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 City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 19 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 City of London region.

 Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank177163259
Rank change year-on-year
Down-14Up+96
Matching permanent IT job ads1247775
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London1.063 %0.933 %0.391 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category1.521 %1.437 %0.675 %
Salaries quoted1147065
Average salary£32,500£40,000£33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75 %+19.40 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,100£30,450£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£44,250£55,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£28,000
% change year-on-year
-+7.140 %
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
8151536011106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London69.87 %64.98 %57.84 %
Salaries quoted710844999020
Average salary£55,000£55,000£55,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£33,500£35,000£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£80,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
SEO LondonSEO
London

SEO
Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1113 (45.75 %)Marketing
2106 (42.91 %)HTML
3102 (41.30 %)CSS
491 (36.84 %)Pay per click
583 (33.60 %)JavaScript
659 (23.89 %)XML
756 (22.67 %)Online Marketing
855 (22.27 %)PHP
855 (22.27 %)E-Commerce
953 (21.46 %)Finance
1052 (21.05 %)CMS
1151 (20.65 %)jQuery
1249 (19.84 %)AJAX
1348 (19.43 %)Google
1446 (18.62 %)Flash
1543 (17.41 %)Photoshop
1641 (16.60 %)Content Management
1734 (13.77 %)W3C
1832 (12.96 %)XHTML
1930 (12.15 %)Social Media
2028 (11.34 %)MySQL
2125 (10.12 %)Subversion
2224 (9.717 %)Linux
2323 (9.312 %)Web Development
2422 (8.907 %)Web Analytics
2422 (8.907 %)UNIX
2521 (8.502 %)ActionScript
2521 (8.502 %)SQL
2620 (8.097 %)Web Marketing
2620 (8.097 %)Agile Software Development

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1106 (42.91 %)HTML
2102 (41.30 %)CSS
359 (23.89 %)XML
451 (20.65 %)jQuery
549 (19.84 %)AJAX
646 (18.62 %)Flash
732 (12.96 %)XHTML
815 (6.073 %)XSLT
914 (5.668 %).NET
1011 (4.453 %)ASP
1011 (4.453 %)ASP.NET
1011 (4.453 %)JSP
1011 (4.453 %)MooTools
119 (3.644 %)CakePHP
119 (3.644 %)LAMP
119 (3.644 %)Ruby on Rails
128 (3.239 %)DHTML
137 (2.834 %)Web Services
137 (2.834 %)JSON
146 (2.429 %)Adobe Flex
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
152 (21.05 %)CMS
216 (6.478 %)Drupal
312 (4.858 %)Apache
46 (2.429 %)Flash Media Server
55 (2.024 %)Joomla!
55 (2.024 %)EPiServer
64 (1.619 %)nginx
73 (1.215 %)Immediacy CMS
73 (1.215 %)IIS
73 (1.215 %)SharePoint
82 (0.810 %)SharePoint Server 2007
82 (0.810 %)WordPress
91 (0.405 %)MS Exchange
91 (0.405 %)TeamSite
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
143 (17.41 %)Photoshop
29 (3.644 %)Adobe Illustrator
37 (2.834 %)Fireworks
46 (2.429 %)MS Office
53 (1.215 %)MS Visio
62 (0.810 %)MS PowerPoint
71 (0.405 %)MS Excel
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (4.453 %)Google Analytics
27 (2.834 %)WebTrends
34 (1.619 %)BidBuddy
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
117 (6.883 %)Internet
210 (4.049 %)SAN
36 (2.429 %)DNS
43 (1.215 %)FTP
52 (0.810 %)HTTP
61 (0.405 %)TCP/IP
61 (0.405 %)VPN
61 (0.405 %)Intranet
61 (0.405 %)ADSL
61 (0.405 %)Broadband
61 (0.405 %)Wireless
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
128 (11.34 %)MySQL
26 (2.429 %)SQL Server
31 (0.405 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
31 (0.405 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (0.405 %)SQL Server Integration Services
31 (0.405 %)SQL Server 2008
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
125 (10.12 %)Subversion
219 (7.692 %)Dreamweaver
37 (2.834 %)VSS/SourceSafe
43 (1.215 %)Visual Studio
43 (1.215 %)Team Foundation Server
51 (0.405 %)Eclipse
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1113 (45.75 %)Marketing
253 (21.46 %)Finance
330 (12.15 %)Social Media
416 (6.478 %)Retail
515 (6.073 %)Telemarketing
515 (6.073 %)Advertising
610 (4.049 %)Games
78 (3.239 %)Publishing
78 (3.239 %)Online Games
87 (2.834 %)Education
87 (2.834 %)Insurance
95 (2.024 %)Pensions
102 (0.810 %)Music
102 (0.810 %)Government
102 (0.810 %)Billing
111 (0.405 %)Online Betting
111 (0.405 %)Animation
111 (0.405 %)Health
111 (0.405 %)Financial Institution
111 (0.405 %)Front Office
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
183 (33.60 %)Developer
245 (18.22 %)Web Developer
326 (10.53 %)Front-End Developer
425 (10.12 %)Analyst
521 (8.502 %)SEO Manager
616 (6.478 %)Designer
712 (4.858 %)SEO Analyst
712 (4.858 %)Senior Developer
712 (4.858 %)Marketing Manager
811 (4.453 %)Web Designer
811 (4.453 %)SEO Specialist
910 (4.049 %)UI Developer
910 (4.049 %)Senior Web Developer
109 (3.644 %)Web Analyst
109 (3.644 %)Online Marketing Manager
109 (3.644 %)Front-End Web Developer
118 (3.239 %)Account Manager
127 (2.834 %)Webmaster
127 (2.834 %)Senior UI Developer
127 (2.834 %)Marketing Executive
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
134 (13.77 %)W3C
217 (6.883 %)French Language
217 (6.883 %)German Language
217 (6.883 %)Spanish Language
316 (6.478 %)Portuguese Language
414 (5.668 %)Blog
512 (4.858 %)Russian Language
610 (4.049 %)Spread Betting
78 (3.239 %)Derivative
78 (3.239 %)Social Network
87 (2.834 %)Statistics
96 (2.429 %)Web 2.0
105 (2.024 %)Blackberry
114 (1.619 %)Mathematics
114 (1.619 %)SaaS
114 (1.619 %)FMCG
114 (1.619 %)iPhone
123 (1.215 %)Copywriting
132 (0.810 %)Taxonomies
132 (0.810 %)Contract for Difference
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
124 (9.717 %)Linux
222 (8.907 %)UNIX
35 (2.024 %)Ubuntu
42 (0.810 %)Windows
51 (0.405 %)Mac OS X
51 (0.405 %)Windows Server 2008
51 (0.405 %)CentOS
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
191 (36.84 %)Pay per click
256 (22.67 %)Online Marketing
355 (22.27 %)E-Commerce
441 (16.60 %)Content Management
523 (9.312 %)Web Development
622 (8.907 %)Web Analytics
720 (8.097 %)Agile Software Development
720 (8.097 %)Web Marketing
819 (7.692 %)OO
918 (7.287 %)Business Development
1014 (5.668 %)Search Engine Marketing
1112 (4.858 %)Competitor Analysis
129 (3.644 %)OOP
129 (3.644 %)Web Design
138 (3.239 %)Scrum
146 (2.429 %)UML
146 (2.429 %)Information Architecture
146 (2.429 %)ERD
155 (2.024 %)B2C
155 (2.024 %)MVC
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
183 (33.60 %)JavaScript
255 (22.27 %)PHP
321 (8.502 %)SQL
321 (8.502 %)ActionScript
412 (4.858 %)ActionScript 3.0
59 (3.644 %)Ruby
59 (3.644 %)PHP5
59 (3.644 %)C#
66 (2.429 %)ActionScript 2.0
75 (2.024 %)Java
75 (2.024 %)VB.NET
84 (1.619 %)C
84 (1.619 %)PHP4
93 (1.215 %)T-SQL
102 (0.810 %)VBScript
111 (0.405 %)JCL
111 (0.405 %)tcsh
111 (0.405 %)Bash shell
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
117 (6.883 %)Degree
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.405 %)SLA
11 (0.405 %)QA
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
148 (19.43 %)Google
211 (4.453 %)Yahoo!
310 (4.049 %)Microsoft
48 (3.239 %)Omniture
57 (2.834 %)Adobe
62 (0.810 %)Vignette
62 (0.810 %)Zend
71 (0.405 %)FrontRange
71 (0.405 %)JBoss
71 (0.405 %)DoubleClick
71 (0.405 %)Sage
71 (0.405 %)Salesforce.com