4 (8.51%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (6.38%) Next.js
7 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.13%) .NET
8 1 (2.13%) Apache Camel
8 1 (2.13%) HTML
8 1 (2.13%) OAuth
8 1 (2.13%) OpenID
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (2.13%) RESTful
8 1 (2.13%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) CI/CD
2 24 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (46.81%) DevOps
4 21 (44.68%) Agile
5 16 (34.04%) Scrum
6 15 (31.91%) Kanban
7 13 (27.66%) Test Automation
8 11 (23.40%) Human-Centred Design
8 11 (23.40%) Inclusive Design
9 10 (21.28%) Microservices
9 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (19.15%) TDD
11 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
11 8 (17.02%) Event-Driven
11 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (17.02%) Migration
12 7 (14.89%) Data Transformation
12 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
12 7 (14.89%) User Experience
13 6 (12.77%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) TypeScript
3 16 (34.04%) SQL
4 15 (31.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (23.40%) Java
6 10 (21.28%) Bash
7 4 (8.51%) Groovy
8 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) OCP
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.51%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (6.38%) GDPR
4 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Grafana
2 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.64%) Ansible
3 5 (10.64%) Terraform
4 3 (6.38%) Kibana
5 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) Imperva
3 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.13%) New Relic
3 1 (2.13%) Okta
3 1 (2.13%) Splunk
3 1 (2.13%) Talend