The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Halifax region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 24 23 22
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SEO 2 15 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 1.379% 7.614% 5.645%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.754% 10.00% 8.861%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 7
Average salary £26,500 £34,000 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.05% +25.92%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
114 150 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 78.62% 76.14% 63.71%
Number of salaries quoted 81 108 53
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
West Yorkshire

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 4 (66.67%) CMS
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Sitefinity
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) PhoneGap
3 2 (33.33%) Copywriting
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) HNC
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Advertising
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) WordPress
3 2 (33.33%) Android
3 2 (33.33%) iPhone
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) Social Media
4 1 (16.67%) Google

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) jQuery
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (33.33%) HTML5
1 2 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) CMS
2 2 (33.33%) WordPress
2 2 (33.33%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) PhoneGap
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
1 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
1 2 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing Executive
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing Executive
2 1 (16.67%) Graduate
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Graduate
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 2 (33.33%) Copywriting
1 2 (33.33%) iPhone
1 2 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Android
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Content Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Pay per click
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) HNC
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Google
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