Assembly Language Contracts

Assembly Language (Assembler)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 496 565 695
Rank change year-on-year +69 +130 +115
Contract jobs citing Assembly Language 23 35 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.080% 0.030%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.27% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 4
10th Percentile £375 £429 -
25th Percentile £385 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -15.93%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £500
90th Percentile £645 £593 £523
UK excluding London median daily rate £389 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -20.21% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £72.50 - £52.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% +6.98%
75th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £62.81
90th Percentile - £76.25 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +23.81% -2.33%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

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 30 April 2025.

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 9 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 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
England +55 21 £415 -17.00% 43
Work from Home +41 9 £625 +35.87% 15
London +40 9 £420 -20.00% 8
UK excluding London +34 7 £389 -20.21% 33
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
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 6 (26.09%) SAS
2 4 (17.39%) CICS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Aviation
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
1 7 (30.43%) Programmer
1 7 (30.43%) Systems Programmer
1 7 (30.43%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) C++ Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Mainframe Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Assembler Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.70%) Security Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.70%) Security Researcher
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Embedded Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Embedded C Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) ISPF
2 2 (8.70%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (8.70%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) VSAM
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) RISC-V
3 1 (4.35%) SIMD
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) zOS
2 6 (26.09%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Android
3 2 (8.70%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (4.35%) MVS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
3 3 (13.04%) Scrum
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) User Stories
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) Cryptography
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Offensive Security
4 2 (8.70%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.35%) Programme Management
5 1 (4.35%) Records Management
5 1 (4.35%) Security Management
5 1 (4.35%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.35%) UML
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) JCL
2 10 (43.48%) REXX
3 7 (30.43%) C
3 7 (30.43%) CLIST
4 6 (26.09%) C++
5 3 (13.04%) COBOL
6 2 (8.70%) HLASM
6 2 (8.70%) Java
6 2 (8.70%) Natural
6 2 (8.70%) Rust
7 1 (4.35%) Ada
7 1 (4.35%) Python
7 1 (4.35%) R
7 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
3 1 (4.35%) ACF2
3 1 (4.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (4.35%) QEMU
3 1 (4.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) IBM
2 2 (8.70%) Fujitsu
2 2 (8.70%) Software AG
3 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (4.35%) IFS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Syncsort
3 1 (4.35%) webMethods
3 1 (4.35%) Wind River