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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 616 851
Rank change year-on-year +19 +235 +31
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 134 53 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.36% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64 45 23
10th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,937 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £81,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -4.91% +6.89%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £98,550 £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 26,349 14,711 35,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.43% 33.58% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,694 10,086 26,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.12%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 5 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 5 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 +32 125 £80,000 -3.03% 25
UK excluding London +7 98 £75,000 -11.76% 20
North of England +20 80 £75,000 -3.23% 10
Yorkshire +22 74 £75,000 -3.23% 7
London -6 33 £90,000 +16.13% 10
Work from Home +27 24 £73,750 +1.72% 17
Midlands -25 9 £52,500 - 5
Scotland +12 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
North West - 5 £72,500 - 3
West Midlands -32 4 £85,000 - 4
South West -49 3 £65,000 -31.58%
Wales -41 1 - - 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 15 (11.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.99%) Apache
3 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.24%) JBoss
4 2 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 128 (95.52%) AWS Lambda
2 128 (95.52%) Serverless
3 114 (85.07%) Amazon S3
4 95 (70.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 80 (59.70%) Amazon ECS
6 48 (35.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (35.07%) GitHub
8 43 (32.09%) Amazon ECR
8 43 (32.09%) Apigee
9 42 (31.34%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (26.87%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (18.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 15 (11.19%) Datadog
13 13 (9.70%) Pulumi
14 12 (8.96%) Amazon EventBridge
15 10 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (6.72%) AWS CodePipeline
17 8 (5.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) DSL
2 2 (1.49%) 4G
2 2 (1.49%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (61.94%) DynamoDB
2 31 (23.13%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (21.64%) NoSQL
4 13 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.24%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.24%) MySQL
9 3 (2.24%) Power BI
10 2 (1.49%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.49%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (1.49%) Presto
10 2 (1.49%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 64 (47.76%) Jenkins
2 55 (41.04%) GitLab
3 38 (28.36%) Cypress.io
4 35 (26.12%) Git
4 35 (26.12%) Maven
5 33 (24.63%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.99%) MLflow
7 3 (2.24%) JIRA
7 3 (2.24%) NUnit
7 3 (2.24%) Selenium
8 2 (1.49%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.75%) JUnit
9 1 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 23 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.48%) Finance
4 4 (2.99%) Banking
4 4 (2.99%) Billing
4 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.24%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.49%) Retail
6 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.75%) Advertising
7 1 (0.75%) Games
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 77 (57.46%) Developer
2 58 (43.28%) Java Developer
3 29 (21.64%) Senior
4 26 (19.40%) AWS Developer
5 19 (14.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.45%) Architect
7 14 (10.45%) AWS Architect
7 14 (10.45%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (9.70%) Security Architect
9 12 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Lead
13 5 (3.73%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.73%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (53.73%) AngularJS
2 53 (39.55%) Spring Boot
3 40 (29.85%) Gherkin
4 35 (26.12%) Jest
5 31 (23.13%) AWS CDK
5 31 (23.13%) Node.js
6 24 (17.91%) Spring
7 10 (7.46%) REST
8 8 (5.97%) .NET
8 8 (5.97%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.22%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (5.22%) React
10 6 (4.48%) RESTful
11 5 (3.73%) ASP.NET
11 5 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (3.73%) Blazor
12 4 (2.99%) LangChain
12 4 (2.99%) LangGraph
12 4 (2.99%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (2.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.13%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (79.10%) CI/CD
2 75 (55.97%) DevOps
3 47 (35.07%) Agile
4 41 (30.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (27.61%) DevSecOps
6 29 (21.64%) SDLC
6 29 (21.64%) Secure Coding
7 25 (18.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (18.66%) ITIL
7 25 (18.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 22 (16.42%) Workflow
9 21 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (14.93%) Microservices
10 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (13.43%) Containerisation
12 18 (13.43%) Event-Driven
13 16 (11.94%) Clean Code
13 16 (11.94%) Prototyping
13 16 (11.94%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (56.72%) Java
2 57 (42.54%) TypeScript
3 47 (35.07%) SQL
4 43 (32.09%) Python
5 41 (30.60%) Groovy
6 35 (26.12%) Bash
7 27 (20.15%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.70%) Go
8 13 (9.70%) Rust
9 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.24%) C#
10 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (29.10%) AWS Certification
2 24 (17.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.91%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (10.45%) Degree
4 13 (9.70%) OSCP
4 13 (9.70%) Security Cleared
5 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.97%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.73%) QA
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 78 (58.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (30.60%) Terraform
2 33 (24.63%) HP Fortify
3 18 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.22%) Grafana
5 4 (2.99%) Control-M
5 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.48%) Databricks
1 6 (4.48%) Oracle
2 4 (2.99%) Informatica
3 2 (1.49%) Splunk
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft