The first table below looks at the demand for GDB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GDB over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Guildford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GNU Debugger
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing GDB 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.752% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 20.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+36.36% -5.17%
All Development Applications
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
29 11 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 13.30% 9.091% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 6
Average daily rate £285 £425 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.94% +66.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
GDB
Surrey

GDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GDB across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Guildford GDB Jobs Demand Trend

GDB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GDB across the Guildford region.

Guildford GDB Hourly Rate Trend

GDB
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing GDB also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited GDB.

1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) STL
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) OOD
1 6 (100.00%) GSM
1 6 (100.00%) PBX
1 6 (100.00%) UMTS
1 6 (100.00%) VoIP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
1 6 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 6 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 6 (100.00%) GCC
1 6 (100.00%) Trac
2 3 (50.00%) RANAP
2 3 (50.00%) GGSN
2 3 (50.00%) SGSN
2 3 (50.00%) RTP

GDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing GDB also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited GDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) STL
1 6 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) GSM
1 6 (100.00%) PBX
1 6 (100.00%) UMTS
1 6 (100.00%) VoIP
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
1 6 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 3 (50.00%) RANAP
2 3 (50.00%) GGSN
2 3 (50.00%) SGSN
2 3 (50.00%) RTP
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) GCC
1 6 (100.00%) Trac
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C++
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco