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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 701 613 753
Rank change year-on-year -88 +140 -24
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 97 66 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.13% 0.072%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.41% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 49 51 33
10th Percentile £48,750 £72,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,750 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £165,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -5.88% +81.62% -39.61%

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 27,511 15,930 25,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.04% 31.86% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 18,545 10,882 17,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 14 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 1 September 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 -85 93 £85,000 +3.03% 52
UK excluding London -61 73 £80,000 -5.88% 30
North of England +3 57 £80,000 +3.23% 7
Yorkshire +5 51 £82,500 +6.45% 1
Work from Home -6 30 £85,000 +13.33% 41
London -54 24 £92,500 +19.35% 35
Midlands - 10 £63,750 - 4
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 - 2
North West - 5 £72,500 - 4
Wales -64 3 £39,163 -47.78% 1
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 2
South East -41 2 - - 1
Scotland -3 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £90,000 - 2

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 7 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.09%) SAS
4 1 (1.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) AWS
2 93 (95.88%) AWS Lambda
2 93 (95.88%) Serverless
3 83 (85.57%) Amazon S3
4 66 (68.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 63 (64.95%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (31.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 30 (30.93%) Amazon SQS
8 26 (26.80%) Amazon ECR
8 26 (26.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 26 (26.80%) Apigee
8 26 (26.80%) GitHub
9 19 (19.59%) Datadog
9 19 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (12.37%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (7.22%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (7.22%) Snowflake
12 6 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (5.15%) SaaS
13 5 (5.15%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) 4G
1 1 (1.03%) 5G
1 1 (1.03%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (64.95%) DynamoDB
2 29 (29.90%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (20.62%) NoSQL
4 13 (13.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.15%) Metadata
8 4 (4.12%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (3.09%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (3.09%) Big Data
9 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.09%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.06%) Parquet
10 2 (2.06%) Presto
11 1 (1.03%) Flink
11 1 (1.03%) Power BI
11 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (32.99%) Jenkins
2 27 (27.84%) GitLab
3 21 (21.65%) Cypress.io
3 21 (21.65%) Git
4 18 (18.56%) Maven
5 16 (16.49%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.06%) JIRA
7 1 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.03%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.03%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.03%) JUnit
7 1 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Banking
3 6 (6.19%) Billing
4 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.06%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 60 (61.86%) Developer
2 44 (45.36%) Java Developer
3 27 (27.84%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (25.77%) Senior
5 21 (21.65%) AWS Developer
6 16 (16.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (15.46%) Senior Developer
8 12 (12.37%) Data Engineer
9 10 (10.31%) Software Engineer
10 8 (8.25%) Architect
10 8 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (7.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (6.19%) Angular Developer
12 6 (6.19%) Lead
13 5 (5.15%) AWS Architect
13 5 (5.15%) AWS Data Engineer
14 4 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
14 4 (4.12%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (57.73%) AngularJS
2 42 (43.30%) Spring Boot
3 36 (37.11%) Node.js
4 28 (28.87%) Spring
5 25 (25.77%) Gherkin
5 25 (25.77%) Terraform
6 18 (18.56%) Jest
7 12 (12.37%) React
8 11 (11.34%) AWS CDK
9 7 (7.22%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (5.15%) PySpark
11 4 (4.12%) Kafka
11 4 (4.12%) REST
12 3 (3.09%) A2A Protocol
12 3 (3.09%) CSS
12 3 (3.09%) FastAPI
12 3 (3.09%) Flask
12 3 (3.09%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (3.09%) Next.js
12 3 (3.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.09%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.09%) Life Science
3 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (74.23%) CI/CD
2 54 (55.67%) DevOps
3 32 (32.99%) Agile
3 32 (32.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (23.71%) AI
6 21 (21.65%) DevSecOps
7 20 (20.62%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (18.56%) Secrets Management
9 17 (17.53%) Microservices
9 17 (17.53%) RBAC
10 16 (16.49%) SDLC
10 16 (16.49%) Workflow
11 15 (15.46%) Event-Driven
11 15 (15.46%) ITIL
11 15 (15.46%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 15 (15.46%) Secure Coding
11 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
11 15 (15.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 15 (15.46%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (62.89%) Java
2 52 (53.61%) TypeScript
3 37 (38.14%) SQL
4 32 (32.99%) Python
5 26 (26.80%) Groovy
6 24 (24.74%) Kotlin
7 17 (17.53%) Bash
8 2 (2.06%) C#
8 2 (2.06%) Ruby
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) Go
9 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) AWS Certification
2 14 (14.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 14 (14.43%) ITIL Certification
2 14 (14.43%) SC Cleared
2 14 (14.43%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.03%) Degree
5 1 (1.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) GDPR
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (50.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) Databricks
2 3 (3.09%) Avaya
2 3 (3.09%) Cisco
2 3 (3.09%) Genesys
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.06%) Google
3 2 (2.06%) Informatica
3 2 (2.06%) Splunk