Assembly Language (Assembler)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Assembly Language skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Assembly Language over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 924 1090
Rank change year-on-year +68 +166 -211
Permanent jobs citing Assembly Language 40 46 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.044% 0.092%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 31 14 40
10th Percentile - £33,975 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £51,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £56,563
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,125 £71,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +28.57% +31.25%

All Programming Languages
UK

Assembly Language is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

Assembly Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Assembly Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Assembly Language.

Salary trend for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Assembly Language over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Assembly Language within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +12 40 £45,000 -33.33% 58
England +106 39 £45,000 -30.77% 62
South East +41 14 £35,000 -30.00% 12
East Midlands - 14 £45,000 - 3
Midlands - 14 £45,000 - 5
Work from Home +86 11 £73,750 +7.27% 15
East of England +8 5 £45,000 - 21
North of England +33 4 - - 9
Yorkshire +90 3 - - 5
South West -5 2 £70,000 +12.00% 11
North West -3 1 - - 4
Scotland - 1 £47,500 - 2

Assembly Language
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 3 (7.50%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.00%) OrCAD
2 1 (2.50%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.50%) Azure
1 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Wireless
2 5 (12.50%) 5G
3 4 (10.00%) 3G
3 4 (10.00%) 3GPP
3 4 (10.00%) 4G
3 4 (10.00%) GPRS
3 4 (10.00%) Modbus
4 2 (5.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (5.00%) NGN
4 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (12.50%) Subversion
3 4 (10.00%) Eclipse
3 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Git
5 1 (2.50%) CMake
5 1 (2.50%) GCC
5 1 (2.50%) GDB
General
1 9 (22.50%) Electronics
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.00%) Law
4 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.00%) Finance
5 4 (10.00%) Marketing
5 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) Software Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Electronics Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Embedded Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Embedded Software Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Software Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Programmer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Systems Programmer
6 2 (5.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) .NET
1 14 (35.00%) MFC
2 6 (15.00%) CSS
2 6 (15.00%) HTML
3 4 (10.00%) Flash
4 3 (7.50%) ISPF
5 2 (5.00%) DPDK
5 2 (5.00%) eBPF
6 1 (2.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Device Driver
2 4 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.00%) ARM Cortex
2 4 (10.00%) IoT
2 4 (10.00%) NB-IoT
3 3 (7.50%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.00%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Robotics
4 2 (5.00%) VHDL
5 1 (2.50%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) FPGA
5 1 (2.50%) SIMD
5 1 (2.50%) SystemC
5 1 (2.50%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (7.50%) zOS
4 1 (2.50%) Android
4 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.50%) OpenWrt
4 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 14 (35.00%) Change Control
2 14 (35.00%) Fault Analysis
3 7 (17.50%) Signal Processing
4 6 (15.00%) Integration Testing
5 5 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 5 (12.50%) Prototyping
6 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.00%) CAD
6 4 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (10.00%) Device Driver Development
6 4 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 4 (10.00%) Schematic Capture
7 3 (7.50%) Agile
7 3 (7.50%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
8 2 (5.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (5.00%) Concurrent Programming
8 2 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (80.00%) C
2 18 (45.00%) C#
3 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 14 (35.00%) VB
4 12 (30.00%) C++
5 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (12.50%) Python
7 3 (7.50%) JCL
7 3 (7.50%) MATLAB
7 3 (7.50%) REXX
8 2 (5.00%) Bash
8 2 (5.00%) Embedded C
8 2 (5.00%) Perl
9 1 (2.50%) Ruby
9 1 (2.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (20.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) IEC 61131
1 4 (10.00%) JTAG
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) IEC 62304
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Firmware
2 3 (7.50%) ACF2
2 3 (7.50%) RACF
2 3 (7.50%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) EMC
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) Broadcom
3 3 (7.50%) IBM
3 3 (7.50%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.50%) CA
4 1 (2.50%) Intel
4 1 (2.50%) NCR