GNU Debugger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GDB over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 704 882 932
Rank change year-on-year +178 +50 +263
Permanent jobs citing GDB 7 28 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.027% 0.033%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.12% 0.29% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 12
10th Percentile £60,375 £42,500 £56,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,250 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.21% -3.33% +51.52%
75th Percentile £134,000 £134,375 £77,813
90th Percentile £145,000 £170,000 £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £61,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.66% -18.67% +51.52%

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 5,852 9,493 13,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 9.29% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,454 6,594 8,538
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £59,263 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -8.83% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

GDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GDB in the UK

GDB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GDB.

Salary trend for GDB in the UK

GDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GDB over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GDB in the UK

GDB
Top 8 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 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +138 7 £84,250 +16.21% 11
UK excluding London +180 5 £67,500 +10.66% 9
Work from Home +112 4 £115,500 -1.70% 6
South West +119 2 £63,750 +27.50% 1
South East +84 1 £67,500 +74.19% 1
Midlands - 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 £130,000 -

GDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) GSM
2 1 (14.29%) tcpdump
2 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GCC
2 1 (14.29%) gcov
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (14.29%) WinDbg
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) C++ Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C++ Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Yocto
2 3 (42.86%) OpenEmbedded
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Redux
4 1 (14.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (14.29%) libvirt
4 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Key Management
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Kernel Development
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
4 1 (14.29%) LLM
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
2 4 (57.14%) C++
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Java
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) CodeQL
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Xen
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) QNX