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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 621 861
Rank change year-on-year -4 +240 -23
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 126 55 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 0.36% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 66 48 18
10th Percentile £61,288 £71,250 £50,206
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,563 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.66% +2.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,375 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -25.12%

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 26,225 15,326 35,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.19% 32.90% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 17,133 10,658 26,895
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,262
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +14 120 £80,000 -5.88% 33
UK excluding London -14 89 £75,000 -11.76% 18
North of England +24 72 £75,000 -3.23% 7
Yorkshire +22 64 £80,000 +3.23% 4
London -19 35 £90,000 +16.13% 18
Work from Home +18 26 £85,000 +17.24% 21
Midlands - 9 £52,500 - 2
North West - 7 £72,500 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £85,000 - 1
Scotland +19 3 - - 1
South West -59 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
South East -28 1 - - 6
Wales -49 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 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.97%) Apache
3 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.38%) JBoss
5 2 (1.59%) Confluence
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) AWS
2 119 (94.44%) AWS Lambda
2 119 (94.44%) Serverless
3 107 (84.92%) Amazon S3
4 85 (67.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 77 (61.11%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (32.54%) Amazon SQS
7 40 (31.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 39 (30.95%) Amazon ECR
8 39 (30.95%) Apigee
9 37 (29.37%) GitHub
10 27 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (11.11%) Datadog
13 12 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (8.73%) Pulumi
15 8 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (6.35%) Snowflake
16 7 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.73%) DSL
2 2 (1.59%) 4G
2 2 (1.59%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (57.94%) DynamoDB
2 31 (24.60%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (17.46%) NoSQL
4 13 (10.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.97%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.17%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.17%) Metadata
9 3 (2.38%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.38%) Power BI
9 3 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.59%) MySQL
10 2 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (46.83%) Jenkins
2 49 (38.89%) GitLab
3 34 (26.98%) Cypress.io
4 31 (24.60%) Maven
5 29 (23.02%) SonarQube
6 26 (20.63%) Git
7 4 (3.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.38%) JIRA
8 3 (2.38%) Selenium
9 2 (1.59%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.59%) MLflow
9 2 (1.59%) NUnit
10 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.79%) JUnit
10 1 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 18 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.76%) Finance
4 5 (3.97%) Billing
5 4 (3.17%) Banking
6 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.38%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Games
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (57.14%) Developer
2 56 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 29 (23.02%) Senior
4 27 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (17.46%) AWS Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Senior Developer
7 15 (11.90%) Data Engineer
8 14 (11.11%) Architect
9 13 (10.32%) AWS Architect
10 12 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (8.73%) AWS Security Architect
11 11 (8.73%) Security Architect
12 7 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.56%) Software Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Lead
13 6 (4.76%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.97%) Angular Developer
14 5 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
14 5 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (53.97%) AngularJS
2 51 (40.48%) Spring Boot
3 38 (30.16%) Gherkin
4 33 (26.19%) Node.js
5 31 (24.60%) Jest
6 25 (19.84%) AWS CDK
7 24 (19.05%) Spring
8 10 (7.94%) React
9 7 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (5.56%) REST
10 5 (3.97%) Kafka
10 5 (3.97%) PySpark
11 3 (2.38%) CSS
11 3 (2.38%) Drools
11 3 (2.38%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.38%) Flask
11 3 (2.38%) Next.js
11 3 (2.38%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (2.38%) Vue
11 3 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.38%) Life Science
6 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (76.98%) CI/CD
2 69 (54.76%) DevOps
3 43 (34.13%) Agile
4 37 (29.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (26.19%) DevSecOps
6 32 (25.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (23.02%) SDLC
8 27 (21.43%) Secure Coding
9 25 (19.84%) ITIL
9 25 (19.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 21 (16.67%) AI
11 20 (15.87%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (15.87%) Event-Driven
12 18 (14.29%) Microservices
12 18 (14.29%) Workflow
13 17 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (12.70%) Clean Code
14 16 (12.70%) Prototyping
15 15 (11.90%) Observability
15 15 (11.90%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.14%) Java
2 57 (45.24%) TypeScript
3 45 (35.71%) Python
4 39 (30.95%) Groovy
4 39 (30.95%) SQL
5 31 (24.60%) Bash
6 25 (19.84%) Kotlin
7 11 (8.73%) Go
7 11 (8.73%) Rust
8 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.59%) C#
9 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 24 (19.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (19.05%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (10.32%) Security Cleared
4 12 (9.52%) Degree
5 11 (8.73%) OSCP
5 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.76%) GDPR
3 3 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) MiFID
System Software
1 65 (51.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (30.16%) Terraform
2 29 (23.02%) HP Fortify
3 15 (11.90%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.17%) Grafana
5 2 (1.59%) Control-M
5 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.17%) Databricks
1 4 (3.17%) Oracle
2 2 (1.59%) Informatica
2 2 (1.59%) Splunk
3 1 (0.79%) Avaya
3 1 (0.79%) Cisco
3 1 (0.79%) Genesys
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft