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 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 790 795 895
Rank change year-on-year +5 +100 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS CDK 52 92 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.41% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33 72 131
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £93,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £75,669 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.01% +26.12% +6.67%

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 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Top 13 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +8 50 £63,750 -15.00% 9
UK excluding London -36 29 £57,500 -24.01% 12
Work from Home +14 22 £61,750 -11.79% 10
London +52 21 £75,000 +3.45% 2
North of England +9 17 £57,500 -23.67% 6
North West +6 16 £57,500 -8.00% 4
Midlands -13 8 £61,750 -22.81%
West Midlands 0 4 £61,750 -22.81%
East Midlands - 4 - -
South West -10 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +46 1 £47,500 -37.23% 2
South East +5 1 £45,000 -35.71%
Scotland -49 1 - - 4

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 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 4 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (63.46%) Serverless
3 24 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (34.62%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (34.62%) Azure
5 14 (26.92%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (23.08%) GitHub
7 9 (17.31%) Amazon S3
7 9 (17.31%) Datadog
8 8 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (13.46%) GCP
10 6 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (11.54%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (9.62%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) MQTT
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.92%) SMS
2 1 (1.92%) VSAN
2 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 6 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.69%) DocumentDB
4 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.77%) MySQL
5 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.92%) Power BI
7 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.92%) Redis
7 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) GitLab
2 10 (19.23%) Git
3 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
4 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.69%) JIRA
4 4 (7.69%) Mocha
5 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.85%) ESLint
5 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.85%) Vite
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.92%) Storybook
6 1 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (13.46%) Retail
6 5 (9.62%) Retail Finance
7 2 (3.85%) Billing
8 1 (1.92%) Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Senior
2 17 (32.69%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Software Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Developer
6 7 (13.46%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (13.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Full Stack Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) Node.js
2 11 (21.15%) AWS SAM
3 9 (17.31%) Kafka
4 8 (15.38%) Jest
4 8 (15.38%) React
5 6 (11.54%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (11.54%) RESTful
6 5 (9.62%) JSON
6 5 (9.62%) PySpark
6 5 (9.62%) Serverless Framework
7 4 (7.69%) Express.js
7 4 (7.69%) Pandas
7 4 (7.69%) Spring
7 4 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 3 (5.77%) Next.js
8 3 (5.77%) REST
9 2 (3.85%) Redux
9 2 (3.85%) Sass
9 2 (3.85%) Swagger
9 2 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (17.31%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.77%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 36 (69.23%) DevOps
3 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
4 21 (40.38%) Agile
5 19 (36.54%) Microservices
6 18 (34.62%) Software Engineering
7 17 (32.69%) Containerisation
8 12 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (19.23%) SDLC
10 10 (19.23%) Software Delivery
11 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
11 7 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (13.46%) Design Patterns
11 7 (13.46%) Event-Driven
12 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (11.54%) Observability
12 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (11.54%) Roadmaps
12 6 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) Python
2 20 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 16 (30.77%) Bash
4 12 (23.08%) Java
5 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
6 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
7 7 (13.46%) C#
7 7 (13.46%) Go
8 4 (7.69%) C++
8 4 (7.69%) Rust
8 4 (7.69%) SQL
9 1 (1.92%) Groovy
9 1 (1.92%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.77%) NIST
2 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (42.31%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Firmware
3 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (65.38%) Terraform
2 19 (36.54%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.85%) Grafana
4 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.85%) Puppet
5 1 (1.92%) Argo
5 1 (1.92%) Kibana
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.92%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Splunk
2 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.92%) Blackboard
4 1 (1.92%) Databricks
4 1 (1.92%) Talend
4 1 (1.92%) VMware