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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 585 680
Rank change year-on-year -95 +95 -16
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 87 49 53
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.084% 0.11% 0.082%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 42 30 29
10th Percentile £61,250 £69,875 £59,750
25th Percentile £69,375 £72,813 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,875 £128,750
90th Percentile £99,900 £105,750 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% +25.00%

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 23,601 13,946 21,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.76% 32.14% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 9,685 13,016
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -28 54 £80,000 +16.36% 10
Yorkshire +1 45 £82,500 +20.00% 5
London -68 21 £91,250 +17.74% 45
Midlands - 9 £75,000 - 5
North West - 9 £67,249 - 5
East Midlands - 6 £52,500 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 1
South East -52 2 - - 2
South West -79 1 - - 4
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 9 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.90%) Apache
2 6 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.45%) SAS
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (95.40%) AWS Lambda
2 83 (95.40%) Serverless
3 78 (89.66%) Amazon S3
4 61 (70.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (63.22%) Amazon ECS
6 33 (37.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (32.18%) GitHub
8 27 (31.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (29.89%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (24.14%) Datadog
11 20 (22.99%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (20.69%) Amazon ECR
12 18 (20.69%) Apigee
13 11 (12.64%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (10.34%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (5.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (5.75%) Azure
15 5 (5.75%) SaaS
15 5 (5.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) 4G
1 1 (1.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (58.62%) DynamoDB
2 34 (39.08%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (22.99%) NoSQL
4 16 (18.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (10.34%) Data Lake
6 8 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
8 6 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (5.75%) Metadata
9 5 (5.75%) Parquet
9 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.45%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 3 (3.45%) Power BI
10 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.30%) Big Data
11 2 (2.30%) Power Query
12 1 (1.15%) DuckDB
12 1 (1.15%) Looker
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Git
2 25 (28.74%) Jenkins
3 20 (22.99%) GitLab
4 16 (18.39%) Cypress.io
5 13 (14.94%) Maven
6 11 (12.64%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.15%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Finance
3 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Billing
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.30%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.30%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (59.77%) Developer
2 40 (45.98%) Java Developer
3 24 (27.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 24 (27.59%) Senior
4 22 (25.29%) AWS Developer
5 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (17.24%) Data Engineer
7 13 (14.94%) Senior Developer
8 11 (12.64%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (8.05%) Architect
9 7 (8.05%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (8.05%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Angular Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.60%) AWS Architect
11 4 (4.60%) Lead
11 4 (4.60%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (55.17%) AngularJS
2 34 (39.08%) Node.js
3 31 (35.63%) Spring Boot
4 24 (27.59%) Terraform
5 23 (26.44%) Spring
6 20 (22.99%) Gherkin
7 12 (13.79%) Jest
8 10 (11.49%) AWS CDK
9 9 (10.34%) React
10 8 (9.20%) PySpark
11 6 (6.90%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (5.75%) Apache Avro
12 5 (5.75%) JSON
12 5 (5.75%) Kafka
13 3 (3.45%) A2A Protocol
13 3 (3.45%) Flask
13 3 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
13 3 (3.45%) Next.js
13 3 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
13 3 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.45%) Life Science
3 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (78.16%) CI/CD
2 56 (64.37%) DevOps
3 31 (35.63%) Agile
4 28 (32.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (28.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (25.29%) Microservices
7 21 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (22.99%) DevSecOps
9 19 (21.84%) AI
9 19 (21.84%) Secrets Management
10 18 (20.69%) Analytics
10 18 (20.69%) RBAC
11 17 (19.54%) Software Engineering
11 17 (19.54%) Workflow
12 16 (18.39%) Data Engineering
12 16 (18.39%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 16 (18.39%) Workflow Management
13 14 (16.09%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (14.94%) Event-Driven
14 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 55 (63.22%) Java
2 46 (52.87%) TypeScript
3 41 (47.13%) SQL
4 31 (35.63%) Python
5 24 (27.59%) Kotlin
6 21 (24.14%) Groovy
7 12 (13.79%) Bash
8 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (22.99%) AWS Certification
2 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 10 (11.49%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.60%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 45 (51.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) HP Fortify
2 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.90%) Databricks
2 3 (3.45%) Avaya
2 3 (3.45%) Cisco
2 3 (3.45%) Genesys
3 2 (2.30%) Informatica
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.30%) Splunk