GDB Job Trends in the North West

GNU Debugger
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring GDB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 - 249
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Permanent jobs citing GDB 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.008% - 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.24% - 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £47,700
25th Percentile £54,500 - £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 - £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.39%
75th Percentile £63,500 - £66,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £115,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -45.89% +89.34% -18.67%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 418 417 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.49% 8.01% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 281 211 450
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,217 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +14.87% -16.58%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,777 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

GDB
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

GDB job vacancy trend in the North West

GDB
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GDB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GDB

GDB
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDB within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Manchester - 1 £59,000 - 2
GDB
England

GDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) WinDbg
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++