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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 571 834
Rank change year-on-year -12 +263 +97
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 125 52 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.35% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 53 48 30
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,325 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -5.97% +19.64%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,625 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +16.67%

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 27,198 15,067 34,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.23% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14,110 11,081 26,851
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,633 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +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 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 13 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 April 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 -8 117 £80,000 -5.88% 31
UK excluding London -13 90 £75,000 -11.76% 19
North of England +22 80 £77,500 +63.16% 7
Yorkshire +12 75 £75,000 - 3
London +3 31 £90,000 +16.13% 16
Work from Home +12 24 £72,500 -6.45% 18
Scotland -21 5 - - 2
North West -16 4 £88,750 +86.84% 4
South West - 3 £65,000 - 1
Midlands -49 2 £48,750 - 2
West Midlands -23 1 £45,000 - 2
North East - 1 £90,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 -

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 13 (10.40%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.20%) Apache
2 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.40%) JBoss
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) AWS
2 119 (95.20%) AWS Lambda
2 119 (95.20%) Serverless
3 105 (84.00%) Amazon S3
4 87 (69.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 67 (53.60%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (39.20%) GitHub
7 47 (37.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (36.00%) Amazon ECR
8 45 (36.00%) Apigee
9 40 (32.00%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (31.20%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (15.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 15 (12.00%) Amazon EventBridge
13 14 (11.20%) Azure
14 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (10.40%) Pulumi
15 9 (7.20%) Datadog
16 8 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (6.40%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.40%) DSL
2 2 (1.60%) Broadband
3 1 (0.80%) 4G
3 1 (0.80%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (65.60%) DynamoDB
2 33 (26.40%) NoSQL
3 25 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (12.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
7 10 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.20%) Big Data
9 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.40%) MySQL
10 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.60%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.60%) Power BI
11 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (49.60%) Jenkins
2 56 (44.80%) GitLab
3 40 (32.00%) Cypress.io
3 40 (32.00%) Maven
3 40 (32.00%) SonarQube
4 37 (29.60%) Git
5 4 (3.20%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.20%) MLflow
5 4 (3.20%) Selenium
6 3 (2.40%) NUnit
7 2 (1.60%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 28 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.80%) Finance
4 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Banking
5 3 (2.40%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.60%) Billing
6 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.60%) Legal
6 2 (1.60%) Retail
7 1 (0.80%) Games
7 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (54.40%) Developer
2 46 (36.80%) Java Developer
3 28 (22.40%) Senior
4 24 (19.20%) AWS Developer
5 15 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 14 (11.20%) Lead
7 13 (10.40%) Architect
7 13 (10.40%) AWS Architect
7 13 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (10.40%) AWS Security Architect
7 13 (10.40%) Security Architect
8 12 (9.60%) .NET Developer
8 12 (9.60%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (7.20%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Technical Leader
12 6 (4.80%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (4.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (50.40%) AngularJS
2 50 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 40 (32.00%) Gherkin
3 40 (32.00%) Jest
4 33 (26.40%) AWS CDK
5 22 (17.60%) Node.js
6 19 (15.20%) Spring
7 17 (13.60%) .NET
7 17 (13.60%) .NET Core
8 13 (10.40%) ASP.NET
8 13 (10.40%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (10.40%) Blazor
8 13 (10.40%) React
8 13 (10.40%) RESTful
9 8 (6.40%) REST
10 4 (3.20%) LangChain
10 4 (3.20%) LangGraph
10 4 (3.20%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (3.20%) SOAP
11 3 (2.40%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.60%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.60%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.00%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (84.80%) CI/CD
2 80 (64.00%) DevOps
3 58 (46.40%) Agile
4 37 (29.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (24.80%) DevSecOps
5 31 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (24.00%) Secure Coding
7 26 (20.80%) SDLC
8 24 (19.20%) Containerisation
8 24 (19.20%) Microservices
9 23 (18.40%) ITIL
9 23 (18.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 22 (17.60%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (15.20%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (14.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (12.80%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (12.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (12.80%) Workflow
14 14 (11.20%) Clean Code
14 14 (11.20%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 67 (53.60%) Java
2 51 (40.80%) TypeScript
3 47 (37.60%) SQL
4 41 (32.80%) Bash
5 39 (31.20%) Groovy
6 37 (29.60%) Python
7 21 (16.80%) Kotlin
8 13 (10.40%) Go
8 13 (10.40%) Rust
9 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.20%) C#
10 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.40%) Scala
12 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (39.20%) AWS Certification
2 23 (18.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (18.40%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (16.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (11.20%) Degree
5 13 (10.40%) OSCP
5 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
6 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.40%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) MiFID
System Software
1 85 (68.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (32.00%) HP Fortify
2 39 (31.20%) Terraform
3 19 (15.20%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.60%) Grafana
5 4 (3.20%) Control-M
5 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (5.60%) Databricks
2 6 (4.80%) Oracle
3 4 (3.20%) Informatica
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft