AWS Step Functions Contracts

AWS Step Functions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Step Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Step Functions over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 588 727
Rank change year-on-year +77 +139 -264
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 87 131 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.59% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 111 68
10th Percentile £413 £438 £423
25th Percentile £463 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £652
90th Percentile £721 £600 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Step Functions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Step Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Step Functions.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Step Functions within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +89 74 £525 -4.55% 20
London +78 51 £500 -9.09% 13
Work from Home +93 23 £550 - 12
UK excluding London +47 20 £638 +10.87% 6
North of England +35 9 £600 +6.67%
Yorkshire +23 6 £638 +10.87%
South West +21 4 £538 -10.42% 2
North West +16 3 £551 +0.09%
South East +15 3 £738 +28.26% 2
Scotland +32 2 £678 +59.53%
East of England - 2 - - 1

AWS Step Functions
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 7 (8.05%) Apache
2 6 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (8.05%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.15%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.15%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.15%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (98.85%) AWS
2 76 (87.36%) Serverless
3 68 (78.16%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (56.32%) Amazon S3
5 23 (26.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (21.84%) Amazon MSK
7 16 (18.39%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (13.79%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (12.64%) Amazon EventBridge
10 9 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (10.34%) GitHub
11 7 (8.05%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (6.90%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.75%) Azure
13 5 (5.75%) dbt
14 4 (4.60%) AWS CodeCommit
14 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (35.63%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (27.59%) DynamoDB
4 21 (24.14%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (24.14%) Parquet
5 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.05%) Data Lake
7 6 (6.90%) Big Data
8 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.45%) MySQL
9 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.30%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.30%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (2.30%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.30%) Presto
10 2 (2.30%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Git
1 7 (8.05%) JIRA
2 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.45%) Selenium
5 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.30%) kappa
5 2 (2.30%) Maven
6 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
General
1 13 (14.94%) Public Sector
2 8 (9.20%) Finance
2 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.30%) Banking
3 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.30%) Retail
4 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.15%) Law
4 1 (1.15%) Legal
4 1 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (48.28%) Data Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) Developer
3 15 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Architect
5 12 (13.79%) AWS Data Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Lead
6 9 (10.34%) Python Developer
7 8 (9.20%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (8.05%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Architect
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Data Architect
9 5 (5.75%) Senior
9 5 (5.75%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) DevOps Architect
10 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
10 3 (3.45%) Lead Python Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) JSON
2 19 (21.84%) Apache Avro
3 12 (13.79%) Lambda Expressions
3 12 (13.79%) Node.js
3 12 (13.79%) PySpark
4 10 (11.49%) Kafka
5 9 (10.34%) OAuth
5 9 (10.34%) React
5 9 (10.34%) RESTful
6 7 (8.05%) .NET
6 7 (8.05%) .NET Core
6 7 (8.05%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.60%) REST
8 3 (3.45%) Web Services
9 2 (2.30%) JDBC
9 2 (2.30%) ODBC
9 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.30%) YAML
10 1 (1.15%) Django
10 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.75%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.30%) IoT
3 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Unix
2 3 (3.45%) Linux
3 2 (2.30%) Windows
4 1 (1.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) DevOps
2 31 (35.63%) ETL
3 30 (34.48%) CI/CD
4 27 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (29.89%) Data Modelling
6 22 (25.29%) Data Ingestion
7 16 (18.39%) Agile
8 12 (13.79%) Analytics
9 11 (12.64%) Business Transformation
9 11 (12.64%) Predictive Modelling
10 10 (11.49%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.34%) BDD
11 9 (10.34%) Data Management
11 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (9.20%) Machine Learning
12 8 (9.20%) Microservices
12 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (8.05%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (8.05%) TDD
13 7 (8.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (64.37%) Python
2 32 (36.78%) SQL
3 14 (16.09%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.90%) Java
6 5 (5.75%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.30%) Lua
7 2 (2.30%) Perl
7 2 (2.30%) PHP
7 2 (2.30%) R
8 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (20.69%) Terraform
2 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.15%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Splunk
2 7 (8.05%) Databricks
2 7 (8.05%) NEC
3 2 (2.30%) F5
3 2 (2.30%) Informatica
3 2 (2.30%) Sage
3 2 (2.30%) SAP
3 2 (2.30%) Talend
4 1 (1.15%) Aareon
4 1 (1.15%) Capita
4 1 (1.15%) Civica
4 1 (1.15%) Salesforce