Assembly Language Contract Job Trends in England

Assembly Language (Assembler)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Assembly Language skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 496 536
Rank change year-on-year -37 +40 +192
Contract jobs citing Assembly Language 16 15 21
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.051% 0.051% 0.057%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £358 £459 £424
25th Percentile £427 £522 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £586 £550
90th Percentile £618 £617 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.09%

All Programming Languages
England

Assembly Language falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,813 9,514 11,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.24% 32.61% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,512 6,200 8,293
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 237 390
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £50.63 £44.49 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

Assembly Language
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Assembly Language relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Assembly Language job vacancy trend in England

Assembly Language
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Assembly Language.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Assembly Language

Assembly Language
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Assembly Language in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Assembly Language in England

Assembly Language
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Assembly Language.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Assembly Language

Assembly Language
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 Assembly Language within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
London -5 4 £513 -8.89% 1
South East -17 3 £365 -16.09% 1
Yorkshire -43 1 - -
North of England -51 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 2
Assembly Language
UK

Assembly Language
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) CICS
2 2 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Assembler Developer
2 3 (18.75%) CICS Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Validation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Ada Developer
3 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 2 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Programmer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Capacity and Performance Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ISPF
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) JWT
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Mainframe
2 5 (31.25%) VSAM
3 4 (25.00%) FPGA
4 3 (18.75%) RISC-V
5 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (6.25%) DataPower
6 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (6.25%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) zOS
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Unix
4 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Validation
2 6 (37.50%) High Availability
3 5 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Batch Processing
5 3 (18.75%) Open Source
5 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Test Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 2 (12.50%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
7 1 (6.25%) Agile
7 1 (6.25%) Migration
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) REXX
2 6 (37.50%) COBOL
2 6 (37.50%) JCL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) HLASM
3 4 (25.00%) Perl
3 4 (25.00%) SystemVerilog
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) C
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Ada
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
5 2 (12.50%) PL/1
6 1 (6.25%) C++
6 1 (6.25%) CLIST
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) QEMU
2 2 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (6.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow