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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 622 847
Rank change year-on-year -37 +225 -33
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 119 56 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 61 48 19
10th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £52,221
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £81,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +4.29% +1.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,125 £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 27,025 15,903 33,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.36% 32.37% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 17,563 11,080 25,330
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
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% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.21% -6.61%

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 16 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 16 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 -15 116 £80,000 -5.88% 13
UK excluding London -31 84 £75,000 -11.76% 6
North of England +32 70 £77,500 - 2
Yorkshire +22 62 £80,000 +3.23% 1
London -21 34 £90,000 +16.13% 10
Work from Home +8 25 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Midlands - 9 £52,500 -
North West - 7 £72,500 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 -
West Midlands - 4 £85,000 -
South East -12 2 - - 2
Scotland +13 1 - -
Wales -53 1 - - 2
South West -59 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 9 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.04%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.52%) JBoss
4 3 (2.52%) SAS
5 2 (1.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 112 (94.12%) AWS Lambda
2 112 (94.12%) Serverless
3 99 (83.19%) Amazon S3
4 83 (69.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 75 (63.03%) Amazon ECS
6 38 (31.93%) Amazon SQS
7 37 (31.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (31.09%) Amazon ECR
7 37 (31.09%) Apigee
8 35 (29.41%) GitHub
9 26 (21.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (21.85%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (13.45%) Datadog
11 12 (10.08%) Amazon EventBridge
12 9 (7.56%) Pulumi
13 6 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (5.04%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (5.04%) Snowflake
14 5 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.56%) DSL
2 2 (1.68%) 4G
2 2 (1.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (60.50%) DynamoDB
2 33 (27.73%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (19.33%) NoSQL
4 12 (10.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.20%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.36%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (3.36%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.36%) Metadata
8 4 (3.36%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.52%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.68%) Big Data
10 2 (1.68%) Parquet
10 2 (1.68%) Presto
10 2 (1.68%) Redshift Spectrum
11 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (45.38%) Jenkins
2 46 (38.66%) GitLab
3 32 (26.89%) Cypress.io
4 29 (24.37%) Maven
5 27 (22.69%) SonarQube
6 26 (21.85%) Git
7 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.52%) JIRA
8 3 (2.52%) Selenium
9 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.84%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.84%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.84%) JUnit
9 1 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.84%) NUnit
General
1 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.88%) Billing
4 6 (5.04%) Finance
5 4 (3.36%) Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.52%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Advertising
7 1 (0.84%) Games
7 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (59.66%) Developer
2 55 (46.22%) Java Developer
3 29 (24.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (24.37%) Senior
4 22 (18.49%) AWS Developer
5 18 (15.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (12.61%) Data Engineer
6 15 (12.61%) Senior Developer
7 14 (11.76%) Architect
8 12 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (9.24%) AWS Architect
10 9 (7.56%) AWS Security Architect
10 9 (7.56%) Security Architect
11 7 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Lead
12 6 (5.04%) Python Engineer
13 5 (4.20%) Angular Developer
13 5 (4.20%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (56.30%) AngularJS
2 50 (42.02%) Spring Boot
3 36 (30.25%) Gherkin
3 36 (30.25%) Node.js
4 29 (24.37%) Jest
5 25 (21.01%) Spring
6 20 (16.81%) AWS CDK
7 10 (8.40%) React
8 7 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (4.20%) Kafka
9 5 (4.20%) PySpark
10 4 (3.36%) REST
11 3 (2.52%) CSS
11 3 (2.52%) Drools
11 3 (2.52%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.52%) Flask
11 3 (2.52%) Next.js
11 3 (2.52%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (2.52%) Vue
11 3 (2.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.01%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.52%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.52%) Life Science
4 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (73.95%) CI/CD
2 67 (56.30%) DevOps
3 40 (33.61%) Agile
4 34 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (26.89%) DevSecOps
5 32 (26.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (22.69%) SDLC
7 24 (20.17%) Secure Coding
8 23 (19.33%) ITIL
8 23 (19.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 21 (17.65%) AI
9 21 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 17 (14.29%) Microservices
10 17 (14.29%) RBAC
10 17 (14.29%) Secrets Management
10 17 (14.29%) Workflow
11 15 (12.61%) Clean Code
11 15 (12.61%) Data Engineering
11 15 (12.61%) Principle of Least Privilege
Programming Languages
1 71 (59.66%) Java
2 57 (47.90%) TypeScript
3 44 (36.97%) Python
4 37 (31.09%) Groovy
4 37 (31.09%) SQL
5 29 (24.37%) Bash
6 26 (21.85%) Kotlin
7 9 (7.56%) Go
7 9 (7.56%) Rust
8 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.84%) Bicep
9 1 (0.84%) C#
9 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (27.73%) AWS Certification
2 22 (18.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (18.49%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.08%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.40%) Degree
6 9 (7.56%) OSCP
7 8 (6.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) QA
5 1 (0.84%) MiFID
System Software
1 62 (52.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (28.57%) Terraform
2 27 (22.69%) HP Fortify
3 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (2.52%) Avaya
1 3 (2.52%) Cisco
1 3 (2.52%) Genesys
2 2 (1.68%) Databricks
2 2 (1.68%) Splunk
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft