AWS Step Functions Contracts

AWS Step Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AWS Step Functions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Step Functions over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 566 720
Rank change year-on-year +68 +154 -235
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 86 131 128
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 68 117 68
10th Percentile £413 £450 £419
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £597 £588 £672
90th Percentile £675 £650 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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 12 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 12 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 +50 78 £525 -4.55% 12
London +66 57 £500 -9.09% 8
Work from Home +78 24 £500 -9.09% 4
UK excluding London +1 17 £600 +9.09% 5
North of England +20 10 £600 +6.67% 2
Yorkshire +19 8 £600 +4.35% 1
Midlands +11 4 £550 +10.00% 2
West Midlands +18 3 £550 +4.76% 2
South East +1 3 £738 +28.26%
North West +14 2 £551 +0.09%
East Midlands +1 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 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.98%) Apache
3 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) NEC Housing
2 5 (5.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.16%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.16%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.16%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 84 (97.67%) AWS
2 73 (84.88%) Serverless
3 64 (74.42%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (54.65%) Amazon S3
5 20 (23.26%) Amazon MSK
6 19 (22.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (13.95%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (11.63%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (10.47%) GitHub
10 8 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (8.14%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (8.14%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (5.81%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (5.81%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (5.81%) Azure
12 5 (5.81%) Snowflake
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon Neptune
13 3 (3.49%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.88%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (33.72%) DynamoDB
3 28 (32.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 22 (25.58%) Parquet
5 17 (19.77%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (9.30%) Big Data
8 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.81%) Data Lake
9 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (2.33%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.33%) Power BI
10 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.33%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.16%) OLAP
11 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.14%) JIRA
3 5 (5.81%) CircleCI
3 5 (5.81%) Git
4 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.33%) kappa
5 2 (2.33%) Selenium
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.14%) Finance
3 5 (5.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.16%) Banking
5 1 (1.16%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.16%) Law
5 1 (1.16%) Legal
5 1 (1.16%) Local Government
5 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (40.70%) Data Engineer
2 20 (23.26%) Developer
3 13 (15.12%) Architect
4 12 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Lead
5 10 (11.63%) AWS Data Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Senior
6 7 (8.14%) Lead Architect
6 7 (8.14%) Python Developer
6 7 (8.14%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) AWS Developer
7 6 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.81%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.49%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.49%) DevOps Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.26%) JSON
2 19 (22.09%) Apache Avro
3 15 (17.44%) Node.js
4 13 (15.12%) RESTful
5 11 (12.79%) Kafka
6 10 (11.63%) Lambda Expressions
6 10 (11.63%) PySpark
6 10 (11.63%) React
7 8 (9.30%) OAuth
8 7 (8.14%) .NET
8 7 (8.14%) .NET Core
8 7 (8.14%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.65%) REST
10 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (2.33%) OpenAPI
11 2 (2.33%) Swagger
12 1 (1.16%) AWS SAM
12 1 (1.16%) Django
12 1 (1.16%) Flask
12 1 (1.16%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.33%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) IoT
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Unix
2 2 (2.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.21%) CI/CD
1 32 (37.21%) ETL
2 27 (31.40%) DevOps
3 25 (29.07%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (25.58%) Data Ingestion
5 20 (23.26%) Data Modelling
6 13 (15.12%) Agile
7 11 (12.79%) Business Transformation
7 11 (12.79%) Data Management
7 11 (12.79%) Predictive Modelling
8 10 (11.63%) Analytics
8 10 (11.63%) BDD
9 9 (10.47%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (10.47%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.47%) TDD
10 8 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
10 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (8.14%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (8.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (63.95%) Python
2 39 (45.35%) SQL
3 19 (22.09%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.47%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.81%) Java
6 2 (2.33%) Bash
6 2 (2.33%) Lua
6 2 (2.33%) Perl
6 2 (2.33%) PHP
6 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.16%) Go
7 1 (1.16%) Groovy
7 1 (1.16%) R
7 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.33%) Degree
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (20.93%) Terraform
2 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Splunk
2 8 (9.30%) Databricks
3 7 (8.14%) NEC
4 6 (6.98%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.49%) Sage
6 1 (1.16%) Aareon
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Capita
6 1 (1.16%) Civica
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle
6 1 (1.16%) Zuora