AWS CDK Contract Job Trends

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AWS CDK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 461 474
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +119
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 105 103 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 1.36% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 81 108
10th Percentile £385 £331 £442
25th Percentile £422 £430 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +3.35%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +5.32% -8.67% +7.36%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,189 7,567 9,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.88% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,414 4,793 6,998
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 105 175
10th Percentile £30.40 £21.55 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £74.70 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

AWS CDK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS CDK job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS CDK
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CDK

AWS CDK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CDK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CDK

AWS CDK
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England -16 59 £500 +5.26% 35
Work from Home -1 45 £506 +5.85% 17
UK excluding London -67 41 £505 +5.32% 26
London +10 36 £448 +21.36% 17
Scotland -28 23 £520 +8.33% 3
North of England -29 12 £500 +8.11% 12
Yorkshire -38 7 £500 +78.57% 9
North West -19 4 £500 +5.26% 3
West Midlands -37 3 £413 - 5
Midlands -39 3 £413 - 5
South West - 3 £488 - 1
North East - 1 £750 -

AWS CDK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (58.10%) Serverless
3 56 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
4 55 (52.38%) Amazon S3
5 49 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 41 (39.05%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (20.00%) GitHub
10 16 (15.24%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
13 12 (11.43%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (10.48%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (10.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (9.52%) Datadog
15 10 (9.52%) OpenShift
16 9 (8.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (8.57%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) DNS
2 3 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) VPN
3 1 (0.95%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (16.19%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (15.24%) DynamoDB
4 15 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (10.48%) MongoDB
6 10 (9.52%) MySQL
7 7 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.86%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.90%) Flink
11 2 (1.90%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.90%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.90%) Power BI
11 2 (1.90%) Sisense
11 2 (1.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (18.10%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.43%) GitLab
3 8 (7.62%) Git
4 6 (5.71%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.81%) Terragrunt
6 3 (2.86%) NUnit
7 2 (1.90%) MLflow
8 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 22 (20.95%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Legal
5 2 (1.90%) Finance
5 2 (1.90%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.90%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (34.29%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (24.76%) Senior
3 25 (23.81%) Developer
4 14 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Lead
6 10 (9.52%) AWS Developer
6 10 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Architect
9 7 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.33%) FastAPI
1 14 (13.33%) REST
2 13 (12.38%) React
3 12 (11.43%) OAuth
3 12 (11.43%) PyTorch
4 11 (10.48%) Node.js
5 10 (9.52%) .NET
5 10 (9.52%) JWT
6 9 (8.57%) Pandas
6 9 (8.57%) SQLAlchemy
7 8 (7.62%) Hugging Face
7 8 (7.62%) NumPy
7 8 (7.62%) OpenCV
8 7 (6.67%) CSS
8 7 (6.67%) HTML
9 6 (5.71%) boto
9 6 (5.71%) Kafka
9 6 (5.71%) OAuth2
9 6 (5.71%) Spring
9 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.81%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.81%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.81%) PKI
5 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.86%) SCADA
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) BBC
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Derivative
7 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.95%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.52%) Linux
2 6 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (5.71%) Unix
3 4 (3.81%) CentOS
4 1 (0.95%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 62 (59.05%) CI/CD
3 55 (52.38%) DevOps
4 30 (28.57%) Agile
5 25 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 23 (21.90%) AI
6 23 (21.90%) Observability
7 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 20 (19.05%) Microservices
9 18 (17.14%) Machine Learning
9 18 (17.14%) TDD
10 17 (16.19%) Event-Driven
11 14 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (13.33%) Scrum
12 13 (12.38%) LLM
12 13 (12.38%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (11.43%) Kanban
14 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (50.48%) Python
2 33 (31.43%) TypeScript
3 15 (14.29%) Java
4 14 (13.33%) Go
5 13 (12.38%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.52%) C#
6 10 (9.52%) SQL
7 7 (6.67%) Bash
7 7 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.81%) Perl
9 1 (0.95%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.86%) Degree
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.95%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.67%) QA
3 5 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.81%) NCSC
5 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 3 (2.86%) NIST
6 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) KVM
Systems Management
1 58 (55.24%) Terraform
2 32 (30.48%) Kubernetes
3 28 (26.67%) Grafana
4 13 (12.38%) Ansible
5 6 (5.71%) Packer
6 5 (4.76%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.81%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.90%) Nagios
9 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.95%) Argo
10 1 (0.95%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.95%) Kibana
10 1 (0.95%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (4.76%) Splunk
2 4 (3.81%) Okta
3 2 (1.90%) Blue Prism
3 2 (1.90%) Commvault
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle
3 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.90%) UiPath
4 1 (0.95%) Ariba
4 1 (0.95%) Google
4 1 (0.95%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.95%) SAP