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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 607 727
Rank change year-on-year -97 +120 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 101 66 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.42% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 50 50 32
10th Percentile £48,750 £72,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £70,312 £76,250 £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 £91,875 £93,125 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -5.88% +81.62% -39.61%

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 27,740 15,737 24,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.55% 31.68% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,793 10,656 16,102
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 September 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 10 September 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 -91 96 £82,500 -2.94% 54
UK excluding London -76 77 £80,000 -5.88% 22
North of England -3 59 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Yorkshire -1 52 £85,000 +9.68% 1
Work from Home -17 34 £85,000 +9.68% 30
London -65 24 £92,500 +19.35% 42
Midlands - 10 £63,750 - 4
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 - 3
North West - 6 £72,500 - 2
Wales - 3 £39,163 -
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 1
Scotland +7 2 - - 6
South East -23 2 - - 3
South West -83 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 7 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.96%) Apache
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.97%) SAS
4 1 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 97 (96.04%) AWS Lambda
2 97 (96.04%) Serverless
3 88 (87.13%) Amazon S3
4 67 (66.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 65 (64.36%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (30.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (30.69%) Amazon SQS
7 27 (26.73%) Amazon ECR
7 27 (26.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 27 (26.73%) Apigee
8 26 (25.74%) GitHub
9 20 (19.80%) Datadog
10 19 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (11.88%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (6.93%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (6.93%) Azure
12 7 (6.93%) Snowflake
13 6 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (4.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) 4G
1 1 (0.99%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (64.36%) DynamoDB
2 32 (31.68%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (19.80%) NoSQL
4 16 (15.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (7.92%) Data Lake
6 7 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (4.95%) Metadata
8 5 (4.95%) Parquet
9 4 (3.96%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (2.97%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (2.97%) Big Data
10 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.97%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.98%) Presto
12 1 (0.99%) Redshift Spectrum
12 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.99%) Trino
Development Applications
1 32 (31.68%) Jenkins
2 27 (26.73%) GitLab
3 24 (23.76%) Git
4 22 (21.78%) Cypress.io
5 19 (18.81%) Maven
6 17 (16.83%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.98%) JIRA
8 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.99%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.99%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.99%) JUnit
8 1 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.88%) Finance
3 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.93%) Banking
4 6 (5.94%) Billing
5 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.98%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.98%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 62 (61.39%) Developer
2 46 (45.54%) Java Developer
3 28 (27.72%) Full-Stack Developer
3 28 (27.72%) Senior
4 22 (21.78%) AWS Developer
5 17 (16.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (15.84%) Senior Developer
7 15 (14.85%) Data Engineer
8 10 (9.90%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Architect
10 7 (6.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.94%) Angular Developer
11 6 (5.94%) Lead
11 6 (5.94%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (4.95%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (3.96%) AWS Architect
13 4 (3.96%) Python Engineer
13 4 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (57.43%) AngularJS
2 44 (43.56%) Spring Boot
3 37 (36.63%) Node.js
4 30 (29.70%) Spring
5 26 (25.74%) Gherkin
6 24 (23.76%) Terraform
7 19 (18.81%) Jest
8 12 (11.88%) React
9 10 (9.90%) AWS CDK
10 8 (7.92%) PySpark
11 7 (6.93%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (4.95%) JSON
13 4 (3.96%) Apache Avro
13 4 (3.96%) Kafka
13 4 (3.96%) REST
14 3 (2.97%) FastAPI
14 3 (2.97%) Flask
14 3 (2.97%) Next.js
14 3 (2.97%) Tailwind CSS
14 3 (2.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.97%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.97%) Life Science
3 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (75.25%) CI/CD
2 59 (58.42%) DevOps
3 37 (36.63%) Agile
4 33 (32.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (22.77%) AI
7 22 (21.78%) Microservices
8 20 (19.80%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (19.80%) DevSecOps
9 19 (18.81%) Software Engineering
10 18 (17.82%) Secrets Management
11 17 (16.83%) Analytics
11 17 (16.83%) Mentoring
11 17 (16.83%) RBAC
11 17 (16.83%) SDLC
12 16 (15.84%) Data Engineering
12 16 (15.84%) ITIL
12 16 (15.84%) Secure Coding
12 16 (15.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 16 (15.84%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 66 (65.35%) Java
2 54 (53.47%) TypeScript
3 41 (40.59%) SQL
4 34 (33.66%) Python
5 27 (26.73%) Groovy
6 25 (24.75%) Kotlin
7 18 (17.82%) Bash
8 2 (1.98%) C#
8 2 (1.98%) Ruby
9 1 (0.99%) Bicep
9 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (23.76%) AWS Certification
2 17 (16.83%) SC Cleared
2 17 (16.83%) Security Cleared
3 15 (14.85%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (13.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) Accessibility
1 6 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 51 (50.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (16.83%) HP Fortify
2 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.95%) Databricks
2 3 (2.97%) Avaya
2 3 (2.97%) Cisco
2 3 (2.97%) Genesys
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.98%) Google
3 2 (1.98%) Informatica
3 2 (1.98%) Splunk