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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 615 852
Rank change year-on-year +12 +237 +8
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 133 53 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.35% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 67 45 19
10th Percentile £60,750 £71,250 £52,221
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £99,400 £95,750 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -22.00%

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 25,087 14,945 35,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.53% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16,217 10,308 27,353
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -10 124 £80,000 -5.88% 22
UK excluding London +16 97 £75,000 -11.76% 15
North of England +43 79 £75,000 -3.23% 8
Yorkshire +26 71 £75,000 -3.23% 6
London -15 33 £90,000 +16.13% 12
Work from Home +23 28 £75,000 +3.45% 15
Midlands -4 9 £52,500 - 2
North West - 7 £72,500 - 2
Scotland +7 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands -18 4 £85,000 - 1
South West -55 3 £65,000 -31.58% 2
Wales -45 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 14 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.01%) Apache
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.26%) JBoss
4 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) AWS
2 126 (94.74%) AWS Lambda
2 126 (94.74%) Serverless
3 114 (85.71%) Amazon S3
4 92 (69.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 82 (61.65%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (35.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (33.83%) GitHub
8 40 (30.08%) Amazon ECR
8 40 (30.08%) Amazon SQS
8 40 (30.08%) Apigee
9 33 (24.81%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (20.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 16 (12.03%) Datadog
12 12 (9.02%) Pulumi
13 11 (8.27%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (7.52%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (7.52%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (6.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.02%) DSL
2 2 (1.50%) 4G
2 2 (1.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (59.40%) DynamoDB
2 34 (25.56%) Amazon Athena
3 28 (21.05%) NoSQL
4 14 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.01%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.26%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.26%) Metadata
9 3 (2.26%) MySQL
9 3 (2.26%) Power BI
9 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.50%) Big Data
10 2 (1.50%) Presto
Development Applications
1 62 (46.62%) Jenkins
2 51 (38.35%) GitLab
3 35 (26.32%) Cypress.io
4 33 (24.81%) Git
5 32 (24.06%) Maven
6 30 (22.56%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.26%) JIRA
8 3 (2.26%) MLflow
8 3 (2.26%) NUnit
8 3 (2.26%) Selenium
9 2 (1.50%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.75%) JUnit
10 1 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 22 (16.54%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.51%) Finance
4 4 (3.01%) Banking
4 4 (3.01%) Billing
4 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.26%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.50%) Retail
6 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.75%) Advertising
7 1 (0.75%) Games
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 78 (58.65%) Developer
2 60 (45.11%) Java Developer
3 31 (23.31%) Senior
4 25 (18.80%) AWS Developer
5 24 (18.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (13.53%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.53%) Architect
7 14 (10.53%) AWS Architect
7 14 (10.53%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (9.02%) AWS Security Architect
9 12 (9.02%) Security Architect
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Lead
11 5 (3.76%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.01%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (54.14%) AngularJS
2 52 (39.10%) Spring Boot
3 38 (28.57%) Gherkin
4 34 (25.56%) Node.js
5 32 (24.06%) Jest
6 28 (21.05%) AWS CDK
7 24 (18.05%) Spring
8 10 (7.52%) REST
9 9 (6.77%) React
10 7 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (3.76%) .NET
11 5 (3.76%) .NET Core
12 4 (3.01%) Kafka
12 4 (3.01%) PySpark
12 4 (3.01%) SOAP
13 3 (2.26%) Flask
13 3 (2.26%) OAuth
13 3 (2.26%) OAuth2
13 3 (2.26%) RESTful
13 3 (2.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.80%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Life Science
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.76%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 74 (55.64%) DevOps
3 43 (32.33%) Agile
4 40 (30.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (28.57%) DevSecOps
6 29 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (21.05%) SDLC
8 27 (20.30%) Secure Coding
9 24 (18.05%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (18.05%) ITIL
9 24 (18.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 23 (17.29%) Workflow
11 21 (15.79%) Event-Driven
12 19 (14.29%) AI
12 19 (14.29%) Microservices
13 18 (13.53%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.78%) Secrets Management
15 16 (12.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 16 (12.03%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 76 (57.14%) Java
2 58 (43.61%) TypeScript
3 46 (34.59%) SQL
4 44 (33.08%) Python
5 39 (29.32%) Groovy
6 32 (24.06%) Bash
7 29 (21.80%) Kotlin
8 12 (9.02%) Go
8 12 (9.02%) Rust
9 4 (3.01%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.26%) C#
10 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (27.07%) AWS Certification
2 23 (17.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.29%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (11.28%) Security Cleared
4 13 (9.77%) Degree
4 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
5 12 (9.02%) OSCP
6 6 (4.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.01%) GDPR
2 4 (3.01%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 73 (54.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (30.08%) Terraform
2 30 (22.56%) HP Fortify
3 16 (12.03%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.51%) Grafana
5 4 (3.01%) Control-M
6 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.51%) Oracle
2 5 (3.76%) Databricks
3 4 (3.01%) Informatica
4 2 (1.50%) Splunk
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft