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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 642 720
Rank change year-on-year +85 +78 +188
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 91 59 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.056%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.31% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 34
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
25th Percentile £69,688 £68,125 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £97,500 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% +24.20% -7.65%
75th Percentile £90,000 £121,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £128,750 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +36.79% -15.20% +2.04%

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 20,948 19,290 24,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 36.31% 39.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 11,344 20,401
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
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 22 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 22 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 +94 85 £77,500 -22.50% 67
UK excluding London +77 57 £72,500 +36.79% 60
North of England +65 48 £72,500 +52.63% 20
Yorkshire - 46 £72,500 - 13
London +31 31 £90,000 -10.00% 12
Work from Home +77 28 £76,250 -23.75% 14
Scotland -6 4 - - 1
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 7
North West +24 2 £95,000 +100.00% 6
South West +14 2 £65,000 - 9

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 13 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 11 (12.09%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.49%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 86 (94.51%) AWS Lambda
2 86 (94.51%) Serverless
3 70 (76.92%) Amazon S3
4 55 (60.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (37.36%) Amazon ECS
5 34 (37.36%) GitHub
6 32 (35.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (31.87%) Amazon SQS
8 27 (29.67%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (24.18%) Amazon ECR
9 22 (24.18%) Apigee
10 15 (16.48%) Amazon EventBridge
10 15 (16.48%) Azure
11 13 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (12.09%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (8.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (8.79%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (8.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) DSL
2 4 (4.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (59.34%) DynamoDB
2 25 (27.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (25.27%) NoSQL
4 20 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (21.98%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (17.58%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (16.48%) SQL Server
7 12 (13.19%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (9.89%) Big Data
8 9 (9.89%) Hadoop
9 8 (8.79%) Apache Hive
10 6 (6.59%) Data Lake
11 5 (5.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (3.30%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (3.30%) Data Vault
13 3 (3.30%) Power BI
14 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (2.20%) Oracle ODI
14 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (36.26%) Jenkins
2 28 (30.77%) Git
3 27 (29.67%) GitLab
4 22 (24.18%) Cypress.io
4 22 (24.18%) Maven
4 22 (24.18%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.40%) MLflow
6 2 (2.20%) DBeaver
6 2 (2.20%) NUnit
7 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 25 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Finance
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Games
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (41.76%) Developer
2 28 (30.77%) Senior
3 22 (24.18%) Data Engineer
4 20 (21.98%) Java Developer
5 19 (20.88%) AWS Developer
6 17 (18.68%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (18.68%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
7 13 (14.29%) Lead
8 12 (13.19%) .NET Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Technical Leader
11 5 (5.49%) Architect
11 5 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) AWS Architect
11 5 (5.49%) AWS Security Architect
11 5 (5.49%) Security Architect
12 4 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (4.40%) Informatica Engineer
12 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (35.16%) AngularJS
2 27 (29.67%) AWS CDK
3 23 (25.27%) Spring Boot
4 22 (24.18%) Gherkin
4 22 (24.18%) Jest
5 17 (18.68%) React
6 16 (17.58%) .NET
6 16 (17.58%) .NET Core
7 13 (14.29%) ASP.NET
7 13 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (14.29%) Blazor
7 13 (14.29%) RESTful
8 12 (13.19%) Node.js
9 10 (10.99%) Kafka
9 10 (10.99%) Spring
10 8 (8.79%) boto
10 8 (8.79%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (6.59%) REST
12 5 (5.49%) GraphQL
12 5 (5.49%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.78%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.99%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (8.79%) e-Learning
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.20%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (91.21%) CI/CD
2 62 (68.13%) DevOps
3 42 (46.15%) Agile
4 31 (34.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (28.57%) Microservices
7 19 (20.88%) Containerisation
7 19 (20.88%) Data Modelling
8 16 (17.58%) Mentoring
8 16 (17.58%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (17.58%) Secure Coding
9 15 (16.48%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (15.38%) Data Engineering
10 14 (15.38%) Data Governance
11 13 (14.29%) Application Security
11 13 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 11 (12.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.96%) Java
1 40 (43.96%) SQL
2 35 (38.46%) Python
3 32 (35.16%) TypeScript
4 22 (24.18%) Bash
5 21 (23.08%) Groovy
6 9 (9.89%) Scala
7 8 (8.79%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.49%) Go
8 5 (5.49%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.49%) Rust
9 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.30%) C#
11 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (43.96%) AWS Certification
2 18 (19.78%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (9.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (9.89%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (6.59%) Degree
5 5 (5.49%) OSCP
5 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.40%) MCP
6 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.20%) SnowPro
8 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.99%) GDPR
3 7 (7.69%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (62.64%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (31.87%) Terraform
2 22 (24.18%) HP Fortify
3 16 (17.58%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.59%) Grafana
5 4 (4.40%) Control-M
5 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Databricks
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) Informatica
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.10%) Google