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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 688 690
Rank change year-on-year +61 +2 +193
Permanent jobs citing AWS Step Functions 49 54 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.079% 0.092%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.25% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 29 31 48
10th Percentile £59,500 £56,250 £60,125
25th Percentile £72,500 £92,500 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +25.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,000 - £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £57,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +65.22% -16.36% +7.84%

All Cloud 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 16,055 21,992 23,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.85% 32.35% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,834 13,307 19,492
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,766
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -0.91%

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 2025. 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 +89 47 £77,500 -22.50% 33
London +24 27 £77,500 -22.50% 13
UK excluding London +69 19 £95,000 +65.22% 27
Work from Home +35 18 £77,500 -22.50% 13
North of England - 7 £60,000 - 14
Yorkshire - 7 £60,000 - 6
East of England - 4 £100,000 - 3
South West +39 3 £95,000 -
South East +28 3 £92,500 - 8
Scotland -12 2 £95,000 +65.22%

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 14 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.20%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (95.92%) AWS Lambda
2 47 (95.92%) Serverless
3 31 (63.27%) Amazon S3
4 13 (26.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (26.53%) GitHub
5 11 (22.45%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (20.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 10 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (18.37%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (16.33%) Snowflake
9 6 (12.24%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (10.20%) Azure
11 4 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (6.12%) CloudFront
12 3 (6.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 20 (40.82%) DynamoDB
3 17 (34.69%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (24.49%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (16.33%) Apache Hive
6 8 (16.33%) Big Data
6 8 (16.33%) Hadoop
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
8 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (6.12%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (6.12%) Data Vault
10 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
10 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
11 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (2.04%) DB2
11 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
11 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Git
1 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Gradle
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Financial Institution
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Advertising
6 2 (4.08%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Games
7 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Senior
2 22 (44.90%) Data Engineer
3 17 (34.69%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (20.41%) AWS Data Engineer
5 10 (20.41%) Developer
6 9 (18.37%) AWS Developer
7 7 (14.29%) Senior Developer
8 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
9 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (6.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (6.12%) Lead
10 3 (6.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 2 (4.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 2 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (4.08%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) React
2 11 (22.45%) Kafka
3 8 (16.33%) boto
3 8 (16.33%) GraphQL
3 8 (16.33%) Spark Streaming
4 7 (14.29%) Serverless Framework
5 5 (10.20%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.12%) Node.js
6 3 (6.12%) Pandas
6 3 (6.12%) RESTful
7 2 (4.08%) .NET
7 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.08%) Blazor
7 2 (4.08%) Hugging Face
7 2 (4.08%) Nuxt
7 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.08%) React Native
7 2 (4.08%) REST
7 2 (4.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (16.33%) e-Learning
2 8 (16.33%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 26 (53.06%) DevOps
3 20 (40.82%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (38.78%) Mentoring
5 18 (36.73%) Agile
5 18 (36.73%) Data Engineering
6 15 (30.61%) AI
6 15 (30.61%) Data Science
7 14 (28.57%) Analytics
8 13 (26.53%) Data Modelling
8 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (22.45%) Clean Code
9 11 (22.45%) Software Engineering
10 10 (20.41%) Data Governance
10 10 (20.41%) Event-Driven
11 9 (18.37%) Microservices
12 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (16.33%) Data Protection
12 8 (16.33%) Key Management
12 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (71.43%) Python
2 14 (28.57%) Java
3 13 (26.53%) SQL
4 12 (24.49%) TypeScript
5 11 (22.45%) Scala
6 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.12%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.16%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.08%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.61%) GDPR
2 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (10.20%) NIST
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) HDFS
2 7 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Terraform
2 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Databricks
2 6 (12.24%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) SimCorp