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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank - 35 44
Permanent jobs citing SEO 0 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester - 0.617% 1.695%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.862% 2.339%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 4
Average salary - £52,500 £17,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +200.00%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
302 116 171
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 84.36% 71.60% 72.46%
Number of salaries quoted 161 96 166
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
Cheshire

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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%) Photoshop
1 5 (71.43%) Dreamweaver
1 5 (71.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (57.14%) Web Design
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) XHTML
3 2 (28.57%) Social Network
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) Publishing
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) XHTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Photoshop
1 5 (71.43%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Web Designer
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) SEO Executive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Web Design
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C++
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PHP