AWS Step Functions Job Trends

AWS Step Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS Step Functions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 626 850
Rank change year-on-year -3 +224 -15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 127 57 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.36% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 66 49 18
10th Percentile £61,288 £71,250 £50,206
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.66% +2.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,750 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -25.12%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,740 15,701 34,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.43% 32.62% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,448 10,962 26,260
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,276
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Step Functions job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Salary Trend

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

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

AWS Step Functions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 July 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
England -4 122 £80,000 -5.88% 18
UK excluding London -2 90 £75,000 -11.76% 8
North of England +24 73 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Yorkshire +30 65 £80,000 +3.23% 2
London -16 35 £90,000 +16.13% 13
Work from Home +16 26 £85,000 +15.25% 6
Midlands - 9 £52,500 - 2
North West - 7 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £85,000 - 1
South West -57 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
Scotland +11 2 - -
South East -27 2 - - 1
Wales -53 1 - -
North East - 1 £90,000 -

AWS Step Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (8.66%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.72%) Apache
3 4 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.36%) JBoss
5 2 (1.57%) Confluence
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) AWS
2 120 (94.49%) AWS Lambda
2 120 (94.49%) Serverless
3 107 (84.25%) Amazon S3
4 88 (69.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 79 (62.20%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (33.07%) Amazon SQS
7 40 (31.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 40 (31.50%) Amazon ECR
7 40 (31.50%) Apigee
8 38 (29.92%) GitHub
9 28 (22.05%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (20.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 15 (11.81%) Datadog
12 12 (9.45%) Amazon EventBridge
13 11 (8.66%) Pulumi
14 8 (6.30%) Snowflake
15 7 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (4.72%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.66%) DSL
2 2 (1.57%) 4G
2 2 (1.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (59.06%) DynamoDB
2 33 (25.98%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (18.11%) NoSQL
4 13 (10.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.94%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.15%) Apache Hudi
7 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.15%) Metadata
8 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.36%) Power BI
8 3 (2.36%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.57%) Big Data
9 2 (1.57%) MySQL
9 2 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (47.24%) Jenkins
2 51 (40.16%) GitLab
3 35 (27.56%) Cypress.io
4 32 (25.20%) Maven
5 30 (23.62%) SonarQube
6 27 (21.26%) Git
7 4 (3.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.36%) JIRA
8 3 (2.36%) Selenium
9 2 (1.57%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.57%) NUnit
10 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.79%) JUnit
10 1 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 18 (14.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.72%) Finance
4 5 (3.94%) Billing
5 4 (3.15%) Banking
6 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.36%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.79%) Advertising
7 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Games
7 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (58.27%) Developer
2 58 (45.67%) Java Developer
3 29 (22.83%) Senior
4 28 (22.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (18.11%) AWS Developer
6 17 (13.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 16 (12.60%) Data Engineer
7 16 (12.60%) Senior Developer
8 14 (11.02%) Architect
9 13 (10.24%) AWS Architect
9 13 (10.24%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (8.66%) AWS Security Architect
10 11 (8.66%) Security Architect
11 7 (5.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.51%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.72%) Lead
12 6 (4.72%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.94%) Angular Developer
13 5 (3.94%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (55.12%) AngularJS
2 53 (41.73%) Spring Boot
3 39 (30.71%) Gherkin
4 34 (26.77%) Node.js
5 32 (25.20%) Jest
6 25 (19.69%) Spring
7 24 (18.90%) AWS CDK
8 10 (7.87%) React
9 7 (5.51%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (4.72%) REST
11 5 (3.94%) Kafka
11 5 (3.94%) PySpark
12 3 (2.36%) CSS
12 3 (2.36%) Drools
12 3 (2.36%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.36%) Flask
12 3 (2.36%) Next.js
12 3 (2.36%) Tailwind CSS
12 3 (2.36%) Vue
12 3 (2.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.36%) Life Science
6 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (77.17%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.91%) DevOps
3 45 (35.43%) Agile
4 36 (28.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (26.77%) DevSecOps
6 33 (25.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (23.62%) SDLC
8 28 (22.05%) Secure Coding
9 26 (20.47%) ITIL
9 26 (20.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 21 (16.54%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (15.75%) AI
12 19 (14.96%) Event-Driven
13 18 (14.17%) Microservices
13 18 (14.17%) Workflow
14 17 (13.39%) Clean Code
14 17 (13.39%) Prototyping
15 16 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (12.60%) RBAC
15 16 (12.60%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (58.27%) Java
2 59 (46.46%) TypeScript
3 46 (36.22%) Python
4 40 (31.50%) Groovy
4 40 (31.50%) SQL
5 32 (25.20%) Bash
6 26 (20.47%) Kotlin
7 11 (8.66%) Go
7 11 (8.66%) Rust
8 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.57%) C#
10 1 (0.79%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) R
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (27.56%) AWS Certification
2 25 (19.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 25 (19.69%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (11.02%) Security Cleared
4 12 (9.45%) Degree
4 12 (9.45%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.66%) OSCP
6 6 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) GDPR
3 3 (2.36%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) MiFID
System Software
1 67 (52.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (29.92%) Terraform
2 30 (23.62%) HP Fortify
3 14 (11.02%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.36%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Control-M
5 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (2.36%) Databricks
1 3 (2.36%) Oracle
2 2 (1.57%) Splunk
3 1 (0.79%) Avaya
3 1 (0.79%) Cisco
3 1 (0.79%) Genesys
3 1 (0.79%) Informatica
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft