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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 604 834
Rank change year-on-year +18 +230 +65
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 131 59 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.39% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 56 52 26
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £70,938 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £78,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £98,500 £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 26,494 15,158 34,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.46% 34.91% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,788 10,657 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 13 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 13 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 +36 123 £78,750 -7.35% 27
UK excluding London -5 95 £75,000 -11.76% 18
North of England +51 83 £75,000 -3.23% 8
Yorkshire +11 78 £75,000 -3.23% 6
London -9 33 £90,000 +16.13% 11
Work from Home +30 21 £72,500 -6.45% 8
Scotland +6 5 - - 1
Midlands -30 4 £52,500 - 5
North West - 4 £74,874 - 2
South West -46 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 2
West Midlands -22 1 £45,000 - 3
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 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.05%) Apache
3 3 (2.29%) JBoss
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) Confluence
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) AWS
2 125 (95.42%) AWS Lambda
2 125 (95.42%) Serverless
3 112 (85.50%) Amazon S3
4 93 (70.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 77 (58.78%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (37.40%) Amazon ECR
6 49 (37.40%) Apigee
7 48 (36.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 48 (36.64%) GitHub
8 39 (29.77%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (29.01%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (16.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 13 (9.92%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (9.92%) Datadog
11 13 (9.92%) Pulumi
12 10 (7.63%) Azure
13 9 (6.87%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (6.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) DSL
2 2 (1.53%) 4G
2 2 (1.53%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (67.18%) DynamoDB
2 30 (22.90%) NoSQL
3 28 (21.37%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (9.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (8.40%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.05%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.29%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (2.29%) MySQL
10 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.53%) Metadata
11 2 (1.53%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.53%) Power BI
11 2 (1.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (50.38%) Jenkins
2 60 (45.80%) GitLab
3 44 (33.59%) Cypress.io
4 43 (32.82%) Maven
5 41 (31.30%) SonarQube
6 37 (28.24%) Git
7 5 (3.82%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.05%) MLflow
8 4 (3.05%) Selenium
9 3 (2.29%) NUnit
10 2 (1.53%) DBeaver
10 2 (1.53%) JIRA
11 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 23 (17.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.58%) Finance
4 4 (3.05%) Billing
4 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.29%) Banking
5 3 (2.29%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.53%) Retail
6 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Advertising
7 1 (0.76%) Games
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (54.96%) Developer
2 51 (38.93%) Java Developer
3 27 (20.61%) Senior
4 25 (19.08%) AWS Developer
5 15 (11.45%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.69%) Architect
6 14 (10.69%) AWS Architect
6 14 (10.69%) Lead
7 13 (9.92%) AWS Security Architect
7 13 (9.92%) Data Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (9.92%) Security Architect
8 10 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) .NET Developer
10 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (5.34%) Technical Leader
11 5 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (54.20%) AngularJS
2 56 (42.75%) Spring Boot
3 43 (32.82%) Gherkin
4 42 (32.06%) Jest
5 33 (25.19%) AWS CDK
6 28 (21.37%) Node.js
7 24 (18.32%) Spring
8 13 (9.92%) .NET
8 13 (9.92%) .NET Core
9 10 (7.63%) RESTful
10 9 (6.87%) ASP.NET
10 9 (6.87%) ASP.NET Core
10 9 (6.87%) Blazor
11 8 (6.11%) React
11 8 (6.11%) REST
12 5 (3.82%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (3.05%) LangChain
13 4 (3.05%) LangGraph
13 4 (3.05%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (3.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (25.95%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (80.15%) CI/CD
2 81 (61.83%) DevOps
3 56 (42.75%) Agile
4 37 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (25.95%) DevSecOps
6 31 (23.66%) Secure Coding
7 28 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.37%) SDLC
8 25 (19.08%) ITIL
8 25 (19.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 22 (16.79%) Microservices
10 21 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (15.27%) Containerisation
11 20 (15.27%) Workflow
12 19 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (12.21%) Clean Code
14 16 (12.21%) Prototyping
15 15 (11.45%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (10.69%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (57.25%) Java
2 59 (45.04%) TypeScript
3 47 (35.88%) SQL
4 43 (32.82%) Bash
4 43 (32.82%) Groovy
5 37 (28.24%) Python
6 24 (18.32%) Kotlin
7 13 (9.92%) Go
7 13 (9.92%) Rust
8 4 (3.05%) C#
8 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (35.11%) AWS Certification
2 24 (18.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (18.32%) ITIL Certification
3 16 (12.21%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (10.69%) Degree
5 13 (9.92%) OSCP
5 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
6 11 (8.40%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.11%) QA
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 85 (64.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (31.30%) HP Fortify
2 39 (29.77%) Terraform
3 19 (14.50%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.34%) Grafana
5 4 (3.05%) Control-M
5 4 (3.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.58%) Oracle
2 5 (3.82%) Databricks
3 4 (3.05%) Informatica
4 2 (1.53%) Splunk
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft