AWS Step Functions Contract Job Trends in Scotland

AWS Step Functions
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS Step Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 114 139
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 8 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.51% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 0.85% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £401 £416 £405
25th Percentile £402 £420 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £438 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -32.69% -
75th Percentile £437 £471 £691
90th Percentile £456 £477 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -23.27% +16.67% -13.93%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 592 589 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.68% 34.24% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 362 528
10th Percentile £315 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% +0.47%
75th Percentile £575 £529 £575
90th Percentile £625 £614 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.31 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £19.97 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +38.81% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.32 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

AWS Step Functions job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

AWS Step Functions
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Glasgow - 7 £404 - 2
Edinburgh +3 1 £470 +4.91%
AWS Step Functions
UK

AWS Step Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (62.50%) Apache
1 5 (62.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 8 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 8 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (87.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (62.50%) Delta Lake
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) MLflow
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) PostGIS
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Migration
4 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (50.00%) Data Science
6 3 (37.50%) AI
6 3 (37.50%) Data Validation
6 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 3 (37.50%) Validation
7 2 (25.00%) Agile
7 2 (25.00%) Complexity Analysis
7 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
7 2 (25.00%) ETL
7 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft