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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 592 844
Rank change year-on-year -10 +252 +53
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 134 56 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.046%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.39% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 60 47 24
10th Percentile £58,875 £71,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £70,938 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +8.20%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £97,650 £97,250 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £36,103
% change year-on-year -11.76% +135.44% -39.83%

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 27,210 14,221 34,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.27% 33.46% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15,565 9,782 26,784
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%

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 27 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 14 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 27 May 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 +15 125 £80,000 - 20
UK excluding London +10 99 £75,000 -11.76% 16
North of England +48 82 £75,000 -3.23% 8
Yorkshire +28 77 £75,000 -3.23% 7
London -9 32 £90,000 +16.13% 7
Work from Home +31 22 £72,500 -3.33% 13
Midlands -24 8 £52,500 - 5
Scotland 0 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
North West - 4 £74,874 - 1
West Midlands -34 3 £85,000 - 4
South West -56 3 £65,000 -31.58%
Wales -39 1 - - 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 13 (9.70%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.99%) Apache
3 3 (2.24%) JBoss
4 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 128 (95.52%) AWS Lambda
2 128 (95.52%) Serverless
3 114 (85.07%) Amazon S3
4 96 (71.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 79 (58.96%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (36.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 49 (36.57%) GitHub
7 45 (33.58%) Amazon ECR
7 45 (33.58%) Apigee
8 43 (32.09%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (28.36%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (17.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 14 (10.45%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (10.45%) Datadog
12 13 (9.70%) Pulumi
13 10 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (6.72%) AWS CodePipeline
14 9 (6.72%) Azure
15 8 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) DSL
2 2 (1.49%) 4G
2 2 (1.49%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (64.93%) DynamoDB
2 31 (23.13%) NoSQL
3 29 (21.64%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (8.21%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.24%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (2.24%) MySQL
10 3 (2.24%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.49%) Metadata
11 2 (1.49%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.49%) Power BI
11 2 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (48.51%) Jenkins
2 57 (42.54%) GitLab
3 40 (29.85%) Cypress.io
4 37 (27.61%) Git
4 37 (27.61%) Maven
5 35 (26.12%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.99%) MLflow
7 3 (2.24%) JIRA
7 3 (2.24%) NUnit
7 3 (2.24%) Selenium
8 2 (1.49%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.75%) JUnit
9 1 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 23 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.48%) Finance
4 4 (2.99%) Banking
4 4 (2.99%) Billing
4 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.24%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.49%) Retail
6 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.75%) Advertising
7 1 (0.75%) Games
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 77 (57.46%) Developer
2 56 (41.79%) Java Developer
3 27 (20.15%) Senior
4 25 (18.66%) AWS Developer
5 17 (12.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (11.19%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.45%) Architect
7 14 (10.45%) AWS Architect
8 13 (9.70%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (9.70%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Security Architect
9 11 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (5.97%) .NET Developer
11 8 (5.97%) Lead
12 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.48%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
15 4 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 4 (2.99%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (53.73%) AngularJS
2 54 (40.30%) Spring Boot
3 41 (30.60%) Gherkin
4 37 (27.61%) Jest
5 33 (24.63%) AWS CDK
6 30 (22.39%) Node.js
7 24 (17.91%) Spring
8 11 (8.21%) .NET
8 11 (8.21%) .NET Core
9 10 (7.46%) REST
10 9 (6.72%) React
10 9 (6.72%) RESTful
11 8 (5.97%) ASP.NET
11 8 (5.97%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (5.97%) Blazor
12 7 (5.22%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (2.99%) LangChain
13 4 (2.99%) LangGraph
13 4 (2.99%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (2.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.63%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (79.10%) CI/CD
2 77 (57.46%) DevOps
3 51 (38.06%) Agile
4 40 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (26.87%) DevSecOps
6 30 (22.39%) Secure Coding
7 29 (21.64%) SDLC
8 25 (18.66%) ITIL
8 25 (18.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 24 (17.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (16.42%) Microservices
12 21 (15.67%) Containerisation
12 21 (15.67%) Workflow
13 19 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (11.94%) Clean Code
15 16 (11.94%) Prototyping
16 15 (11.19%) Event-Driven
16 15 (11.19%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (56.72%) Java
2 57 (42.54%) TypeScript
3 47 (35.07%) SQL
4 42 (31.34%) Groovy
5 40 (29.85%) Python
6 37 (27.61%) Bash
7 26 (19.40%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.70%) Go
8 13 (9.70%) Rust
9 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.24%) C#
10 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (31.34%) AWS Certification
2 24 (17.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.91%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (10.45%) Degree
4 13 (9.70%) OSCP
4 13 (9.70%) Security Cleared
5 12 (8.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.48%) QA
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 82 (61.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (30.60%) Terraform
2 35 (26.12%) HP Fortify
3 18 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.22%) Grafana
5 4 (2.99%) Control-M
5 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.48%) Oracle
2 5 (3.73%) Databricks
3 4 (2.99%) Informatica
4 2 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft