AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS CDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS CDK over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 841 879
Rank change year-on-year +169 +38 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS CDK 37 71 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.069% 0.085%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.33% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 28 50 46
10th Percentile £58,625 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.53% +10.48% -12.50%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,499 21,396 29,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.14% 20.72% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 15,919 18,040
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,810
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +121 32 £80,000 +14.29% 544
London +100 19 £80,000 - 52
Work from Home +100 13 £70,500 +8.46% 195
UK excluding London +169 12 £68,750 +18.53% 557
North of England +38 5 £70,000 +21.74% 126
South West - 4 £95,000 - 69
North West -3 3 £70,000 +21.74% 58
Yorkshire +61 2 £66,500 +40.00% 50
Scotland +118 1 £55,000 - 25
South East +84 1 £27,500 -47.62% 143
Wales - 1 £63,250 - 15

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 (5.41%) Confluence
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 36 (97.30%) AWS
2 20 (54.05%) Serverless
3 19 (51.35%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (48.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (32.43%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (29.73%) Amazon S3
7 10 (27.03%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (18.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (13.51%) GitHub
11 4 (10.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (10.81%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (10.81%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (10.81%) Azure
12 3 (8.11%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (8.11%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (8.11%) GCP
12 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (5.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (13.51%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
1 4 (10.81%) GitLab
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) MLflow
3 2 (5.41%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Advertising
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Electronics
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Developer
3 5 (13.51%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Lead
3 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) React
2 4 (10.81%) Node.js
3 3 (8.11%) Next.js
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Amplify
4 2 (5.41%) AWS SAM
4 2 (5.41%) CSS
4 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.41%) Laravel
4 2 (5.41%) Metaflow
4 2 (5.41%) Vue
4 2 (5.41%) YAML
5 1 (2.70%) D3.js
5 1 (2.70%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) NestJS
5 1 (2.70%) Playwright
5 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) DevOps
1 21 (56.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
3 15 (40.54%) Containerisation
4 9 (24.32%) Agile
4 9 (24.32%) Configuration Management
4 9 (24.32%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (24.32%) Software Engineering
5 8 (21.62%) Mentoring
6 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (18.92%) Observability
6 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (16.22%) Analytics
7 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security
8 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (10.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) TypeScript
3 10 (27.03%) Go
4 9 (24.32%) Bash
5 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.81%) SQL
7 3 (8.11%) PHP
8 2 (5.41%) Java
8 2 (5.41%) Rust
9 1 (2.70%) Elixir
9 1 (2.70%) Elm
9 1 (2.70%) Erlang
9 1 (2.70%) F#
9 1 (2.70%) Haskell
9 1 (2.70%) Lisp
9 1 (2.70%) PureScript
9 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
2 7 (18.92%) Degree
3 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (59.46%) Terraform
2 20 (54.05%) Kubernetes
3 13 (35.14%) Ansible
4 7 (18.92%) Grafana
5 3 (8.11%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Splunk
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.70%) SAP