The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 19 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 103 93 95
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +2
Permanent jobs citing SEO 46 50 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 1.792% 2.281% 1.316%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.254% 2.865% 1.839%
Number of salaries quoted 36 48 22
Average salary £29,000 £31,500 £26,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.93% +17.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,550 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,950 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2041 1745 1305
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 79.51% 79.61% 71.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1600 1455 1106
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,150 £50,000
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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leeds SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 91 (77.12%) Marketing
2 87 (73.73%) Pay per click
3 57 (48.31%) Analytics
4 55 (46.61%) Google
5 45 (38.14%) Google Analytics
6 37 (31.36%) Statistics
6 37 (31.36%) Degree
7 35 (29.66%) Cluster Analysis
7 35 (29.66%) Omniture
7 35 (29.66%) SAS
7 35 (29.66%) CHAID
8 32 (27.12%) Microsoft
8 32 (27.12%) MS Office
9 30 (25.42%) Predictive Modelling
9 30 (25.42%) Regression Analysis
10 25 (21.19%) MS Excel
11 18 (15.25%) CSS
11 18 (15.25%) JavaScript
12 17 (14.41%) HTML
13 15 (12.71%) Online Marketing
14 14 (11.86%) jQuery
15 13 (11.02%) Social Media
16 12 (10.17%) Digital Marketing
17 11 (9.322%) Internet
17 11 (9.322%) CMS
17 11 (9.322%) Link Building
18 9 (7.627%) PHP
18 9 (7.627%) .NET
19 8 (6.780%) HTML5
19 8 (6.780%) SQL

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 18 (15.25%) CSS
2 17 (14.41%) HTML
3 14 (11.86%) jQuery
4 9 (7.627%) .NET
5 8 (6.780%) HTML5
6 7 (5.932%) ASP.NET
7 6 (5.085%) CSS3
8 5 (4.237%) XML
8 5 (4.237%) Ajax
9 3 (2.542%) XSLT
9 3 (2.542%) YUI
10 2 (1.695%) Symfony
10 2 (1.695%) LINQ
10 2 (1.695%) MonoRail
10 2 (1.695%) Semantic HTML
10 2 (1.695%) Smarty
10 2 (1.695%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 2 (1.695%) XHTML
11 1 (0.847%) Flash
11 1 (0.847%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 35 (29.66%) SAS
2 11 (9.322%) CMS
3 6 (5.085%) WordPress
4 3 (2.542%) DotNetNuke
5 2 (1.695%) Drupal
6 1 (0.847%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.847%) Magento
6 1 (0.847%) Joomla!
Applications
1 32 (27.12%) MS Office
2 25 (21.19%) MS Excel
3 5 (4.237%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.847%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 45 (38.14%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.322%) Internet
2 5 (4.237%) HTTP
3 2 (1.695%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.780%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.237%) Clementine
3 4 (3.390%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.085%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.542%) Subversion
3 1 (0.847%) Dreamweaver
General
1 91 (77.12%) Marketing
2 7 (5.932%) Finance
3 4 (3.390%) Advertising
4 1 (0.847%) Multimedia
4 1 (0.847%) Games
4 1 (0.847%) Legal
Job Titles
1 51 (43.22%) Analyst
2 35 (29.66%) Marketing Analyst
3 21 (17.80%) Account Manager
3 21 (17.80%) SEO Account Manager
4 15 (12.71%) SEO Analyst
5 12 (10.17%) Developer
6 10 (8.475%) Team Leader
7 9 (7.627%) Front-End Developer
8 6 (5.085%) Designer
8 6 (5.085%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.237%) SAS Analyst
9 5 (4.237%) Marketing Manager
9 5 (4.237%) Web Developer
9 5 (4.237%) PPC Executive
9 5 (4.237%) PPC Manager
9 5 (4.237%) PPC Analyst
9 5 (4.237%) PPC Specialist
9 5 (4.237%) SAS Marketing Analyst
9 5 (4.237%) Digital Marketing Manager
10 4 (3.390%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (31.36%) Statistics
2 13 (11.02%) Social Media
3 3 (2.542%) W3C
3 3 (2.542%) Graphic Design
4 2 (1.695%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.847%) New Media
5 1 (0.847%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.390%) Windows
2 2 (1.695%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (1.695%) Linux
2 2 (1.695%) Mac OS X
2 2 (1.695%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (73.73%) Pay per click
2 57 (48.31%) Analytics
3 35 (29.66%) Cluster Analysis
3 35 (29.66%) CHAID
4 30 (25.42%) Predictive Modelling
4 30 (25.42%) Regression Analysis
5 15 (12.71%) Online Marketing
6 12 (10.17%) Digital Marketing
7 11 (9.322%) Link Building
8 7 (5.932%) Internet Marketing
8 7 (5.932%) Search Engine Marketing
9 6 (5.085%) Web Development
10 4 (3.390%) Content Management
10 4 (3.390%) Web Design
10 4 (3.390%) E-Commerce
11 3 (2.542%) OOP
11 3 (2.542%) Marketing Analytics
12 2 (1.695%) MVC
12 2 (1.695%) Data Analysis
12 2 (1.695%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (7.627%) PHP
3 8 (6.780%) SQL
4 4 (3.390%) C#
5 3 (2.542%) Java
Qualifications
1 37 (31.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.695%) WAI
Vendors
1 55 (46.61%) Google
2 35 (29.66%) Omniture
3 32 (27.12%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.237%) Adobe
5 2 (1.695%) Zend
6 1 (0.847%) Epiphany
6 1 (0.847%) Twitter
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