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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 594 840
Rank change year-on-year +13 +246 +73
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 131 53 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.35% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 56 48 28
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,325 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -4.55% +13.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,625 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £65,552
% change year-on-year -11.76% +29.67% +7.02%

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 27,686 15,068 34,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.00% 35.77% 35.97%
Number of salaries quoted 14,340 11,043 26,780
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 27 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 13 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 27 April 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 +4 123 £80,000 -5.88% 35
UK excluding London -12 95 £75,000 -11.76% 22
North of England +24 85 £75,000 +57.89% 8
Yorkshire +17 78 £75,000 - 5
London -10 32 £90,000 +16.13% 17
Work from Home +27 26 £72,500 -6.45% 31
North West -25 6 £82,500 +73.68% 3
Scotland -17 5 - - 2
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands -49 2 £48,750 - 3
West Midlands -24 1 £45,000 - 1
North East - 1 £90,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 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 14 (10.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.82%) Apache
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.29%) JBoss
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) AWS
2 125 (95.42%) AWS Lambda
2 125 (95.42%) Serverless
3 111 (84.73%) Amazon S3
4 90 (68.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 70 (53.44%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (37.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 49 (37.40%) GitHub
7 48 (36.64%) Amazon ECR
7 48 (36.64%) Apigee
8 43 (32.82%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (29.77%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (14.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (12.98%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (10.69%) Azure
13 13 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (9.92%) Pulumi
14 10 (7.63%) Datadog
15 9 (6.87%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) DSL
2 2 (1.53%) 4G
2 2 (1.53%) 5G
2 2 (1.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (67.18%) DynamoDB
2 33 (25.19%) NoSQL
3 26 (19.85%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (15.27%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (12.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (11.45%) SQL Server
7 10 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.05%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.29%) Big Data
10 3 (2.29%) MySQL
10 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.53%) Apache Hudi
11 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.53%) Metadata
11 2 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (48.85%) Jenkins
2 58 (44.27%) GitLab
3 42 (32.06%) Cypress.io
4 41 (31.30%) Maven
4 41 (31.30%) SonarQube
5 38 (29.01%) Git
6 4 (3.05%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.05%) MLflow
6 4 (3.05%) Selenium
7 3 (2.29%) NUnit
8 2 (1.53%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.82%) Finance
4 4 (3.05%) Billing
4 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.29%) Banking
5 3 (2.29%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.53%) Legal
6 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.53%) Retail
6 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Advertising
7 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.76%) Games
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 73 (55.73%) Developer
2 47 (35.88%) Java Developer
3 31 (23.66%) Senior
4 26 (19.85%) AWS Developer
5 15 (11.45%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.45%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.69%) Architect
6 14 (10.69%) AWS Architect
6 14 (10.69%) Lead
7 13 (9.92%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) AWS Security Architect
7 13 (9.92%) Security Architect
8 12 (9.16%) .NET Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (5.34%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.58%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (50.38%) AngularJS
2 53 (40.46%) Spring Boot
3 42 (32.06%) Gherkin
4 41 (31.30%) Jest
5 36 (27.48%) AWS CDK
6 25 (19.08%) Node.js
7 21 (16.03%) Spring
8 17 (12.98%) .NET
8 17 (12.98%) .NET Core
9 14 (10.69%) React
10 13 (9.92%) ASP.NET
10 13 (9.92%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (9.92%) Blazor
10 13 (9.92%) RESTful
11 8 (6.11%) REST
12 4 (3.05%) LangChain
12 4 (3.05%) LangGraph
12 4 (3.05%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (3.05%) SOAP
13 3 (2.29%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (29.01%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (83.21%) CI/CD
2 84 (64.12%) DevOps
3 61 (46.56%) Agile
4 40 (30.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (23.66%) DevSecOps
6 31 (23.66%) Secure Coding
7 27 (20.61%) SDLC
8 26 (19.85%) Microservices
9 24 (18.32%) Containerisation
9 24 (18.32%) ITIL
9 24 (18.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 22 (16.79%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (15.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (14.50%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (12.21%) Prototyping
14 16 (12.21%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (12.21%) Workflow
15 15 (11.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 69 (52.67%) Java
2 56 (42.75%) TypeScript
3 48 (36.64%) SQL
4 42 (32.06%) Bash
5 41 (31.30%) Groovy
6 38 (29.01%) Python
7 21 (16.03%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.92%) Go
8 13 (9.92%) Rust
9 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.05%) C#
10 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.53%) Scala
12 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (38.93%) AWS Certification
2 24 (18.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (18.32%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (15.27%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (10.69%) Degree
5 13 (9.92%) OSCP
5 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
6 11 (8.40%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.11%) QA
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 87 (66.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (31.30%) HP Fortify
2 40 (30.53%) Terraform
3 19 (14.50%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.34%) Grafana
5 4 (3.05%) Control-M
5 4 (3.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.58%) Databricks
1 6 (4.58%) Oracle
2 4 (3.05%) Informatica
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.76%) Splunk