The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 24 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 Guildford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SEO 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.917% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.351% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £290 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.34% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.75 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 74 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 67.89% 61.16% 54.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 37 36
Average daily rate £425 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £316 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
SEO
Surrey

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford SEO Daily Rate Trend

SEO
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Web Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) WAI
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Web Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft