GDB Job Trends in the East Midlands

GNU Debugger
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring GDB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GDB 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.022% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £65,750 £84,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -21.96% +16.21% -3.33%

All Development Application Skills
East Midlands

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 149 203 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.27% 11.18% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 109 130 214
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,481 £35,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,500 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

GDB
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GDB relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

GDB job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

GDB
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GDB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GDB

GDB
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDB within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 1 - - 2
GDB
England

GDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Cortex
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG