Assembly Language Contracts

Assembly Language (Assembler)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Assembly Language skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Assembly Language over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 703 785
Rank change year-on-year +152 +82 -136
Contract jobs citing Assembly Language 35 19 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.032% 0.052%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.27% 0.090% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 11
10th Percentile £429 - £425
25th Percentile £430 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -15.93% +7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £569
90th Percentile £593 £523 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile - £51.25 £51.63
25th Percentile - £52.63 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.88 £54.69
90th Percentile £76.25 £63.75 £54.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +23.81% -2.33% +7.50%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,830 21,120 32,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.40% 35.18% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,114 15,252 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £397 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.55% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 483 513
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.93
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year - +25.63% +18.45%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Assembly Language over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +136 29 £500 +5.26% 63
UK excluding London +87 27 £488 +2.63% 57
Work from Home +135 18 £460 -12.38% 15
North of England +47 16 £430 -9.47% 9
Yorkshire +41 16 £430 -9.47% 5
South East +14 5 - - 11
London +109 4 £525 - 6
Scotland - 2 - - 2
East of England - 2 £625 - 22
South West +19 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -

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 22 (62.86%) SAS
2 3 (8.57%) CICS
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) DB2
1 3 (8.57%) IDMS
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 6 (17.14%) Subversion
3 2 (5.71%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) MagicDraw
4 1 (2.86%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (2.86%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 22 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
3 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Programmer
1 17 (48.57%) Systems Programmer
2 15 (42.86%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) z/OS Specialist
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Mainframe Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Test Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) Mainframe Programmer
6 2 (5.71%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Verification Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.86%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (62.86%) ISPF
2 2 (5.71%) JSON
2 2 (5.71%) YAML
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (77.14%) Mainframe
2 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) Device Driver
3 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.57%) VSAM
4 2 (5.71%) ASIC
4 2 (5.71%) FPGA
4 2 (5.71%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.71%) Verilog
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (68.57%) zOS
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) VxWorks
4 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
1 20 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 7 (20.00%) Validation
3 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
4 4 (11.43%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (11.43%) Signal Processing
4 4 (11.43%) Software Optimisation
4 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
5 3 (8.57%) Batch Processing
5 3 (8.57%) OO
5 3 (8.57%) Software Testing
6 2 (5.71%) Agile
6 2 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.71%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (5.71%) Migration
6 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.71%) Project Management
6 2 (5.71%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (5.71%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) JCL
2 22 (62.86%) REXX
3 8 (22.86%) C
4 7 (20.00%) C++
4 7 (20.00%) Python
5 6 (17.14%) Shell Script
6 5 (14.29%) CLIST
6 5 (14.29%) MATLAB
7 3 (8.57%) COBOL
8 2 (5.71%) Bash
8 2 (5.71%) SystemVerilog
8 2 (5.71%) Tcl
9 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
1 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
1 4 (11.43%) PhD
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) JTAG
2 1 (2.86%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.86%) MISRA
2 1 (2.86%) MISRA C
System Software
1 22 (62.86%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (48.57%) ACF2
2 17 (48.57%) RACF
3 4 (11.43%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (11.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (57.14%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 25 (71.43%) IBM
2 17 (48.57%) Broadcom
3 15 (42.86%) Splunk
4 5 (14.29%) CA
5 2 (5.71%) BMC
5 2 (5.71%) Cadence
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.71%) Synopsys
5 2 (5.71%) Xilinx
6 1 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.86%) Wind River