AWS Step Functions Contracts

AWS Step Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 493 587
Rank change year-on-year +21 +94 +147
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 48 89 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.63% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 71 111
10th Percentile £400 £413 £438
25th Percentile £420 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £588
90th Percentile £660 £721 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -25.49% +10.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

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 1 May 2025.

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 10 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 1 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
England +20 38 £480 -8.57% 57
London +18 31 £479 -4.24% 38
Work from Home +34 18 £500 -9.09% 25
UK excluding London +55 13 £475 -25.49% 24
Scotland +19 8 £454 -33.00% 2
North of England +13 3 £500 -16.67% 6
Yorkshire +4 2 £500 -21.57% 5
South East +44 1 £660 -10.51% 10
South West +43 1 - - 3
North East - 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 2 (4.17%) Apache
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) NEC Housing
1 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (91.67%) Serverless
3 43 (89.58%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (60.42%) Amazon S3
5 17 (35.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 11 (22.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (22.92%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (12.50%) GitHub
9 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
11 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (6.25%) Route 53
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (4.17%) Azure
12 2 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (4.17%) CloudFront
12 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Broadband
1 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (47.92%) DynamoDB
2 21 (43.75%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (20.83%) NoSQL
5 9 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 4 (8.33%) MySQL
7 4 (8.33%) Parquet
8 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (2.08%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (2.08%) DocumentDB
9 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.08%) GIS
9 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.17%) Ant
3 2 (4.17%) webpack
4 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.08%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.08%) Git
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) Electronics
5 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Aviation
6 1 (2.08%) Police
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Data Engineer
2 14 (29.17%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (27.08%) Developer
3 13 (27.08%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Lead
9 1 (2.08%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) AWS CDK
2 8 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 8 (16.67%) REST
3 7 (14.58%) JSON
4 6 (12.50%) Node.js
4 6 (12.50%) React
5 5 (10.42%) Kafka
6 4 (8.33%) Apache Avro
6 4 (8.33%) PySpark
6 4 (8.33%) RESTful
7 3 (6.25%) OAuth
7 3 (6.25%) PostGIS
7 3 (6.25%) Puppeteer
8 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.17%) JSON Schema
8 2 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (4.17%) TypeORM
8 2 (4.17%) WebSockets
9 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) NHS
3 1 (2.08%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 20 (41.67%) Agile
3 15 (31.25%) DevOps
4 10 (20.83%) ETL
5 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.58%) Clean Code
7 7 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (14.58%) Data Engineering
7 7 (14.58%) Data Transformation
7 7 (14.58%) Migration
7 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.50%) Kanban
9 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.42%) Scrum
9 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Python
2 14 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 14 (29.17%) SQL
3 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.33%) Java
5 2 (4.17%) Lua
5 2 (4.17%) Perl
5 2 (4.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) Groovy
6 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 3 (6.25%) Grafana
2 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
1 2 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (2.08%) Cloudera
2 1 (2.08%) Databricks
2 1 (2.08%) NEC
2 1 (2.08%) New Relic
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle
2 1 (2.08%) Zuora