The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 106 120 122
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +2
Contract jobs citing SEO 9 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.418% 0.305% 0.381%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.625% 0.471% 0.583%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
Average daily rate £268 £213 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.88% -29.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £183 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £243 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-18.18% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1439 1910 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.81% 64.81% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 936 772
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 152 192
Average hourly rate £35.03 £30.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.83% -5.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.04 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SEO
England

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England SEO Daily Rate Trend

SEO
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SEO across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England SEO Daily Rate Histogram

SEO
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SEO across the East of England region.

East of England SEO Hourly Rate Trend

SEO
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire - 6 £260 -
Cambridgeshire +9 1 £280 -
Essex -5 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 £275 -
SEO
England

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (55.00%) CSS
3 8 (40.00%) CMS
3 8 (40.00%) Ajax
3 8 (40.00%) PHP
3 8 (40.00%) jQuery
4 7 (35.00%) HTML
4 7 (35.00%) XML
4 7 (35.00%) OO
4 7 (35.00%) Publishing
5 6 (30.00%) MVC
5 6 (30.00%) Java
5 6 (30.00%) SQL
5 6 (30.00%) MySQL
6 5 (25.00%) Apache
6 5 (25.00%) XHTML
6 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 5 (25.00%) Linux
6 5 (25.00%) Intranet
6 5 (25.00%) Information Management
6 5 (25.00%) Time Management
6 5 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
6 5 (25.00%) Node.js
6 5 (25.00%) Digital Media
6 5 (25.00%) Metadata Management
7 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Redis
7 4 (20.00%) concrete5
7 4 (20.00%) CSS3
7 4 (20.00%) Git (software)

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 11 (55.00%) CSS
2 8 (40.00%) Ajax
2 8 (40.00%) jQuery
3 7 (35.00%) XML
3 7 (35.00%) HTML
4 5 (25.00%) XHTML
4 5 (25.00%) Node.js
5 4 (20.00%) CSS3
5 4 (20.00%) RESTful
5 4 (20.00%) HTML5
5 4 (20.00%) Memcached
5 4 (20.00%) SOAP
5 4 (20.00%) Java EE
5 4 (20.00%) JSON
6 3 (15.00%) Dojo
6 3 (15.00%) Symfony
6 3 (15.00%) CodeIgniter
6 3 (15.00%) J2EE
7 2 (10.00%) ASP
7 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (40.00%) CMS
2 5 (25.00%) Apache
2 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (20.00%) concrete5
4 3 (15.00%) Drupal
4 3 (15.00%) WordPress
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.000%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Intranet
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (20.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.000%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Subversion
1 4 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (35.00%) Publishing
2 4 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.000%) Retail
3 1 (5.000%) Billing
3 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.000%) Finance
3 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Information Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Development Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.000%) Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Product Development Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Web Producer
5 1 (5.000%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.000%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.000%) Semantic Web
3 1 (5.000%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) OO
2 6 (30.00%) MVC
3 5 (25.00%) Information Management
3 5 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 5 (25.00%) Time Management
3 5 (25.00%) Metadata Management
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (20.00%) OOP
5 3 (15.00%) Workflow
5 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (15.00%) Content Management
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) Web Design
6 2 (10.00%) UML
6 2 (10.00%) Image Processing
6 2 (10.00%) Progressive Enhancement
6 2 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (40.00%) PHP
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) PHP5
5 1 (5.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Zend
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) FatWire
2 2 (10.00%) Omniture
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.000%) ATG
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle
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