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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 419 459
Rank change year-on-year -93 +40 +69
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 99 99 133
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 1.44% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 80 117
10th Percentile £400 £409 £438
25th Percentile £440 £443 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -6.33% +7.36%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £650
90th Percentile £650 £641 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £506
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.19% +5.64%

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 9,316 6,870 8,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.89% 22.70% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,226 4,505 6,278
10th Percentile £358 £363 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 87 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.45 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 5 March 2026.

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 13 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 5 March 2026. 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 -71 56 £525 -4.55% 38
London -40 37 £525 -4.55% 16
UK excluding London -112 34 £500 +4.22% 25
Work from Home -48 33 £525 +7.69% 53
Scotland -16 19 £513 +6.77%
North of England -52 10 £500 +32.45% 11
Yorkshire -60 7 £500 +78.57% 2
West Midlands -56 3 £413 -19.43% 1
Midlands -62 3 £413 -19.43% 1
North West -35 2 £450 -5.26% 6
South East -46 1 £700 - 1
South West - 1 - - 11
North East - 1 £750 - 3

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 (7.07%) Apache
2 6 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (58.59%) Serverless
3 53 (53.54%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (46.46%) Amazon S3
5 41 (41.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (37.37%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (37.37%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (32.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (30.30%) GitHub
9 25 (25.25%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
11 20 (20.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (19.19%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
14 9 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (8.08%) AWS Control Tower
16 7 (7.07%) Azure
16 7 (7.07%) Entra ID
16 7 (7.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) DNS
1 5 (5.05%) HTTP
2 3 (3.03%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) Network Security
2 3 (3.03%) VPN
3 2 (2.02%) BGP
3 2 (2.02%) OSPF
3 2 (2.02%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.02%) WAN
4 1 (1.01%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (13.13%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.10%) MySQL
4 9 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (8.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.08%) MongoDB
6 7 (7.07%) NoSQL
6 7 (7.07%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.02%) Flink
9 2 (2.02%) Power BI
9 2 (2.02%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.02%) Sisense
9 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.02%) Tableau
10 1 (1.01%) DTS
10 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (20.20%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.17%) GitLab
3 7 (7.07%) Git
4 4 (4.04%) MLflow
4 4 (4.04%) NUnit
5 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.03%) Terragrunt
6 2 (2.02%) JIRA
7 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.01%) Flyway
7 1 (1.01%) git-flow
7 1 (1.01%) Postman
7 1 (1.01%) Snyk
7 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.05%) Legal
4 4 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Finance
6 2 (2.02%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (25.25%) Senior
3 20 (20.20%) Developer
4 14 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Architect
5 10 (10.10%) AWS Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Python Engineer
6 8 (8.08%) AWS Architect
6 8 (8.08%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Lead
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) C# Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) REST
2 12 (12.12%) .NET
2 12 (12.12%) OAuth
3 11 (11.11%) FastAPI
3 11 (11.11%) JWT
4 10 (10.10%) Node.js
4 10 (10.10%) Pandas
4 10 (10.10%) PyTorch
4 10 (10.10%) SQLAlchemy
5 9 (9.09%) Hugging Face
5 9 (9.09%) NumPy
5 9 (9.09%) OpenCV
6 7 (7.07%) boto
6 7 (7.07%) React
7 6 (6.06%) .NET Core
7 6 (6.06%) RESTful
8 5 (5.05%) Kafka
8 5 (5.05%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.04%) JSON
9 4 (4.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (31.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.05%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.05%) SCADA
4 5 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.04%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.03%) PKI
6 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.12%) Linux
2 5 (5.05%) Windows
3 3 (3.03%) CentOS
3 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (60.61%) CI/CD
3 54 (54.55%) DevOps
4 25 (25.25%) Containerisation
5 24 (24.24%) Agile
5 24 (24.24%) Observability
6 20 (20.20%) AI
7 19 (19.19%) TDD
8 17 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (17.17%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (17.17%) Microservices
9 15 (15.15%) Analytics
9 15 (15.15%) Event-Driven
10 14 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (13.13%) Machine Learning
11 13 (13.13%) Software Engineering
12 12 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (12.12%) Pair Programming
13 11 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (52.53%) Python
2 18 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 15 (15.15%) Java
4 12 (12.12%) C#
5 11 (11.11%) Bash
5 11 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.10%) SQL
7 8 (8.08%) Shell Script
8 7 (7.07%) Go
9 2 (2.02%) Bicep
10 1 (1.01%) Gremlin
10 1 (1.01%) Ruby
10 1 (1.01%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.13%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.04%) Degree
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (7.07%) QA
2 6 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.05%) NIST
3 5 (5.05%) SLA
4 4 (4.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (4.04%) GDPR
5 3 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.03%) NCSC
6 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (23.23%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (60.61%) Terraform
2 25 (25.25%) Kubernetes
3 17 (17.17%) Grafana
4 9 (9.09%) Ansible
5 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (3.03%) Packer
6 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.03%) Puppet
7 1 (1.01%) Argo
7 1 (1.01%) Foglight
7 1 (1.01%) Kibana
7 1 (1.01%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.01%) Nessus
7 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Databricks
2 5 (5.05%) Splunk
3 3 (3.03%) New Relic
3 3 (3.03%) Okta
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) AVEVA
4 2 (2.02%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.02%) Globalscape
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.02%) Solace
4 2 (2.02%) UiPath
5 1 (1.01%) Ariba
5 1 (1.01%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow