AWS CDK Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS CDK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 546 647
Rank change year-on-year -34 +101 -86
Permanent jobs citing AWS CDK 66 12 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.035% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 46 11 16
10th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £44,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,938 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +22.61% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75,625 £78,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £64,375
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -9.38% +30.61% -18.70%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,563 4,757 10,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.47% 13.72% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,167 2,926 7,200
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

AWS CDK
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS CDK relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AWS CDK job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS CDK
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS CDK.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS CDK

AWS CDK
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CDK in the UK excluding London

AWS CDK
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CDK within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wales -41 15 £72,500 +14.62% 3
Midlands - 14 £75,000 - 4
North of England -35 13 £61,124 -13.30% 24
Scotland - 13 £60,000 - 3
East Midlands - 12 £75,000 - 2
North West -1 10 £67,249 -10.34% 14
South West -69 7 £55,000 -42.11% 17
South East -24 4 £67,500 +145.45% 8
North East - 3 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £84,250 - 2
AWS CDK
UK

AWS CDK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (4.55%) IIS
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) nginx
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (62.12%) Serverless
3 36 (54.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 29 (43.94%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 19 (28.79%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (24.24%) GitHub
8 10 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (13.64%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (9.09%) CloudFront
13 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
14 4 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (6.06%) Azure
14 4 (6.06%) GCP
14 4 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (4.55%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) Firewall
1 3 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (13.64%) DynamoDB
3 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.52%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.12%) Git
3 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.03%) git-flow
5 2 (3.03%) JIRA
6 1 (1.52%) GitLab
6 1 (1.52%) MLflow
6 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 14 (21.21%) Finance
4 8 (12.12%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Local Government
6 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Lead
2 14 (21.21%) Developer
3 13 (19.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 11 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Technical Leader
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Architect
7 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Senior
9 3 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Digital Developer
11 1 (1.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (42.42%) React
2 20 (30.30%) Node.js
3 18 (27.27%) Next.js
4 12 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
4 12 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.61%) LangChain
5 7 (10.61%) REST
6 6 (9.09%) AWS SAM
6 6 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 6 (9.09%) Kafka
6 6 (9.09%) Serverless Framework
6 6 (9.09%) Spring
7 4 (6.06%) React Native
8 2 (3.03%) Web Services
9 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.52%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.52%) Pandas
9 1 (1.52%) PySpark
9 1 (1.52%) pytest
9 1 (1.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 41 (62.12%) Cloud Native
2 13 (19.70%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (18.18%) Mainframe
4 6 (9.09%) Digital Wallet
4 6 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
6 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
7 3 (4.55%) Replication
7 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Linux
1 5 (7.58%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (77.27%) Agile
3 45 (68.18%) CI/CD
4 37 (56.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (48.48%) Observability
6 25 (37.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (37.88%) Software Engineering
7 23 (34.85%) Microservices
7 23 (34.85%) Test Automation
8 22 (33.33%) DevOps
9 21 (31.82%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (28.79%) AI
10 19 (28.79%) Mentoring
11 18 (27.27%) Clean Code
11 18 (27.27%) Event-Driven
11 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (25.76%) Decision-Making
13 16 (24.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 13 (19.70%) Containerisation
15 12 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 34 (51.52%) TypeScript
2 19 (28.79%) Java
3 16 (24.24%) Python
4 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
5 12 (18.18%) Ruby
6 7 (10.61%) Bash
7 6 (9.09%) COBOL
7 6 (9.09%) SQL
8 4 (6.06%) Go
9 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 6 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (9.09%) NCSC
2 6 (9.09%) WCAG
3 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (56.06%) Terraform
2 11 (16.67%) Ansible
3 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 7 (10.61%) Puppet
5 5 (7.58%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.55%) Nagios
7 2 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.52%) Argo
8 1 (1.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) OpenAI
2 2 (3.03%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat