AWS CDK Contracts

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS CDK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CDK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 459 600
Rank change year-on-year -4 +141 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS CDK 112 232 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 1.80% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 199 196
10th Percentile £415 £425 £442
25th Percentile £438 £453 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £488 £534
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -8.62% +12.32%
75th Percentile £574 £533 £593
90th Percentile £650 £588 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £479 £525
% change year-on-year -1.98% -8.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

AWS CDK is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS CDK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS CDK in the UK

AWS CDK
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CDK within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -46 71 £470 -1.98% 26
Scotland -18 59 £463 -2.63% 9
Work from Home +32 52 £480 -2.34% 20
England +54 45 £600 +17.07% 22
London +86 31 £625 +20.48% 4
North of England +18 8 £538 +7.50% 8
North West +15 7 £538 +7.50% 6
Midlands +22 2 £613 +53.13% 3
South West +4 2 £750 +25.00% 4
West Midlands +13 1 £500 +25.00% 2
East Midlands +12 1 £725 +43.56% 1
North East - 1 - -

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 3 (2.68%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (61.61%) Serverless
3 60 (53.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 57 (50.89%) Amazon S3
4 57 (50.89%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (29.46%) OpenShift
6 19 (16.96%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (16.07%) AWS CodePipeline
8 17 (15.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (9.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 10 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (7.14%) GitHub
12 6 (5.36%) AWS CodeBuild
12 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.36%) Textract
13 5 (4.46%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (4.46%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (2.68%) CloudFront
14 3 (2.68%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) DNS
2 2 (1.79%) DHCP
2 2 (1.79%) Firewall
2 2 (1.79%) Internet
2 2 (1.79%) LAN
2 2 (1.79%) SMS
2 2 (1.79%) WLAN
3 1 (0.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (49.11%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (29.46%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (17.86%) MongoDB
4 19 (16.96%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (11.61%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (10.71%) Oracle Database
7 7 (6.25%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (5.36%) InfluxDB
8 6 (5.36%) Informix
9 4 (3.57%) GIS
9 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.29%) GitLab
3 12 (10.71%) Git
4 6 (5.36%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.68%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.68%) Mocha
7 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.89%) ESLint
7 1 (0.89%) JIRA
7 1 (0.89%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.89%) TestCafe
General
1 40 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.71%) Finance
4 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.79%) Retail
6 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.89%) Legal
6 1 (0.89%) Marketing
6 1 (0.89%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 47 (41.96%) Developer
2 24 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (15.18%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 11 (9.82%) AWS Developer
6 10 (8.93%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (8.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Senior
7 9 (8.04%) Automation Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Backend Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Database Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Python Developer
11 4 (3.57%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.89%) React
2 27 (24.11%) Node.js
3 18 (16.07%) CSS
3 18 (16.07%) HTML
4 17 (15.18%) REST
5 11 (9.82%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.93%) Spring
7 7 (6.25%) PostGIS
7 7 (6.25%) SpaCy
8 5 (4.46%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.57%) Django
9 4 (3.57%) Gherkin
9 4 (3.57%) Jest
9 4 (3.57%) Next.js
9 4 (3.57%) OAuth
9 4 (3.57%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.57%) PyTorch
9 4 (3.57%) Spring Security
10 3 (2.68%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.14%) Replication
3 4 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.89%) Podcast
6 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.39%) Linux
2 9 (8.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.25%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (49.11%) Agile
1 55 (49.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 47 (41.96%) DevOps
4 29 (25.89%) Kanban
5 26 (23.21%) Microservices
6 25 (22.32%) Scrum
7 24 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 20 (17.86%) Code Quality
8 20 (17.86%) Containerisation
9 17 (15.18%) Machine Learning
10 15 (13.39%) Human-Centred Design
10 15 (13.39%) Migration
10 15 (13.39%) Pair Programming
11 14 (12.50%) Community of Practice
11 14 (12.50%) Inclusive Design
11 14 (12.50%) Natural Language Processing
11 14 (12.50%) TDD
11 14 (12.50%) User Experience
12 13 (11.61%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 66 (58.93%) TypeScript
2 54 (48.21%) Python
3 32 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 26 (23.21%) Java
5 23 (20.54%) Bash
5 23 (20.54%) SQL
6 11 (9.82%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.46%) Groovy
8 2 (1.79%) C
8 2 (1.79%) C#
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.89%) Degree
3 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.46%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (36.61%) Grafana
2 28 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (22.32%) Terraform
4 17 (15.18%) Ansible
5 10 (8.93%) Kibana
6 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (15.18%) Oracle
2 4 (3.57%) Commvault
3 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.89%) Splunk