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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 621 786
Rank change year-on-year +39 +165 +163
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 108 33 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.078% 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 47 30 33
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,475 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £56,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% +17.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £100,375 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +25.00% -

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 24,261 15,718 32,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.19% 37.15% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,981 10,985 25,829
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 20 March 2026.

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 20 March 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 +44 100 £80,000 +3.23% 36
UK excluding London +35 75 £72,500 -3.33% 28
North of England +22 66 £75,000 +57.89% 14
Yorkshire - 62 £72,500 - 12
London +6 29 £90,000 +12.50% 15
Work from Home +32 22 £72,500 -17.14% 9
Scotland -17 5 - - 4
North West -16 4 £88,750 +86.84% 1
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +6 1 £45,000 - 1
Midlands -26 1 £45,000 - 1

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 (12.04%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.85%) JBoss
4 2 (1.85%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) AWS
2 102 (94.44%) AWS Lambda
2 102 (94.44%) Serverless
3 88 (81.48%) Amazon S3
4 75 (69.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (47.22%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (40.74%) GitHub
7 42 (38.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (32.41%) Amazon ECR
9 35 (32.41%) Apigee
9 35 (32.41%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (13.89%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (12.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (12.04%) Azure
12 13 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (12.04%) Pulumi
13 8 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (6.48%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.04%) DSL
2 2 (1.85%) Broadband
3 1 (0.93%) 4G
3 1 (0.93%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (60.19%) DynamoDB
2 28 (25.93%) NoSQL
3 19 (17.59%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (17.59%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (13.89%) SQL Server
6 10 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.70%) Big Data
8 4 (3.70%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.78%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.78%) MySQL
9 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.85%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.85%) Power BI
10 2 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (50.93%) Jenkins
2 49 (45.37%) GitLab
3 34 (31.48%) Cypress.io
3 34 (31.48%) Maven
3 34 (31.48%) SonarQube
4 32 (29.63%) Git
5 4 (3.70%) MLflow
6 3 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.78%) NUnit
6 3 (2.78%) Selenium
7 2 (1.85%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 24 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.63%) Finance
4 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.78%) Banking
5 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.78%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.85%) Legal
6 2 (1.85%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Billing
7 1 (0.93%) Games
7 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (50.00%) Developer
2 37 (34.26%) Java Developer
3 24 (22.22%) Senior
4 19 (17.59%) AWS Developer
5 14 (12.96%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
6 13 (12.04%) Architect
6 13 (12.04%) AWS Architect
6 13 (12.04%) AWS Security Architect
6 13 (12.04%) Security Architect
7 12 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 12 (11.11%) Lead
8 9 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.48%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.63%) Python Engineer
13 4 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.70%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (44.44%) AngularJS
2 39 (36.11%) Spring Boot
3 34 (31.48%) Gherkin
3 34 (31.48%) Jest
4 33 (30.56%) AWS CDK
5 17 (15.74%) .NET
5 17 (15.74%) .NET Core
6 16 (14.81%) Node.js
7 14 (12.96%) Spring
8 13 (12.04%) ASP.NET
8 13 (12.04%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (12.04%) Blazor
8 13 (12.04%) React
8 13 (12.04%) RESTful
9 8 (7.41%) REST
10 4 (3.70%) Kafka
10 4 (3.70%) LangChain
10 4 (3.70%) LangGraph
10 4 (3.70%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (34.26%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.85%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 4 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 71 (65.74%) DevOps
3 52 (48.15%) Agile
4 36 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (24.07%) DevSecOps
7 25 (23.15%) Secure Coding
8 24 (22.22%) Microservices
9 23 (21.30%) Containerisation
10 22 (20.37%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (19.44%) SDLC
12 19 (17.59%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (16.67%) ITIL
13 18 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 16 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (12.04%) Blue Team
15 13 (12.04%) Cryptography
15 13 (12.04%) Purple Team
15 13 (12.04%) Red Team
15 13 (12.04%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (49.07%) Java
2 41 (37.96%) SQL
2 41 (37.96%) TypeScript
3 36 (33.33%) Python
4 35 (32.41%) Bash
5 33 (30.56%) Groovy
6 15 (13.89%) Kotlin
7 13 (12.04%) Go
7 13 (12.04%) Rust
8 4 (3.70%) C#
8 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.70%) Scala
8 4 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (39.81%) AWS Certification
2 19 (17.59%) AWS Certified Developer
3 18 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 18 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (12.96%) Degree
5 13 (12.04%) OSCP
6 9 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.41%) QA
3 5 (4.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 74 (68.52%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (34.26%) Terraform
2 34 (31.48%) HP Fortify
3 19 (17.59%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.48%) Grafana
5 4 (3.70%) Control-M
5 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (7.41%) Databricks
2 6 (5.56%) Oracle
3 4 (3.70%) Informatica
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft