The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 23 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 Essex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 45 42 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing SEO 1 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.252% 1.471% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.355% 2.429% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £238 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £295 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.86% -1.66%
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 £13.75 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
282 247 249
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 71.03% 60.54% 61.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 118 112
Average daily rate £325 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £125 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £478 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 37 41
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.37% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £17.00 £23.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £38.98 £39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
SEO
East of England

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex SEO Daily Rate Trend

SEO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 23 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
Basildon - 1 - -
SEO
East of England

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) CMS
2 2 (66.67%) FatWire
2 2 (66.67%) Web Design
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Omniture
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (66.67%) ASP
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Google Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) MooTools
2 2 (66.67%) Dojo
2 2 (66.67%) Image Processing

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) ASP
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) MooTools
2 2 (66.67%) Dojo
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) Sass
2 2 (66.67%) LESS
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) Web Design
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Image Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) FatWire
1 2 (66.67%) Omniture
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe