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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 616 693
Rank change year-on-year -97 +77 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 92 51 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.10% 0.081%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 44 32 33
10th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £54,250
25th Percentile £61,326 £73,438 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,625 £128,750
90th Percentile £97,425 £104,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £95,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% +65.22% -14.81%

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 26,771 15,512 23,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 31.38% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,306 10,433 14,199
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,010 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -86 87 £80,000 +3.23% 73
UK excluding London -79 71 £75,000 -21.05% 32
North of England -13 54 £80,000 +16.36% 11
Yorkshire +5 44 £80,000 +16.36% 5
Work from Home -35 34 £85,000 +9.68% 33
London -53 21 £91,250 +17.74% 46
North West - 10 £67,249 - 6
Midlands - 9 £75,000 - 5
East Midlands - 6 £52,500 - 4
Wales - 3 £39,163 -
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 1
Scotland +10 2 - - 4
South East -56 2 - - 2
South West -77 1 - - 4

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 10 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.61%) Apache
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.26%) SAS
4 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (95.65%) AWS Lambda
2 88 (95.65%) Serverless
3 80 (86.96%) Amazon S3
4 62 (67.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 54 (58.70%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (36.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (31.52%) GitHub
8 27 (29.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (28.26%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (22.83%) Datadog
11 20 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (18.48%) Amazon ECR
12 17 (18.48%) Apigee
13 11 (11.96%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (10.87%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (9.78%) Azure
16 6 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) 4G
1 1 (1.09%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (56.52%) DynamoDB
2 37 (40.22%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (21.74%) NoSQL
4 19 (20.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (11.96%) Data Lake
6 9 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (7.61%) Parquet
7 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.43%) Metadata
8 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (4.35%) Power BI
10 3 (3.26%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (3.26%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (3.26%) Delta Lake
10 3 (3.26%) Power Query
10 3 (3.26%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.17%) Big Data
12 1 (1.09%) Looker
12 1 (1.09%) Presto
Development Applications
1 30 (32.61%) Git
2 25 (27.17%) Jenkins
3 22 (23.91%) GitLab
4 16 (17.39%) Cypress.io
5 13 (14.13%) Maven
6 11 (11.96%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.17%) JIRA
8 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.09%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.09%) JUnit
8 1 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.87%) Finance
3 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.61%) Banking
5 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.43%) Billing
6 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (56.52%) Developer
2 41 (44.57%) Java Developer
3 24 (26.09%) Senior
4 23 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (23.91%) AWS Developer
6 18 (19.57%) Data Engineer
7 16 (17.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (13.04%) Senior Developer
9 9 (9.78%) Software Engineer
10 8 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Architect
12 6 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (5.43%) Angular Developer
13 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (4.35%) AWS Architect
14 4 (4.35%) Lead
14 4 (4.35%) Python Engineer
14 4 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
15 3 (3.26%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (52.17%) AngularJS
2 36 (39.13%) Node.js
3 33 (35.87%) Spring Boot
4 25 (27.17%) Spring
4 25 (27.17%) Terraform
5 20 (21.74%) Gherkin
6 13 (14.13%) Jest
7 12 (13.04%) React
8 10 (10.87%) AWS CDK
8 10 (10.87%) PySpark
9 7 (7.61%) Apache Avro
9 7 (7.61%) JSON
9 7 (7.61%) Kafka
10 6 (6.52%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (3.26%) FastAPI
11 3 (3.26%) Flask
11 3 (3.26%) Next.js
11 3 (3.26%) REST
11 3 (3.26%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (3.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.26%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.26%) Life Science
3 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.17%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (80.43%) CI/CD
2 60 (65.22%) DevOps
3 37 (40.22%) Agile
4 28 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (27.17%) Microservices
7 21 (22.83%) AI
7 21 (22.83%) Analytics
7 21 (22.83%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (22.83%) Software Engineering
8 20 (21.74%) DevSecOps
9 19 (20.65%) Data Engineering
9 19 (20.65%) Secrets Management
10 18 (19.57%) RBAC
11 17 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (18.48%) Workflow
12 16 (17.39%) ETL
12 16 (17.39%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (17.39%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (64.13%) Java
2 49 (53.26%) TypeScript
3 44 (47.83%) SQL
4 36 (39.13%) Python
5 24 (26.09%) Kotlin
6 21 (22.83%) Groovy
7 12 (13.04%) Bash
8 3 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.17%) C#
9 2 (2.17%) Ruby
10 1 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) AWS Certification
2 16 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.87%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (9.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 47 (51.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (7.61%) Databricks
2 3 (3.26%) Avaya
2 3 (3.26%) Cisco
2 3 (3.26%) Genesys
3 2 (2.17%) Google
3 2 (2.17%) Informatica
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.17%) Splunk