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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 643 703
Rank change year-on-year +74 +60 +205
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 86 59 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.31% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 33 46 36
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £97,500 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% +20.37% -4.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £125,313 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £128,750 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +36.79% -18.46% +6.12%

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 20,809 19,305 23,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.14% 36.19% 39.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,348 11,350 19,345
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 10 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 17 January 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 +97 80 £77,500 -22.50% 35
UK excluding London +80 52 £72,500 +36.79% 27
North of England +55 43 £72,500 +52.63% 12
Yorkshire - 41 £72,500 - 11
London +42 31 £90,000 -10.00% 14
Work from Home +65 28 £77,500 -22.50% 20
Scotland +5 4 - - 3
East of England - 3 £100,000 - 2
North West +19 2 £95,000 +100.00% 1
South West +8 2 £65,000 - 3

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 (15.12%) Apache Spark
2 11 (12.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.81%) Apache
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (94.19%) AWS Lambda
2 81 (94.19%) Serverless
3 66 (76.74%) Amazon S3
4 49 (56.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (34.88%) GitHub
6 29 (33.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (33.72%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (31.40%) Amazon SQS
8 24 (27.91%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (23.26%) Amazon ECR
9 20 (23.26%) Apigee
10 15 (17.44%) Amazon EventBridge
10 15 (17.44%) Azure
11 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (12.79%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (9.30%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (9.30%) dbt
14 7 (8.14%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Broadband
2 4 (4.65%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (58.14%) DynamoDB
2 25 (29.07%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (23.26%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (23.26%) NoSQL
3 20 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (17.44%) SQL Server
6 9 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (10.47%) Big Data
6 9 (10.47%) Hadoop
7 8 (9.30%) Apache Hive
8 6 (6.98%) Data Lake
9 5 (5.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.49%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (3.49%) Data Vault
11 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (3.49%) Power BI
12 2 (2.33%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (33.72%) Jenkins
2 25 (29.07%) Git
3 24 (27.91%) GitLab
4 20 (23.26%) Cypress.io
4 20 (23.26%) Maven
4 20 (23.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.65%) MLflow
6 2 (2.33%) DBeaver
6 2 (2.33%) NUnit
7 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.16%) Selenium
General
1 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Finance
3 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.30%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Games
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (39.53%) Developer
2 28 (32.56%) Senior
3 22 (25.58%) Data Engineer
4 17 (19.77%) AWS Developer
4 17 (19.77%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (19.77%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (17.44%) Java Developer
6 13 (15.12%) AWS Data Engineer
6 13 (15.12%) Lead
7 12 (13.95%) .NET Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Architect
11 4 (4.65%) AWS Architect
11 4 (4.65%) AWS Security Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Informatica Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Security Architect
12 3 (3.49%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.40%) AngularJS
2 26 (30.23%) AWS CDK
3 21 (24.42%) Spring Boot
4 20 (23.26%) Gherkin
4 20 (23.26%) Jest
5 18 (20.93%) React
6 16 (18.60%) .NET
6 16 (18.60%) .NET Core
7 13 (15.12%) ASP.NET
7 13 (15.12%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (15.12%) Blazor
7 13 (15.12%) RESTful
8 10 (11.63%) Kafka
8 10 (11.63%) Spring
9 9 (10.47%) Node.js
10 8 (9.30%) boto
10 8 (9.30%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (6.98%) GraphQL
11 6 (6.98%) REST
12 5 (5.81%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.40%) Cloud Native
2 18 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.63%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (9.30%) e-Learning
5 4 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.33%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.16%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (90.70%) CI/CD
2 57 (66.28%) DevOps
3 41 (47.67%) Agile
4 30 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (32.56%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (30.23%) Microservices
7 19 (22.09%) Containerisation
7 19 (22.09%) Data Modelling
8 17 (19.77%) Mentoring
9 16 (18.60%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (17.44%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (16.28%) Data Engineering
11 14 (16.28%) Data Governance
11 14 (16.28%) Secure Coding
12 13 (15.12%) Application Security
12 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
13 12 (13.95%) AI
13 12 (13.95%) Event-Driven
14 11 (12.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.02%) SQL
2 35 (40.70%) Java
2 35 (40.70%) Python
3 29 (33.72%) TypeScript
4 20 (23.26%) Bash
5 19 (22.09%) Groovy
6 9 (10.47%) Scala
7 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.81%) Kotlin
9 4 (4.65%) Go
9 4 (4.65%) Rust
9 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.49%) C#
11 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (45.35%) AWS Certification
2 18 (20.93%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (8.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 7 (8.14%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (5.81%) Degree
5 4 (4.65%) MCP
5 4 (4.65%) OSCP
5 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.12%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.63%) GDPR
3 7 (8.14%) QA
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (60.47%) Docker
2 8 (9.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (32.56%) Terraform
2 20 (23.26%) HP Fortify
3 15 (17.44%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.98%) Grafana
5 4 (4.65%) Control-M
5 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Databricks
2 6 (6.98%) Oracle
3 4 (4.65%) Informatica
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.16%) Google