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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 549 709
Rank change year-on-year +59 +160 -225
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 85 133 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.65% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 118 66
10th Percentile £413 £450 £419
25th Percentile £456 £483 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £674
90th Percentile £685 £650 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +15.91% - +5.26%
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 11 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 1 June 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 +48 77 £525 -4.55% 17
London +77 57 £500 -9.09% 9
Work from Home +75 24 £500 -9.09% 5
UK excluding London +8 15 £638 +15.91% 8
North of England +24 8 £600 +6.67% 4
Yorkshire +21 6 £638 +10.87% 1
Midlands +17 4 £550 +10.00% 2
West Midlands +14 3 £550 +4.76% 2
South East -3 3 £738 +28.26% 1
North West +20 2 £551 +0.09% 1
East Midlands +6 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 (8.24%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.06%) Apache
3 4 (4.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (8.24%) NEC Housing
2 5 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.18%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.18%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.18%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 83 (97.65%) AWS
2 72 (84.71%) Serverless
3 63 (74.12%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (52.94%) Amazon S3
5 20 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (23.53%) Amazon MSK
6 13 (15.29%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.59%) GitHub
8 8 (9.41%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.24%) Amazon EventBridge
9 7 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.06%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.88%) Azure
11 5 (5.88%) Snowflake
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon Neptune
12 3 (3.53%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (3.53%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.29%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (32.94%) DynamoDB
3 27 (31.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 22 (25.88%) Parquet
5 17 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (10.59%) Big Data
8 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (2.35%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
11 2 (2.35%) Metadata
11 2 (2.35%) MySQL
11 2 (2.35%) Power BI
11 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.35%) Spark SQL
11 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) JIRA
2 6 (7.06%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.88%) CircleCI
3 5 (5.88%) Git
3 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.53%) Selenium
5 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.35%) kappa
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.24%) Finance
3 3 (3.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Banking
4 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.35%) Retail
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.18%) Law
5 1 (1.18%) Legal
5 1 (1.18%) Local Government
5 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 21 (24.71%) Developer
3 12 (14.12%) Architect
3 12 (14.12%) Lead
4 11 (12.94%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Senior
6 9 (10.59%) AWS Data Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Python Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Lead Architect
8 7 (8.24%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) AWS Developer
9 6 (7.06%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (5.88%) AWS Architect
10 5 (5.88%) Data Architect
10 5 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.53%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.53%) JavaScript Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.53%) JSON
2 19 (22.35%) Apache Avro
3 16 (18.82%) Node.js
4 12 (14.12%) RESTful
5 10 (11.76%) Kafka
5 10 (11.76%) Lambda Expressions
5 10 (11.76%) React
6 9 (10.59%) OAuth
6 9 (10.59%) PySpark
7 7 (8.24%) .NET
7 7 (8.24%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.24%) OAuth2
8 5 (5.88%) REST
9 3 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.53%) Web Services
10 2 (2.35%) JDBC
10 2 (2.35%) ODBC
10 2 (2.35%) OpenAPI
10 2 (2.35%) Swagger
11 1 (1.18%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.35%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Unix
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) ETL
2 31 (36.47%) CI/CD
3 27 (31.76%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (30.59%) DevOps
5 22 (25.88%) Data Ingestion
6 21 (24.71%) Data Modelling
7 14 (16.47%) Agile
8 11 (12.94%) BDD
8 11 (12.94%) Business Transformation
8 11 (12.94%) Data Management
8 11 (12.94%) Predictive Modelling
9 10 (11.76%) Analytics
10 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (10.59%) TDD
11 8 (9.41%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (9.41%) Microservices
11 8 (9.41%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (8.24%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 55 (64.71%) Python
2 39 (45.88%) SQL
3 19 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.88%) Java
6 2 (2.35%) Bash
6 2 (2.35%) Lua
6 2 (2.35%) Perl
6 2 (2.35%) PHP
6 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.18%) Go
7 1 (1.18%) R
7 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.35%) Degree
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.35%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.18%) Terraform
2 6 (7.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Splunk
2 8 (9.41%) Databricks
3 7 (8.24%) NEC
4 6 (7.06%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.71%) Sage
6 1 (1.18%) Aareon
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.18%) Capita
6 1 (1.18%) Civica
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle
6 1 (1.18%) Zuora