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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 453 583
Rank change year-on-year -34 +130 +32
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 85 232 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 1.90% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 193 235
10th Percentile £411 £425 £421
25th Percentile £429 £456 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £524 £538 £575
90th Percentile £603 £588 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £479 £513
% change year-on-year -3.44% -6.54% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,687 12,195 23,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.63% 22.44% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,934 8,797 17,534
10th Percentile £350 £375 £405
25th Percentile £428 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 155 224
10th Percentile £22.70 £32.45 £20.78
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.22 £35.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.75 £75.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.30 £58.59 £57.18
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.47% +36.14%

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 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Top 10 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 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London -52 55 £463 -3.44% 12
Work from Home +27 48 £475 -4.71% 10
Scotland -18 47 £461 -3.30% 4
England +20 29 £550 +6.02% 9
London +64 18 £550 +7.32% 2
North of England +14 7 £550 +10.00% 6
North West +23 6 £550 +10.00% 4
Midlands +18 1 £500 +25.00%
West Midlands +18 1 £500 +25.00%
North East +3 1 - -

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 (2.35%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (61.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (60.00%) Serverless
4 47 (55.29%) Amazon S3
5 41 (48.24%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (35.29%) OpenShift
7 20 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (21.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 15 (17.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (9.41%) AWS CodeBuild
11 8 (9.41%) GitHub
12 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (5.88%) AWS CodeCommit
13 5 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (4.71%) Textract
15 3 (3.53%) Amazon EventBridge
15 3 (3.53%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
1 2 (2.35%) Internet
1 2 (2.35%) SMS
2 1 (1.18%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (52.94%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (27.06%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (22.35%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (22.35%) MongoDB
4 12 (14.12%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (10.59%) Informix
6 8 (9.41%) InfluxDB
7 7 (8.24%) DynamoDB
8 6 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (3.53%) GIS
10 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
12 1 (1.18%) Big Data
12 1 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) Jenkins
2 15 (17.65%) GitLab
3 9 (10.59%) Git
4 6 (7.06%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.53%) Mocha
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.18%) ESLint
6 1 (1.18%) JIRA
6 1 (1.18%) JUnit
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (37.65%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.06%) Finance
4 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.35%) Retail
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Legal
5 1 (1.18%) Marketing
5 1 (1.18%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (41.18%) Developer
2 16 (18.82%) Data Engineer
3 15 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) AWS Developer
5 9 (10.59%) Database Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Senior
6 8 (9.41%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (9.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Automation Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Backend Developer
7 7 (8.24%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Java Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) REST
2 14 (16.47%) Node.js
2 14 (16.47%) React
3 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 9 (10.59%) CSS
4 9 (10.59%) HTML
4 9 (10.59%) Spring
5 7 (8.24%) SpaCy
6 6 (7.06%) PostGIS
7 5 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
7 5 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.71%) Django
8 4 (4.71%) Jest
8 4 (4.71%) Next.js
8 4 (4.71%) OAuth
8 4 (4.71%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.71%) PyTorch
8 4 (4.71%) Spring Security
9 3 (3.53%) Celery
9 3 (3.53%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Replication
2 8 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.41%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.18%) Podcast
7 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.29%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (8.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.82%) Agile
2 43 (50.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 31 (36.47%) DevOps
5 28 (32.94%) Kanban
6 24 (28.24%) Scrum
7 20 (23.53%) Test Automation
8 17 (20.00%) Migration
9 16 (18.82%) Microservices
9 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.47%) Code Quality
11 13 (15.29%) Community of Practice
11 13 (15.29%) Machine Learning
12 12 (14.12%) Analytics
13 11 (12.94%) Containerisation
13 11 (12.94%) Human-Centred Design
13 11 (12.94%) Inclusive Design
13 11 (12.94%) Pair Programming
14 10 (11.76%) Roadmaps
14 10 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (54.12%) TypeScript
2 37 (43.53%) Python
3 25 (29.41%) SQL
4 22 (25.88%) Java
5 16 (18.82%) JavaScript
6 13 (15.29%) Bash
7 5 (5.88%) Groovy
7 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.18%) C
8 1 (1.18%) C#
8 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.18%) Degree
2 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (28.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (43.53%) Grafana
2 20 (23.53%) Ansible
3 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
4 15 (17.65%) Terraform
5 8 (9.41%) Kibana
6 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Oracle
2 5 (5.88%) Commvault
2 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.18%) Splunk