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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 706 864 901
Rank change year-on-year +158 +37 +238
Permanent jobs citing Assembly Language 8 44 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.040% 0.038%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.048% 0.13% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 5 34 13
10th Percentile - - £46,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £35,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -35.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £55,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £78,750 £81,538
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 16,657 34,502 39,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.86% 31.52% 42.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,565 25,607 26,295
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

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 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Assembly Language in the UK

Assembly Language
Top 11 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 12 June 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 +152 6 £67,500 +50.00% 35
England +120 6 £67,500 +50.00% 37
Work from Home +131 3 £67,500 -6.90% 21
Scotland +110 2 £75,000 +57.89% 6
North of England +63 2 £75,000 - 1
London - 2 - - 7
South East +85 1 - - 10
Midlands +72 1 £67,500 +50.00% 2
Yorkshire +58 1 £82,500 -
North West +22 1 £67,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £67,500 - 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 1 (12.50%) CICS
1 1 (12.50%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Wireless
1 5 (62.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
1 5 (62.50%) Wearables
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Mainframe Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Smart Energy
2 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (62.50%) Clean Code
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Presales
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
2 2 (25.00%) REXX
3 1 (12.50%) COBOL
3 1 (12.50%) JCL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Syncsort
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