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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 667 666
Rank change year-on-year +86 -1 +253
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 72 58 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.088%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31 45 42
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,000 £58,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +25.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £96,250 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £64,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +21.09% -5.19% +8.00%

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 20,611 20,485 21,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.99% 36.06% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 12,306 17,435
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 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 +112 70 £77,500 -22.50% 81
UK excluding London +92 41 £77,500 +21.09% 76
North of England +61 35 £68,750 +44.74% 22
Yorkshire - 33 £60,000 - 14
London +45 29 £77,500 -22.50% 15
Work from Home +69 26 £77,500 -26.19% 13
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 9
North West +31 2 £95,000 +100.00% 8
South East +39 1 £80,000 -27.27% 22
South West +20 1 £95,000 - 6
Scotland +8 1 £95,000 +26.67% 3

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 (19.44%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.94%) Apache
3 4 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (93.06%) AWS Lambda
2 67 (93.06%) Serverless
3 53 (73.61%) Amazon S3
4 38 (52.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (34.72%) GitHub
6 23 (31.94%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (30.56%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (23.61%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (23.61%) Apigee
10 16 (22.22%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (20.83%) Azure
12 13 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (15.28%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) Broadband
2 1 (1.39%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (61.11%) DynamoDB
2 21 (29.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (20.83%) NoSQL
6 12 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (15.28%) SQL Server
8 9 (12.50%) Big Data
8 9 (12.50%) Hadoop
9 8 (11.11%) Apache Hive
10 6 (8.33%) Data Lake
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (4.17%) Data Vault
12 3 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (1.39%) DB2
13 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
13 1 (1.39%) MySQL
13 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.39%) GitLab
3 17 (23.61%) Cypress.io
3 17 (23.61%) Maven
3 17 (23.61%) SonarQube
4 16 (22.22%) Git
5 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.39%) Gradle
6 1 (1.39%) MLflow
6 1 (1.39%) NUnit
6 1 (1.39%) Selenium
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Finance
3 8 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Legal
5 2 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (1.39%) Back Office
6 1 (1.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Developer
2 24 (33.33%) Senior
3 23 (31.94%) Data Engineer
4 17 (23.61%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (23.61%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (19.44%) AWS Developer
5 14 (19.44%) Lead
6 13 (18.06%) AWS Data Engineer
7 12 (16.67%) .NET Developer
8 7 (9.72%) Java Developer
9 6 (8.33%) Technical Leader
10 5 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
12 3 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) DevOps Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Lead Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Serverless Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) AngularJS
1 19 (26.39%) AWS CDK
2 18 (25.00%) React
2 18 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 17 (23.61%) Gherkin
3 17 (23.61%) Jest
4 15 (20.83%) .NET
4 15 (20.83%) .NET Core
5 14 (19.44%) RESTful
6 13 (18.06%) ASP.NET
6 13 (18.06%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (18.06%) Blazor
7 11 (15.28%) Spring
8 10 (13.89%) Kafka
9 8 (11.11%) boto
9 8 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (8.33%) GraphQL
11 5 (6.94%) Serverless Framework
12 4 (5.56%) Node.js
13 3 (4.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.72%) Cloud Native
2 18 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (13.89%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (11.11%) e-Learning
5 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.78%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (84.72%) CI/CD
2 53 (73.61%) DevOps
3 37 (51.39%) Agile
4 26 (36.11%) Microservices
5 24 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
9 16 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 14 (19.44%) Data Modelling
10 14 (19.44%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (18.06%) Application Security
11 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
12 12 (16.67%) Data Science
12 12 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (15.28%) AI
13 11 (15.28%) Clean Code
14 10 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (13.89%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) Python
2 31 (43.06%) Java
3 26 (36.11%) SQL
4 25 (34.72%) TypeScript
5 17 (23.61%) Bash
6 16 (22.22%) Groovy
7 12 (16.67%) Scala
8 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.78%) C#
10 1 (1.39%) Go
10 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (45.83%) AWS Certification
2 18 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) MCP
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) GDPR
2 7 (9.72%) Data Quality
3 6 (8.33%) QA
4 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.78%) NIST
4 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (55.56%) Docker
2 8 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (31.94%) Terraform
2 17 (23.61%) HP Fortify
3 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.78%) Grafana
6 1 (1.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) Databricks
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.17%) OpenAI
2 3 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (1.39%) Google