Async-Await Contract Job Trends in England

Async/Await Pattern
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Async-Await skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 - 541
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Async-Await 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% - 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% - 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Async-Await falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,721 24,092 31,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.34% 88.95% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,678 14,798 21,336
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,740 781 1,437
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +22.16%

Async-Await
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Async-Await relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Async-Await job vacancy trend in England

Async-Await
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Async-Await.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Async-Await

Async-Await
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Async-Await within the England region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
East of England - 2 - -
London - 1 - -
Async-Await
UK

Async-Await
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Software Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (50.00%) LINQ
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) htmx
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (25.00%) NetworkX
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (50.00%) Pattern Matching
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Metaprogramming
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI