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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 603 704 665
Rank change year-on-year +101 -39 +228
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 46 54 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.079% 0.090%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26 41 45
10th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £59,000
25th Percentile £72,813 £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £96,875 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £53,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +79.25% -22.91% +7.84%

All Cloud 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 17,754 22,775 22,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.41% 33.13% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,286 13,929 18,650
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 23 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 11 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 23 November 2025. 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 +107 44 £77,500 -22.50% 17
London +42 25 £77,500 -22.50% 6
UK excluding London +120 19 £95,000 +79.25% 14
Work from Home +86 19 £86,250 -17.86% 11
North of England +46 10 £60,000 +26.32% 8
Yorkshire - 8 £60,000 - 6
South West +34 3 £95,000 - 2
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 1
North West +50 2 £95,000 +100.00% 2
Scotland +20 2 £95,000 +65.22% 1
South East +53 1 £80,000 -27.27% 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 14 (30.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.87%) Apache
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (91.30%) AWS Lambda
2 42 (91.30%) Serverless
3 29 (63.04%) Amazon S3
4 15 (32.61%) GitHub
5 14 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (23.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (23.91%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (21.74%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (21.74%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (17.39%) Amazon EventBridge
9 8 (17.39%) Snowflake
10 7 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (15.22%) Azure
11 5 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (6.52%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (45.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (41.30%) DynamoDB
3 18 (39.13%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (19.57%) Big Data
5 9 (19.57%) Hadoop
6 8 (17.39%) Apache Hive
7 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
8 6 (13.04%) Data Lake
9 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
10 4 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (6.52%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (6.52%) Data Vault
11 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (2.17%) DB2
12 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
12 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Gradle
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Financial Institution
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.17%) Back Office
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (54.35%) Data Engineer
2 22 (47.83%) Senior
3 17 (36.96%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (34.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (28.26%) AWS Data Engineer
6 10 (21.74%) Developer
7 9 (19.57%) AWS Developer
8 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) .NET Developer
9 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Senior Developer
10 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 2 (4.35%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
11 2 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) React
2 10 (21.74%) Kafka
3 8 (17.39%) AWS CDK
3 8 (17.39%) boto
3 8 (17.39%) Spark Streaming
4 6 (13.04%) GraphQL
4 6 (13.04%) RESTful
5 5 (10.87%) .NET
5 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
5 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
5 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (10.87%) Blazor
5 5 (10.87%) Serverless Framework
6 3 (6.52%) Node.js
6 3 (6.52%) Pandas
7 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.35%) Nuxt
7 2 (4.35%) PySpark
7 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 10 (21.74%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (17.39%) e-Learning
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.35%) Client/Server
5 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 28 (60.87%) DevOps
3 20 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (39.13%) Data Engineering
5 17 (36.96%) Agile
6 15 (32.61%) Data Science
6 15 (32.61%) Mentoring
7 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (28.26%) AI
8 13 (28.26%) Analytics
8 13 (28.26%) Data Modelling
9 12 (26.09%) Microservices
10 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (23.91%) Software Engineering
11 10 (21.74%) Data Governance
11 10 (21.74%) ETL
12 9 (19.57%) Clean Code
12 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
13 8 (17.39%) Data Security
13 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 32 (69.57%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) SQL
3 14 (30.43%) Java
4 12 (26.09%) Scala
5 8 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) AWS Certification
2 7 (15.22%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.35%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (32.61%) GDPR
2 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
3 5 (10.87%) NIST
4 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.17%) QA
5 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Docker
2 8 (17.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Databricks
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.17%) Google