AWS Step Functions Job Trends in England

AWS Step Functions
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS Step Functions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 620 661
Rank change year-on-year +96 +41 +250
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 74 51 35
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.11% 0.071%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.29% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 30 41 34
10th Percentile £59,750 £53,750 £54,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +23.46% +1.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £128,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,250 - £95,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £100,000 £82,000
% change year-on-year -22.50% +21.95% -0.61%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

AWS Step Functions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,457 17,609 20,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.32% 36.47% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,272 10,430 16,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS Step Functions job vacancy trend in England

AWS Step Functions
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Step Functions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in England

AWS Step Functions
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Step Functions within the England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +57 39 £72,500 +52.63% 11
Yorkshire - 37 £66,250 - 8
London +32 30 £90,000 -10.00% 17
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 2
North West +25 2 £95,000 +100.00% 3
South East +31 1 £80,000 -27.27% 8
AWS Step Functions
UK

AWS Step Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 14 (18.92%) Apache Spark
2 7 (9.46%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (93.24%) AWS Lambda
2 69 (93.24%) Serverless
3 54 (72.97%) Amazon S3
4 44 (59.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (35.14%) GitHub
6 23 (31.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (31.08%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (29.73%) Amazon SQS
8 21 (28.38%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (22.97%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (22.97%) Apigee
10 15 (20.27%) Amazon EventBridge
10 15 (20.27%) Azure
11 13 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (14.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (10.81%) dbt
14 6 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (8.11%) Amazon SageMaker
15 5 (6.76%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Broadband
2 3 (4.05%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (63.51%) DynamoDB
2 21 (28.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (25.68%) NoSQL
4 18 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (20.27%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (14.86%) SQL Server
8 9 (12.16%) Big Data
8 9 (12.16%) Hadoop
9 8 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (10.81%) Apache Hive
10 6 (8.11%) Data Lake
11 3 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (4.05%) Data Vault
11 3 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (1.35%) DB2
12 1 (1.35%) MariaDB
12 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (33.78%) Jenkins
2 20 (27.03%) Git
2 20 (27.03%) GitLab
3 17 (22.97%) Cypress.io
3 17 (22.97%) Maven
3 17 (22.97%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.41%) MLflow
5 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.35%) Gradle
6 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Finance
3 8 (10.81%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Developer
2 25 (33.78%) Senior
3 21 (28.38%) Data Engineer
4 17 (22.97%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (21.62%) AWS Developer
6 15 (20.27%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (17.57%) AWS Data Engineer
7 13 (17.57%) Lead
8 12 (16.22%) .NET Developer
9 11 (14.86%) Java Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Technical Leader
11 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) Architect
13 3 (4.05%) AWS Architect
13 3 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
13 3 (4.05%) Lead Developer
13 3 (4.05%) Security Architect
13 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.08%) AngularJS
1 23 (31.08%) AWS CDK
2 18 (24.32%) React
2 18 (24.32%) Spring Boot
3 17 (22.97%) Gherkin
3 17 (22.97%) Jest
4 14 (18.92%) .NET
4 14 (18.92%) .NET Core
4 14 (18.92%) RESTful
5 13 (17.57%) ASP.NET
5 13 (17.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (17.57%) Blazor
6 11 (14.86%) Spring
7 10 (13.51%) Kafka
8 8 (10.81%) boto
8 8 (10.81%) Node.js
8 8 (10.81%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (8.11%) GraphQL
10 5 (6.76%) LangChain
10 5 (6.76%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (33.78%) Cloud Native
2 16 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (10.81%) e-Learning
5 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.70%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (87.84%) CI/CD
2 52 (70.27%) DevOps
3 37 (50.00%) Agile
4 27 (36.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (33.78%) Microservices
6 22 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (22.97%) Containerisation
7 17 (22.97%) Mentoring
8 14 (18.92%) Data Engineering
9 13 (17.57%) Application Security
9 13 (17.57%) Data Modelling
9 13 (17.57%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
10 12 (16.22%) AI
10 12 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (13.51%) Data Governance
12 9 (12.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (12.16%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.59%) Python
2 32 (43.24%) Java
3 30 (40.54%) SQL
4 26 (35.14%) TypeScript
5 17 (22.97%) Bash
6 16 (21.62%) Groovy
7 9 (12.16%) Scala
8 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.41%) Kotlin
10 3 (4.05%) Go
10 3 (4.05%) Rust
11 1 (1.35%) C#
11 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (48.65%) AWS Certification
2 18 (24.32%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (5.41%) Degree
3 4 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (5.41%) MCP
3 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) OSCP
5 2 (2.70%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) GDPR
2 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.76%) QA
4 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (62.16%) Docker
2 8 (10.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (35.14%) Terraform
2 17 (22.97%) HP Fortify
3 15 (20.27%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.41%) Grafana
6 1 (1.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Databricks
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.35%) Google
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle