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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 651 762
Rank change year-on-year +80 +111 +187
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 101 43 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.088% 0.047%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.24% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 41 34 32
10th Percentile £60,000 £50,050 £53,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,250 £78,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -2.56% +11.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £124,625 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +36.79% -11.67% -

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 22,401 18,225 28,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.21% 37.19% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12,129 10,827 23,840
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 17 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 12 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 17 February 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 +101 94 £77,500 -13.89% 26
UK excluding London +71 63 £72,500 +36.79% 17
North of England +38 54 £72,500 +52.63% 8
Yorkshire - 52 £72,500 - 8
London +29 34 £90,000 -2.70% 12
Work from Home +72 28 £75,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland -9 4 - - 1
North West +8 2 £95,000 +100.00%
South West - 2 £65,000 - 2
East of England - 2 £100,000 - 1
West Midlands +18 1 £45,000 - 2
Midlands +10 1 £45,000 - 2

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 12 (11.88%) Apache Spark
2 11 (10.89%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.95%) Apache
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 96 (95.05%) AWS Lambda
2 96 (95.05%) Serverless
3 78 (77.23%) Amazon S3
4 65 (64.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 41 (40.59%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (38.61%) GitHub
7 36 (35.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (32.67%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (30.69%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (26.73%) Amazon ECR
10 27 (26.73%) Apigee
11 16 (15.84%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (14.85%) Azure
13 13 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (10.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (9.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (8.91%) Pulumi
17 8 (7.92%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) DSL
2 3 (2.97%) Broadband
3 1 (0.99%) 4G
3 1 (0.99%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (58.42%) DynamoDB
2 25 (24.75%) NoSQL
3 22 (21.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 20 (19.80%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (17.82%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (15.84%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (14.85%) SQL Server
8 14 (13.86%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (7.92%) Big Data
9 8 (7.92%) Hadoop
10 7 (6.93%) Apache Hive
11 6 (5.94%) Data Lake
12 5 (4.95%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (2.97%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (2.97%) MySQL
14 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
15 2 (1.98%) Data Vault
15 2 (1.98%) Oracle ODI
15 2 (1.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (42.57%) Jenkins
2 36 (35.64%) GitLab
3 30 (29.70%) Git
4 27 (26.73%) Cypress.io
4 27 (26.73%) Maven
4 27 (26.73%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.96%) MLflow
6 3 (2.97%) NUnit
7 2 (1.98%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 24 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (9.90%) Finance
3 7 (6.93%) Financial Institution
4 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.98%) Legal
6 1 (0.99%) Banking
6 1 (0.99%) Billing
6 1 (0.99%) Games
6 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.99%) Retail
6 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (43.56%) Developer
2 27 (26.73%) Java Developer
2 27 (26.73%) Senior
3 20 (19.80%) Data Engineer
4 19 (18.81%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (17.82%) AWS Developer
6 14 (13.86%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (12.87%) AWS Data Engineer
8 12 (11.88%) .NET Developer
8 12 (11.88%) Lead
9 9 (8.91%) Architect
9 9 (8.91%) AWS Architect
9 9 (8.91%) AWS Security Architect
9 9 (8.91%) Security Architect
10 7 (6.93%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.94%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 4 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 4 (3.96%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (38.61%) AngularJS
2 31 (30.69%) AWS CDK
3 30 (29.70%) Spring Boot
4 27 (26.73%) Gherkin
4 27 (26.73%) Jest
5 17 (16.83%) .NET
5 17 (16.83%) .NET Core
6 16 (15.84%) React
7 14 (13.86%) Node.js
8 13 (12.87%) ASP.NET
8 13 (12.87%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (12.87%) Blazor
8 13 (12.87%) RESTful
9 12 (11.88%) Spring
10 10 (9.90%) Kafka
11 7 (6.93%) boto
11 7 (6.93%) REST
11 7 (6.93%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (3.96%) GraphQL
12 4 (3.96%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.66%) Cloud Native
2 18 (17.82%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (8.91%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (6.93%) e-Learning
5 5 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.98%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) Unix
3 1 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (93.07%) CI/CD
2 70 (69.31%) DevOps
3 46 (45.54%) Agile
4 34 (33.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (27.72%) Data Pipeline
7 27 (26.73%) Microservices
8 22 (21.78%) Containerisation
9 21 (20.79%) Secure Coding
10 19 (18.81%) Data Modelling
10 19 (18.81%) DevSecOps
11 17 (16.83%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (15.84%) Data Governance
12 16 (15.84%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (13.86%) Data Engineering
13 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
13 14 (13.86%) SDLC
14 13 (12.87%) ITIL
14 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
14 13 (12.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.53%) Java
2 41 (40.59%) SQL
3 38 (37.62%) Python
4 35 (34.65%) TypeScript
5 27 (26.73%) Bash
6 26 (25.74%) Groovy
7 10 (9.90%) Kotlin
8 9 (8.91%) Go
8 9 (8.91%) Rust
9 8 (7.92%) Scala
10 4 (3.96%) C#
10 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.99%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (41.58%) AWS Certification
2 19 (18.81%) AWS Certified Developer
3 13 (12.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (10.89%) Degree
5 9 (8.91%) OSCP
6 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.99%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.88%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.89%) GDPR
3 8 (7.92%) QA
4 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.98%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.99%) MiFID
System Software
1 64 (63.37%) Docker
2 7 (6.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (33.66%) Terraform
2 27 (26.73%) HP Fortify
3 20 (19.80%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.93%) Grafana
5 4 (3.96%) Control-M
5 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (10.89%) Databricks
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle
3 4 (3.96%) Informatica
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.98%) OpenAI