The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 108 74 81
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +7
Permanent jobs citing SEO 8 18 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.477% 1.239% 0.977%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.641% 1.791% 1.528%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 13
Average salary £41,250 £30,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% +9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,500 £16,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £84,000 £33,700
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1249 1005 851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.52% 69.17% 63.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1055 876 728
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
West Midlands

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

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

Birmingham SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 11 (61.11%) CSS
2 9 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 9 (50.00%) Marketing
3 8 (44.44%) HTML
3 8 (44.44%) PHP
3 8 (44.44%) Social Media
4 7 (38.89%) Online Marketing
4 7 (38.89%) MySQL
4 7 (38.89%) Google
5 6 (33.33%) Pay per click
5 6 (33.33%) Google Analytics
5 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Linux
6 5 (27.78%) Apache
6 5 (27.78%) CRM
6 5 (27.78%) Ajax
7 4 (22.22%) Content Management
7 4 (22.22%) PHP5
7 4 (22.22%) jQuery
7 4 (22.22%) WordPress
7 4 (22.22%) XHTML
7 4 (22.22%) MVC
7 4 (22.22%) Web Services
7 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
7 4 (22.22%) Zend
7 4 (22.22%) Zend Framework
8 3 (16.67%) Magento
8 3 (16.67%) Flash
8 3 (16.67%) Business Development

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 11 (61.11%) CSS
2 8 (44.44%) HTML
3 5 (27.78%) Ajax
4 4 (22.22%) Zend Framework
4 4 (22.22%) jQuery
4 4 (22.22%) Web Services
4 4 (22.22%) XHTML
5 3 (16.67%) Flash
6 2 (11.11%) XML
7 1 (5.556%) .NET
7 1 (5.556%) J2EE
7 1 (5.556%) LAMP
7 1 (5.556%) XML-RPC
7 1 (5.556%) Hibernate
7 1 (5.556%) Spring
7 1 (5.556%) RESTful
7 1 (5.556%) HTML5
7 1 (5.556%) Django
7 1 (5.556%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) Apache
2 4 (22.22%) WordPress
3 3 (16.67%) Magento
3 3 (16.67%) Joomla!
4 1 (5.556%) Google App Engine
4 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.556%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) MySQL
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.556%) Hudson
2 1 (5.556%) Maven
General
1 9 (50.00%) Marketing
2 3 (16.67%) Publishing
3 1 (5.556%) Games
3 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Web Developer
2 4 (22.22%) PHP Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Development Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Account Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Programmer
4 2 (11.11%) SEO Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Web Content Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Account Manager
5 1 (5.556%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Digital Account Director
5 1 (5.556%) PHP Joomla! Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Account Director
5 1 (5.556%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Web Content Developer
5 1 (5.556%) IT Graduate
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Account Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Social Media
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.11%) Open Source
3 1 (5.556%) Statistics
3 1 (5.556%) Blog
3 1 (5.556%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Android
2 1 (5.556%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Online Marketing
2 6 (33.33%) Analytics
2 6 (33.33%) Pay per click
3 5 (27.78%) CRM
4 4 (22.22%) MVC
4 4 (22.22%) Content Management
5 3 (16.67%) Business Development
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (5.556%) Document Management
7 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.556%) Mobile Marketing
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PHP
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) PHP5
4 1 (5.556%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) Python
4 1 (5.556%) C#
4 1 (5.556%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Google
2 4 (22.22%) Zend
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (5.556%) Rackspace
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