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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 610 745 711
Rank change year-on-year +135 -34 +224
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 68 56 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.072% 0.082%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 50 30 46
10th Percentile £72,500 £60,750 £66,875
25th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £93,125 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £46,802 £77,500
% change year-on-year +81.62% -39.61% +10.71%

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 15,619 24,598 25,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 31.59% 42.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,569 15,688 21,510
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,377 £45,738 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,550 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Step Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Step Functions 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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 10 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 17 September 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 +115 66 £85,000 -15.00% 20
UK excluding London +124 35 £85,000 +81.62% 15
London +52 30 £77,500 -22.50% 10
East of England - 18 £85,000 -
Work from Home +67 14 £77,500 -22.50% 10
North of England - 8 £77,500 - 9
Yorkshire - 8 £77,500 - 5
South West +74 4 £95,000 -
South East +52 3 £92,500 - 4
Scotland +59 2 £95,000 +65.22% 1

AWS Step Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.24%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.35%) Confluence
3 3 (4.41%) Apache
4 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (92.65%) AWS Lambda
2 63 (92.65%) Serverless
3 32 (47.06%) Amazon S3
4 26 (38.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (27.94%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (26.47%) Amazon EventBridge
7 17 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 16 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (22.06%) SaaS
10 14 (20.59%) Amazon Kinesis
10 14 (20.59%) AWS CodeBuild
10 14 (20.59%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 14 (20.59%) Boomi
10 14 (20.59%) GitHub
11 11 (16.18%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (11.76%) Snowflake
13 5 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) Big Data
2 17 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (23.53%) DynamoDB
4 10 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.35%) Apache Hive
7 5 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (7.35%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.47%) Flink
10 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.47%) Parquet
10 1 (1.47%) Power BI
10 1 (1.47%) Presto
10 1 (1.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 6 (8.82%) JIRA
2 5 (7.35%) Git
3 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) Gradle
General
1 22 (32.35%) Finance
2 14 (20.59%) Law
2 14 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.29%) Banking
5 6 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.82%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Advertising
7 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Front Office
8 1 (1.47%) Back Office
8 1 (1.47%) Games
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (36.76%) Senior
2 20 (29.41%) Developer
3 18 (26.47%) Lead
4 17 (25.00%) Data Engineer
5 15 (22.06%) AWS Developer
6 13 (19.12%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (17.65%) Senior Developer
8 10 (14.71%) Python Developer
9 8 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) Security Engineer
11 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
13 3 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 3 (4.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 3 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (4.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) RESTful
2 14 (20.59%) JWT
2 14 (20.59%) OAuth
3 11 (16.18%) React
4 10 (14.71%) Kafka
5 7 (10.29%) GraphQL
5 7 (10.29%) REST
6 6 (8.82%) boto
6 6 (8.82%) Django
6 6 (8.82%) Flask
7 5 (7.35%) Serverless Framework
7 5 (7.35%) SOAP
7 5 (7.35%) Spark Streaming
7 5 (7.35%) Web Services
8 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
8 3 (4.41%) Node.js
8 3 (4.41%) PySpark
9 2 (2.94%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.94%) Hugging Face
9 2 (2.94%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.35%) CMDB
3 5 (7.35%) e-Learning
3 5 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.94%) Equities
4 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 37 (54.41%) DevOps
3 30 (44.12%) Analytics
4 24 (35.29%) Event-Driven
5 22 (32.35%) Data Analytics
6 21 (30.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (30.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 20 (29.41%) Agile
8 19 (27.94%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 17 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 16 (23.53%) API Development
11 15 (22.06%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (22.06%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (22.06%) Project Management
12 14 (20.59%) API Design
12 14 (20.59%) Coaching
12 14 (20.59%) Data Science
12 14 (20.59%) Line Management
12 14 (20.59%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) Python
2 28 (41.18%) Java
3 14 (20.59%) C#
4 13 (19.12%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 9 (13.24%) SQL
7 8 (11.76%) Scala
8 3 (4.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) GDPR
2 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.82%) NIST
3 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.94%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) HDFS
2 3 (4.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Terraform
2 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
3 5 (7.35%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) ServiceNow
2 14 (20.59%) Informatica
2 14 (20.59%) MuleSoft
2 14 (20.59%) Salesforce
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle
4 5 (7.35%) Databricks
4 5 (7.35%) SimCorp
5 3 (4.41%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.94%) Okta
6 2 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft