Async-Await Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Async/Await Pattern
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Async-Await skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Async-Await 18 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.085% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £489 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £555 - -
UK median daily rate £521 £425 £350
% change year-on-year +22.65% +21.43% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,714 11,861 17,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.52% 90.14% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,261 10,996
10th Percentile £258 £230 £249
25th Percentile £395 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,875 692 1,858
10th Percentile £14.34 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.12 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £33.28
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% -4.57% -4.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.64
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £71.40
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.05% -6.16%

Async-Await
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Async-Await job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Async-Await
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Async-Await.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Async-Await

Async-Await
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Async-Await in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Async-Await in the UK excluding London

Async-Await
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Scotland - 10 £525 -
South West - 5 £438 - 6
East of England - 2 - -
Midlands - 1 £489 -
West Midlands - 1 £489 -
Async-Await
UK

Async-Await
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Serverless
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
3 7 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (27.78%) GitHub
6 3 (16.67%) Dagster
7 1 (5.56%) Bitrise
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 6 (33.33%) XCTest
3 5 (27.78%) Xcode
3 5 (27.78%) XCUITest
4 4 (22.22%) MLflow
5 1 (5.56%) fastlane
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Python Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) iOS Developer
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) iOS Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) NumPy
1 10 (55.56%) Pandas
2 9 (50.00%) OpenCV
2 9 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 9 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 8 (44.44%) FastAPI
3 8 (44.44%) Hugging Face
4 6 (33.33%) AWS CDK
4 6 (33.33%) boto
4 6 (33.33%) JWT
5 5 (27.78%) OAuth
6 4 (22.22%) REST
7 2 (11.11%) .NET
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
7 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (11.11%) LINQ
7 2 (11.11%) Middleware
7 2 (11.11%) RESTful
8 1 (5.56%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 6 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) AI
2 10 (55.56%) LLM
2 10 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 10 (55.56%) Pair Programming
3 9 (50.00%) OCR
3 9 (50.00%) OOP
3 9 (50.00%) TDD
4 7 (38.89%) OO
4 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (33.33%) API Development
5 6 (33.33%) Computer Vision
5 6 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
5 6 (33.33%) Deep Learning
5 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (27.78%) API Integration
6 5 (27.78%) ETL
6 5 (27.78%) iOS Development
6 5 (27.78%) MVVM
6 5 (27.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Swift
3 2 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes