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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 619 856
Rank change year-on-year -18 +237 -14
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 125 56 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.36% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 66 48 18
10th Percentile £61,288 £71,250 £50,206
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +0.61% +2.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -25.12%

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 26,375 15,565 34,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.28% 32.68% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,191 10,859 26,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 15 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 4 July 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 +24 120 £80,000 -3.03% 30
UK excluding London -11 89 £75,000 -11.76% 15
North of England +35 72 £75,000 -3.23% 5
Yorkshire +30 64 £80,000 +3.23% 3
London -14 34 £90,000 +16.13% 19
Work from Home +14 26 £85,000 +17.24% 19
Midlands - 9 £52,500 - 2
North West - 7 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £85,000 - 1
South West -68 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
Scotland +14 2 - - 1
South East -30 2 - - 5
Wales -46 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 10 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.00%) Apache
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.40%) JBoss
5 2 (1.60%) Confluence
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) AWS
2 118 (94.40%) AWS Lambda
2 118 (94.40%) Serverless
3 106 (84.80%) Amazon S3
4 86 (68.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 78 (62.40%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (32.80%) Amazon SQS
7 40 (32.00%) Amazon ECR
7 40 (32.00%) Apigee
8 38 (30.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (29.60%) GitHub
10 27 (21.60%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (19.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (11.20%) Datadog
13 12 (9.60%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (8.80%) Pulumi
15 8 (6.40%) Snowflake
16 7 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (4.80%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.80%) DSL
2 2 (1.60%) 4G
2 2 (1.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (59.20%) DynamoDB
2 31 (24.80%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (17.60%) NoSQL
4 12 (9.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.20%) Apache Hudi
7 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.20%) Metadata
8 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.40%) Power BI
8 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.60%) Big Data
9 2 (1.60%) MySQL
9 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (48.00%) Jenkins
2 50 (40.00%) GitLab
3 35 (28.00%) Cypress.io
4 32 (25.60%) Maven
5 30 (24.00%) SonarQube
6 25 (20.00%) Git
7 4 (3.20%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.40%) JIRA
8 3 (2.40%) Selenium
9 2 (1.60%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.60%) NUnit
10 1 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.80%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.80%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.80%) JUnit
10 1 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.80%) MLflow
General
1 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.80%) Finance
4 5 (4.00%) Billing
5 4 (3.20%) Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.40%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.80%) Advertising
7 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Games
7 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (58.40%) Developer
2 57 (45.60%) Java Developer
3 29 (23.20%) Senior
4 28 (22.40%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (17.60%) AWS Developer
6 17 (13.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 16 (12.80%) Senior Developer
8 15 (12.00%) Data Engineer
9 14 (11.20%) Architect
10 13 (10.40%) AWS Architect
11 12 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (8.80%) AWS Security Architect
12 11 (8.80%) Security Architect
13 7 (5.60%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (5.60%) Software Engineer
14 6 (4.80%) Lead
14 6 (4.80%) Python Engineer
15 5 (4.00%) Angular Developer
15 5 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
15 5 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (55.20%) AngularJS
2 52 (41.60%) Spring Boot
3 39 (31.20%) Gherkin
4 33 (26.40%) Node.js
5 32 (25.60%) Jest
6 24 (19.20%) AWS CDK
6 24 (19.20%) Spring
7 10 (8.00%) React
8 7 (5.60%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (4.80%) REST
10 5 (4.00%) Kafka
10 5 (4.00%) PySpark
11 3 (2.40%) CSS
11 3 (2.40%) Drools
11 3 (2.40%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.40%) Flask
11 3 (2.40%) Next.js
11 3 (2.40%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (2.40%) Vue
11 3 (2.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.40%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.40%) Life Science
6 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (76.80%) CI/CD
2 70 (56.00%) DevOps
3 44 (35.20%) Agile
4 36 (28.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (26.40%) DevSecOps
5 33 (26.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (24.00%) SDLC
7 28 (22.40%) Secure Coding
8 26 (20.80%) ITIL
8 26 (20.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 20 (16.00%) AI
9 20 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (15.20%) Event-Driven
11 18 (14.40%) Microservices
12 17 (13.60%) Clean Code
12 17 (13.60%) Prototyping
12 17 (13.60%) Workflow
13 15 (12.00%) Data Engineering
13 15 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (12.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (58.40%) Java
2 58 (46.40%) TypeScript
3 45 (36.00%) Python
4 40 (32.00%) Groovy
5 38 (30.40%) SQL
6 32 (25.60%) Bash
7 25 (20.00%) Kotlin
8 11 (8.80%) Go
8 11 (8.80%) Rust
9 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.60%) C#
11 1 (0.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.80%) R
11 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.00%) AWS Certification
2 25 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 25 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
4 12 (9.60%) Degree
5 11 (8.80%) OSCP
5 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) MiFID
System Software
1 65 (52.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (29.60%) Terraform
2 30 (24.00%) HP Fortify
3 14 (11.20%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Control-M
5 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (2.40%) Databricks
1 3 (2.40%) Oracle
2 2 (1.60%) Splunk
3 1 (0.80%) Avaya
3 1 (0.80%) Cisco
3 1 (0.80%) Genesys
3 1 (0.80%) Informatica
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft