AWS Step Functions Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Step Functions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 376 415
Rank change year-on-year +55 +39 +74
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 13 18 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.087% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 39
10th Percentile £413 £550 £443
25th Percentile £426 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £525 £675 £588
90th Percentile £538 £740 -
UK median daily rate £480 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -8.67% -4.55% -2.22%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,080 5,392 7,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 26.05% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,889 3,814 5,914
10th Percentile £237 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £373 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 257 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.54 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS Step Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK excluding London

AWS Step Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Step Functions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK excluding London

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK excluding London

AWS Step Functions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Scotland - 8 £454 - 4
North of England +5 3 £500 -16.67% 5
Yorkshire +4 2 £500 -21.57% 4
South East +34 1 £660 -10.51% 5
South West +28 1 - - 5
North East - 1 - -
AWS Step Functions
UK

AWS Step Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Amazon S3
2 10 (76.92%) Serverless
3 9 (69.23%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (53.85%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
6 3 (23.08%) GitHub
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (15.38%) Azure
7 2 (15.38%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
7 2 (15.38%) Route 53
7 2 (15.38%) Yarn
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (7.69%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Ant
2 2 (15.38%) webpack
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) AWS CDK
2 4 (30.77%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) OAuth
3 3 (23.08%) PostGIS
4 2 (15.38%) JSON
4 2 (15.38%) JSON Schema
4 2 (15.38%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) TypeORM
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
5 1 (7.69%) pytest
5 1 (7.69%) React
5 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Kanban
5 5 (38.46%) Data Migration
5 5 (38.46%) Data Transformation
5 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 5 (38.46%) Scrum
6 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
6 4 (30.77%) TDD
6 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 3 (23.08%) API Development
7 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Human-Centred Design
7 3 (23.08%) Inclusive Design
7 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 2 (15.38%) Community of Practice
8 2 (15.38%) Fintech
8 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) NEC
1 1 (7.69%) New Relic