The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Burton-upon-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Burton-upon-Trent region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SEO 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Burton-upon-Trent 12.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-18.18% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Burton-upon-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
7 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Burton-upon-Trent 87.50% 35.71% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
Average daily rate £250 £190 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.57% -41.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £20.00 £29.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.03% -17.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SEO
Staffordshire

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SEO across the Burton-upon-Trent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Burton-upon-Trent SEO Jobs Demand Trend

SEO
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SEO across the Burton-upon-Trent region.

Burton-upon-Trent SEO Daily Rate Trend

SEO
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Burton-upon-Trent region citing SEO also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SEO.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Burton-upon-Trent region citing SEO also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SEO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL