The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 89 71 54
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -17
Permanent jobs citing SEO 6 13 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.554% 1.317% 2.834%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.708% 1.906% 3.414%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 23
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,200 £21,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £42,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
847 682 703
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 78.14% 69.10% 83.00%
Number of salaries quoted 763 593 662
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
East of England

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire SEO Jobs Demand Trend

SEO
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the Bedfordshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -4 2 £75,000 +105.47%
SEO
East of England

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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%) E-Commerce
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Mobile App
2 4 (57.14%) Waterfall
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Testing
2 4 (57.14%) B2C
2 4 (57.14%) HP
2 4 (57.14%) CMS
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 4 (57.14%) Test Management
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Stress Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Marketing
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) B2B
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Volume Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Email Marketing
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (14.29%) Social Media

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Manager
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (14.29%) SEO Executive
4 1 (14.29%) Graduate
4 1 (14.29%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Blog
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Testing
2 4 (57.14%) B2C
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Test Management
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Waterfall
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Stress Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) B2B
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Volume Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) HP
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