AWS Step Functions Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS Step Functions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS Step Functions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 554 562
Rank change year-on-year +98 +8 +185
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 53 12 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.033% 0.032%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.10% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 22 7 11
10th Percentile £57,750 £41,343 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £53,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.79% -18.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £97,500 £81,000
% change year-on-year -20.51% +20.37% -3.28%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,614 11,604 12,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.10% 32.30% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,850 6,313 10,415
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Step Functions job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Step Functions
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Step Functions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK excluding London

AWS Step Functions
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +49 43 £72,500 +52.63% 13
Yorkshire - 41 £72,500 - 11
Scotland +6 4 - - 3
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 2
North West +19 2 £95,000 +100.00% 2
South West +13 2 £65,000 - 2
South East +36 1 £80,000 -27.27% 7
AWS Step Functions
UK

AWS Step Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.66%) Apache
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (94.34%) AWS Lambda
2 50 (94.34%) Serverless
3 48 (90.57%) Amazon S3
4 40 (75.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (47.17%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (47.17%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (43.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (39.62%) GitHub
8 20 (37.74%) Amazon ECR
8 20 (37.74%) Apigee
9 15 (28.30%) Amazon EventBridge
9 15 (28.30%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (24.53%) Azure
10 13 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (9.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (7.55%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (7.55%) SaaS
13 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (77.36%) DynamoDB
2 20 (37.74%) NoSQL
2 20 (37.74%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (28.30%) SQL Server
4 10 (18.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (7.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (5.66%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.66%) Data Vault
8 3 (5.66%) Power BI
9 2 (3.77%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (3.77%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.89%) DB2
10 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (45.28%) Jenkins
2 22 (41.51%) Git
3 20 (37.74%) Cypress.io
3 20 (37.74%) GitLab
3 20 (37.74%) Maven
3 20 (37.74%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.77%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.77%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.89%) Gradle
5 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 22 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (54.72%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Java Developer
3 13 (24.53%) Lead
4 12 (22.64%) .NET Developer
4 12 (22.64%) AWS Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Senior
6 7 (13.21%) Data Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Technical Leader
8 5 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Informatica Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (5.66%) DevOps Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Lead Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Serverless Developer
11 2 (3.77%) AWS Data Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) Principal Cloud Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) Python Data Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (50.94%) AngularJS
2 20 (37.74%) Gherkin
2 20 (37.74%) Jest
2 20 (37.74%) Spring Boot
3 14 (26.42%) RESTful
4 13 (24.53%) .NET
4 13 (24.53%) .NET Core
4 13 (24.53%) ASP.NET
4 13 (24.53%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (24.53%) AWS CDK
4 13 (24.53%) Blazor
4 13 (24.53%) React
5 10 (18.87%) Spring
6 8 (15.09%) Node.js
7 4 (7.55%) REST
7 4 (7.55%) SOAP
8 3 (5.66%) Pandas
9 2 (3.77%) Hugging Face
9 2 (3.77%) Nuxt
9 2 (3.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.74%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.77%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (88.68%) CI/CD
2 41 (77.36%) DevOps
3 34 (64.15%) Agile
4 23 (43.40%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (37.74%) Microservices
6 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (30.19%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (28.30%) Containerisation
8 13 (24.53%) Application Security
8 13 (24.53%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (20.75%) Secure Coding
10 9 (16.98%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (16.98%) Scrum
11 8 (15.09%) ETL
11 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (15.09%) ITIL
12 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
12 7 (13.21%) Event-Driven
12 7 (13.21%) SDLC
12 7 (13.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) SQL
2 26 (49.06%) Java
3 22 (41.51%) TypeScript
4 19 (35.85%) Bash
4 19 (35.85%) Groovy
5 10 (18.87%) Python
6 5 (9.43%) Kotlin
7 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (49.06%) AWS Certification
2 18 (33.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (13.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (81.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (37.74%) HP Fortify
2 14 (26.42%) Terraform
3 4 (7.55%) Control-M
4 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle
2 4 (7.55%) Informatica
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.77%) OpenAI