The first table below looks at the demand for GDB skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GDB over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GNU Debugger
Rank 824 884 827
Rank change year-on-year
+60 -57
Permanent jobs citing GDB 38 14 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.035% 0.012% 0.036%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.239% 0.082% 0.286%
Number of salaries quoted 24 12 34
Average salary £56,250 £43,750 £44,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -2.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £51,100 £28,250 £34,035
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £59,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £41,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year
+34.14% -7.86%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15867 17081 16112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.15% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13540 14965 14169
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +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 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

GDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GDB Jobs Demand Trend

GDB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing GDB within the UK.

GDB Salary Trend

GDB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GDB over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

GDB Salary Histogram

GDB
Top 11 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +47 37 £56,250 +28.57%
London +52 16 £75,000 +25.00%
South East +8 11 £52,500 +38.15%
Surrey +24 10 £56,250 +14.21%
Guildford +7 10 £56,250 +46.10%
South West +9 6 £55,000 -
Gloucestershire +12 2 - -
Gloucester +11 2 - -
Oxfordshire -12 1 £50,500 +34.66%
Hammersmith - 1 £52,500 -
Oxford - 1 £50,500 -

GDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 (88.46%) C++
1 46 (88.46%) Linux
2 39 (75.00%) GCC
3 34 (65.38%) C
4 23 (44.23%) OO
5 18 (34.62%) Open Source
6 16 (30.77%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 16 (30.77%) Telecoms
6 16 (30.77%) OOD
6 16 (30.77%) STL
7 15 (28.85%) Perl
8 14 (26.92%) Subversion
9 13 (25.00%) Degree
10 12 (23.08%) Asterisk PBX
10 12 (23.08%) LTE
10 12 (23.08%) UMTS
10 12 (23.08%) VoIP
10 12 (23.08%) GSM
10 12 (23.08%) PBX
10 12 (23.08%) Cisco
10 12 (23.08%) Trac
11 11 (21.15%) Finance
11 11 (21.15%) Apache
11 11 (21.15%) Python
11 11 (21.15%) MySQL
12 10 (19.23%) DNS
13 9 (17.31%) Shell Script
13 9 (17.31%) UNIX
14 8 (15.38%) RANAP
14 8 (15.38%) Multithreading

GDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 (30.77%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 16 (30.77%) STL
2 7 (13.46%) CGI
2 7 (13.46%) CSS
2 7 (13.46%) HTML
2 7 (13.46%) Mason
3 3 (5.769%) POSIX
3 3 (5.769%) XML
4 2 (3.846%) XMPP
4 2 (3.846%) Web Services
5 1 (1.923%) Motif
5 1 (1.923%) wxWidgets
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.15%) Apache
2 2 (3.846%) Mathematica
2 2 (3.846%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) Asterisk PBX
1 12 (23.08%) LTE
1 12 (23.08%) UMTS
1 12 (23.08%) VoIP
1 12 (23.08%) GSM
1 12 (23.08%) PBX
2 10 (19.23%) DNS
3 8 (15.38%) RANAP
3 8 (15.38%) DHCP
3 8 (15.38%) RTP
4 6 (11.54%) Wireless
5 5 (9.615%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.692%) GGSN
6 4 (7.692%) SGSN
6 4 (7.692%) Kerberos
6 4 (7.692%) IPv4
6 4 (7.692%) IPv6
6 4 (7.692%) 3G
7 2 (3.846%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.846%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) MySQL
2 3 (5.769%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.846%) SQLite
3 2 (3.846%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.923%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 39 (75.00%) GCC
2 14 (26.92%) Subversion
3 12 (23.08%) Trac
4 6 (11.54%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.846%) Git (software)
6 1 (1.923%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.923%) Hudson
6 1 (1.923%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.923%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.923%) Ant
6 1 (1.923%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.923%) NUnit
6 1 (1.923%) CppUnit
6 1 (1.923%) PyUnit
General
1 16 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 11 (21.15%) Finance
3 4 (7.692%) Military
4 2 (3.846%) Banking
4 2 (3.846%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Software Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Administrator
4 7 (13.46%) Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Quantitative Analyst
5 6 (11.54%) UNIX Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (11.54%) Graduate
6 5 (9.615%) Software Developer
6 5 (9.615%) Developer
7 4 (7.692%) Software Team Leader
7 4 (7.692%) Team Leader
7 4 (7.692%) C++ Team Leader
7 4 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.769%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.846%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (34.62%) Open Source
2 7 (13.46%) Mathematics
2 7 (13.46%) Statistics
3 6 (11.54%) Device Driver
3 6 (11.54%) SystemC
4 4 (7.692%) Physics
4 4 (7.692%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (5.769%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.769%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.846%) PKI
6 2 (3.846%) Replication
6 2 (3.846%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.923%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 46 (88.46%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) UNIX
3 8 (15.38%) Windows
3 8 (15.38%) Solaris
4 6 (11.54%) Android
5 4 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.769%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.846%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) OO
2 16 (30.77%) OOD
3 8 (15.38%) Multithreading
4 7 (13.46%) Investment Management
5 6 (11.54%) Data Analysis
5 6 (11.54%) Scrum
6 5 (9.615%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (7.692%) TDD
7 4 (7.692%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (7.692%) Business Development
7 4 (7.692%) UML
8 3 (5.769%) Configuration Management
8 3 (5.769%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (3.846%) Load Balancing
10 1 (1.923%) Analytics
10 1 (1.923%) Digital Signal Processing
10 1 (1.923%) Signal Processing
10 1 (1.923%) Code Coverage
10 1 (1.923%) Electronic Design Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (88.46%) C++
2 34 (65.38%) C
3 15 (28.85%) Perl
4 11 (21.15%) Python
5 9 (17.31%) Shell Script
6 7 (13.46%) Bash shell
6 7 (13.46%) Ruby
7 6 (11.54%) Java
7 6 (11.54%) Assembly Language
8 5 (9.615%) PHP
9 4 (7.692%) JavaScript
10 3 (5.769%) SQL
11 2 (3.846%) tcsh
11 2 (3.846%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (9.615%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.615%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) NFS
2 4 (7.692%) Sendmail
2 4 (7.692%) Xen
3 2 (3.846%) qmail
3 2 (3.846%) Postfix
3 2 (3.846%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (7.692%) Puppet
2 2 (3.846%) Nagios
2 2 (3.846%) YUM
2 2 (3.846%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (3.846%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Cisco
2 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.923%) Coverity
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,...
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