Bedfordshire SEO Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carnforth Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skegness Skipton Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stamford Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Torquay UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
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Matching permanent IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
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UK excluding London average salary	£29,063	£28,362
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Processes & Methodologies Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	475	445
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.250 %	0.183 %
Salaries quoted	430	383
Average minimum salary	£36,337	£36,881
Average salary	£39,560	£39,788
% change on same period last year	-0.57 %
Average maximum salary	£42,783	£42,696
UK excluding London average salary	£42,575	£44,522
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
SEO East of England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SEO across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SEO across the Bedfordshire region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SEO.

1 5 (71.43 %) JavaScript 2 4 (57.14 %) AJAX 2 4 (57.14 %) Marketing 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL 2 4 (57.14 %) .NET 3 3 (42.86 %) CSS 3 3 (42.86 %) HTML 4 2 (28.57 %) XHTML 4 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (28.57 %) Intranet 4 2 (28.57 %) Content Management 4 2 (28.57 %) Information Management 4 2 (28.57 %) PHP 4 2 (28.57 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (28.57 %) VB

4 2 (28.57 %) VB.NET 4 2 (28.57 %) VBA 4 2 (28.57 %) MySQL 4 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 4 2 (28.57 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (28.57 %) IIS 4 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 4 2 (28.57 %) ASP 4 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (14.29 %) JSP 5 1 (14.29 %) Pay per click 5 1 (14.29 %) Web Development 5 1 (14.29 %) Business Development 5 1 (14.29 %) Degree 5 1 (14.29 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SEO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (57.14 %) .NET 1 4 (57.14 %) AJAX 2 3 (42.86 %) HTML 2 3 (42.86 %) CSS 3 2 (28.57 %) ASP 3 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (28.57 %) XHTML 4 1 (14.29 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) Intranet 2 1 (14.29 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) MySQL 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 1 2 (28.57 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (57.14 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Web Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) Software Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) Coordinator 4 1 (14.29 %) Account Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Content Management 1 2 (28.57 %) Information Management 1 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Pay per click 2 1 (14.29 %) Web Development 2 1 (14.29 %) Business Development 2 1 (14.29 %) Email Marketing 2 1 (14.29 %) Internet Marketing
Programming Languages 1 5 (71.43 %) JavaScript 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 2 (28.57 %) Transact-SQL 3 2 (28.57 %) VB 3 2 (28.57 %) VB.NET 3 2 (28.57 %) VBA 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (14.29 %) QA