AWS Step Functions Contracts

AWS Step Functions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Step Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Step Functions over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 583 753
Rank change year-on-year +92 +170 -279
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 87 133 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.61% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 114 60
10th Percentile £413 £450 £424
25th Percentile £463 £477 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £644
90th Percentile £722 £643 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +13.64% +2.33% +4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Step Functions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,036 21,742 34,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.34% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,989 15,708 24,950
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 351 423
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.43
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.53
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

AWS Step Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Step Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Step Functions.

Daily rate trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Step Functions over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Step Functions.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Step Functions in the UK

AWS Step Functions
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Step Functions within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 75 £525 -4.55% 19
London +88 52 £500 -9.09% 12
Work from Home +91 24 £550 - 11
UK excluding London +37 18 £625 +13.64% 5
North of England +29 9 £600 +6.67% 1
Yorkshire +24 6 £638 +10.87% 1
North West +26 3 £551 +0.09%
South West +21 3 £550 -8.33% 2
South East +9 3 £738 +28.26% 1
East of England - 2 - - 1
Midlands +24 1 - -
East Midlands +15 1 - -

AWS Step Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.05%) Apache
2 6 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.75%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 7 (8.05%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.15%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.15%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.15%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 85 (97.70%) AWS
2 77 (88.51%) Serverless
3 69 (79.31%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (55.17%) Amazon S3
5 24 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (21.84%) Amazon MSK
7 17 (19.54%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (13.79%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (12.64%) Amazon EventBridge
10 9 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (10.34%) GitHub
11 8 (9.20%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (8.05%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (8.05%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.75%) AWS CodeCommit
13 5 (5.75%) Azure
13 5 (5.75%) dbt
13 5 (5.75%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (35.63%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (27.59%) DynamoDB
4 23 (26.44%) Parquet
5 19 (21.84%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (9.20%) Big Data
6 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (8.05%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.30%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.30%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.30%) MySQL
10 2 (2.30%) Power BI
10 2 (2.30%) Presto
10 2 (2.30%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) JIRA
2 7 (8.05%) Git
2 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.45%) Selenium
5 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.30%) kappa
5 2 (2.30%) Maven
General
1 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
2 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Finance
4 2 (2.30%) Banking
4 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.30%) Retail
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.15%) Law
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
5 1 (1.15%) Local Government
5 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) Data Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) Developer
3 15 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (13.79%) Lead
5 11 (12.64%) Architect
5 11 (12.64%) AWS Data Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (9.20%) Python Developer
7 7 (8.05%) Lead Architect
7 7 (8.05%) Senior
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.60%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.14%) JSON
2 19 (21.84%) Apache Avro
3 14 (16.09%) PySpark
4 13 (14.94%) Node.js
5 11 (12.64%) Lambda Expressions
6 10 (11.49%) Kafka
6 10 (11.49%) RESTful
7 9 (10.34%) OAuth
7 9 (10.34%) React
8 7 (8.05%) .NET
8 7 (8.05%) .NET Core
8 7 (8.05%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.60%) REST
10 3 (3.45%) Web Services
11 2 (2.30%) JDBC
11 2 (2.30%) ODBC
11 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (2.30%) YAML
12 1 (1.15%) Django
12 1 (1.15%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.30%) IoT
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) DevOps
2 33 (37.93%) ETL
3 32 (36.78%) CI/CD
4 29 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (28.74%) Data Modelling
6 22 (25.29%) Data Ingestion
7 18 (20.69%) Agile
8 13 (14.94%) Analytics
9 11 (12.64%) BDD
9 11 (12.64%) Business Transformation
9 11 (12.64%) Predictive Modelling
10 10 (11.49%) Data Management
10 10 (11.49%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.34%) Machine Learning
12 8 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (9.20%) Data Integration
12 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (9.20%) Test Automation
13 7 (8.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (66.67%) Python
2 36 (41.38%) SQL
3 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.20%) Java
6 5 (5.75%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.30%) Bash
7 2 (2.30%) Lua
7 2 (2.30%) Perl
7 2 (2.30%) PHP
7 2 (2.30%) R
8 1 (1.15%) Go
8 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (22.99%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.15%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Splunk
2 8 (9.20%) Databricks
3 7 (8.05%) NEC
4 3 (3.45%) Sage
5 2 (2.30%) Informatica
5 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.30%) SAP
5 2 (2.30%) Talend
6 1 (1.15%) Aareon
6 1 (1.15%) Capita
6 1 (1.15%) Civica