AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS CDK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 595 795
Rank change year-on-year -37 +200 +83
Permanent jobs citing AWS CDK 84 52 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.12% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.60% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 51 43 54
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,527 £63,750 £55,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -1.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,813
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,500 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,283 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.31% +12.00% +6.38%

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 8,692 8,649 20,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 20.71% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,345 6,522 15,750
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,150 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +10.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

AWS CDK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS CDK job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS CDK
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CDK

AWS CDK
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Top 12 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 19 April 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
England -42 69 £90,000 +20.00% 50
UK excluding London -36 48 £59,283 -15.31% 42
Work from Home +10 33 £60,000 -17.24% 30
London +6 30 £90,000 +12.50% 14
North of England -48 19 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Midlands -23 16 £50,000 -
Yorkshire -39 13 £60,000 -2.04% 3
Scotland -20 10 £60,000 -4.00% 8
East Midlands - 9 - -
West Midlands -18 7 £50,000 -
North West -19 6 £100,000 +35.59% 9
South East -55 3 £65,000 -3.70% 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 5 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (75.00%) Serverless
3 55 (65.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 54 (64.29%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (40.48%) AWS Step Functions
6 32 (38.10%) GitHub
7 30 (35.71%) Amazon S3
7 30 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (27.38%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (22.62%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (19.05%) Azure
12 15 (17.86%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (15.48%) Pulumi
14 8 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
16 4 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
16 4 (4.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.48%) DSL
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.19%) DynamoDB
2 16 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 16 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 10 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (8.33%) MySQL
5 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) Git
2 17 (20.24%) Jenkins
3 16 (19.05%) GitLab
4 5 (5.95%) MLflow
5 3 (3.57%) git-flow
5 3 (3.57%) NUnit
6 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.19%) JIRA
6 1 (1.19%) Maven
6 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Finance
3 5 (5.95%) Advertising
4 4 (4.76%) Banking
4 4 (4.76%) Local Government
5 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.19%) Billing
6 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.19%) Legal
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (26.19%) Developer
2 14 (16.67%) Architect
2 14 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 13 (15.48%) AWS Security Architect
3 13 (15.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 13 (15.48%) Security Architect
4 12 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 12 (14.29%) Senior
5 11 (13.10%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Lead
8 6 (7.14%) AWS Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (36.90%) React
2 21 (25.00%) .NET
3 16 (19.05%) .NET Core
4 15 (17.86%) RESTful
5 14 (16.67%) Node.js
6 13 (15.48%) ASP.NET
6 13 (15.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (15.48%) Blazor
7 12 (14.29%) Next.js
8 9 (10.71%) REST
9 6 (7.14%) NestJS
9 6 (7.14%) OAuth
9 6 (7.14%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.95%) LangChain
10 5 (5.95%) LangGraph
10 5 (5.95%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (4.76%) JWT
11 4 (4.76%) React Native
12 2 (2.38%) Kafka
12 2 (2.38%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 48 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.19%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (88.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 58 (69.05%) CI/CD
3 41 (48.81%) DevOps
4 37 (44.05%) Agile
5 34 (40.48%) Microservices
6 28 (33.33%) Observability
7 25 (29.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (26.19%) Test Automation
9 21 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 20 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (22.62%) Cloud Security
11 19 (22.62%) Incident Response
11 19 (22.62%) Software Engineering
12 17 (20.24%) Mentoring
13 16 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
14 15 (17.86%) Threat Modelling
15 14 (16.67%) Application Security
15 14 (16.67%) DevSecOps
16 13 (15.48%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.48%) TypeScript
2 26 (30.95%) Python
3 17 (20.24%) SQL
4 14 (16.67%) Go
4 14 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.48%) Rust
6 9 (10.71%) C#
7 6 (7.14%) Java
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 17 (20.24%) AWS Certified Developer
3 13 (15.48%) Degree
3 13 (15.48%) OSCP
4 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (55.95%) Terraform
2 26 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.71%) Grafana
4 5 (5.95%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.38%) Ansible
5 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.19%) Nagios
6 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (4.76%) Databricks
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.38%) Okta
3 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.19%) Splunk