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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 601 848
Rank change year-on-year +4 +247 +69
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 127 56 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.37% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 55 49 27
10th Percentile £60,530 £52,800 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £36,103
% change year-on-year -11.76% +135.44% -42.24%

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 27,762 15,004 34,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.86% 35.47% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14,436 10,994 26,803
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,257 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,747 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 13 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 1 May 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 +6 119 £80,000 -5.88% 31
UK excluding London -2 94 £75,000 -11.76% 18
North of England +16 84 £76,250 +60.53% 7
Yorkshire +10 77 £75,000 - 3
London -20 29 £90,000 +16.13% 16
Work from Home +13 23 £72,500 -6.45% 13
North West -22 6 £82,500 +73.68% 4
Scotland -25 5 - - 1
South West -52 3 £65,000 -31.58% 2
Midlands -37 2 £48,750 - 2
West Midlands -29 1 £45,000 -
North East - 1 £90,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 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 14 (11.02%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.94%) Apache
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.36%) JBoss
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) AWS
2 121 (95.28%) AWS Lambda
2 121 (95.28%) Serverless
3 108 (85.04%) Amazon S3
4 89 (70.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 71 (55.91%) Amazon ECS
6 48 (37.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 48 (37.80%) Amazon ECR
6 48 (37.80%) Apigee
6 48 (37.80%) GitHub
7 41 (32.28%) Amazon SQS
8 38 (29.92%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (15.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 15 (11.81%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (10.24%) Pulumi
12 12 (9.45%) Azure
13 11 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (8.66%) Datadog
14 9 (7.09%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.24%) DSL
2 2 (1.57%) 4G
2 2 (1.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (66.93%) DynamoDB
2 32 (25.20%) NoSQL
3 27 (21.26%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (11.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (10.24%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.15%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.15%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.36%) MySQL
10 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.57%) Big Data
11 2 (1.57%) Metadata
11 2 (1.57%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.57%) Redshift Spectrum
11 2 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (50.39%) Jenkins
2 58 (45.67%) GitLab
3 42 (33.07%) Cypress.io
4 41 (32.28%) Maven
4 41 (32.28%) SonarQube
5 37 (29.13%) Git
6 4 (3.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.15%) MLflow
6 4 (3.15%) Selenium
7 3 (2.36%) NUnit
8 2 (1.57%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 27 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.15%) Billing
3 4 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (3.15%) Finance
4 3 (2.36%) Banking
4 3 (2.36%) Retail Banking
5 2 (1.57%) Legal
5 2 (1.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.57%) Retail
5 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.79%) Advertising
6 1 (0.79%) Games
6 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 70 (55.12%) Developer
2 48 (37.80%) Java Developer
3 29 (22.83%) Senior
4 24 (18.90%) AWS Developer
5 14 (11.02%) Architect
5 14 (11.02%) AWS Architect
5 14 (11.02%) Data Engineer
5 14 (11.02%) Lead
5 14 (11.02%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.24%) AWS Security Architect
6 13 (10.24%) Security Architect
7 12 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (9.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.66%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.94%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (52.76%) AngularJS
2 53 (41.73%) Spring Boot
3 42 (33.07%) Gherkin
4 41 (32.28%) Jest
5 34 (26.77%) AWS CDK
6 26 (20.47%) Node.js
7 21 (16.54%) Spring
8 15 (11.81%) .NET
8 15 (11.81%) .NET Core
9 11 (8.66%) ASP.NET
9 11 (8.66%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (8.66%) Blazor
9 11 (8.66%) RESTful
10 10 (7.87%) React
11 8 (6.30%) REST
12 4 (3.15%) LangChain
12 4 (3.15%) LangGraph
12 4 (3.15%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (3.15%) SOAP
13 3 (2.36%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.57%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (82.68%) CI/CD
2 82 (64.57%) DevOps
3 57 (44.88%) Agile
4 38 (29.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (25.20%) DevSecOps
6 31 (24.41%) Secure Coding
7 30 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (21.26%) SDLC
9 24 (18.90%) ITIL
9 24 (18.90%) Microservices
9 24 (18.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 22 (17.32%) Containerisation
11 21 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (13.39%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (13.39%) Deployment Automation
13 17 (13.39%) Workflow
14 16 (12.60%) Prototyping
15 15 (11.81%) Clean Code
16 14 (11.02%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (54.33%) Java
2 55 (43.31%) TypeScript
3 47 (37.01%) SQL
4 42 (33.07%) Bash
5 41 (32.28%) Groovy
6 35 (27.56%) Python
7 22 (17.32%) Kotlin
8 13 (10.24%) Go
8 13 (10.24%) Rust
9 4 (3.15%) C#
9 4 (3.15%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.79%) R
11 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (37.01%) AWS Certification
2 24 (18.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (18.90%) ITIL Certification
3 18 (14.17%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (11.02%) Degree
5 13 (10.24%) OSCP
5 13 (10.24%) Security Cleared
6 11 (8.66%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.30%) QA
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) MiFID
System Software
1 86 (67.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (32.28%) HP Fortify
2 38 (29.92%) Terraform
3 19 (14.96%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.51%) Grafana
5 4 (3.15%) Control-M
5 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.72%) Oracle
2 5 (3.94%) Databricks
3 4 (3.15%) Informatica
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.79%) Splunk