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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 636 786
Rank change year-on-year +70 +150 +163
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 108 35 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.077% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 46 28 30
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,425 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £53,750 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £81,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.98% +16.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £103,625 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +36.79% -18.46% +8.33%

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 23,116 16,906 30,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.73% 37.09% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,458 10,740 24,527
10th Percentile £29,186 £33,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +71 101 £78,750 -1.56% 25
UK excluding London +58 71 £72,500 +36.79% 16
North of England +29 62 £72,500 +52.63% 8
Yorkshire - 58 £72,500 - 6
London +35 33 £90,000 -1.37% 12
Work from Home +42 25 £72,500 -24.68% 5
North West +8 4 £88,750 +86.84% 1
Scotland -8 4 - - 1
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +19 1 £45,000 - 2
Midlands -14 1 £45,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £100,000 - 1

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 (12.04%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.26%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.48%) Apache
4 2 (1.85%) JBoss
4 2 (1.85%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) AWS
2 102 (94.44%) AWS Lambda
2 102 (94.44%) Serverless
3 85 (78.70%) Amazon S3
4 73 (67.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (42.59%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (39.81%) GitHub
7 40 (37.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
9 34 (31.48%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (29.63%) Amazon ECR
10 32 (29.63%) Apigee
11 15 (13.89%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (13.89%) Azure
12 13 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (11.11%) Pulumi
14 9 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.11%) DSL
2 2 (1.85%) Broadband
3 1 (0.93%) 4G
3 1 (0.93%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (57.41%) DynamoDB
2 26 (24.07%) NoSQL
3 20 (18.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (17.59%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (13.89%) SQL Server
6 11 (10.19%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (5.56%) Big Data
7 6 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.56%) Hadoop
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.63%) Apache Hive
9 4 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (2.78%) MySQL
10 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.85%) Power BI
11 2 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (47.22%) Jenkins
2 45 (41.67%) GitLab
3 32 (29.63%) Cypress.io
3 32 (29.63%) Maven
3 32 (29.63%) SonarQube
4 31 (28.70%) Git
5 4 (3.70%) MLflow
6 3 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.78%) NUnit
6 3 (2.78%) Selenium
7 2 (1.85%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 24 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.41%) Finance
4 5 (4.63%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Banking
6 3 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Legal
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Billing
8 1 (0.93%) Games
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (45.37%) Developer
2 33 (30.56%) Java Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Senior
4 19 (17.59%) AWS Developer
4 19 (17.59%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (17.59%) Data Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 12 (11.11%) Architect
5 12 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 12 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
5 12 (11.11%) Lead
5 12 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 12 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.63%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (40.74%) AngularJS
2 36 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 33 (30.56%) AWS CDK
4 32 (29.63%) Gherkin
4 32 (29.63%) Jest
5 17 (15.74%) .NET
5 17 (15.74%) .NET Core
6 16 (14.81%) Node.js
7 14 (12.96%) React
8 13 (12.04%) ASP.NET
8 13 (12.04%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (12.04%) Blazor
8 13 (12.04%) RESTful
8 13 (12.04%) Spring
9 7 (6.48%) Kafka
9 7 (6.48%) REST
10 5 (4.63%) boto
10 5 (4.63%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (3.70%) LangChain
11 4 (3.70%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 38 (35.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.63%) e-Learning
4 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.85%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 4 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (89.81%) CI/CD
2 72 (66.67%) DevOps
3 52 (48.15%) Agile
4 38 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (24.07%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (24.07%) Microservices
7 24 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 24 (22.22%) Secure Coding
8 23 (21.30%) DevSecOps
9 19 (17.59%) Deployment Automation
9 19 (17.59%) SDLC
10 16 (14.81%) Data Modelling
10 16 (14.81%) ITIL
10 16 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (14.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 14 (12.96%) Data Governance
12 13 (12.04%) Application Security
12 13 (12.04%) Data Engineering
12 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 51 (47.22%) Java
2 42 (38.89%) SQL
3 40 (37.04%) Python
4 38 (35.19%) TypeScript
5 33 (30.56%) Bash
6 31 (28.70%) Groovy
7 13 (12.04%) Kotlin
8 12 (11.11%) Go
8 12 (11.11%) Rust
9 6 (5.56%) Scala
10 4 (3.70%) C#
10 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (40.74%) AWS Certification
2 20 (18.52%) AWS Certified Developer
3 16 (14.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 16 (14.81%) ITIL Certification
4 13 (12.04%) Degree
5 12 (11.11%) OSCP
6 7 (6.48%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.41%) GDPR
2 8 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) MiFID
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (66.67%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (36.11%) Terraform
2 32 (29.63%) HP Fortify
3 22 (20.37%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.48%) Grafana
5 4 (3.70%) Control-M
5 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (8.33%) Databricks
2 6 (5.56%) Oracle
3 4 (3.70%) Informatica
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.93%) OpenAI