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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 683 608 758
Rank change year-on-year -75 +150 -17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 105 62 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.12% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.39% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 55 49 28
10th Percentile £48,750 £72,250 £59,750
25th Percentile £70,625 £75,750 £93,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -5.88% +81.62% -41.50%

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 27,713 15,936 26,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.75% 31.95% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 18,448 10,949 18,574
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 14 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 21 August 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 -52 101 £82,500 - 9
UK excluding London -66 78 £80,000 -5.88% 5
North of England +10 62 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Yorkshire +7 54 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Work from Home -12 31 £85,000 +13.33% 5
London -56 27 £90,000 +16.13% 5
Midlands - 10 £63,750 -
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 -
North West - 7 £72,500 -
Wales -53 3 £39,163 -47.78%
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 -
South East -36 2 - - 3
Scotland +12 1 - -
North East - 1 £90,000 -

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 8 (7.62%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.76%) Apache
3 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.86%) SAS
5 2 (1.90%) Confluence
6 1 (0.95%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 99 (94.29%) AWS Lambda
2 99 (94.29%) Serverless
3 89 (84.76%) Amazon S3
4 71 (67.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 66 (62.86%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (30.48%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (29.52%) GitHub
9 29 (27.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (25.71%) Amazon ECR
10 27 (25.71%) Apigee
11 23 (21.90%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (19.05%) Datadog
13 12 (11.43%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (7.62%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (6.67%) Snowflake
16 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
17 5 (4.76%) SaaS
17 5 (4.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) DSL
2 1 (0.95%) 4G
2 1 (0.95%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (62.86%) DynamoDB
2 32 (30.48%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (20.95%) NoSQL
4 14 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.76%) Metadata
8 4 (3.81%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.86%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (2.86%) Big Data
9 3 (2.86%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.86%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.90%) Parquet
10 2 (1.90%) Presto
11 1 (0.95%) Redshift Spectrum
11 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.95%) Trino
Development Applications
1 36 (34.29%) Jenkins
2 31 (29.52%) GitLab
3 24 (22.86%) Git
4 22 (20.95%) Cypress.io
5 19 (18.10%) Maven
6 17 (16.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.86%) JIRA
8 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.95%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.95%) JUnit
9 1 (0.95%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.48%) Finance
3 8 (7.62%) Banking
4 6 (5.71%) Billing
5 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.95%) Advertising
9 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (60.00%) Developer
2 47 (44.76%) Java Developer
3 28 (26.67%) Senior
4 27 (25.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (20.00%) AWS Developer
6 16 (15.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (15.24%) Senior Developer
7 13 (12.38%) Data Engineer
8 11 (10.48%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (9.52%) Architect
9 10 (9.52%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) AWS Architect
10 7 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.71%) Angular Developer
11 6 (5.71%) Lead
11 6 (5.71%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (3.81%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (56.19%) AngularJS
2 44 (41.90%) Spring Boot
3 38 (36.19%) Node.js
4 29 (27.62%) Spring
5 28 (26.67%) Terraform
6 26 (24.76%) Gherkin
7 19 (18.10%) Jest
8 13 (12.38%) AWS CDK
9 12 (11.43%) React
10 7 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (4.76%) PySpark
12 4 (3.81%) Kafka
12 4 (3.81%) REST
13 3 (2.86%) A2A Protocol
13 3 (2.86%) Flask
13 3 (2.86%) Model Context Protocol
13 3 (2.86%) Next.js
13 3 (2.86%) Pulumi
13 3 (2.86%) Tailwind CSS
13 3 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.90%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.86%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.86%) Life Science
3 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.90%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (74.29%) CI/CD
2 59 (56.19%) DevOps
3 36 (34.29%) Agile
4 32 (30.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (23.81%) DevSecOps
7 23 (21.90%) AI
8 21 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (18.10%) Microservices
9 19 (18.10%) RBAC
9 19 (18.10%) SDLC
9 19 (18.10%) Secrets Management
10 17 (16.19%) Event-Driven
10 17 (16.19%) Workflow
11 16 (15.24%) ITIL
11 16 (15.24%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 16 (15.24%) Secure Coding
11 16 (15.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 16 (15.24%) Workflow Management
12 15 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (60.95%) Java
2 54 (51.43%) TypeScript
3 40 (38.10%) SQL
4 37 (35.24%) Python
5 27 (25.71%) Groovy
6 26 (24.76%) Kotlin
7 19 (18.10%) Bash
8 3 (2.86%) Go
8 3 (2.86%) Rust
9 2 (1.90%) C#
9 2 (1.90%) Ruby
10 1 (0.95%) Bicep
10 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) AWS Certification
2 15 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 15 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 15 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 15 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 3 (2.86%) OSCP
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) GDPR
2 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (50.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (16.19%) HP Fortify
2 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.76%) Databricks
2 3 (2.86%) Avaya
2 3 (2.86%) Cisco
2 3 (2.86%) Genesys
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.90%) Google
3 2 (1.90%) Informatica
3 2 (1.90%) Splunk