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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 622 869
Rank change year-on-year +6 +247 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 129 52 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.35% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 68 45 18
10th Percentile £61,303 £71,250 £50,206
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.66% +4.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,750 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -22.00%

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 25,605 15,063 35,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.08% 33.37% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16,627 10,422 27,542
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,436 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,431
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.08% -6.49%

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 June 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 22 June 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 +24 122 £80,000 -5.88% 13
UK excluding London -7 93 £75,000 -11.76% 10
North of England +36 76 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Yorkshire +29 68 £75,000 -3.23% 3
London -9 34 £90,000 +16.13% 8
Work from Home +24 27 £75,000 +3.45% 8
Midlands - 9 £52,500 - 1
North West - 7 £72,500 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 -
Scotland +15 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 £85,000 - 1
South West -63 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
Wales -45 1 - -
North East - 1 £90,000 -

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 12 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.10%) Apache
3 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.33%) JBoss
4 2 (1.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (94.57%) AWS Lambda
2 122 (94.57%) Serverless
3 109 (84.50%) Amazon S3
4 89 (68.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 80 (62.02%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 42 (32.56%) GitHub
8 39 (30.23%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (29.46%) Amazon ECR
9 38 (29.46%) Apigee
10 30 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (20.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 16 (12.40%) Datadog
13 12 (9.30%) Pulumi
14 10 (7.75%) Amazon EventBridge
15 9 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (6.20%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (6.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.30%) DSL
2 2 (1.55%) 4G
2 2 (1.55%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (58.14%) DynamoDB
2 34 (26.36%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (20.16%) NoSQL
4 13 (10.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.10%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.33%) Apache Hudi
8 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.33%) Metadata
8 3 (2.33%) Power BI
8 3 (2.33%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.55%) Big Data
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.55%) Presto
Development Applications
1 61 (47.29%) Jenkins
2 49 (37.98%) GitLab
3 33 (25.58%) Cypress.io
4 30 (23.26%) Git
4 30 (23.26%) Maven
5 28 (21.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.10%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.33%) JIRA
7 3 (2.33%) Selenium
8 2 (1.55%) DBeaver
8 2 (1.55%) MLflow
8 2 (1.55%) NUnit
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.78%) JUnit
9 1 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 20 (15.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Finance
4 5 (3.88%) Billing
5 4 (3.10%) Banking
6 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.33%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) Games
8 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (58.14%) Developer
2 59 (45.74%) Java Developer
3 31 (24.03%) Senior
4 26 (20.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (18.60%) AWS Developer
6 18 (13.95%) Senior Developer
7 15 (11.63%) Architect
7 15 (11.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (10.85%) AWS Architect
8 14 (10.85%) Data Engineer
9 12 (9.30%) AWS Security Architect
9 12 (9.30%) Security Architect
10 11 (8.53%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Angular Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Lead
12 5 (3.88%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (55.04%) AngularJS
2 50 (38.76%) Spring Boot
3 37 (28.68%) Gherkin
4 36 (27.91%) Node.js
5 30 (23.26%) Jest
6 25 (19.38%) AWS CDK
7 24 (18.60%) Spring
8 9 (6.98%) React
9 8 (6.20%) REST
10 7 (5.43%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (3.10%) Kafka
11 4 (3.10%) PySpark
12 3 (2.33%) Drools
12 3 (2.33%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.33%) Flask
12 3 (2.33%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (2.33%) SOAP
12 3 (2.33%) Vue
12 3 (2.33%) XML
13 2 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Life Science
6 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.10%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (77.52%) CI/CD
2 70 (54.26%) DevOps
3 41 (31.78%) Agile
4 38 (29.46%) DevSecOps
5 37 (28.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (21.71%) SDLC
8 26 (20.16%) Secure Coding
9 24 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (18.60%) ITIL
9 24 (18.60%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 21 (16.28%) Workflow
11 20 (15.50%) AI
11 20 (15.50%) Event-Driven
12 17 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (13.18%) Microservices
12 17 (13.18%) Secrets Management
13 16 (12.40%) RBAC
14 15 (11.63%) Clean Code
14 15 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (58.14%) Java
2 57 (44.19%) TypeScript
3 45 (34.88%) Python
4 43 (33.33%) SQL
5 38 (29.46%) Groovy
6 30 (23.26%) Bash
7 29 (22.48%) Kotlin
8 12 (9.30%) Go
8 12 (9.30%) Rust
9 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.55%) C#
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (26.36%) AWS Certification
2 23 (17.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.83%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.08%) Degree
4 13 (10.08%) SC Cleared
5 12 (9.30%) OSCP
6 6 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.88%) GDPR
3 3 (2.33%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 67 (51.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (28.68%) Terraform
2 28 (21.71%) HP Fortify
3 15 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.10%) Grafana
5 3 (2.33%) Control-M
6 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle
2 4 (3.10%) Databricks
3 3 (2.33%) Informatica
4 2 (1.55%) Splunk
5 1 (0.78%) Avaya
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco
5 1 (0.78%) Genesys
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft