Async-Await Contract Job Trends

Async/Await Pattern
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Async-Await skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 - 600
Rank change year-on-year - - +170
Contract jobs citing Async-Await 13 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% - 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% - 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £555 - -
90th Percentile £569 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,425 28,554 37,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.48% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,478 17,360 24,692
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 922 1,534
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.65% -32.42% +55.17%

Async-Await
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Async-Await job vacancy trend in the UK

Async-Await
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Async-Await
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
UK excluding London - 10 £525 -
Scotland - 8 £525 -
Work from Home - 7 £523 -
England - 4 £600 - 1
East of England - 2 - -
London - 1 - - 1

Async-Await
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (15.38%) Dagster
6 1 (7.69%) Azure
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) GitHub
6 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) MLflow
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Python Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Software Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Rust Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) FastAPI
1 8 (61.54%) NumPy
1 8 (61.54%) Pandas
2 7 (53.85%) Hugging Face
2 7 (53.85%) OpenCV
2 7 (53.85%) PyTorch
2 7 (53.85%) SQLAlchemy
3 6 (46.15%) OAuth
4 5 (38.46%) AWS CDK
4 5 (38.46%) boto
4 5 (38.46%) JWT
4 5 (38.46%) REST
5 2 (15.38%) .NET
5 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (15.38%) CSS
5 2 (15.38%) htmx
5 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
5 2 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (15.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Algorithms
1 5 (38.46%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
1 10 (76.92%) AI
2 8 (61.54%) LLM
2 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
3 7 (53.85%) OCR
3 7 (53.85%) OOP
4 6 (46.15%) API Development
5 5 (38.46%) API Integration
5 5 (38.46%) Computer Vision
5 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 5 (38.46%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (38.46%) Deep Learning
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (38.46%) OO
5 5 (38.46%) Pair Programming
5 5 (38.46%) TDD
6 4 (30.77%) ETL
6 4 (30.77%) Kanban
6 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Rust
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAI