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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 597 845
Rank change year-on-year +10 +248 +58
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 135 56 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.39% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 61 47 23
10th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +8.20%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,250 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £36,103
% change year-on-year -11.76% +135.44% -39.83%

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 27,325 14,286 34,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 33.45% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15,651 9,840 26,812
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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,563 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +5 126 £80,000 - 20
UK excluding London +4 100 £75,000 -11.76% 16
North of England +34 82 £75,000 -3.23% 8
Yorkshire +18 77 £75,000 -3.23% 7
London -28 32 £90,000 +16.13% 7
Work from Home +19 23 £73,750 -1.67% 13
Midlands -25 9 £52,500 - 5
Scotland +3 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands -29 4 £85,000 - 4
North West - 4 £74,874 - 1
South West -55 3 £65,000 -31.58%
Wales -40 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 13 (9.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.96%) Apache
3 3 (2.22%) JBoss
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.48%) Confluence
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) AWS
2 129 (95.56%) AWS Lambda
2 129 (95.56%) Serverless
3 115 (85.19%) Amazon S3
4 96 (71.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 80 (59.26%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (36.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 49 (36.30%) GitHub
7 45 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
7 45 (33.33%) Apigee
8 43 (31.85%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (28.15%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (18.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 15 (11.11%) Datadog
12 14 (10.37%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (9.63%) Pulumi
14 10 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (5.93%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.63%) DSL
2 2 (1.48%) 4G
2 2 (1.48%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (64.44%) DynamoDB
2 31 (22.96%) NoSQL
3 30 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (9.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (7.41%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.96%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.22%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (2.22%) MySQL
9 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.48%) Metadata
10 2 (1.48%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.48%) Power BI
10 2 (1.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (48.15%) Jenkins
2 57 (42.22%) GitLab
3 40 (29.63%) Cypress.io
4 37 (27.41%) Git
4 37 (27.41%) Maven
5 35 (25.93%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.96%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.96%) MLflow
7 3 (2.22%) JIRA
7 3 (2.22%) NUnit
7 3 (2.22%) Selenium
8 2 (1.48%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.74%) JUnit
9 1 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 24 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.44%) Finance
4 4 (2.96%) Banking
4 4 (2.96%) Billing
4 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.22%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.48%) Retail
6 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.74%) Advertising
7 1 (0.74%) Games
7 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 77 (57.04%) Developer
2 57 (42.22%) Java Developer
3 28 (20.74%) Senior
4 26 (19.26%) AWS Developer
5 17 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.37%) Architect
7 14 (10.37%) AWS Architect
8 13 (9.63%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (9.63%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.63%) Security Architect
9 12 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (5.93%) Lead
12 7 (5.19%) .NET Developer
12 7 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (5.19%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 4 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (54.07%) AngularJS
2 55 (40.74%) Spring Boot
3 41 (30.37%) Gherkin
4 37 (27.41%) Jest
5 32 (23.70%) AWS CDK
6 31 (22.96%) Node.js
7 25 (18.52%) Spring
8 10 (7.41%) .NET
8 10 (7.41%) .NET Core
8 10 (7.41%) REST
9 8 (5.93%) React
9 8 (5.93%) RESTful
10 7 (5.19%) ASP.NET
10 7 (5.19%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (5.19%) Blazor
10 7 (5.19%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (2.96%) LangChain
11 4 (2.96%) LangGraph
11 4 (2.96%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (2.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.44%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.70%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (79.26%) CI/CD
2 77 (57.04%) DevOps
3 50 (37.04%) Agile
4 40 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (27.41%) DevSecOps
6 30 (22.22%) Secure Coding
7 29 (21.48%) SDLC
8 25 (18.52%) ITIL
8 25 (18.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 24 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (16.30%) Microservices
10 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.30%) Workflow
11 20 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 20 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (11.85%) Clean Code
13 16 (11.85%) Event-Driven
13 16 (11.85%) Prototyping
13 16 (11.85%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (57.04%) Java
2 58 (42.96%) TypeScript
3 47 (34.81%) SQL
4 42 (31.11%) Groovy
5 41 (30.37%) Python
6 37 (27.41%) Bash
7 27 (20.00%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.63%) Go
8 13 (9.63%) Rust
9 4 (2.96%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.22%) C#
10 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (30.37%) AWS Certification
2 24 (17.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.78%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (10.37%) Degree
4 13 (9.63%) OSCP
4 13 (9.63%) Security Cleared
5 11 (8.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.44%) QA
3 3 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) MiFID
System Software
1 82 (60.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (29.63%) Terraform
2 35 (25.93%) HP Fortify
3 18 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.19%) Grafana
5 4 (2.96%) Control-M
5 4 (2.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.44%) Oracle
2 5 (3.70%) Databricks
3 4 (2.96%) Informatica
4 2 (1.48%) Splunk
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft