AWS CDK Job Trends

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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 655 659
Rank change year-on-year +67 +4 +234
Permanent jobs citing AWS CDK 55 51 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.093% 0.086%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 34 35 38
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -0.41% -17.31%
75th Percentile £92,813 £78,750 £84,688
90th Percentile £110,500 £123,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,288
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.97% +8.14%

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 7,024 11,707 13,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 21.39% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 6,913 10,805
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 3 January 2026.

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 3 January 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 +70 48 £70,000 -5.08% 24
UK excluding London +60 29 £60,000 -11.11% 17
Work from Home +92 25 £75,000 +11.11% 11
London +73 19 £88,750 +18.33% 10
North of England +34 17 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Yorkshire +9 13 £60,000 - 3
West Midlands +33 5 £50,000 -37.50% 4
South East +21 5 - - 4
Midlands +21 5 £50,000 -37.50% 4
North West +31 4 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Scotland +2 2 - -

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 4 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 44 (80.00%) Serverless
3 37 (67.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (54.55%) Amazon S3
5 26 (47.27%) GitHub
6 23 (41.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (41.82%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 21 (38.18%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (34.55%) Azure
10 15 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (25.45%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (25.45%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (23.64%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (14.55%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (12.73%) SaaS
15 5 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
15 5 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) DNS
1 2 (3.64%) DSL
1 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.64%) VPN
2 1 (1.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (49.09%) DynamoDB
2 18 (32.73%) NoSQL
3 17 (30.91%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
5 9 (16.36%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (12.73%) MySQL
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Git
2 9 (16.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.09%) git-flow
4 4 (7.27%) GitLab
5 3 (5.45%) MLflow
6 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.82%) JIRA
6 1 (1.82%) NUnit
General
1 22 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Marketing
3 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Advertising
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Developer
2 18 (32.73%) Senior
3 12 (21.82%) .NET Developer
4 11 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (9.09%) AWS Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Architect
8 3 (5.45%) AWS Architect
8 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (40.00%) React
2 20 (36.36%) .NET
3 14 (25.45%) .NET Core
3 14 (25.45%) RESTful
4 13 (23.64%) ASP.NET
4 13 (23.64%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (23.64%) Blazor
5 6 (10.91%) Node.js
6 5 (9.09%) CSS
6 5 (9.09%) Kafka
6 5 (9.09%) Material-UI
6 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (7.27%) HTML
8 3 (5.45%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (5.45%) LangChain
8 3 (5.45%) LangGraph
8 3 (5.45%) Next.js
8 3 (5.45%) OAuth
8 3 (5.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.82%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (78.18%) CI/CD
2 38 (69.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (65.45%) DevOps
4 23 (41.82%) Microservices
5 21 (38.18%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (34.55%) Agile
7 18 (32.73%) Containerisation
8 14 (25.45%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (23.64%) Application Security
10 12 (21.82%) Observability
11 11 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (14.55%) Data Modelling
12 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
13 7 (12.73%) B2B
13 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
14 6 (10.91%) Clean Code
14 6 (10.91%) Event-Driven
14 6 (10.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
1 17 (30.91%) SQL
1 17 (30.91%) TypeScript
2 9 (16.36%) C#
3 5 (9.09%) Bash
3 5 (9.09%) Go
3 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.64%) Rust
5 1 (1.82%) Java
5 1 (1.82%) PHP
5 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 13 (23.64%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (7.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) MCP
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 2 (3.64%) OSCP
5 2 (3.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) vCloud
2 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (58.18%) Terraform
2 16 (29.09%) Kubernetes
3 11 (20.00%) Grafana
4 6 (10.91%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (5.45%) Databricks
2 2 (3.64%) Okta
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle
3 1 (1.82%) VMware