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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 619 852
Rank change year-on-year +7 +233 +15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 129 52 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.34% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67 45 18
10th Percentile £61,295 £71,250 £50,206
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.66% +4.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,750 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £46,802
% change year-on-year -11.76% +81.62% -22.00%

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 25,657 15,076 35,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.09% 33.38% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16,662 10,434 27,447
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
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% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,703 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +18 122 £80,000 -5.88% 15
UK excluding London -4 93 £75,000 -11.76% 10
North of England +38 76 £75,000 -3.23% 5
Yorkshire +28 68 £75,000 -3.23% 3
London -15 34 £90,000 +16.13% 9
Work from Home +32 27 £75,000 +3.45% 8
Midlands - 9 £52,500 - 1
North West - 7 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 -
Scotland +17 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 £85,000 - 1
South West -57 3 £65,000 -31.58% 1
Wales -44 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 13 (10.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.88%) Apache
3 4 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.33%) JBoss
5 2 (1.55%) Confluence
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (94.57%) AWS Lambda
2 122 (94.57%) Serverless
3 110 (85.27%) Amazon S3
4 88 (68.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 80 (62.02%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (34.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 41 (31.78%) GitHub
8 40 (31.01%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (29.46%) Amazon ECR
9 38 (29.46%) Apigee
10 29 (22.48%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (21.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 16 (12.40%) Datadog
13 11 (8.53%) Amazon EventBridge
13 11 (8.53%) Pulumi
14 9 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (6.20%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (6.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.53%) DSL
2 2 (1.55%) 4G
2 2 (1.55%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (58.91%) DynamoDB
2 35 (27.13%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (20.16%) NoSQL
4 14 (10.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.10%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.10%) Metadata
8 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.33%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.33%) Power BI
9 3 (2.33%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.55%) Parquet
10 2 (1.55%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 60 (46.51%) Jenkins
2 48 (37.21%) GitLab
3 33 (25.58%) Cypress.io
4 31 (24.03%) Git
5 30 (23.26%) Maven
6 28 (21.71%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.10%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.33%) JIRA
8 3 (2.33%) Selenium
9 2 (1.55%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.55%) MLflow
9 2 (1.55%) NUnit
10 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.78%) JUnit
10 1 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Finance
4 5 (3.88%) Billing
5 4 (3.10%) Banking
6 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.33%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Advertising
7 1 (0.78%) Games
7 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (58.14%) Developer
2 59 (45.74%) Java Developer
3 31 (24.03%) Senior
4 26 (20.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (18.60%) AWS Developer
6 18 (13.95%) Senior Developer
7 15 (11.63%) Data Engineer
7 15 (11.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (10.85%) Architect
9 13 (10.08%) AWS Architect
10 12 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (8.53%) AWS Security Architect
11 11 (8.53%) Security Architect
12 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
13 6 (4.65%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.88%) Angular Developer
14 5 (3.88%) Lead
14 5 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (55.04%) AngularJS
2 50 (38.76%) Spring Boot
3 37 (28.68%) Gherkin
4 36 (27.91%) Node.js
5 30 (23.26%) Jest
6 24 (18.60%) AWS CDK
6 24 (18.60%) Spring
7 9 (6.98%) React
8 8 (6.20%) REST
9 7 (5.43%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (3.88%) Kafka
10 5 (3.88%) PySpark
11 3 (2.33%) Drools
11 3 (2.33%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.33%) Flask
11 3 (2.33%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (2.33%) SOAP
11 3 (2.33%) Vue
11 3 (2.33%) XML
12 2 (1.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.55%) Life Science
5 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.10%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (77.52%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.04%) DevOps
3 42 (32.56%) Agile
4 37 (28.68%) DevSecOps
5 36 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (21.71%) SDLC
8 26 (20.16%) Secure Coding
9 24 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (18.60%) ITIL
9 24 (18.60%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 21 (16.28%) Workflow
11 20 (15.50%) AI
11 20 (15.50%) Event-Driven
12 18 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (13.18%) Microservices
13 17 (13.18%) Secrets Management
14 16 (12.40%) RBAC
15 15 (11.63%) Clean Code
15 15 (11.63%) Principle of Least Privilege
Programming Languages
1 75 (58.14%) Java
2 57 (44.19%) TypeScript
3 45 (34.88%) Python
4 44 (34.11%) SQL
5 38 (29.46%) Groovy
6 30 (23.26%) Bash
7 29 (22.48%) Kotlin
8 11 (8.53%) Go
8 11 (8.53%) Rust
9 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.55%) C#
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (26.36%) AWS Certification
2 23 (17.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.83%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.08%) SC Cleared
5 12 (9.30%) Degree
6 11 (8.53%) OSCP
7 6 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.88%) GDPR
3 3 (2.33%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 68 (52.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (28.68%) Terraform
2 28 (21.71%) HP Fortify
3 15 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.10%) Grafana
5 3 (2.33%) Control-M
6 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle
2 4 (3.10%) Databricks
3 3 (2.33%) Informatica
4 2 (1.55%) Splunk
5 1 (0.78%) Avaya
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco
5 1 (0.78%) Genesys
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft