GDB Job Trends

GNU Debugger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring GDB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 706 711
Rank change year-on-year +62 +5 +275
Permanent jobs citing GDB 1 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.015% 0.020%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.028% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £43,800 -
25th Percentile £125,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £55,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +134.23% -5.53% -16.07%
75th Percentile £135,000 £64,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - £65,600 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £61,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year - +7.96% -14.72%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,615 5,501 6,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.05% 10.24% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,367 3,166 5,141
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £40,619
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,400 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

GDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

GDB job vacancy trend in the UK

GDB
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GDB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GDB

GDB
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GDB within the UK over the 6 months to 9 January 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
England +58 1 £130,000 +134.23% 6
London +54 1 £130,000 -
Work from Home - 1 £130,000 - 1

GDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

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