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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 957 1075
Rank change year-on-year +88 +118 -189
Permanent jobs citing Assembly Language 42 42 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.041% 0.088%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.094% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 32 12 40
10th Percentile - £45,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £55,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £68,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +30.95% +31.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £70,313 £58,125
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,375 £71,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -35.71% +33.33% +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 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
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 £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -6 42 £45,000 -35.71% 56
England +89 41 £45,000 -34.55% 61
South East +28 15 £35,000 -41.67% 12
East Midlands - 15 £45,000 - 3
Midlands - 15 £45,000 - 7
Work from Home +74 11 £73,750 +5.36% 16
East of England +18 5 £45,000 - 22
North of England +17 4 - - 5
Yorkshire +87 3 - - 3
South West -23 2 £70,000 +12.00% 11
North West -4 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £47,500 - 1

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 (7.14%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) OrCAD
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.38%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.38%) Azure
1 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) Wireless
2 6 (14.29%) 5G
3 5 (11.90%) 4G
3 5 (11.90%) Modbus
4 4 (9.52%) 3G
4 4 (9.52%) 3GPP
4 4 (9.52%) GPRS
5 3 (7.14%) Ethernet
5 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.76%) NGN
7 1 (2.38%) Bluetooth
7 1 (2.38%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (2.38%) MQTT
7 1 (2.38%) RS-232
7 1 (2.38%) RS-485
7 1 (2.38%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Visual Studio
2 5 (11.90%) JIRA
2 5 (11.90%) Subversion
3 4 (9.52%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.76%) Git
5 1 (2.38%) CMake
5 1 (2.38%) GCC
5 1 (2.38%) GDB
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (23.81%) Electronics
2 9 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Law
5 6 (14.29%) Manufacturing
6 5 (11.90%) Finance
6 5 (11.90%) Marketing
6 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Embedded Engineer
2 14 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Embedded Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Embedded Software Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Programmer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Systems Programmer
7 2 (4.76%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) .NET
1 15 (35.71%) MFC
2 7 (16.67%) CSS
2 7 (16.67%) HTML
3 4 (9.52%) Flash
4 3 (7.14%) ISPF
5 2 (4.76%) DPDK
5 2 (4.76%) eBPF
6 1 (2.38%) LDAP
6 1 (2.38%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Device Driver
1 5 (11.90%) IoT
1 5 (11.90%) NB-IoT
2 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.76%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Robotics
4 2 (4.76%) VHDL
5 1 (2.38%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) FPGA
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) SIMD
5 1 (2.38%) SystemC
5 1 (2.38%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 28 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (7.14%) zOS
4 1 (2.38%) Android
4 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.38%) OpenWrt
4 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Software Engineering
2 15 (35.71%) Change Control
2 15 (35.71%) Fault Analysis
3 7 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 7 (16.67%) Signal Processing
4 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (11.90%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (11.90%) Mathematics
4 5 (11.90%) Programme Management
4 5 (11.90%) Prototyping
5 4 (9.52%) Agile
5 4 (9.52%) CAD
5 4 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (9.52%) Device Driver Development
5 4 (9.52%) Schematic Capture
6 3 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (7.14%) Risk Management
7 2 (4.76%) Computer Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Signal Processing
7 2 (4.76%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 33 (78.57%) C
2 20 (47.62%) C#
3 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 15 (35.71%) VB
4 14 (33.33%) C++
5 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (14.29%) Python
7 3 (7.14%) JCL
7 3 (7.14%) MATLAB
7 3 (7.14%) REXX
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 2 (4.76%) Embedded C
8 2 (4.76%) Perl
9 1 (2.38%) Ruby
9 1 (2.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 21 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (19.05%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) IEC 61131
1 4 (9.52%) JTAG
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) IEC 62304
2 1 (2.38%) ISO 13485
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Firmware
2 3 (7.14%) ACF2
2 3 (7.14%) RACF
2 3 (7.14%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) EMC
1 5 (11.90%) SAP
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) Broadcom
3 3 (7.14%) IBM
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Atmel
4 1 (2.38%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.38%) CA
4 1 (2.38%) Freescale
4 1 (2.38%) Intel
4 1 (2.38%) NCR