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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 568 749
Rank change year-on-year +82 +181 -279
Contract jobs citing AWS Step Functions 87 132 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.63% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 116 58
10th Percentile £413 £450 £419
25th Percentile £463 £480 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £652
90th Percentile £722 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +6.80%
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 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

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 15 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 15 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 +58 76 £525 -4.55% 12
London +81 54 £500 -9.09% 6
Work from Home +90 25 £550 - 6
UK excluding London +24 16 £650 +18.18% 6
North of England +23 9 £600 +6.67% 3
Yorkshire +23 6 £638 +10.87% 1
Midlands +26 3 - -
North West +19 3 £551 +0.09% 1
South East +8 3 £738 +28.26% 1
West Midlands +18 2 - -
South West +14 1 - - 1
East Midlands +10 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 5 (5.75%) Apache
1 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (8.05%) NEC Housing
2 4 (4.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.15%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.15%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.15%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 85 (97.70%) AWS
2 76 (87.36%) Serverless
3 67 (77.01%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (54.02%) Amazon S3
5 25 (28.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (22.99%) Amazon MSK
7 15 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (11.49%) Amazon EventBridge
8 10 (11.49%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.34%) GitHub
10 8 (9.20%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (8.05%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (5.75%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (5.75%) Azure
13 4 (4.60%) dbt
13 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
14 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (35.63%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (32.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 27 (31.03%) DynamoDB
4 23 (26.44%) Parquet
5 16 (18.39%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (8.05%) Big Data
8 6 (6.90%) Data Lake
9 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.30%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (2.30%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (2.30%) Data Mining
11 2 (2.30%) Metadata
11 2 (2.30%) MySQL
11 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
11 2 (2.30%) Power BI
11 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) JIRA
2 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.75%) Git
2 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.45%) Selenium
5 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.30%) kappa
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.05%) Finance
3 4 (4.60%) Social Skills
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 35 (40.23%) Data Engineer
2 22 (25.29%) Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Architect
3 12 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) Lead
4 9 (10.34%) Senior
5 8 (9.20%) AWS Data Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (9.20%) Python Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Lead Architect
7 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.14%) JSON
2 19 (21.84%) Apache Avro
3 16 (18.39%) Node.js
4 12 (13.79%) RESTful
5 11 (12.64%) Lambda Expressions
6 10 (11.49%) Kafka
6 10 (11.49%) PySpark
6 10 (11.49%) React
7 9 (10.34%) OAuth
8 7 (8.05%) .NET
8 7 (8.05%) .NET Core
8 7 (8.05%) OAuth2
9 5 (5.75%) REST
10 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.45%) Web Services
11 2 (2.30%) JDBC
11 2 (2.30%) ODBC
11 2 (2.30%) YAML
12 1 (1.15%) BREW
12 1 (1.15%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.75%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
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 34 (39.08%) ETL
2 32 (36.78%) CI/CD
3 31 (35.63%) DevOps
4 26 (29.89%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (26.44%) Data Modelling
6 22 (25.29%) Data Ingestion
7 14 (16.09%) Agile
8 12 (13.79%) Analytics
9 11 (12.64%) BDD
9 11 (12.64%) Business Transformation
9 11 (12.64%) Data Management
9 11 (12.64%) Predictive Modelling
10 8 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (9.20%) Full Stack Development
10 8 (9.20%) Machine Learning
10 8 (9.20%) Microservices
10 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.20%) TDD
11 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (8.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (63.22%) Python
2 35 (40.23%) SQL
3 18 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.05%) Java
6 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.45%) R
8 2 (2.30%) Bash
8 2 (2.30%) Lua
8 2 (2.30%) Perl
8 2 (2.30%) PHP
9 1 (1.15%) Go
9 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
4 2 (2.30%) Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (20.69%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Splunk
2 8 (9.20%) Databricks
3 7 (8.05%) NEC
4 5 (5.75%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.60%) Sage
6 1 (1.15%) Aareon
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.15%) Capita
6 1 (1.15%) Civica
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Zuora