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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 661 799
Rank change year-on-year +120 +138 -101
Contract jobs citing Assembly Language 34 21 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.037% 0.045%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.26% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 10
10th Percentile £427 £242 £425
25th Percentile £430 £439 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £567
Median % change year-on-year - -16.23% +33.41%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £569
90th Percentile £638 £513 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile - £51.25 -
25th Percentile - £53.13 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.88 £54.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £63.75 £54.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.93% -2.27% +10.00%

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 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

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 1 June 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 10 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 1 June 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 +99 29 £525 +10.53% 37
UK excluding London +53 28 £475 - 32
North of England +38 17 £453 -4.74% 3
Yorkshire +33 17 £453 -4.74% 2
Work from Home +120 16 £459 -4.62% 6
South East +13 5 - - 8
East of England +5 3 £625 +153.81% 10
London +95 2 £550 - 4
Scotland - 2 - - 1
South West +3 1 - - 4

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 23 (67.65%) SAS
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 7 (20.59%) Subversion
3 2 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) MagicDraw
4 1 (2.94%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (2.94%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 23 (67.65%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Aerospace
3 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Programmer
1 18 (52.94%) Systems Programmer
2 16 (47.06%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) z/OS Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Verification Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) Mainframe Programmer
6 2 (5.88%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
7 1 (2.94%) Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) UI Developer
7 1 (2.94%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) ISPF
2 3 (8.82%) JSON
2 3 (8.82%) YAML
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (73.53%) Mainframe
2 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.76%) Device Driver
3 3 (8.82%) ASIC
3 3 (8.82%) FPGA
3 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.82%) Verilog
4 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (73.53%) zOS
2 4 (11.76%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) VxWorks
4 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Performance Monitoring
1 21 (61.76%) Risk Management
2 8 (23.53%) Validation
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
4 4 (11.76%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (11.76%) OO
4 4 (11.76%) Signal Processing
4 4 (11.76%) Software Optimisation
4 4 (11.76%) Software Testing
5 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.82%) Project Management
5 3 (8.82%) UVM
6 2 (5.88%) Agile
6 2 (5.88%) Capacity Management
6 2 (5.88%) Data Protection
6 2 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.94%) DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 1 (2.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) JCL
1 23 (67.65%) REXX
2 9 (26.47%) C
3 8 (23.53%) C++
3 8 (23.53%) Python
4 7 (20.59%) Shell Script
5 6 (17.65%) CLIST
6 5 (14.71%) MATLAB
7 3 (8.82%) Bash
7 3 (8.82%) SystemVerilog
7 3 (8.82%) Tcl
8 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
1 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
1 4 (11.76%) PhD
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) JTAG
2 1 (2.94%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.94%) MISRA
2 1 (2.94%) MISRA C
System Software
1 23 (67.65%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (50.00%) ACF2
2 17 (50.00%) RACF
3 4 (11.76%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (11.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 23 (67.65%) IBM
2 17 (50.00%) Broadcom
3 15 (44.12%) Splunk
4 6 (17.65%) CA
5 3 (8.82%) Cadence
5 3 (8.82%) Synopsys
5 3 (8.82%) Xilinx
6 2 (5.88%) BMC
7 1 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.94%) Wind River