The first table below looks at the demand for GDB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GDB over the 3 months to 17 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 Swindon 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GNU Debugger
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing GDB 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+36.36% -5.17%
All Development Applications
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
34 34 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 12.36% 9.392% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 17
Average daily rate £425 £359 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.46% -15.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £37.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
GDB
Wiltshire

GDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon GDB Hourly Rate Trend

GDB
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (100.00%) UTRAN
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) Valgrind
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems

GDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) UTRAN
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Valgrind
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell