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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 627 759
Rank change year-on-year -55 +132 -17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 107 60 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.100% 0.12% 0.064%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.37% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 56 48 28
10th Percentile £48,750 £72,125 £59,750
25th Percentile £70,937 £75,750 £93,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -5.88% +81.62% -41.50%

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 27,922 16,046 26,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.07% 31.98% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 18,476 11,093 18,730
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,770 £32,074
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 15 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 17 August 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 -23 103 £81,250 -4.41% 30
UK excluding London -53 79 £80,000 -5.88% 19
North of England +2 64 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Yorkshire +18 56 £80,000 +3.23% 2
Work from Home -25 28 £85,000 +13.33% 21
London -45 28 £90,000 +16.13% 18
Midlands - 8 £63,750 - 1
North West - 7 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 -
Wales -61 3 £39,163 -47.78% 1
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 1
South East -42 2 - - 5
Scotland +1 1 - - 3
South West -77 1 - - 1
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 9 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.61%) Apache
3 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.80%) JBoss
4 3 (2.80%) SAS
5 2 (1.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (94.39%) AWS Lambda
2 101 (94.39%) Serverless
3 89 (83.18%) Amazon S3
4 72 (67.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (63.55%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (32.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 34 (31.78%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (28.97%) Amazon ECR
8 31 (28.97%) Apigee
9 30 (28.04%) GitHub
10 27 (25.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (20.56%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (16.82%) Datadog
13 12 (11.21%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (5.61%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (4.67%) SaaS
15 5 (4.67%) Slack
15 5 (4.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) DSL
2 1 (0.93%) 4G
2 1 (0.93%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (63.55%) DynamoDB
2 30 (28.04%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (19.63%) NoSQL
4 12 (11.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.74%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.80%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (2.80%) Big Data
9 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.80%) Metadata
9 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.87%) Parquet
10 2 (1.87%) Presto
11 1 (0.93%) Flink
11 1 (0.93%) Looker
11 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (38.32%) Jenkins
2 36 (33.64%) GitLab
3 26 (24.30%) Cypress.io
4 23 (21.50%) Git
4 23 (21.50%) Maven
5 21 (19.63%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.74%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.80%) JIRA
7 3 (2.80%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.93%) JUnit
8 1 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 20 (18.69%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.48%) Finance
3 6 (5.61%) Billing
4 5 (4.67%) Banking
5 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.87%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (60.75%) Developer
2 49 (45.79%) Java Developer
3 28 (26.17%) Senior
4 27 (25.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (20.56%) AWS Developer
6 16 (14.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (14.02%) Senior Developer
8 14 (13.08%) Data Engineer
9 11 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
11 9 (8.41%) Architect
12 7 (6.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (5.61%) Angular Developer
13 6 (5.61%) AWS Architect
13 6 (5.61%) Lead
13 6 (5.61%) Python Engineer
14 5 (4.67%) AWS Data Engineer
14 5 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
15 4 (3.74%) AWS Security Architect
15 4 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (57.01%) AngularJS
2 47 (43.93%) Spring Boot
3 38 (35.51%) Node.js
4 30 (28.04%) Gherkin
5 28 (26.17%) Spring
6 23 (21.50%) Jest
7 14 (13.08%) AWS CDK
8 12 (11.21%) React
9 7 (6.54%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (4.67%) PySpark
11 4 (3.74%) Kafka
11 4 (3.74%) REST
12 3 (2.80%) Drools
12 3 (2.80%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.80%) Flask
12 3 (2.80%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (2.80%) Next.js
12 3 (2.80%) Tailwind CSS
12 3 (2.80%) Vue
12 3 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.80%) Life Science
4 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.87%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (71.96%) CI/CD
2 57 (53.27%) DevOps
3 37 (34.58%) Agile
4 32 (29.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (23.36%) DevSecOps
7 23 (21.50%) AI
8 21 (19.63%) SDLC
9 20 (18.69%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (16.82%) ITIL
10 18 (16.82%) Microservices
10 18 (16.82%) RBAC
10 18 (16.82%) Secrets Management
10 18 (16.82%) Secure Coding
10 18 (16.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 17 (15.89%) Event-Driven
12 16 (14.95%) Mentoring
12 16 (14.95%) Workflow
13 15 (14.02%) Software Engineering
13 15 (14.02%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (61.68%) Java
2 56 (52.34%) TypeScript
3 39 (36.45%) Python
4 36 (33.64%) SQL
5 31 (28.97%) Groovy
6 26 (24.30%) Kotlin
7 23 (21.50%) Bash
8 4 (3.74%) Go
8 4 (3.74%) Rust
9 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.87%) C#
10 2 (1.87%) Ruby
11 1 (0.93%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 27 (25.23%) AWS Certification
2 17 (15.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.89%) ITIL Certification
3 16 (14.95%) Security Cleared
4 15 (14.02%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.74%) Degree
6 4 (3.74%) OSCP
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) GDPR
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (52.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (27.10%) Terraform
2 21 (19.63%) HP Fortify
3 6 (5.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.80%) Avaya
1 3 (2.80%) Cisco
1 3 (2.80%) Databricks
1 3 (2.80%) Genesys
2 2 (1.87%) Google
2 2 (1.87%) Splunk
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft