AWS CDK Contracts

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 483 462
Rank change year-on-year +66 -21 +232
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 103 115 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.26% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.54% 1.29% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 104 214
10th Percentile £400 £415 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.25% -12.21%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £535
90th Percentile £675 £659 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.84% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £78.50 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 6,673 8,935 13,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.74% 20.54% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,575 6,199 10,102
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 234 153
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.83 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

AWS CDK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CDK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS CDK.

Daily rate trend for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS CDK.

Hourly rate trend for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Top 12 Contract 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 2 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
Work from Home +52 60 £500 +3.31% 42
England +61 52 £489 -21.79% 83
UK excluding London +34 48 £500 +5.26% 34
Scotland -13 37 £525 +12.66% 3
London +44 35 £468 -26.54% 60
North of England +23 6 £400 -25.58% 11
North West +15 6 £400 -25.58% 9
East of England - 2 £500 - 3
South West +42 1 - - 4
Midlands +18 1 £512 -16.41% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £512 +2.40% 1
South East - 1 - - 12

AWS CDK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.94%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (73.79%) Serverless
3 71 (68.93%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (55.34%) Amazon S3
5 51 (49.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (29.13%) GitHub
7 25 (24.27%) AWS CodePipeline
8 21 (20.39%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (19.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (16.50%) Amazon Cognito
10 17 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (14.56%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (13.59%) AWS CodeBuild
12 14 (13.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (13.59%) OpenShift
13 10 (9.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (8.74%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (7.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (6.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) HTTP
2 7 (6.80%) Firewall
3 2 (1.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.97%) Broadband
4 1 (0.97%) FTP
4 1 (0.97%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.16%) DynamoDB
2 25 (24.27%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (15.53%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (13.59%) NoSQL
5 12 (11.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (10.68%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (8.74%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (6.80%) Parquet
8 7 (6.80%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.88%) GIS
9 4 (3.88%) InfluxDB
9 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.94%) MySQL
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Jenkins
2 18 (17.48%) Git
3 11 (10.68%) Cypress.io
3 11 (10.68%) GitLab
4 7 (6.80%) Storybook
5 6 (5.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (4.85%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.85%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.85%) git-flow
7 4 (3.88%) JIRA
8 3 (2.91%) Mocha
8 3 (2.91%) Postman
8 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.94%) Gradle
10 1 (0.97%) MLflow
10 1 (0.97%) Mockito
10 1 (0.97%) Toad
General
1 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.62%) Finance
4 8 (7.77%) Banking
5 5 (4.85%) Retail
6 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Electronics
7 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.94%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.97%) Aviation
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 50 (48.54%) Developer
2 25 (24.27%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (20.39%) Senior
4 18 (17.48%) AWS Developer
5 14 (13.59%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Data Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.77%) AWS Software Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Node.js Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Cloud Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Backend Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (26.21%) React
2 18 (17.48%) Node.js
3 15 (14.56%) CSS
4 14 (13.59%) Jest
5 12 (11.65%) JSON
6 10 (9.71%) GraphQL
6 10 (9.71%) REST
6 10 (9.71%) Spring Boot
6 10 (9.71%) WebSockets
7 9 (8.74%) HTML
7 9 (8.74%) RESTful
8 8 (7.77%) Spring
9 7 (6.80%) Tailwind CSS
10 6 (5.83%) PostGIS
10 6 (5.83%) Redux
11 5 (4.85%) Apache Cordova
11 5 (4.85%) LESS
11 5 (4.85%) Sass
11 5 (4.85%) Web Services
12 4 (3.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.88%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.91%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.97%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.28%) CI/CD
2 48 (46.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (44.66%) DevOps
4 35 (33.98%) Agile
5 28 (27.18%) Test Automation
6 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
7 19 (18.45%) Microservices
7 19 (18.45%) Scrum
8 18 (17.48%) Kanban
8 18 (17.48%) Mentoring
9 17 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (13.59%) User Experience
12 13 (12.62%) Clean Code
12 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
12 13 (12.62%) Event-Driven
12 13 (12.62%) TDD
13 12 (11.65%) Migration
14 11 (10.68%) Human-Centred Design
14 11 (10.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 56 (54.37%) Python
2 37 (35.92%) TypeScript
3 30 (29.13%) SQL
4 29 (28.16%) JavaScript
5 19 (18.45%) Java
6 13 (12.62%) Bash
7 9 (8.74%) Go
8 6 (5.83%) Groovy
8 6 (5.83%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.91%) C#
10 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.97%) PHP
11 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.97%) Degree
3 1 (0.97%) OCP
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.85%) GDPR
2 4 (3.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.94%) QA
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (28.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (26.21%) Terraform
2 17 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 14 (13.59%) Grafana
4 7 (6.80%) Ansible
5 4 (3.88%) Kibana
5 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.97%) Argo
6 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) Oracle
2 4 (3.88%) Splunk
3 3 (2.91%) Imperva
4 2 (1.94%) Google
4 2 (1.94%) OutSystems
4 2 (1.94%) SAP
5 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.97%) New Relic
5 1 (0.97%) Okta
5 1 (0.97%) Talend