Assembly Language Contracts in the UK excluding London

Assembly Language (Assembler)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Assembly Language skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Assembly Language over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 366 449
Rank change year-on-year +34 +83 +46
Contract jobs citing Assembly Language 7 27 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.13% 0.042%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.55% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 3
10th Percentile £380 £420 -
25th Percentile £384 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £395 £588 £488
90th Percentile £398 £623 -
UK median daily rate £420 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -15.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +23.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £54.38
90th Percentile - £76.25 £54.75
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% +6.98%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,630 4,875 6,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.50% 23.45% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,396 3,286 4,998
10th Percentile £325 £316 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £594
90th Percentile £650 £651 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 396 346
10th Percentile £22.35 £37.56 £23.61
25th Percentile £41.75 £50.56 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Assembly Language
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Assembly Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Assembly Language in the UK excluding London

Assembly Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Assembly Language in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Assembly Language in the UK excluding London

Assembly Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Assembly Language in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Assembly Language in the UK excluding London

Assembly Language
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 Assembly Language within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South East +41 3 - - 12
North of England +15 3 £389 -9.53% 4
Yorkshire +1 2 £400 -6.98% 3
South West +45 1 - - 5
North West - 1 £378 - 1
Assembly Language
UK

Assembly Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (14.29%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Aviation
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) C++ Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Programmer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (28.57%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum
1 3 (42.86%) User Stories
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Records Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C++
1 3 (42.86%) JCL
1 3 (42.86%) REXX
2 2 (28.57%) CLIST
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) COBOL
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (14.29%) Wind River