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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 630 751
Rank change year-on-year -49 +121 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 107 62 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.100% 0.12% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.39% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 56 49 28
10th Percentile £48,750 £72,250 £59,750
25th Percentile £70,937 £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 27,792 15,944 26,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 31.95% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,451 10,976 18,640
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £43,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
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 20 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 20 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 -52 103 £83,750 +1.52% 9
UK excluding London -51 79 £80,000 -5.88% 5
North of England +20 63 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Yorkshire +15 55 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Work from Home -3 31 £85,000 +13.33% 5
London -47 28 £90,000 +16.13% 5
Midlands - 10 £63,750 -
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 -
North West - 7 £72,500 -
Wales -60 3 £39,163 -47.78%
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 -
South East -34 2 - - 3
Scotland -2 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 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.67%) Apache
3 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.80%) SAS
5 2 (1.87%) Confluence
5 2 (1.87%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (94.39%) AWS Lambda
2 101 (94.39%) Serverless
3 90 (84.11%) Amazon S3
4 73 (68.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 67 (62.62%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (33.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (29.91%) Amazon SQS
7 32 (29.91%) GitHub
8 29 (27.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 28 (26.17%) Amazon ECR
9 28 (26.17%) Apigee
10 24 (22.43%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (18.69%) Datadog
12 12 (11.21%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (7.48%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (6.54%) Snowflake
15 6 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (4.67%) SaaS
16 5 (4.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) DSL
2 1 (0.93%) 4G
2 1 (0.93%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (62.62%) DynamoDB
2 32 (29.91%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (20.56%) NoSQL
4 14 (13.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.67%) Metadata
8 4 (3.74%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.80%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (2.80%) Big Data
9 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.87%) Parquet
10 2 (1.87%) Presto
11 1 (0.93%) Redshift Spectrum
11 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.93%) Trino
Development Applications
1 38 (35.51%) Jenkins
2 33 (30.84%) GitLab
3 24 (22.43%) Git
4 23 (21.50%) Cypress.io
5 20 (18.69%) Maven
6 18 (16.82%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.80%) JIRA
8 2 (1.87%) Selenium
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.93%) JUnit
9 1 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.28%) Finance
3 8 (7.48%) Banking
4 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.61%) Billing
5 4 (3.74%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Advertising
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (59.81%) Developer
2 48 (44.86%) Java Developer
3 28 (26.17%) Senior
4 27 (25.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (20.56%) AWS Developer
6 16 (14.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (14.95%) Senior Developer
7 13 (12.15%) Data Engineer
8 11 (10.28%) Architect
8 11 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
10 8 (7.48%) AWS Architect
11 7 (6.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (5.61%) Angular Developer
12 6 (5.61%) Lead
12 6 (5.61%) Python Engineer
13 5 (4.67%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (3.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (56.07%) AngularJS
2 45 (42.06%) Spring Boot
3 39 (36.45%) Node.js
4 30 (28.04%) Terraform
5 29 (27.10%) Spring
6 27 (25.23%) Gherkin
7 20 (18.69%) Jest
8 14 (13.08%) AWS CDK
9 12 (11.21%) React
10 7 (6.54%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (4.67%) PySpark
12 4 (3.74%) Kafka
12 4 (3.74%) Pulumi
12 4 (3.74%) REST
13 3 (2.80%) A2A Protocol
13 3 (2.80%) FastAPI
13 3 (2.80%) Flask
13 3 (2.80%) Model Context Protocol
13 3 (2.80%) Next.js
13 3 (2.80%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.80%) Life Science
4 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.87%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (73.83%) CI/CD
2 59 (55.14%) DevOps
3 37 (34.58%) Agile
4 32 (29.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (27.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (24.30%) DevSecOps
7 23 (21.50%) AI
8 21 (19.63%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (17.76%) Microservices
9 19 (17.76%) RBAC
9 19 (17.76%) SDLC
9 19 (17.76%) Secrets Management
10 17 (15.89%) Event-Driven
10 17 (15.89%) Workflow
11 16 (14.95%) ITIL
11 16 (14.95%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 16 (14.95%) Secure Coding
11 16 (14.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 16 (14.95%) Workflow Management
12 15 (14.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (60.75%) Java
2 55 (51.40%) TypeScript
3 40 (37.38%) SQL
4 38 (35.51%) Python
5 28 (26.17%) Groovy
6 27 (25.23%) Kotlin
7 20 (18.69%) Bash
8 4 (3.74%) Go
8 4 (3.74%) Rust
9 2 (1.87%) C#
9 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.87%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) AWS Certification
2 15 (14.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 15 (14.02%) ITIL Certification
2 15 (14.02%) SC Cleared
2 15 (14.02%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.74%) Degree
4 4 (3.74%) OSCP
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) GDPR
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 54 (50.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.82%) HP Fortify
2 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.67%) Databricks
2 3 (2.80%) Avaya
2 3 (2.80%) Cisco
2 3 (2.80%) Genesys
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.87%) Google
3 2 (1.87%) Informatica
3 2 (1.87%) Splunk