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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 620 772
Rank change year-on-year -41 +152 +37
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 112 59 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.37% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58 50 20
10th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £54,235
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,188 £79,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -5.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,500 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -41.50%

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 27,731 15,939 28,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.95% 32.25% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 18,198 11,095 20,714
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,079 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,550 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.69% -1.81% -4.55%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -29 109 £80,000 - 16
UK excluding London -29 79 £75,000 -11.76% 13
North of England +28 65 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Yorkshire +16 57 £80,000 +3.23% 2
London -28 33 £90,000 +16.13% 9
Work from Home 0 26 £85,000 +13.33% 7
Midlands - 8 £63,750 -
North West - 7 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 -
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 -
South East -37 2 - - 4
Wales -57 2 £39,163 -47.78% 2
Scotland +8 1 - - 3
South West -66 1 - -
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 10 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.25%) Apache
3 5 (4.46%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.68%) JBoss
4 3 (2.68%) SAS
5 2 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (93.75%) AWS Lambda
2 105 (93.75%) Serverless
3 92 (82.14%) Amazon S3
4 77 (68.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 69 (61.61%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (32.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 36 (32.14%) Amazon SQS
7 34 (30.36%) Amazon ECR
7 34 (30.36%) Apigee
8 31 (27.68%) GitHub
9 25 (22.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 22 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (13.39%) Datadog
12 12 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (6.25%) Pulumi
14 6 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (4.46%) SaaS
15 5 (4.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) DSL
2 2 (1.79%) 4G
2 2 (1.79%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (60.71%) DynamoDB
2 31 (27.68%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 13 (11.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.57%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.57%) Metadata
9 3 (2.68%) Big Data
9 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.68%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.79%) Parquet
10 2 (1.79%) Presto
10 2 (1.79%) Redshift Spectrum
11 1 (0.89%) Flink
11 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 42 (37.50%) GitLab
3 29 (25.89%) Cypress.io
4 26 (23.21%) Maven
5 24 (21.43%) Git
5 24 (21.43%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.68%) JIRA
7 3 (2.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.89%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.89%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.89%) JUnit
8 1 (0.89%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 19 (16.96%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.25%) Billing
4 6 (5.36%) Finance
5 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.68%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.89%) Advertising
7 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (58.93%) Developer
2 50 (44.64%) Java Developer
3 28 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 28 (25.00%) Senior
4 20 (17.86%) AWS Developer
5 17 (15.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (13.39%) Data Engineer
7 14 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 13 (11.61%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (10.71%) Architect
10 9 (8.04%) AWS Architect
10 9 (8.04%) Software Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) AWS Security Architect
11 7 (6.25%) Python Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Security Architect
11 7 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (5.36%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Lead
13 5 (4.46%) Angular Developer
13 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (55.36%) AngularJS
2 48 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 35 (31.25%) Node.js
4 33 (29.46%) Gherkin
5 26 (23.21%) Jest
5 26 (23.21%) Spring
6 17 (15.18%) AWS CDK
7 11 (9.82%) React
8 7 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (4.46%) Kafka
9 5 (4.46%) PySpark
10 4 (3.57%) REST
11 3 (2.68%) A2A Protocol
11 3 (2.68%) Drools
11 3 (2.68%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.68%) Flask
11 3 (2.68%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (2.68%) Next.js
11 3 (2.68%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (2.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.68%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.68%) Life Science
4 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.89%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (72.32%) CI/CD
2 60 (53.57%) DevOps
3 38 (33.93%) Agile
4 33 (29.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (25.00%) DevSecOps
7 24 (21.43%) SDLC
8 22 (19.64%) AI
9 20 (17.86%) ITIL
9 20 (17.86%) Secure Coding
9 20 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 19 (16.96%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (15.18%) Event-Driven
11 17 (15.18%) Microservices
11 17 (15.18%) RBAC
11 17 (15.18%) Secrets Management
12 15 (13.39%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.39%) Workflow
13 14 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 14 (12.50%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (58.93%) Java
2 55 (49.11%) TypeScript
3 43 (38.39%) Python
4 35 (31.25%) SQL
5 34 (30.36%) Groovy
6 26 (23.21%) Bash
7 24 (21.43%) Kotlin
8 7 (6.25%) Go
8 7 (6.25%) Rust
9 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.89%) Bicep
10 1 (0.89%) C#
10 1 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (26.79%) AWS Certification
2 19 (16.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 19 (16.96%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (13.39%) Security Cleared
4 14 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.25%) Degree
6 7 (6.25%) OSCP
7 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.57%) GDPR
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (50.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (29.46%) Terraform
2 24 (21.43%) HP Fortify
3 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.68%) Avaya
1 3 (2.68%) Cisco
1 3 (2.68%) Databricks
1 3 (2.68%) Genesys
2 2 (1.79%) Splunk
3 1 (0.89%) Google
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft