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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 613 859
Rank change year-on-year -1 +246 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 129 53 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.35% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 66 45 18
10th Percentile £61,288 £71,250 £50,206
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.66% +5.81%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £99,500 £95,750 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -22.00%

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 25,343 15,000 35,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.99% 33.44% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16,408 10,346 27,551
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,252 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.75%
75th Percentile £84,750 £82,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -8 121 £80,000 -5.88% 21
UK excluding London -1 93 £75,000 -11.76% 13
North of England +39 75 £75,000 -3.23% 6
Yorkshire +19 67 £77,500 - 3
London -16 34 £90,000 +16.13% 14
Work from Home +24 26 £75,000 +3.45% 16
Midlands -11 9 £52,500 - 1
North West - 7 £72,500 - 3
Scotland +15 5 - - 1
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 -
West Midlands -10 4 £85,000 - 1
South West -55 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
Wales -47 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 14 (10.85%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.10%) Apache
3 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.33%) JBoss
4 2 (1.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (94.57%) AWS Lambda
2 122 (94.57%) Serverless
3 109 (84.50%) Amazon S3
4 88 (68.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 79 (61.24%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (34.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 42 (32.56%) GitHub
8 37 (28.68%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (28.68%) Amazon SQS
8 37 (28.68%) Apigee
9 30 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (20.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 16 (12.40%) Datadog
12 12 (9.30%) Pulumi
13 10 (7.75%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (6.98%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (6.98%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (6.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.30%) DSL
2 2 (1.55%) 4G
2 2 (1.55%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (57.36%) DynamoDB
2 34 (26.36%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (20.16%) NoSQL
4 14 (10.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.10%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.33%) Apache Hudi
8 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.33%) Metadata
8 3 (2.33%) Power BI
8 3 (2.33%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.55%) Big Data
9 2 (1.55%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.55%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 60 (46.51%) Jenkins
2 48 (37.21%) GitLab
3 32 (24.81%) Cypress.io
4 31 (24.03%) Git
5 29 (22.48%) Maven
6 27 (20.93%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.10%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.33%) JIRA
8 3 (2.33%) MLflow
8 3 (2.33%) Selenium
9 2 (1.55%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.55%) NUnit
10 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.78%) JUnit
10 1 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Finance
4 5 (3.88%) Billing
5 4 (3.10%) Banking
5 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.33%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) Games
8 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (57.36%) Developer
2 58 (44.96%) Java Developer
3 31 (24.03%) Senior
4 25 (19.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (18.60%) AWS Developer
6 18 (13.95%) Senior Developer
7 15 (11.63%) Architect
8 14 (10.85%) AWS Architect
8 14 (10.85%) Data Engineer
8 14 (10.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (9.30%) AWS Security Architect
9 12 (9.30%) Security Architect
10 11 (8.53%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (3.10%) Angular Developer
13 4 (3.10%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (54.26%) AngularJS
2 49 (37.98%) Spring Boot
3 36 (27.91%) Gherkin
4 35 (27.13%) Node.js
5 29 (22.48%) Jest
6 25 (19.38%) AWS CDK
7 23 (17.83%) Spring
8 9 (6.98%) REST
9 8 (6.20%) React
10 7 (5.43%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (3.10%) Kafka
11 4 (3.10%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (3.10%) PySpark
11 4 (3.10%) SOAP
12 3 (2.33%) Drools
12 3 (2.33%) Flask
12 3 (2.33%) LangChain
12 3 (2.33%) LangGraph
12 3 (2.33%) Vue
12 3 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) Life Science
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Linux
2 4 (3.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (77.52%) CI/CD
2 68 (52.71%) DevOps
3 40 (31.01%) Agile
4 38 (29.46%) DevSecOps
5 37 (28.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (20.93%) SDLC
8 25 (19.38%) Secure Coding
9 24 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (17.83%) ITIL
10 23 (17.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 22 (17.05%) Workflow
12 20 (15.50%) AI
12 20 (15.50%) Event-Driven
13 19 (14.73%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (13.18%) Secrets Management
15 16 (12.40%) Microservices
15 16 (12.40%) RBAC
16 15 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 15 (11.63%) Principle of Least Privilege
Programming Languages
1 74 (57.36%) Java
2 55 (42.64%) TypeScript
3 45 (34.88%) Python
4 44 (34.11%) SQL
5 37 (28.68%) Groovy
6 29 (22.48%) Bash
6 29 (22.48%) Kotlin
7 12 (9.30%) Go
7 12 (9.30%) Rust
8 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.55%) C#
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (26.36%) AWS Certification
2 22 (17.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (17.05%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.08%) Degree
4 13 (10.08%) SC Cleared
5 12 (9.30%) OSCP
6 6 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.10%) GDPR
3 3 (2.33%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 67 (51.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (28.68%) Terraform
2 27 (20.93%) HP Fortify
3 16 (12.40%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.88%) Grafana
5 4 (3.10%) Control-M
6 3 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.65%) Oracle
2 5 (3.88%) Databricks
3 4 (3.10%) Informatica
4 2 (1.55%) Splunk
5 1 (0.78%) Avaya
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco
5 1 (0.78%) Genesys
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft