GDB Contracts in England

GNU Debugger
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GDB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 538 641
Rank change year-on-year +57 +103 +124
Contract jobs citing GDB 4 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.011% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.12% 0.094% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £761
25th Percentile - - £816
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £938
Median % change year-on-year - - +108.33%
75th Percentile - - £1,066
90th Percentile - - £1,124
UK median daily rate £750 - £938
% change year-on-year - - +141.94%

All Development Application Skills
England

GDB falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

GDB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GDB in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GDB in England.

Daily rate trend for GDB in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GDB in England.

Hourly rate trend for GDB in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GDB within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 4 £750 - 2
GDB
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GCC
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 4 (100.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) SQL