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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 725 615 710
Rank change year-on-year -110 +95 -22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 93 51 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.10% 0.080%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 45 32 33
10th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £54,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £73,438 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,625 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +65.22% -14.81%

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 27,082 15,471 23,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 31.22% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 18,453 10,358 14,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 14 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 6 October 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 -88 88 £80,000 +3.23% 72
UK excluding London -93 71 £80,000 -15.79% 34
North of England -20 54 £80,000 +16.36% 10
Yorkshire +3 45 £85,000 +23.64% 5
Work from Home -18 35 £85,000 +9.68% 28
London -74 22 £91,250 +17.74% 47
Midlands - 9 £75,000 - 5
North West - 9 £67,249 - 5
East Midlands - 6 £52,500 - 4
Wales - 3 £39,163 -
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 - 1
Scotland -1 2 - - 5
South East -43 2 - - 4
South West -78 1 - - 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 9 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.45%) Apache
2 6 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.23%) SAS
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 89 (95.70%) AWS Lambda
2 89 (95.70%) Serverless
3 80 (86.02%) Amazon S3
4 60 (64.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (59.14%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (34.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (29.03%) GitHub
8 26 (27.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 26 (27.96%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (21.51%) Datadog
10 19 (20.43%) Amazon ECR
10 19 (20.43%) Apigee
10 19 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (11.83%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (10.75%) Azure
13 9 (9.68%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (6.45%) Azure Functions
14 6 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) 4G
1 1 (1.08%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (58.06%) DynamoDB
2 36 (38.71%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (20.43%) NoSQL
4 18 (19.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (11.83%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.60%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (8.60%) Parquet
7 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
8 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.38%) Metadata
10 4 (4.30%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (3.23%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (3.23%) Big Data
11 3 (3.23%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.23%) Power BI
11 3 (3.23%) RDBMS
12 2 (2.15%) Power Query
12 2 (2.15%) Presto
13 1 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 29 (31.18%) Git
2 25 (26.88%) Jenkins
3 22 (23.66%) GitLab
4 16 (17.20%) Cypress.io
5 13 (13.98%) Maven
6 11 (11.83%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.15%) JIRA
8 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.08%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.08%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.08%) JUnit
8 1 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.83%) Finance
3 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Banking
5 6 (6.45%) Billing
6 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.08%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 53 (56.99%) Developer
2 40 (43.01%) Java Developer
3 26 (27.96%) Senior
4 24 (25.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (23.66%) AWS Developer
6 18 (19.35%) Data Engineer
7 15 (16.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (15.05%) Senior Developer
9 11 (11.83%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (9.68%) Software Engineer
11 7 (7.53%) Architect
11 7 (7.53%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (5.38%) Angular Developer
13 5 (5.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (4.30%) AWS Architect
14 4 (4.30%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (4.30%) Python Engineer
14 4 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (52.69%) AngularJS
2 35 (37.63%) Node.js
2 35 (37.63%) Spring Boot
3 27 (29.03%) Spring
4 24 (25.81%) Terraform
5 20 (21.51%) Gherkin
6 13 (13.98%) Jest
7 12 (12.90%) React
8 10 (10.75%) AWS CDK
8 10 (10.75%) PySpark
9 8 (8.60%) JSON
10 7 (7.53%) Apache Avro
11 6 (6.45%) Kafka
11 6 (6.45%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (3.23%) A2A Protocol
12 3 (3.23%) FastAPI
12 3 (3.23%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (3.23%) Next.js
12 3 (3.23%) REST
12 3 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.23%) Life Science
3 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (77.42%) CI/CD
2 58 (62.37%) DevOps
3 36 (38.71%) Agile
4 29 (31.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (26.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (26.88%) Microservices
6 21 (22.58%) AI
6 21 (22.58%) Software Engineering
7 20 (21.51%) Analytics
7 20 (21.51%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (20.43%) Data Engineering
8 19 (20.43%) DevSecOps
9 18 (19.35%) Secrets Management
10 17 (18.28%) RBAC
11 16 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (17.20%) Mentoring
11 16 (17.20%) Workflow
12 15 (16.13%) ETL
12 15 (16.13%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 15 (16.13%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (64.52%) Java
2 48 (51.61%) TypeScript
3 43 (46.24%) SQL
4 36 (38.71%) Python
5 23 (24.73%) Kotlin
6 21 (22.58%) Groovy
7 12 (12.90%) Bash
8 2 (2.15%) C#
8 2 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.15%) Ruby
9 1 (1.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (21.51%) AWS Certification
2 16 (17.20%) Security Cleared
3 15 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.75%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (9.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 45 (48.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.83%) HP Fortify
2 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.45%) Databricks
2 3 (3.23%) Avaya
2 3 (3.23%) Cisco
2 3 (3.23%) Genesys
3 2 (2.15%) Google
3 2 (2.15%) Informatica
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.15%) Splunk