Hybrid/Remote Lambda Expressions Contract Job Trends

Lambda Expressions\Calculus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Lambda Expressions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 301 358
Rank change year-on-year -3 +57 +134
Contract jobs citing Lambda Expressions 14 15 33
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.50% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 32
10th Percentile £450 £483 £429
25th Percentile £454 £566 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £738 -
90th Percentile - - £700
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Lambda Expressions falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

Lambda Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lambda Expressions and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Lambda Expressions job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Lambda Expressions
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lambda Expressions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lambda Expressions

Lambda Expressions
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lambda Expressions over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Lambda Expressions daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Lambda Expressions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (71.43%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
5 5 (35.71%) GitHub
5 5 (35.71%) Route 53
6 4 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Lambda Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
1 3 (21.43%) Next.js
1 3 (21.43%) Node.js
1 3 (21.43%) OpenAPI
1 3 (21.43%) React
1 3 (21.43%) Redux
1 3 (21.43%) XSD
2 1 (7.14%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
4 3 (21.43%) Functional Programming
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk