The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Nottingham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank - 30 29
Contract jobs citing SEO 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham - 0.448% 0.412%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.610% 0.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £200 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -42.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £253 £275 £273
% change year-on-year
-8.18% +0.91%
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
223 164 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 73.36% 73.54% 65.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 78 75
Average daily rate £350 £323 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.52% -7.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £478 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 6
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+114.28% -46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £8.50 £10.04
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £94.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SEO
Nottinghamshire

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham SEO Daily Rate Trend

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Modernizr
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Facebook
1 2 (100.00%) Twitter
1 2 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Modernizr
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Facebook
1 2 (100.00%) Twitter