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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 316 292
Rank change year-on-year +24 -24 +135
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 51 74 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.16% 2.27% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 66 132
10th Percentile £416 £415 £425
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £509
90th Percentile £580 £545 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £488
% change year-on-year +3.09% -0.51% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £74.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 2,364 3,264 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.37% 16.11% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 2,138 3,144
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 212 88
10th Percentile £33.91 £21.81 £22.21
25th Percentile £55.19 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +28.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.31 £73.94
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.95 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 16 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 16 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 -14 38 £510 +10.16% 5
North of England +16 7 £400 -27.27% 10
North West +7 7 £400 -27.27% 7
South West +41 2 - - 2
East of England - 2 £500 - 2
Midlands +13 1 £512 -16.41% 1
West Midlands +11 1 £512 +2.40% 1
South East - 1 - - 21
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 (3.92%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (82.35%) Serverless
3 40 (78.43%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (72.55%) Amazon S3
5 32 (62.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (41.18%) AWS CodePipeline
7 15 (29.41%) GitHub
8 13 (25.49%) OpenShift
9 11 (21.57%) AWS CodeBuild
10 10 (19.61%) Amazon Cognito
10 10 (19.61%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (13.73%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (13.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (13.73%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (11.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
13 6 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (11.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) FTP
2 1 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (21.57%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (17.65%) DynamoDB
5 7 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (9.80%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (9.80%) GIS
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (7.84%) Parquet
7 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.88%) InfluxDB
8 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
9 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Jenkins
2 10 (19.61%) GitLab
3 8 (15.69%) Cypress.io
4 7 (13.73%) Storybook
5 6 (11.76%) Git
6 4 (7.84%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.96%) Mockito
8 1 (1.96%) Toad
General
1 19 (37.25%) Public Sector
2 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Aviation
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (47.06%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) AWS Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Data Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Software Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Cloud Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) React Developer
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.96%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (33.33%) React
2 8 (15.69%) Spring Boot
3 7 (13.73%) CSS
3 7 (13.73%) Node.js
3 7 (13.73%) PostGIS
3 7 (13.73%) REST
3 7 (13.73%) Tailwind CSS
4 6 (11.76%) Jest
4 6 (11.76%) Spring
5 4 (7.84%) JSON
5 4 (7.84%) RESTful
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Amplify
6 3 (5.88%) GraphQL
6 3 (5.88%) Next.js
7 2 (3.92%) Playwright
7 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.96%) OAuth
8 1 (1.96%) OpenID
8 1 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.96%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 27 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (47.06%) Agile
4 23 (45.10%) DevOps
5 17 (33.33%) Scrum
6 15 (29.41%) Kanban
7 14 (27.45%) Test Automation
8 12 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (23.53%) Human-Centred Design
8 12 (23.53%) Inclusive Design
8 12 (23.53%) Microservices
9 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 9 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 9 (17.65%) TDD
9 9 (17.65%) User Experience
10 8 (15.69%) DevSecOps
10 8 (15.69%) Migration
10 8 (15.69%) Unit Testing
11 7 (13.73%) Data Transformation
11 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) Python
2 21 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 14 (27.45%) SQL
5 12 (23.53%) Java
6 10 (19.61%) Bash
7 4 (7.84%) Groovy
8 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) OCP
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.84%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Grafana
2 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.73%) Terraform
4 5 (9.80%) Ansible
5 3 (5.88%) Kibana
6 1 (1.96%) Podman
6 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle
2 2 (3.92%) Imperva
3 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.96%) New Relic
3 1 (1.96%) Okta
3 1 (1.96%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.96%) Splunk
3 1 (1.96%) Talend