The first table below looks at the demand for GDB skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GDB over the 3 months to 21 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GNU Debugger
Rank 430 432 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Permanent jobs citing GDB 11 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.050% 0.025% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.374% 0.181% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 0
Average salary £52,500 £38,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.15% -
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £43,750 £44,500
% change year-on-year
+25.71% -1.68%
All Development Applications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2941 3314 3204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 13.26% 13.96% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2543 2959 2881
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
GDB
England

GDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East GDB Salary Trend

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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Surrey +20 10 £56,250 +14.21%
Oxfordshire -22 1 £50,500 +34.66%
GDB
England

GDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 16 (100.00%) C++
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (93.75%) GCC
3 13 (81.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 13 (81.25%) STL
3 13 (81.25%) Telecoms
3 13 (81.25%) Subversion
4 12 (75.00%) OO
5 11 (68.75%) UMTS
5 11 (68.75%) VoIP
5 11 (68.75%) GSM
5 11 (68.75%) PBX
5 11 (68.75%) Cisco
5 11 (68.75%) Asterisk PBX
5 11 (68.75%) LTE
5 11 (68.75%) Trac
6 8 (50.00%) RANAP
6 8 (50.00%) RTP
6 8 (50.00%) OOD
7 4 (25.00%) Python
7 4 (25.00%) Ruby
7 4 (25.00%) Bash shell
8 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
8 3 (18.75%) Military
8 3 (18.75%) GGSN
8 3 (18.75%) SGSN
8 3 (18.75%) 3G
9 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
9 2 (12.50%) IPv4

GDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 13 (81.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 13 (81.25%) STL
2 2 (12.50%) XMPP
3 1 (6.250%) XML
3 1 (6.250%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Mathematica
1 2 (12.50%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) UMTS
1 11 (68.75%) VoIP
1 11 (68.75%) GSM
1 11 (68.75%) PBX
1 11 (68.75%) Asterisk PBX
1 11 (68.75%) LTE
2 8 (50.00%) RANAP
2 8 (50.00%) RTP
3 3 (18.75%) GGSN
3 3 (18.75%) SGSN
3 3 (18.75%) 3G
4 2 (12.50%) IPv4
4 2 (12.50%) IPv6
4 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 2 (12.50%) SSL
4 2 (12.50%) DHCP
4 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
4 2 (12.50%) LDAP
4 2 (12.50%) SSH
4 2 (12.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) SQLite
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) GCC
2 13 (81.25%) Subversion
3 11 (68.75%) Trac
4 2 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 13 (81.25%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (68.75%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) C++ Team Leader
3 4 (25.00%) Software Team Leader
3 4 (25.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Programmer
5 1 (6.250%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Software Programmer
5 1 (6.250%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.250%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.250%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (6.250%) UNIX
2 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) OO
2 8 (50.00%) OOD
3 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
4 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Business Development
4 2 (12.50%) TDD
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.250%) UML
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C++
2 4 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Ruby
2 4 (25.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) C
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) tcsh
4 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Xen
1 2 (12.50%) qmail
1 2 (12.50%) Postfix
1 2 (12.50%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) YUM
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
1 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 2 (12.50%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
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