GNU Debugger
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GDB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GDB over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 936 1199
Rank change year-on-year +68 +263 -312
Permanent jobs citing GDB 28 34 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.032% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.29% 0.22% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 21 9 10
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,950 -
25th Percentile £55,500 £70,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +58.73% -14.09%
75th Percentile £137,500 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £99,250 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £75,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year -18.67% +58.73% -14.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK

GDB is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

GDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GDB in the UK

GDB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDB.

Salary trend for GDB in the UK

GDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDB over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GDB in the UK

GDB
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDB within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +107 28 £72,500 -3.33% 14
UK excluding London +1 20 £61,000 -18.67% 10
Work from Home +76 13 £117,500 +56.67% 4
North of England - 11 £66,750 - 2
London +139 8 £160,000 +12.28% 4
South East +15 8 £50,000 -33.33% 1
North West - 6 £61,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £72,500 -
South West -6 1 £50,000 -33.33% 7

GDB
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
1 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) InfluxDB
1 5 (17.86%) MySQL
1 5 (17.86%) Neo4j
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
1 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
1 5 (17.86%) TimescaleDB
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) GCC
2 5 (17.86%) DTrace
3 4 (14.29%) CMake
4 3 (10.71%) Git
4 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
2 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Python Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) C++ Developer
3 5 (17.86%) C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) C++ Software Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Technologist
6 2 (7.14%) Design Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Embedded Software Design Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Graduate
6 2 (7.14%) Graduate Design Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) GUI Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Design Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) C++ Team Leader
7 1 (3.57%) Embedded C++ Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) HTML
1 8 (28.57%) HTML5
1 8 (28.57%) React
1 8 (28.57%) Redux
2 6 (21.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 5 (17.86%) Django
3 5 (17.86%) FastAPI
3 5 (17.86%) Flask
3 5 (17.86%) Kafka
4 3 (10.71%) OpenGL
4 3 (10.71%) STL
5 2 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (17.86%) Client/Server
2 5 (17.86%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Tandem
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.57%) Derivative
4 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.57%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Unix
3 3 (10.71%) Mac OS
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Agile
1 12 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 8 (28.57%) TDD
3 7 (25.00%) Coaching
3 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
5 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (17.86%) Digital Twin
5 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
5 5 (17.86%) Load Balancing
5 5 (17.86%) Microservices
5 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Quantitative Trading
5 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) Python
2 14 (50.00%) C
3 13 (46.43%) C++
4 8 (28.57%) Java
5 5 (17.86%) OCaml
5 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
5 5 (17.86%) SystemTap
6 3 (10.71%) C#
7 2 (7.14%) SQL
8 1 (3.57%) Assembly Language
8 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) PhD
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (10.71%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Facebook
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft