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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 650 670
Rank change year-on-year +91 +20 +246
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 76 59 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.30% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 30 46 38
10th Percentile £59,750 £53,125 £56,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £64,688 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £97,500 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% +20.37% -1.82%
75th Percentile £95,625 £125,313 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,250 £128,750 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.09% -1.54% +4.00%

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 20,518 19,807 21,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 36.05% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,679 17,619
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,813 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £98,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 10 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 2 January 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 +80 73 £77,500 -22.50% 28
UK excluding London +85 45 £77,500 +21.09% 22
North of England +58 39 £72,500 +52.63% 13
Yorkshire - 37 £66,250 - 9
London +31 29 £90,000 -10.00% 12
Work from Home +72 28 £77,500 -26.19% 15
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 2
North West +35 2 £95,000 +100.00% 4
Scotland -3 2 - - 2
South East +26 1 £80,000 -27.27% 3

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 (18.42%) Apache Spark
2 8 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.58%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (93.42%) AWS Lambda
2 71 (93.42%) Serverless
3 56 (73.68%) Amazon S3
4 43 (56.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (35.53%) GitHub
6 25 (32.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (30.26%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (28.95%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (22.37%) Amazon ECR
10 17 (22.37%) Apigee
11 16 (21.05%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (19.74%) Azure
13 13 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (14.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (9.21%) dbt
16 6 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
17 5 (6.58%) Amazon EMR
17 5 (6.58%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) Broadband
2 2 (2.63%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (63.16%) DynamoDB
2 23 (30.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 18 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (22.37%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (18.42%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
8 9 (11.84%) Big Data
8 9 (11.84%) Hadoop
9 8 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (10.53%) Apache Hive
10 6 (7.89%) Data Lake
11 4 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (3.95%) Data Vault
12 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (1.32%) DB2
14 1 (1.32%) MySQL
14 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.95%) Git
3 20 (26.32%) GitLab
4 17 (22.37%) Cypress.io
4 17 (22.37%) Maven
4 17 (22.37%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.95%) MLflow
6 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.32%) Gradle
7 1 (1.32%) NUnit
7 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 8 (10.53%) Financial Institution
4 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Legal
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Back Office
6 1 (1.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (39.47%) Developer
2 26 (34.21%) Senior
3 21 (27.63%) Data Engineer
4 17 (22.37%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (21.05%) AWS Developer
5 16 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (18.42%) Lead
7 13 (17.11%) AWS Data Engineer
8 12 (15.79%) .NET Developer
9 11 (14.47%) Java Developer
10 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
10 6 (7.89%) Technical Leader
11 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 3 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
13 3 (3.95%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 3 (3.95%) DevOps Developer
13 3 (3.95%) Lead Developer
13 3 (3.95%) Serverless Developer
13 3 (3.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (30.26%) AngularJS
2 22 (28.95%) AWS CDK
3 18 (23.68%) React
3 18 (23.68%) Spring Boot
4 17 (22.37%) Gherkin
4 17 (22.37%) Jest
5 15 (19.74%) .NET
5 15 (19.74%) .NET Core
6 14 (18.42%) RESTful
7 13 (17.11%) ASP.NET
7 13 (17.11%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (17.11%) Blazor
8 11 (14.47%) Spring
9 10 (13.16%) Kafka
10 8 (10.53%) boto
10 8 (10.53%) Node.js
10 8 (10.53%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
12 5 (6.58%) Serverless Framework
13 4 (5.26%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (23.68%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (13.16%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (10.53%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.63%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.32%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (88.16%) CI/CD
2 54 (71.05%) DevOps
3 37 (48.68%) Agile
4 27 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (34.21%) Microservices
5 26 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (30.26%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (23.68%) Containerisation
8 17 (22.37%) Mentoring
9 16 (21.05%) Data Modelling
10 14 (18.42%) Data Engineering
10 14 (18.42%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (18.42%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (17.11%) Application Security
12 12 (15.79%) Data Governance
12 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
13 11 (14.47%) AI
13 11 (14.47%) Event-Driven
14 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (13.16%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) Java
1 32 (42.11%) Python
1 32 (42.11%) SQL
2 27 (35.53%) TypeScript
3 17 (22.37%) Bash
4 16 (21.05%) Groovy
5 9 (11.84%) Scala
6 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.63%) C#
8 2 (2.63%) Go
8 2 (2.63%) Rust
8 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (46.05%) AWS Certification
2 18 (23.68%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) Degree
4 3 (3.95%) MCP
5 2 (2.63%) OSCP
5 2 (2.63%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) GDPR
2 9 (11.84%) Data Quality
3 6 (7.89%) QA
4 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (60.53%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (34.21%) Terraform
2 17 (22.37%) HP Fortify
3 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.26%) Grafana
4 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.63%) Control-M
6 1 (1.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Databricks
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.95%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle
3 2 (2.63%) Informatica
4 1 (1.32%) Google