Assembly Language Jobs

Assembly Language (Assembler)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Assembly Language skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 674 844 943
Rank change year-on-year +170 +99 +142
Permanent jobs citing Assembly Language 10 41 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.042% 0.042%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.064% 0.12% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 6 31 12
10th Percentile £55,625 - £45,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £35,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -34.55% +30.95%
75th Percentile £81,875 £55,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £72,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £45,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -35.71% +33.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Assembly Language over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +174 8 £67,500 +50.00% 40
England +157 8 £67,500 +50.00% 50
Work from Home +173 3 £67,500 -8.47% 18
Scotland +129 2 £75,000 +57.89%
South East +100 2 - - 15
North of England +82 2 £75,000 - 4
London - 2 - - 12
South West +114 1 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Yorkshire +68 1 £82,500 - 3
Midlands +48 1 £67,500 +50.00% 2
North West +33 1 £67,500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £67,500 -

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 1 (10.00%) CICS
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Wireless
1 5 (50.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 5 (50.00%) Wearables
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Mainframe Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Verification Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Flash
1 1 (10.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Smart Energy
2 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) zOS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 5 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Presales
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) REXX
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL
3 1 (10.00%) JCL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (10.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Syncsort