The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 23 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 67 79 48
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -31
Permanent jobs citing SEO 17 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 1.914% 0.414% 1.493%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.534% 0.622% 1.966%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 7
Average salary £28,000 £47,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.05% +35.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,400 £31,900 £20,300
10% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £47,500 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
671 482 356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 75.56% 66.57% 75.91%
Number of salaries quoted 528 461 338
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £33,250 £27,300
10% offered a salary of more than £63,550 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
Surrey

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Guildford SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 20 (90.91%) CSS
2 17 (77.27%) HTML
3 16 (72.73%) Google
3 16 (72.73%) Analytics
4 13 (59.09%) Animation
5 11 (50.00%) Google Analytics
5 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
6 10 (45.45%) Adobe
7 9 (40.91%) Publishing
8 8 (36.36%) Content Management
8 8 (36.36%) Project Management
8 8 (36.36%) Photoshop
8 8 (36.36%) HTML5
8 8 (36.36%) WordPress
9 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET
9 6 (27.27%) .NET
10 5 (22.73%) MS Project
10 5 (22.73%) XHTML
10 5 (22.73%) CMS
10 5 (22.73%) GWT
10 5 (22.73%) jQuery
10 5 (22.73%) Umbraco
10 5 (22.73%) Interactive Media
10 5 (22.73%) CSS3
10 5 (22.73%) Social Media
10 5 (22.73%) SilverStripe
10 5 (22.73%) Open Source
11 3 (13.64%) Web Development
11 3 (13.64%) WCF
11 3 (13.64%) Ajax

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 20 (90.91%) CSS
2 17 (77.27%) HTML
3 8 (36.36%) HTML5
4 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET
4 6 (27.27%) .NET
5 5 (22.73%) XHTML
5 5 (22.73%) GWT
5 5 (22.73%) jQuery
5 5 (22.73%) CSS3
6 3 (13.64%) WCF
6 3 (13.64%) Ajax
6 3 (13.64%) Web Services
6 3 (13.64%) XML
6 3 (13.64%) DOM
6 3 (13.64%) XSL
6 3 (13.64%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) WordPress
2 5 (22.73%) CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Umbraco
2 5 (22.73%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Photoshop
2 5 (22.73%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 9 (40.91%) Publishing
2 5 (22.73%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Web Developer
3 8 (36.36%) Front-End Developer
3 8 (36.36%) Front-End Web Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Digital Producer
5 3 (13.64%) Analyst
6 2 (9.091%) .NET Developer
6 2 (9.091%) C# Developer
6 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Campaign Analyst
6 2 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Digital Designer
6 2 (9.091%) Designer
6 2 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Animation
2 5 (22.73%) Social Media
2 5 (22.73%) Open Source
3 3 (13.64%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Analytics
2 8 (36.36%) Content Management
2 8 (36.36%) Project Management
3 3 (13.64%) Web Development
4 2 (9.091%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) C#
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Google
2 10 (45.45%) Adobe