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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 659 733
Rank change year-on-year +104 +74 +179
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 94 53 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.054%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35 44 36
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £95,000 £78,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +21.41% -5.15%
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £128,750 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +36.79% -15.20% +2.04%

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 21,204 19,150 26,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 36.52% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,542 11,236 21,935
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,623 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.36%

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 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 10 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 29 January 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 +99 87 £77,500 -20.51% 27
UK excluding London +76 58 £72,500 +36.79% 15
North of England +59 49 £72,500 +52.63% 8
Yorkshire - 47 £72,500 - 8
London +40 32 £90,000 -10.00% 13
Work from Home +64 28 £76,250 -23.75% 8
Scotland -1 4 - -
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 1
North West +24 2 £95,000 +100.00%
South West - 2 £65,000 - 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 12 (12.77%) Apache Spark
2 11 (11.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.26%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 89 (94.68%) AWS Lambda
2 89 (94.68%) Serverless
3 73 (77.66%) Amazon S3
4 57 (60.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (39.36%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (37.23%) GitHub
7 33 (35.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (32.98%) Amazon SQS
9 29 (30.85%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (25.53%) Amazon ECR
10 24 (25.53%) Apigee
11 16 (17.02%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (15.96%) Azure
13 13 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (11.70%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (8.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (8.51%) Amazon SageMaker
17 7 (7.45%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) DSL
2 4 (4.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (59.57%) DynamoDB
2 24 (25.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (24.47%) NoSQL
4 20 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (15.96%) SQL Server
7 13 (13.83%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (9.57%) Big Data
8 9 (9.57%) Hadoop
9 8 (8.51%) Apache Hive
10 5 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (5.32%) Data Lake
11 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (3.19%) MySQL
12 3 (3.19%) Power BI
12 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
13 2 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (2.13%) Data Vault
13 2 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 36 (38.30%) Jenkins
2 30 (31.91%) GitLab
3 28 (29.79%) Git
4 24 (25.53%) Cypress.io
4 24 (25.53%) Maven
4 24 (25.53%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.26%) MLflow
6 3 (3.19%) NUnit
7 2 (2.13%) DBeaver
8 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Finance
3 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Legal
7 1 (1.06%) Games
7 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (42.55%) Developer
2 28 (29.79%) Senior
3 22 (23.40%) Java Developer
4 21 (22.34%) Data Engineer
5 19 (20.21%) AWS Developer
6 18 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (17.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (13.83%) AWS Data Engineer
8 13 (13.83%) Lead
9 12 (12.77%) .NET Developer
10 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
11 6 (6.38%) Architect
11 6 (6.38%) AWS Architect
11 6 (6.38%) AWS Security Architect
11 6 (6.38%) Security Architect
11 6 (6.38%) Technical Leader
12 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Informatica Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (36.17%) AngularJS
2 29 (30.85%) AWS CDK
3 25 (26.60%) Spring Boot
4 24 (25.53%) Gherkin
4 24 (25.53%) Jest
5 17 (18.09%) .NET
5 17 (18.09%) .NET Core
5 17 (18.09%) React
6 13 (13.83%) ASP.NET
6 13 (13.83%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (13.83%) Blazor
6 13 (13.83%) RESTful
7 12 (12.77%) Node.js
8 10 (10.64%) Kafka
8 10 (10.64%) Spring
9 8 (8.51%) boto
9 8 (8.51%) Spark Streaming
10 7 (7.45%) REST
11 5 (5.32%) GraphQL
12 4 (4.26%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.91%) Cloud Native
2 19 (20.21%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.64%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (8.51%) e-Learning
5 4 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.13%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (92.55%) CI/CD
2 65 (69.15%) DevOps
3 43 (45.74%) Agile
4 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (28.72%) Microservices
7 20 (21.28%) Containerisation
8 19 (20.21%) Data Modelling
8 19 (20.21%) Secure Coding
9 17 (18.09%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (17.02%) Mentoring
11 15 (15.96%) Data Governance
12 14 (14.89%) Data Engineering
12 14 (14.89%) DevSecOps
12 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
13 13 (13.83%) Application Security
13 13 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (12.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.74%) Java
2 39 (41.49%) SQL
3 35 (37.23%) Python
4 33 (35.11%) TypeScript
5 24 (25.53%) Bash
6 23 (24.47%) Groovy
7 9 (9.57%) Scala
8 8 (8.51%) Kotlin
9 6 (6.38%) Go
9 6 (6.38%) Rust
10 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
11 4 (4.26%) C#
11 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (43.62%) AWS Certification
2 18 (19.15%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (11.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (8.51%) Degree
5 6 (6.38%) OSCP
6 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
7 4 (4.26%) MCP
7 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.13%) SnowPro
9 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.70%) GDPR
3 9 (9.57%) QA
4 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.06%) MiFID
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (62.77%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (32.98%) Terraform
2 24 (25.53%) HP Fortify
3 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.45%) Grafana
5 4 (4.26%) Control-M
5 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (12.77%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Oracle
3 4 (4.26%) Informatica
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.13%) OpenAI