AWS Step Functions Contracts in the North of England

AWS Step Functions
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring AWS Step Functions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Step Functions over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 164 192
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 +61
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 9 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.048% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 0.15% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £383 £417 £528
25th Percentile £431 £433 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.48% +37.31%
75th Percentile £579 £508 -
90th Percentile £585 £526 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,317 1,309 1,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.27% 31.54% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 889 1,403
10th Percentile £281 £279 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 47 59
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +24.89%
75th Percentile £47.12 £30.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £57.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +11.78% -35.34% +61.84%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing AWS Step Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Step Functions in the North of England

AWS Step Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Step Functions in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Step Functions in the North of England

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Step Functions in the North of England

AWS Step Functions
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 August 2025. 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
North West - 7 £575 - 8
Yorkshire -9 2 £500 +6.67% 4
AWS Step Functions
England

AWS Step Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (11.11%) JBoss
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Serverless
3 7 (77.78%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (55.56%) Apigee
5 5 (55.56%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (55.56%) Datadog
5 5 (55.56%) GCP
5 5 (55.56%) GitHub
6 4 (44.44%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (44.44%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (44.44%) Loggly
6 4 (44.44%) PaaS
6 4 (44.44%) Route 53
6 4 (44.44%) SaaS
7 3 (33.33%) Azure
8 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) DynamoDB
2 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (55.56%) NoSQL
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
4 4 (44.44%) MySQL
4 4 (44.44%) RDBMS
4 4 (44.44%) Redis
4 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (66.67%) Git
3 5 (55.56%) Gradle
3 5 (55.56%) Maven
3 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
4 4 (44.44%) SonarLint
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (11.11%) JUnit
5 1 (11.11%) Selenium
5 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Java Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Java Technical Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) Dropwizard
3 4 (44.44%) J2EE
3 4 (44.44%) JWT
3 4 (44.44%) Micronaut
4 3 (33.33%) Celery
4 3 (33.33%) GraphQL
5 2 (22.22%) Spring
6 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (11.11%) Next.js
6 1 (11.11%) pytest
6 1 (11.11%) React
6 1 (11.11%) REST
6 1 (11.11%) SOAP
6 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 4 (44.44%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) CQRS
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) MVC
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Risk Management
2 5 (55.56%) SOLID
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) OOP
3 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Gigya
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle