Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cardiff region.

 Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank343860
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+22
Matching permanent IT job ads1413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff4.811 %0.331 %0.455 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category7.368 %0.562 %0.917 %
Salaries quoted1313
Average salary£30,000£20,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00 %-46.66 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£20,000£35,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,000£20,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£29,500£30,000£28,000
% change year-on-year
-1.660 %+7.140 %
Cardiff IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
190178327
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff65.29 %58.94 %49.62 %
Salaries quoted167163300
Average salary£31,500£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.070 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£23,775£24,750
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£47,250£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
SEO South WalesSEO
South Wales

SEO
Demand Trend

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

Cardiff SEO Demand Trend

SEO
Salary Trend

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

Cardiff SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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.

111 (78.57 %)CSS
210 (71.43 %).NET
210 (71.43 %)HTML
39 (64.29 %)MySQL
47 (50.00 %)JavaScript
47 (50.00 %)SQL
47 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
53 (21.43 %)E-Learning
53 (21.43 %)Adobe Illustrator
53 (21.43 %)Web Design
53 (21.43 %)Multimedia
53 (21.43 %)Web Analytics
53 (21.43 %)Web 2.0
53 (21.43 %)Web Development
53 (21.43 %).NET Framework
53 (21.43 %)Graphic Design
53 (21.43 %)jQuery
53 (21.43 %)PHP
53 (21.43 %)C#
53 (21.43 %)Photoshop
53 (21.43 %)Education
53 (21.43 %)Windows
53 (21.43 %)MS Visio
53 (21.43 %)Dreamweaver
62 (14.29 %)Linux
62 (14.29 %)OO
62 (14.29 %)Apache
62 (14.29 %)Firewall
62 (14.29 %)Finance
62 (14.29 %)XML

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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.

Cardiff IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
111 (78.57 %)CSS
210 (71.43 %).NET
210 (71.43 %)HTML
37 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
43 (21.43 %).NET Framework
43 (21.43 %)jQuery
52 (14.29 %)XML
52 (14.29 %)LAMP
61 (7.143 %)AJAX
61 (7.143 %)Zend Framework
61 (7.143 %)SOAP
61 (7.143 %)XHTML
Cardiff IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (14.29 %)Apache
21 (7.143 %)IIS
21 (7.143 %)SAS
Cardiff IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (21.43 %)Adobe Illustrator
13 (21.43 %)Photoshop
13 (21.43 %)MS Visio
21 (7.143 %)MS PowerPoint
21 (7.143 %)MS Excel
Cardiff IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (14.29 %)Firewall
Cardiff IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19 (64.29 %)MySQL
21 (7.143 %)SQL Server
Cardiff IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (21.43 %)Dreamweaver
21 (7.143 %)Subversion
21 (7.143 %)Visual Studio
Cardiff IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (21.43 %)Multimedia
13 (21.43 %)Graphic Design
13 (21.43 %)Education
22 (14.29 %)Finance
22 (14.29 %)Marketing
31 (7.143 %)Insurance
31 (7.143 %)Advertising
Cardiff IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19 (64.29 %)Developer
27 (50.00 %)Web Developer
33 (21.43 %)Web Designer
33 (21.43 %)Designer
42 (14.29 %)LAMP Developer
42 (14.29 %)PHP Developer
51 (7.143 %)Financial Business Analyst
51 (7.143 %)Senior Web Developer
51 (7.143 %)SEO Consultant
51 (7.143 %)Financial Services Business Analyst
51 (7.143 %)Consultant
51 (7.143 %)Senior Developer
51 (7.143 %)Analyst
51 (7.143 %)Business Analyst
Cardiff IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (21.43 %)E-Learning
13 (21.43 %)Web 2.0
21 (7.143 %)Statistics
Cardiff IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (21.43 %)Windows
22 (14.29 %)Linux
Cardiff IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (21.43 %)Web Design
13 (21.43 %)Web Analytics
13 (21.43 %)Web Development
22 (14.29 %)OO
31 (7.143 %)Pay per click
31 (7.143 %)Email Marketing
31 (7.143 %)PRINCE2
31 (7.143 %)E-Commerce
Cardiff IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17 (50.00 %)JavaScript
17 (50.00 %)SQL
23 (21.43 %)PHP
23 (21.43 %)C#
32 (14.29 %)C++
32 (14.29 %)Perl
32 (14.29 %)C
32 (14.29 %)VB
Cardiff IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (7.143 %)Google
11 (7.143 %)Zend