Dorset SEO Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Location Aberdeenshire Aldershot Altrincham Angus Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Fraserburgh Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Isle of Man Kent Kinross Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Milton Keynes New Malden New Quay Newbury Newquay Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Redruth Rochdale Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Skegness Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Surrey Swindon Tamworth Teddington Thames Ditton Thatcham Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	98	89
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.190 %	0.801 %
Salaries quoted	13	3
Average minimum salary	£25,692	£28,333
Average salary	£28,269	£32,500
% change on same period last year	-13.01 %
Average maximum salary	£30,846	£36,667
UK excluding London average salary	£28,527	£29,114
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Processes & Methodologies Dorset
Matching permanent IT job ads	1176	749
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.577 %	0.332 %
Salaries quoted	663	572
Average minimum salary	£36,701	£39,183
Average salary	£40,831	£43,030
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Average maximum salary	£44,962	£46,876
UK excluding London average salary	£42,840	£44,076
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
SEO South West

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the Dorset region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the Dorset region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Poole	-	10	£29,000	-
2	Bournemouth	-27	3	£31,250	-7.40 %

SEO South West

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Dorset region citing SEO also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SEO.

1 14 (63.64 %) Photoshop 2 11 (50.00 %) Dreamweaver 2 11 (50.00 %) CSS 2 11 (50.00 %) HTML 2 11 (50.00 %) Flash 2 11 (50.00 %) XHTML 2 11 (50.00 %) Pay per click 2 11 (50.00 %) Marketing 3 10 (45.45 %) Internet Marketing 4 8 (36.36 %) JavaScript 4 8 (36.36 %) PHP 5 6 (27.27 %) MySQL 5 6 (27.27 %) XML 5 6 (27.27 %) E-Commerce 6 5 (22.73 %) Electronics

6 5 (22.73 %) AJAX 7 4 (18.18 %) Project Management 7 4 (18.18 %) W3C 8 3 (13.64 %) Web Design 8 3 (13.64 %) Business Development 9 2 (9.091 %) Degree 9 2 (9.091 %) Web Development 9 2 (9.091 %) Copywriting 9 2 (9.091 %) Finance 9 2 (9.091 %) Retail 9 2 (9.091 %) Advertising 9 2 (9.091 %) Adobe 9 2 (9.091 %) LAMP 9 2 (9.091 %) C 10 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Dorset region citing SEO also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SEO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (50.00 %) HTML 1 11 (50.00 %) CSS 1 11 (50.00 %) XHTML 2 6 (27.27 %) XML 3 5 (22.73 %) AJAX 4 2 (9.091 %) LAMP 5 1 (4.545 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.545 %) Apache 1 1 (4.545 %) CMS
Applications 1 14 (63.64 %) Photoshop 2 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.545 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.545 %) Internet 1 1 (4.545 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (27.27 %) MySQL 2 1 (4.545 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 11 (50.00 %) Flash 1 11 (50.00 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (4.545 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 11 (50.00 %) Marketing 2 5 (22.73 %) Electronics 3 2 (9.091 %) Finance 3 2 (9.091 %) Advertising 3 2 (9.091 %) Retail 4 1 (4.545 %) Insurance 4 1 (4.545 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (4.545 %) Publishing 4 1 (4.545 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 13 (59.09 %) Developer 2 12 (54.55 %) Web Developer 3 6 (27.27 %) HTML Developer 4 3 (13.64 %) Account Manager 5 2 (9.091 %) Web Designer 6 1 (4.545 %) Marketing Manager 6 1 (4.545 %) SEO Specialist 6 1 (4.545 %) Website Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) Coordinator 6 1 (4.545 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (18.18 %) W3C 2 2 (9.091 %) Copywriting	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (50.00 %) Pay per click 2 10 (45.45 %) Internet Marketing 3 6 (27.27 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (18.18 %) Project Management 5 3 (13.64 %) Web Design 5 3 (13.64 %) Business Development 6 2 (9.091 %) Web Development 7 1 (4.545 %) OO 7 1 (4.545 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 8 (36.36 %) JavaScript 1 8 (36.36 %) PHP 2 2 (9.091 %) C 3 1 (4.545 %) PHP5 3 1 (4.545 %) PHP4	Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.545 %) QA	Vendors 1 2 (9.091 %) Adobe 2 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 2 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft