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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 686 664
Rank change year-on-year +90 -22 +243
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 58 56 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.090% 0.091%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28 43 45
10th Percentile £59,250 £52,750 £59,000
25th Percentile £73,438 £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £98,125 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £53,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +50.94% -22.91% +10.00%

All Cloud 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 19,352 21,649 21,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 34.85% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 13,206 18,135
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 11 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 9 December 2025. 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 +108 56 £78,750 -21.25% 76
UK excluding London +113 30 £80,000 +50.94% 76
London +52 27 £77,500 -22.50% 9
Work from Home +77 22 £77,500 -26.19% 43
North of England +51 22 £68,750 +44.74% 27
Yorkshire - 20 £60,000 - 15
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 6
North West +43 2 £95,000 +100.00% 11
South West +28 2 £95,000 - 6
Scotland +2 2 £95,000 +26.67% 5
South East +46 1 £80,000 -27.27% 18

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 14 (24.14%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.62%) Apache
3 3 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (91.38%) AWS Lambda
2 53 (91.38%) Serverless
3 40 (68.97%) Amazon S3
4 24 (41.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (31.03%) GitHub
6 15 (25.86%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (22.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (22.41%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (18.97%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (18.97%) Amazon EventBridge
8 11 (18.97%) Amazon Kinesis
9 10 (17.24%) Azure
10 9 (15.52%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (15.52%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (15.52%) Apigee
11 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (13.79%) Snowflake
12 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (8.62%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (53.45%) DynamoDB
2 21 (36.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (17.24%) NoSQL
7 9 (15.52%) Big Data
7 9 (15.52%) Hadoop
8 8 (13.79%) Apache Hive
8 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
9 6 (10.34%) Data Lake
10 4 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (5.17%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (5.17%) Data Vault
11 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (1.72%) DB2
12 1 (1.72%) MariaDB
12 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.97%) Git
3 10 (17.24%) GitLab
4 9 (15.52%) Cypress.io
4 9 (15.52%) Maven
4 9 (15.52%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.72%) Gradle
6 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Finance
3 8 (13.79%) Financial Institution
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Games
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (43.10%) Data Engineer
2 23 (39.66%) Senior
3 17 (29.31%) Senior Data Engineer
4 16 (27.59%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (25.86%) Developer
6 13 (22.41%) AWS Data Engineer
7 11 (18.97%) Lead
8 9 (15.52%) AWS Developer
9 7 (12.07%) .NET Developer
10 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Technical Leader
11 4 (6.90%) Security Engineer
11 4 (6.90%) Senior Developer
12 3 (5.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 3 (5.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
13 2 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
13 2 (3.45%) DevOps Developer
13 2 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
13 2 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) React
2 11 (18.97%) AngularJS
2 11 (18.97%) AWS CDK
3 10 (17.24%) Kafka
3 10 (17.24%) Spring Boot
4 9 (15.52%) .NET
4 9 (15.52%) .NET Core
4 9 (15.52%) Gherkin
4 9 (15.52%) Jest
4 9 (15.52%) RESTful
5 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET
5 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (13.79%) Blazor
5 8 (13.79%) boto
5 8 (13.79%) Spark Streaming
5 8 (13.79%) Spring
6 6 (10.34%) GraphQL
7 5 (8.62%) Serverless Framework
8 4 (6.90%) Node.js
9 3 (5.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 16 (27.59%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (17.24%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (13.79%) e-Learning
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (81.03%) CI/CD
2 39 (67.24%) DevOps
3 28 (48.28%) Agile
4 21 (36.21%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (32.76%) Microservices
5 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (31.03%) Data Engineering
7 17 (29.31%) Mentoring
8 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (24.14%) Data Science
10 13 (22.41%) Data Modelling
11 12 (20.69%) AI
11 12 (20.69%) Containerisation
11 12 (20.69%) Software Engineering
12 11 (18.97%) Analytics
13 10 (17.24%) Data Governance
13 10 (17.24%) ETL
14 9 (15.52%) Clean Code
14 9 (15.52%) Root Cause Analysis
15 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) Python
2 23 (39.66%) Java
3 21 (36.21%) SQL
4 17 (29.31%) TypeScript
5 12 (20.69%) Scala
6 9 (15.52%) Bash
7 8 (13.79%) Groovy
8 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.72%) C#
9 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (41.38%) AWS Certification
2 14 (24.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.14%) GDPR
2 7 (12.07%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.90%) NIST
3 4 (6.90%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (43.10%) Docker
2 8 (13.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Terraform
2 9 (15.52%) HP Fortify
3 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.72%) Google