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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 621 702 683
Rank change year-on-year +81 -19 +181
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 49 49 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.072% 0.090%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 27 35 46
10th Percentile £59,000 £53,000 £59,375
25th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £98,750 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 - £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £47,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +100.00% -30.91% +5.77%

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 17,695 22,064 22,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.58% 32.54% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,262 13,313 19,111
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +100 47 £77,500 -22.50% 37
London +43 26 £77,500 -22.50% 18
UK excluding London +102 20 £95,000 +100.00% 27
Work from Home +85 20 £95,000 -5.00% 24
North of England +51 9 £60,000 +26.32% 12
Yorkshire - 7 £60,000 - 7
East of England - 4 £100,000 - 3
South West +34 3 £95,000 -
North West +46 2 £95,000 +100.00% 5
South East +33 2 £80,000 - 4
Scotland -1 2 £95,000 +65.22% 6

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 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.20%) Apache
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (91.84%) AWS Lambda
2 45 (91.84%) Serverless
3 32 (65.31%) Amazon S3
4 15 (30.61%) GitHub
5 14 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (24.49%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (22.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (22.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (20.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (20.41%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (16.33%) Amazon EventBridge
9 8 (16.33%) Snowflake
10 6 (12.24%) Azure
11 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (8.16%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 21 (42.86%) DynamoDB
3 18 (36.73%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (26.53%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (22.45%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (18.37%) Big Data
6 9 (18.37%) Hadoop
7 8 (16.33%) Apache Hive
8 6 (12.24%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (12.24%) Data Lake
8 6 (12.24%) NoSQL
9 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
11 3 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (6.12%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (6.12%) Data Vault
12 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (2.04%) DB2
12 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
12 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Git
1 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Gradle
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Financial Institution
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Advertising
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Back Office
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Games
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Senior
2 25 (51.02%) Data Engineer
3 19 (38.78%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (32.65%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (26.53%) AWS Data Engineer
6 11 (22.45%) Developer
7 10 (20.41%) AWS Developer
8 6 (12.24%) Senior Developer
9 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
10 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (6.12%) .NET Developer
11 3 (6.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Applications Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Principal Software Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) React
2 10 (20.41%) Kafka
3 8 (16.33%) boto
3 8 (16.33%) GraphQL
3 8 (16.33%) Spark Streaming
4 7 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 7 (14.29%) Serverless Framework
5 5 (10.20%) RESTful
6 4 (8.16%) .NET
6 4 (8.16%) .NET Core
6 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET
6 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (8.16%) Blazor
7 3 (6.12%) Node.js
7 3 (6.12%) Pandas
8 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.08%) PySpark
8 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.08%) Spring
8 2 (4.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (20.41%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
4 8 (16.33%) e-Learning
5 3 (6.12%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.08%) Client/Server
6 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) CI/CD
2 28 (57.14%) DevOps
3 21 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (38.78%) Data Engineering
5 18 (36.73%) Agile
5 18 (36.73%) Mentoring
6 15 (30.61%) AI
6 15 (30.61%) Data Science
6 15 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (28.57%) Analytics
8 13 (26.53%) Data Modelling
9 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
10 11 (22.45%) Clean Code
10 11 (22.45%) Microservices
11 10 (20.41%) Data Governance
11 10 (20.41%) ETL
11 10 (20.41%) Event-Driven
11 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (16.33%) Data Security
12 8 (16.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (73.47%) Python
2 17 (34.69%) SQL
3 14 (28.57%) Java
4 12 (24.49%) Scala
5 10 (20.41%) TypeScript
6 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) AWS Certification
2 6 (12.24%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.08%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.61%) GDPR
2 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (10.20%) NIST
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Docker
2 8 (16.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (24.49%) Terraform
2 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Databricks
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.04%) Google