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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 598 855
Rank change year-on-year -5 +257 +45
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 134 53 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.045%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.37% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 62 45 23
10th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,125 £95,750 £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £36,103
% change year-on-year -11.76% +135.44% -39.83%

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 27,315 14,369 34,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.31% 33.51% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15,661 9,890 26,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,450 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.90% +6.90% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +5 125 £80,000 - 20
UK excluding London +4 100 £75,000 -11.76% 16
North of England +27 82 £75,000 -3.23% 8
Yorkshire +12 76 £75,000 -3.23% 7
London -11 31 £90,000 +16.13% 7
Work from Home +35 23 £72,500 -1.69% 14
Midlands -22 9 £52,500 - 5
Scotland +2 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 1
North West - 5 £72,500 - 1
West Midlands -31 4 £85,000 - 4
South West -54 3 £65,000 -31.58%
Wales -36 1 - - 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 (9.70%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.99%) Apache
3 3 (2.24%) JBoss
4 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 129 (96.27%) AWS Lambda
2 129 (96.27%) Serverless
3 115 (85.82%) Amazon S3
4 95 (70.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 81 (60.45%) Amazon ECS
6 48 (35.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 48 (35.82%) GitHub
7 45 (33.58%) Amazon ECR
7 45 (33.58%) Apigee
8 42 (31.34%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (27.61%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (18.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 15 (11.19%) Datadog
12 13 (9.70%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (9.70%) Pulumi
13 10 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (6.72%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (5.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) DSL
2 2 (1.49%) 4G
2 2 (1.49%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (64.18%) DynamoDB
2 30 (22.39%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (22.39%) NoSQL
3 13 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.24%) Apache Hudi
8 3 (2.24%) MySQL
9 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.49%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.49%) Power BI
9 2 (1.49%) Redshift Spectrum
9 2 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (48.51%) Jenkins
2 57 (42.54%) GitLab
3 40 (29.85%) Cypress.io
4 37 (27.61%) Maven
5 36 (26.87%) Git
6 35 (26.12%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.99%) MLflow
8 3 (2.24%) JIRA
8 3 (2.24%) NUnit
8 3 (2.24%) Selenium
9 2 (1.49%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.75%) JUnit
10 1 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 23 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.48%) Finance
4 4 (2.99%) Banking
4 4 (2.99%) Billing
4 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.24%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.49%) Retail
6 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.75%) Advertising
7 1 (0.75%) Games
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 77 (57.46%) Developer
2 57 (42.54%) Java Developer
3 28 (20.90%) Senior
4 26 (19.40%) AWS Developer
5 18 (13.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.94%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.45%) Architect
7 14 (10.45%) AWS Architect
8 13 (9.70%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (9.70%) Security Architect
9 12 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (8.96%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (5.97%) Lead
12 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (5.22%) Software Engineer
13 6 (4.48%) .NET Developer
14 5 (3.73%) Python Engineer
14 5 (3.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 4 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (54.48%) AngularJS
2 55 (41.04%) Spring Boot
3 41 (30.60%) Gherkin
4 37 (27.61%) Jest
5 31 (23.13%) AWS CDK
5 31 (23.13%) Node.js
6 25 (18.66%) Spring
7 10 (7.46%) REST
8 9 (6.72%) .NET
8 9 (6.72%) .NET Core
9 8 (5.97%) React
10 7 (5.22%) Lambda Expressions
10 7 (5.22%) RESTful
11 6 (4.48%) ASP.NET
11 6 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (4.48%) Blazor
12 4 (2.99%) LangChain
12 4 (2.99%) LangGraph
12 4 (2.99%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (2.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (79.85%) CI/CD
2 77 (57.46%) DevOps
3 49 (36.57%) Agile
4 40 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (27.61%) DevSecOps
6 30 (22.39%) Secure Coding
7 29 (21.64%) SDLC
8 25 (18.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 25 (18.66%) ITIL
8 25 (18.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 22 (16.42%) Microservices
9 22 (16.42%) Workflow
10 21 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (14.18%) Containerisation
12 18 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (12.69%) Event-Driven
14 16 (11.94%) Clean Code
14 16 (11.94%) Prototyping
14 16 (11.94%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (57.46%) Java
2 59 (44.03%) TypeScript
3 46 (34.33%) SQL
4 42 (31.34%) Groovy
5 41 (30.60%) Python
6 37 (27.61%) Bash
7 27 (20.15%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.70%) Go
8 13 (9.70%) Rust
9 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.24%) C#
10 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (29.85%) AWS Certification
2 24 (17.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (17.91%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (10.45%) Degree
4 13 (9.70%) OSCP
5 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
6 10 (7.46%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (7.46%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.48%) QA
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 81 (60.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (29.85%) Terraform
2 35 (26.12%) HP Fortify
3 18 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.22%) Grafana
5 4 (2.99%) Control-M
5 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.48%) Oracle
2 5 (3.73%) Databricks
3 4 (2.99%) Informatica
4 2 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft