The first table below looks at the demand for GDB skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GNU Debugger
Rank 794 852 810
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -42
Permanent jobs citing GDB 36 11 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.036% 0.010% 0.042%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.241% 0.067% 0.326%
Number of salaries quoted 25 10 38
Average salary £55,000 £46,500 £44,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.27% +4.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £51,300 £26,750 £32,550
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £46,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year
+18.27% +4.49%
All Development Applications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
14952 16465 15023
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 14.83% 14.49% 12.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12931 14520 13245
Average salary £43,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.17% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
GDB
UK

GDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England GDB Jobs Demand Trend

GDB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing GDB across the England region.

England GDB Salary Trend

GDB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GDB across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England GDB Salary Histogram

GDB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDB within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +45 15 £63,750 +6.25%
South East +11 9 £52,500 +40.00%
South West - 7 £55,000 -
GDB
UK

GDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited GDB.

1 46 (90.20%) C++
2 44 (86.27%) Linux
3 38 (74.51%) GCC
4 33 (64.71%) C
5 21 (41.18%) OO
6 17 (33.33%) Open Source
7 16 (31.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 16 (31.37%) STL
7 16 (31.37%) Telecoms
8 14 (27.45%) Subversion
9 13 (25.49%) Degree
9 13 (25.49%) Perl
10 12 (23.53%) OOD
10 12 (23.53%) GSM
10 12 (23.53%) PBX
10 12 (23.53%) UMTS
10 12 (23.53%) VoIP
10 12 (23.53%) Cisco
10 12 (23.53%) Asterisk PBX
10 12 (23.53%) LTE
10 12 (23.53%) Trac
11 11 (21.57%) Python
12 10 (19.61%) Apache
12 10 (19.61%) MySQL
12 10 (19.61%) Finance
13 9 (17.65%) DNS
14 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
14 8 (15.69%) UNIX
14 8 (15.69%) Windows
14 8 (15.69%) Solaris

GDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited GDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (31.37%) STL
1 16 (31.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 6 (11.76%) Mason
2 6 (11.76%) HTML
2 6 (11.76%) CSS
2 6 (11.76%) CGI
3 3 (5.882%) POSIX
4 2 (3.922%) XMPP
4 2 (3.922%) Web Services
4 2 (3.922%) XML
5 1 (1.961%) .NET
5 1 (1.961%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 10 (19.61%) Apache
2 2 (3.922%) Mathematica
2 2 (3.922%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) GSM
1 12 (23.53%) PBX
1 12 (23.53%) UMTS
1 12 (23.53%) VoIP
1 12 (23.53%) LTE
1 12 (23.53%) Asterisk PBX
2 9 (17.65%) DNS
3 7 (13.73%) DHCP
4 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 6 (11.76%) 3G
4 6 (11.76%) RTP
4 6 (11.76%) Wireless
4 6 (11.76%) RANAP
4 6 (11.76%) GGSN
4 6 (11.76%) SGSN
5 4 (7.843%) IPv4
5 4 (7.843%) IPv6
6 3 (5.882%) 2G
6 3 (5.882%) Kerberos
7 2 (3.922%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) MySQL
2 2 (3.922%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.922%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.922%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 38 (74.51%) GCC
2 14 (27.45%) Subversion
3 12 (23.53%) Trac
4 6 (11.76%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.922%) Git (software)
General
1 16 (31.37%) Telecoms
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Military
4 1 (1.961%) Banking
4 1 (1.961%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.961%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Software Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) C++ Software Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Administrator
5 7 (13.73%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (13.73%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Analyst
7 5 (9.804%) Developer
7 5 (9.804%) Graduate
7 5 (9.804%) Software Developer
7 5 (9.804%) Quantitative Analyst
7 5 (9.804%) UNIX Engineer
8 4 (7.843%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (5.882%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 3 (5.882%) Team Leader
9 3 (5.882%) C++ Team Leader
9 3 (5.882%) Software Team Leader
10 2 (3.922%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (33.33%) Open Source
2 6 (11.76%) SystemC
2 6 (11.76%) Device Driver
2 6 (11.76%) Statistics
2 6 (11.76%) Mathematics
3 5 (9.804%) Physics
4 4 (7.843%) Computer Science
4 4 (7.843%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 4 (7.843%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.882%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.922%) PKI
6 2 (3.922%) Replication
7 1 (1.961%) CAN bus
7 1 (1.961%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 44 (86.27%) Linux
2 8 (15.69%) UNIX
2 8 (15.69%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) Solaris
3 6 (11.76%) Android
4 3 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.882%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (3.922%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.922%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) OO
2 12 (23.53%) OOD
3 7 (13.73%) Multithreading
4 6 (11.76%) Investment Management
4 6 (11.76%) Scrum
5 5 (9.804%) Data Analysis
6 4 (7.843%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (7.843%) TDD
6 4 (7.843%) Business Development
6 4 (7.843%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (5.882%) UML
8 2 (3.922%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (3.922%) Configuration Management
8 2 (3.922%) Load Balancing
9 1 (1.961%) Digital Signal Processing
9 1 (1.961%) Signal Processing
9 1 (1.961%) Embedded Software Development
9 1 (1.961%) Electronic Design Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (90.20%) C++
2 33 (64.71%) C
3 13 (25.49%) Perl
4 11 (21.57%) Python
5 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
6 7 (13.73%) Ruby
6 7 (13.73%) Assembly Language
6 7 (13.73%) Bash shell
6 7 (13.73%) Java
7 6 (11.76%) PHP
8 4 (7.843%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.922%) SQL
9 2 (3.922%) tcsh
9 2 (3.922%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.961%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.961%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.961%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Degree
2 4 (7.843%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.843%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.961%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (9.804%) NFS
2 4 (7.843%) Xen
2 4 (7.843%) Sendmail
3 2 (3.922%) qmail
3 2 (3.922%) Postfix
3 2 (3.922%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (7.843%) Puppet
2 2 (3.922%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (3.922%) Cobbler
2 2 (3.922%) Nagios
2 2 (3.922%) YUM
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Cisco
2 7 (13.73%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.961%) EMC
Guildford, Surrey
Keywords:- Technical Lead, Software Engineer, Innovation, Telecoms, Datacoms, C++, Linux, STL, GCC, Make, GDB, GSM, UMTS, LTE, System Design, RANAP, GTP, S1, MAP, CAMEL, Radius, SMNP, SIP, VOIP,...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Keywords:- Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Development Team Lead, Team Lead, Mentor, C++, Linux, STL, GCC, Make, GDB, Telecoms, Datacoms, GSM, UMTS, LTE, RANAP, GTP, S1, MAP, CAMEL,...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013