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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 718 596 727
Rank change year-on-year -122 +131 -39
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 98 68 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.14% 0.076%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.44% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 47 49 32
10th Percentile £48,750 £72,250 £56,750
25th Percentile £68,125 £75,750 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +47.83% -14.81%

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 27,491 15,544 24,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.41% 31.40% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 18,741 10,514 15,160
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,901 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -100 93 £80,000 - 72
UK excluding London -114 74 £80,000 -5.88% 28
North of England -12 56 £80,000 +16.36% 4
Yorkshire -5 47 £85,000 +23.64%
Work from Home -26 35 £85,000 +9.68% 25
London -70 24 £91,250 +17.74% 54
Midlands - 10 £63,750 - 5
North West - 8 £69,874 - 4
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 - 4
Wales - 3 £39,163 -
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 1
Scotland +10 2 - - 5
South East -37 2 - - 5
South West -79 1 - - 3
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 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.10%) Apache
2 5 (5.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.06%) SAS
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) AWS
2 94 (95.92%) AWS Lambda
2 94 (95.92%) Serverless
3 85 (86.73%) Amazon S3
4 63 (64.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 60 (61.22%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (32.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (27.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 27 (27.55%) Amazon SQS
7 27 (27.55%) GitHub
8 22 (22.45%) Amazon ECR
8 22 (22.45%) Apigee
9 21 (21.43%) Datadog
10 20 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (11.22%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (10.20%) Azure
13 8 (8.16%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (6.12%) Azure Functions
14 6 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) 4G
1 1 (1.02%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (60.20%) DynamoDB
2 36 (36.73%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (20.41%) NoSQL
4 18 (18.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (11.22%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.16%) Parquet
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
8 6 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.10%) Metadata
10 4 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (3.06%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (3.06%) Big Data
11 3 (3.06%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.06%) RDBMS
12 2 (2.04%) Power BI
12 2 (2.04%) Presto
13 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (1.02%) Looker
Development Applications
1 29 (29.59%) Git
2 27 (27.55%) Jenkins
3 23 (23.47%) GitLab
4 18 (18.37%) Cypress.io
5 15 (15.31%) Maven
6 13 (13.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.04%) JIRA
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.02%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.02%) JUnit
8 1 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Banking
5 6 (6.12%) Billing
6 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 57 (58.16%) Developer
2 43 (43.88%) Java Developer
3 28 (28.57%) Senior
4 26 (26.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (24.49%) AWS Developer
6 18 (18.37%) Data Engineer
7 16 (16.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (15.31%) Senior Developer
9 10 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (10.20%) Software Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Architect
10 7 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (5.10%) Angular Developer
12 5 (5.10%) Lead
12 5 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (4.08%) AWS Architect
13 4 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (54.08%) AngularJS
2 38 (38.78%) Spring Boot
3 36 (36.73%) Node.js
4 28 (28.57%) Spring
5 24 (24.49%) Terraform
6 22 (22.45%) Gherkin
7 15 (15.31%) Jest
8 12 (12.24%) React
9 10 (10.20%) AWS CDK
9 10 (10.20%) PySpark
10 8 (8.16%) JSON
11 7 (7.14%) Apache Avro
11 7 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (5.10%) Kafka
13 3 (3.06%) A2A Protocol
13 3 (3.06%) CSS
13 3 (3.06%) Flask
13 3 (3.06%) Model Context Protocol
13 3 (3.06%) REST
13 3 (3.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.06%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.06%) Life Science
3 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (76.53%) CI/CD
2 60 (61.22%) DevOps
3 37 (37.76%) Agile
4 31 (31.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (25.51%) Microservices
6 22 (22.45%) AI
6 22 (22.45%) Software Engineering
7 21 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (20.41%) Analytics
8 20 (20.41%) Data Engineering
8 20 (20.41%) DevSecOps
9 19 (19.39%) Secrets Management
10 18 (18.37%) RBAC
11 17 (17.35%) Mentoring
11 17 (17.35%) Workflow
12 16 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (16.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 16 (16.33%) Workflow Management
13 15 (15.31%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 64 (65.31%) Java
2 51 (52.04%) TypeScript
3 43 (43.88%) SQL
4 36 (36.73%) Python
5 24 (24.49%) Kotlin
6 23 (23.47%) Groovy
7 14 (14.29%) Bash
8 2 (2.04%) C#
8 2 (2.04%) Ruby
9 1 (1.02%) Bicep
9 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 17 (17.35%) Security Cleared
3 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.24%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (11.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.18%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 47 (47.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.10%) Databricks
2 3 (3.06%) Avaya
2 3 (3.06%) Cisco
2 3 (3.06%) Genesys
3 2 (2.04%) Google
3 2 (2.04%) Informatica
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.04%) Splunk