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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 702 675
Rank change year-on-year +117 -27 +233
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 54 54 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.081% 0.092%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 28 41 45
10th Percentile £59,250 £52,500 £59,000
25th Percentile £73,438 £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £98,125 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 - £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 17,955 22,560 21,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.27% 33.76% 42.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,352 13,685 18,308
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% -0.79%
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 28 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 28 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 +122 52 £78,750 -21.25% 19
UK excluding London +122 27 £95,000 +79.25% 19
London +37 26 £77,500 -22.50% 8
Work from Home +87 21 £77,500 -26.19% 9
North of England +46 18 £60,000 +26.32% 6
Yorkshire - 16 £60,000 - 5
South West +21 3 £95,000 - 2
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 1
North West +51 2 £95,000 +100.00% 1
Scotland +11 2 £95,000 +65.22% 3
South East +46 1 £80,000 -27.27% 6

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 (25.93%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.26%) Apache
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (92.59%) AWS Lambda
2 50 (92.59%) Serverless
3 37 (68.52%) Amazon S3
4 20 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (29.63%) GitHub
6 13 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (20.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (20.37%) Amazon Kinesis
7 11 (20.37%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (18.52%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
9 9 (16.67%) Snowflake
10 8 (14.81%) Azure
11 7 (12.96%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (12.96%) Apigee
12 6 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 20 (37.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (24.07%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (16.67%) Big Data
6 9 (16.67%) Hadoop
7 8 (14.81%) Apache Hive
7 8 (14.81%) NoSQL
8 6 (11.11%) Data Lake
8 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
9 4 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (5.56%) Data Vault
10 3 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.85%) DB2
11 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
11 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.67%) Git
3 8 (14.81%) GitLab
4 7 (12.96%) Cypress.io
4 7 (12.96%) Maven
4 7 (12.96%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.85%) Gradle
6 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.22%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Financial Institution
4 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Back Office
6 1 (1.85%) Games
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (46.30%) Data Engineer
2 22 (40.74%) Senior
3 16 (29.63%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (29.63%) Senior Data Engineer
4 13 (24.07%) AWS Data Engineer
4 13 (24.07%) Developer
5 9 (16.67%) AWS Developer
5 9 (16.67%) Lead
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Technical Leader
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.70%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) React
2 10 (18.52%) Kafka
3 9 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 9 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 8 (14.81%) boto
4 8 (14.81%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 7 (12.96%) .NET
5 7 (12.96%) .NET Core
5 7 (12.96%) Gherkin
5 7 (12.96%) Jest
5 7 (12.96%) RESTful
5 7 (12.96%) Spring
6 6 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 6 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (11.11%) Blazor
6 6 (11.11%) GraphQL
7 5 (9.26%) Serverless Framework
8 4 (7.41%) Node.js
9 3 (5.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (25.93%) Cloud Native
3 10 (18.52%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (14.81%) e-Learning
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) CI/CD
2 35 (64.81%) DevOps
3 24 (44.44%) Agile
4 21 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (35.19%) Data Engineering
6 17 (31.48%) Mentoring
7 16 (29.63%) Microservices
7 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (27.78%) Data Science
9 14 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (24.07%) AI
10 13 (24.07%) Data Modelling
11 12 (22.22%) Analytics
11 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
12 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
12 10 (18.52%) Data Governance
12 10 (18.52%) ETL
13 9 (16.67%) Clean Code
14 8 (14.81%) Data Security
14 8 (14.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 32 (59.26%) Python
2 21 (38.89%) Java
3 19 (35.19%) SQL
4 15 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 12 (22.22%) Scala
6 7 (12.96%) Bash
7 6 (11.11%) Groovy
7 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.85%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) AWS Certification
2 11 (20.37%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.70%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.78%) GDPR
2 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
3 5 (9.26%) NIST
4 3 (5.56%) QA
5 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (38.89%) Docker
2 8 (14.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (24.07%) Terraform
2 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.96%) HP Fortify
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Databricks
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.85%) Google