AWS Step Functions Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

AWS Step Functions
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring AWS Step Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.052% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £346 - -
25th Percentile £382 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% - -
75th Percentile £521 £575 -
90th Percentile £561 - -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

AWS Step Functions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,229 634 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.96% 33.39% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 443 581
10th Percentile £299 £200 £200
25th Percentile £400 £364 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +5.56% -7.88%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £588
90th Percentile £658 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 26
10th Percentile £13.01 £15.10 £13.94
25th Percentile £13.54 £15.53 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% -2.00% +19.35%
75th Percentile £27.21 £31.06 £26.50
90th Percentile £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Step Functions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

AWS Step Functions job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS Step Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Step Functions in the Midlands

AWS Step Functions
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -62 1 £575 +4.55% 3
East Midlands - 1 £322 -
AWS Step Functions
England

AWS Step Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google