AWS Step Functions Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Step Functions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 286 320 416
Rank change year-on-year +34 +96 +143
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 18 25 61
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.45% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 52
10th Percentile £374 £463 £414
25th Percentile £420 £477 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £600
90th Percentile £653 £723 £600
UK median daily rate £480 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -8.67% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS Step Functions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Step Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Step Functions trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Step Functions.

AWS Step Functions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Step Functions over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Step Functions daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Step Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.56%) NEC Housing
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (94.44%) Amazon S3
3 16 (88.89%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (88.89%) Serverless
4 7 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (22.22%) GitHub
8 3 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
10 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
10 1 (5.56%) Commercetools
10 1 (5.56%) Route 53
10 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
10 1 (5.56%) Sumo Logic
10 1 (5.56%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) DynamoDB
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (16.67%) MySQL
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (5.56%) GIS
6 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Ant
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Aviation
4 1 (5.56%) Police
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Developer
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (27.78%) Node.js
3 4 (22.22%) GraphQL
3 4 (22.22%) React
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) RESTful
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth
5 2 (11.11%) PostGIS
6 1 (5.56%) .NET
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) JSON
6 1 (5.56%) JSON Schema
6 1 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
6 1 (5.56%) Swagger
6 1 (5.56%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Kanban
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) API Development
5 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (11.11%) Human-Centred Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) NEC
2 1 (5.56%) New Relic
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Zuora