GDB Contract Job Trends in London

GNU Debugger
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GDB skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 376 427
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 +165
Contract jobs citing GDB 7 1 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.052% 0.006% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.33% 0.042% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 20
10th Percentile £794 - £1,000
25th Percentile - £775 £1,088
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £800 £1,125
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% +91.49%
75th Percentile - £825 £1,163
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £800 £800 £1,125
% change year-on-year - -28.89% +91.49%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,128 2,390 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.80% 14.66% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,612 2,370
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

GDB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GDB in London

GDB
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GDB

GDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (100.00%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GCC
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 6 (85.71%) Front Office
2 6 (85.71%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 7 (100.00%) STL
2 6 (85.71%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (85.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
1 7 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 7 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 6 (85.71%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Solace