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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 583 816
Rank change year-on-year -2 +233 +119
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 119 39 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.095% 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 49 36 30
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,375 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £61,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -5.97% +21.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,125 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +30.77% +8.33%

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 25,475 15,159 33,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 37.03% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,442 11,029 26,352
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,065 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.34% +10.00% -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 31 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 11 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 31 March 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 +30 111 £80,000 -5.88% 40
UK excluding London +11 84 £75,000 -11.76% 30
North of England +19 75 £75,000 +57.89% 13
Yorkshire - 71 £73,750 - 7
London -9 31 £90,000 +14.29% 17
Work from Home +22 23 £72,500 -9.38% 14
Scotland -27 5 - - 4
North West -15 4 £88,750 +86.84% 5
South West - 3 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands -10 1 £45,000 - 2
Midlands -28 1 £45,000 - 3

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 (10.92%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.52%) JBoss
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 113 (94.96%) AWS Lambda
2 113 (94.96%) Serverless
3 99 (83.19%) Amazon S3
4 85 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 62 (52.10%) Amazon ECS
6 48 (40.34%) GitHub
7 46 (38.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 42 (35.29%) Amazon ECR
8 42 (35.29%) Apigee
9 40 (33.61%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (31.93%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (15.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 15 (12.61%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (10.92%) Azure
13 13 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (10.92%) Pulumi
14 8 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (6.72%) AWS CodePipeline
14 8 (6.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.92%) DSL
2 2 (1.68%) Broadband
3 1 (0.84%) 4G
3 1 (0.84%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (63.87%) DynamoDB
2 32 (26.89%) NoSQL
3 23 (19.33%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (13.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (12.61%) SQL Server
7 10 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.36%) Big Data
9 4 (3.36%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.52%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.52%) MySQL
10 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.68%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.68%) Power BI
11 2 (1.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (52.10%) Jenkins
2 55 (46.22%) GitLab
3 40 (33.61%) Cypress.io
3 40 (33.61%) Maven
3 40 (33.61%) SonarQube
4 35 (29.41%) Git
5 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.36%) MLflow
5 4 (3.36%) Selenium
6 3 (2.52%) NUnit
7 2 (1.68%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.84%) JIRA
General
1 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.20%) Finance
4 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.52%) Banking
5 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.52%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Legal
6 2 (1.68%) Retail
7 1 (0.84%) Billing
7 1 (0.84%) Games
7 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (53.78%) Developer
2 45 (37.82%) Java Developer
3 25 (21.01%) Senior
4 22 (18.49%) AWS Developer
5 14 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Architect
6 13 (10.92%) AWS Architect
6 13 (10.92%) AWS Security Architect
6 13 (10.92%) Lead
6 13 (10.92%) Security Architect
7 12 (10.08%) .NET Developer
8 9 (7.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (49.58%) AngularJS
2 47 (39.50%) Spring Boot
3 40 (33.61%) Gherkin
3 40 (33.61%) Jest
4 33 (27.73%) AWS CDK
5 21 (17.65%) Node.js
6 17 (14.29%) .NET
6 17 (14.29%) .NET Core
7 16 (13.45%) Spring
8 13 (10.92%) ASP.NET
8 13 (10.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (10.92%) Blazor
8 13 (10.92%) React
8 13 (10.92%) RESTful
9 8 (6.72%) REST
10 4 (3.36%) Kafka
10 4 (3.36%) LangChain
10 4 (3.36%) LangGraph
10 4 (3.36%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (3.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (31.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.52%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.68%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 80 (67.23%) DevOps
3 58 (48.74%) Agile
4 36 (30.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (25.21%) DevSecOps
5 30 (25.21%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (25.21%) Secure Coding
6 26 (21.85%) SDLC
7 24 (20.17%) Containerisation
7 24 (20.17%) Microservices
8 23 (19.33%) ITIL
8 23 (19.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 22 (18.49%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (15.97%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (13.45%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (13.45%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (12.61%) Workflow
13 14 (11.76%) Clean Code
14 13 (10.92%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 64 (53.78%) Java
2 50 (42.02%) TypeScript
3 45 (37.82%) SQL
4 41 (34.45%) Bash
5 39 (32.77%) Groovy
6 36 (30.25%) Python
7 20 (16.81%) Kotlin
8 13 (10.92%) Go
8 13 (10.92%) Rust
9 5 (4.20%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.36%) C#
10 4 (3.36%) Scala
10 4 (3.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (41.18%) AWS Certification
2 23 (19.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (19.33%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (16.81%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (11.76%) Degree
5 13 (10.92%) OSCP
5 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
6 11 (9.24%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.72%) QA
3 5 (4.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) MiFID
System Software
1 84 (70.59%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (33.61%) HP Fortify
2 38 (31.93%) Terraform
3 19 (15.97%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.88%) Grafana
5 4 (3.36%) Control-M
5 4 (3.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (6.72%) Databricks
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle
3 4 (3.36%) Informatica
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft