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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 697 612 746
Rank change year-on-year -85 +134 -35
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 106 68 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.14% 0.072%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.44% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 49 50 30
10th Percentile £48,750 £72,500 £60,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,125 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -5.88% +81.62% -39.61%

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 27,462 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.07% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,587 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,983 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,400 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -77 100 £80,000 -5.88% 84
UK excluding London -75 81 £80,000 -5.88% 38
North of England -12 62 £80,000 +3.23% 11
Yorkshire +13 54 £82,500 +6.45% 1
Work from Home -5 37 £85,000 +9.68% 44
London -58 25 £92,500 +19.35% 60
Midlands - 10 £63,750 - 4
North West - 7 £72,500 - 8
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 - 2
Scotland +8 3 - - 9
Wales - 3 £39,163 -
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 2
South East -54 2 - - 6
South West -74 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £90,000 - 2

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 7 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
2 4 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 102 (96.23%) AWS Lambda
2 102 (96.23%) Serverless
3 93 (87.74%) Amazon S3
4 70 (66.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 67 (63.21%) Amazon ECS
6 33 (31.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 31 (29.25%) Amazon SQS
8 29 (27.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 28 (26.42%) GitHub
10 27 (25.47%) Amazon ECR
10 27 (25.47%) Apigee
11 22 (20.75%) Datadog
12 21 (19.81%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (11.32%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (9.43%) Azure
15 7 (6.60%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (6.60%) Snowflake
16 6 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) 4G
1 1 (0.94%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (63.21%) DynamoDB
2 37 (34.91%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (20.75%) NoSQL
4 19 (17.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (10.38%) Data Lake
6 8 (7.55%) Parquet
7 7 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
8 6 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.72%) Metadata
10 4 (3.77%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (2.83%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (2.83%) Big Data
11 3 (2.83%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.83%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.89%) Presto
13 1 (0.94%) Redshift Spectrum
13 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.94%) Trino
Development Applications
1 33 (31.13%) Jenkins
2 29 (27.36%) Git
3 28 (26.42%) GitLab
4 23 (21.70%) Cypress.io
5 20 (18.87%) Maven
6 18 (16.98%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.89%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.89%) JIRA
8 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.94%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.94%) JUnit
8 1 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.32%) Finance
3 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.60%) Banking
5 6 (5.66%) Billing
6 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 63 (59.43%) Developer
2 48 (45.28%) Java Developer
3 29 (27.36%) Senior
4 28 (26.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (22.64%) AWS Developer
6 18 (16.98%) Data Engineer
6 18 (16.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (14.15%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.43%) Software Engineer
9 9 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Architect
12 6 (5.66%) Angular Developer
12 6 (5.66%) Lead
12 6 (5.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (4.72%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (3.77%) AWS Architect
14 4 (3.77%) Python Engineer
14 4 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (56.60%) AngularJS
2 44 (41.51%) Spring Boot
3 39 (36.79%) Node.js
4 29 (27.36%) Spring
5 27 (25.47%) Gherkin
6 24 (22.64%) Terraform
7 20 (18.87%) Jest
8 12 (11.32%) React
9 11 (10.38%) PySpark
10 10 (9.43%) AWS CDK
11 8 (7.55%) JSON
12 7 (6.60%) Apache Avro
12 7 (6.60%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (3.77%) Kafka
13 4 (3.77%) REST
14 3 (2.83%) FastAPI
14 3 (2.83%) Flask
14 3 (2.83%) Next.js
14 3 (2.83%) Tailwind CSS
14 3 (2.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.83%) Life Science
3 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (77.36%) CI/CD
2 65 (61.32%) DevOps
3 41 (38.68%) Agile
4 33 (31.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (23.58%) Microservices
6 24 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (21.70%) AI
8 22 (20.75%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (20.75%) DevSecOps
8 22 (20.75%) Software Engineering
9 20 (18.87%) Analytics
9 20 (18.87%) Mentoring
9 20 (18.87%) Secrets Management
10 19 (17.92%) Data Engineering
10 19 (17.92%) RBAC
11 18 (16.98%) SDLC
11 18 (16.98%) Workflow
12 17 (16.04%) ITIL
12 17 (16.04%) Secure Coding
12 17 (16.04%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (66.98%) Java
2 57 (53.77%) TypeScript
3 46 (43.40%) SQL
4 37 (34.91%) Python
5 28 (26.42%) Groovy
6 27 (25.47%) Kotlin
7 19 (17.92%) Bash
8 2 (1.89%) C#
8 2 (1.89%) Ruby
9 1 (0.94%) Bicep
9 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) AWS Certification
2 21 (19.81%) Security Cleared
3 20 (18.87%) SC Cleared
4 16 (15.09%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (14.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) Accessibility
1 9 (8.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 54 (50.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.98%) HP Fortify
2 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.72%) Databricks
2 3 (2.83%) Avaya
2 3 (2.83%) Cisco
2 3 (2.83%) Genesys
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.89%) Google
3 2 (1.89%) Informatica
3 2 (1.89%) Splunk