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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 109 105 109
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +4
Permanent jobs citing SEO 9 8 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.522% 0.462% 0.379%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.671% 0.605% 0.537%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 7
Average salary £30,250 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.57% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1342 1322 1304
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 77.84% 76.42% 70.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1161 1159 1018
Average salary £37,500 £39,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.06% +5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
South West

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 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
Avonmouth - 1 £21,250 -
SEO
South West

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 10 (71.43%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Google Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Google
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (50.00%) Pay per click
3 7 (50.00%) Marketing
4 6 (42.86%) Web Analytics
4 6 (42.86%) PHP
4 6 (42.86%) CSS
4 6 (42.86%) E-Commerce
5 5 (35.71%) MySQL
5 5 (35.71%) Coremetrics
5 5 (35.71%) Fredhopper
5 5 (35.71%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (35.71%) jQuery
6 4 (28.57%) Social Media
6 4 (28.57%) CMS
7 3 (21.43%) OO
7 3 (21.43%) HTML
7 3 (21.43%) CSS3
7 3 (21.43%) Facebook
7 3 (21.43%) Twitter
7 3 (21.43%) HTML5
7 3 (21.43%) Zend
8 2 (14.29%) Magento
8 2 (14.29%) Marketing Strategy
8 2 (14.29%) C#
8 2 (14.29%) Apache
8 2 (14.29%) XHTML
8 2 (14.29%) Project Management

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (42.86%) CSS
2 5 (35.71%) jQuery
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
3 3 (21.43%) CSS3
3 3 (21.43%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) XHTML
5 1 (7.143%) LAMP
5 1 (7.143%) Ajax
5 1 (7.143%) SOAP
5 1 (7.143%) XML
5 1 (7.143%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) CMS
2 2 (14.29%) Magento
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
Business Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Google Analytics
2 1 (7.143%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
General
1 7 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) PPC Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) PPC Manager
2 4 (28.57%) PPC Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) PPC Executive
3 3 (21.43%) Web Manager
3 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (14.29%) PHP Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Development Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Web Development Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Web Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Web Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Head of Search
5 1 (7.143%) UI Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Analytics
2 7 (50.00%) Pay per click
3 6 (42.86%) Web Analytics
3 6 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 5 (35.71%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (21.43%) OO
6 2 (14.29%) Marketing Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) Project Management
7 1 (7.143%) CRM
7 1 (7.143%) Online Marketing
7 1 (7.143%) Web Marketing
7 1 (7.143%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (42.86%) PHP
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.143%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Google
2 5 (35.71%) Coremetrics
2 5 (35.71%) Fredhopper
3 3 (21.43%) Facebook
3 3 (21.43%) Twitter
3 3 (21.43%) Zend
4 1 (7.143%) Microsoft