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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 308 361
Rank change year-on-year +26 +53 +182
DemandTrendContract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 24 24 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.49% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 47
10th Percentile £325 £481 £438
25th Percentile £368 £525 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +35.00% -21.10%
75th Percentile £647 £738 £600
90th Percentile £656 - £650
UK median daily rate £563 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +30.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £80.25 - -
25th Percentile £80.63 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £85.63 - -
90th Percentile £86.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.75 - £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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,070 4,868 8,303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.41% 37.72% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,810 3,407 6,134
10th Percentile £340 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 44 138
10th Percentile £16.89 £14.34 £18.85
25th Percentile £24.83 £18.03 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £67.00 £56.40 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £75.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.86 £35.25
% change year-on-year +0.50% -20.96% +67.46%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Step Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Step Functions

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 28 August 2025.

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

AWS Step Functions
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Step Functions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Step Functions

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (91.67%) Serverless
3 21 (87.50%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (62.50%) Amazon S3
5 8 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (29.17%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (20.83%) Azure
9 4 (16.67%) GCP
9 4 (16.67%) GitHub
10 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (8.33%) Apigee
11 2 (8.33%) Datadog
11 2 (8.33%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
1 1 (4.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) DynamoDB
2 8 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (29.17%) MySQL
4 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
6 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (8.33%) Big Data
7 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (8.33%) Redis
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
8 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
8 1 (4.17%) Parquet
8 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.33%) Gradle
4 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) Maven
4 2 (8.33%) SonarLint
4 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.17%) Postman
5 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Aviation
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Police
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.33%) Java Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 6 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 5 (20.83%) Node.js
3 4 (16.67%) React
3 4 (16.67%) RESTful
4 3 (12.50%) Pandas
5 2 (8.33%) Celery
5 2 (8.33%) Dropwizard
5 2 (8.33%) J2EE
5 2 (8.33%) JWT
5 2 (8.33%) Micronaut
5 2 (8.33%) NumPy
5 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
5 2 (8.33%) scikit-learn
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.17%) Apache Beam
6 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
6 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
6 1 (4.17%) Prophet
6 1 (4.17%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) N-Tier
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) Clean Code
4 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (20.83%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
6 5 (20.83%) Microservices
6 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 3 (12.50%) Data Science
8 3 (12.50%) ETL
8 3 (12.50%) Fintech
8 3 (12.50%) Scrum
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (41.67%) TypeScript
3 6 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Gigya
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Progress
2 1 (4.17%) Sage
2 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.17%) SAP