HLASM Contracts

IBM High Level Assembler
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HLASM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HLASM 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 517 - 712
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HLASM 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.020% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

HLASM 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%

HLASM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HLASM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HLASM in the UK

HLASM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HLASM in the UK

HLASM
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HLASM 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 - 2 - - 1
London - 1 - -

HLASM
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 2 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Assembler Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM