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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 616 805
Rank change year-on-year +43 +189 +142
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 109 35 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.080% 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 47 30 30
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,475 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £54,063 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -8.54% +17.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,188 £88,750
90th Percentile - £100,375 £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.28% -1.54% +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 23,560 16,416 31,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.36% 37.38% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,567 11,036 25,658
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,906 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 10 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 10 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 +74 102 £77,500 -1.59% 30
UK excluding London +37 72 £72,500 +13.28% 25
North of England +28 64 £72,500 +52.63% 10
Yorkshire - 60 £72,500 - 7
London +23 33 £90,000 - 9
Work from Home +60 25 £72,500 -17.14% 9
North West -8 4 £88,750 +86.84% 2
Scotland -15 4 - - 3
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +1 1 £45,000 - 4
Midlands -15 1 £45,000 - 4

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 (11.93%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.26%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.42%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) JBoss
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (94.50%) AWS Lambda
2 103 (94.50%) Serverless
3 87 (79.82%) Amazon S3
4 76 (69.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (44.04%) Amazon ECS
6 46 (42.20%) GitHub
7 42 (38.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (33.03%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (32.11%) Amazon SQS
10 32 (29.36%) Amazon ECR
10 32 (29.36%) Apigee
11 15 (13.76%) Azure
12 14 (12.84%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (12.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (11.93%) Pulumi
14 8 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (7.34%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (6.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.93%) DSL
2 2 (1.83%) Broadband
3 1 (0.92%) 4G
3 1 (0.92%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (57.80%) DynamoDB
2 28 (25.69%) NoSQL
3 21 (19.27%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (18.35%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (17.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (13.76%) SQL Server
7 14 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (5.50%) Data Lake
10 5 (4.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.59%) Big Data
10 5 (4.59%) Hadoop
11 4 (3.67%) Apache Hive
11 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (2.75%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (2.75%) MySQL
12 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (1.83%) Power BI
13 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (48.62%) Jenkins
2 46 (42.20%) GitLab
3 32 (29.36%) Cypress.io
3 32 (29.36%) Git
3 32 (29.36%) Maven
3 32 (29.36%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.67%) MLflow
5 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.75%) NUnit
5 3 (2.75%) Selenium
6 2 (1.83%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 25 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.42%) Finance
4 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.67%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.75%) Banking
5 3 (2.75%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Legal
6 2 (1.83%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) Billing
7 1 (0.92%) Games
7 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (46.79%) Developer
2 35 (32.11%) Java Developer
3 26 (23.85%) Senior
4 19 (17.43%) AWS Developer
5 18 (16.51%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (16.51%) Data Engineer
6 13 (11.93%) Architect
6 13 (11.93%) AWS Architect
6 13 (11.93%) AWS Security Architect
6 13 (11.93%) Security Architect
7 12 (11.01%) .NET Developer
7 12 (11.01%) Lead
8 11 (10.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (9.17%) AWS Data Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.59%) Python Engineer
13 4 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 4 (3.67%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.28%) AngularJS
2 37 (33.94%) Spring Boot
3 34 (31.19%) AWS CDK
4 32 (29.36%) Gherkin
4 32 (29.36%) Jest
5 17 (15.60%) .NET
5 17 (15.60%) .NET Core
5 17 (15.60%) Node.js
6 14 (12.84%) Spring
7 13 (11.93%) ASP.NET
7 13 (11.93%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (11.93%) Blazor
7 13 (11.93%) React
7 13 (11.93%) RESTful
8 7 (6.42%) REST
9 5 (4.59%) Kafka
10 4 (3.67%) LangChain
10 4 (3.67%) LangGraph
10 4 (3.67%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (3.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.86%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.67%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (89.91%) CI/CD
2 73 (66.97%) DevOps
3 52 (47.71%) Agile
4 39 (35.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (23.85%) DevSecOps
7 25 (22.94%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (22.94%) Microservices
8 24 (22.02%) Containerisation
8 24 (22.02%) Secure Coding
9 19 (17.43%) Deployment Automation
9 19 (17.43%) SDLC
10 16 (14.68%) ITIL
10 16 (14.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (14.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 15 (13.76%) Data Modelling
12 13 (11.93%) Cryptography
12 13 (11.93%) Data Governance
12 13 (11.93%) Red Team
12 13 (11.93%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.71%) Java
2 44 (40.37%) SQL
3 39 (35.78%) Python
3 39 (35.78%) TypeScript
4 33 (30.28%) Bash
5 31 (28.44%) Groovy
6 15 (13.76%) Kotlin
7 13 (11.93%) Go
7 13 (11.93%) Rust
8 5 (4.59%) Scala
9 4 (3.67%) C#
9 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (39.45%) AWS Certification
2 19 (17.43%) AWS Certified Developer
3 16 (14.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (12.84%) Degree
5 13 (11.93%) OSCP
6 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.34%) QA
3 6 (5.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 74 (67.89%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (36.70%) Terraform
2 32 (29.36%) HP Fortify
3 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.42%) Grafana
5 4 (3.67%) Control-M
5 4 (3.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (7.34%) Databricks
2 6 (5.50%) Oracle
3 4 (3.67%) Informatica
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft