The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank - 45 27
Permanent jobs citing SEO 0 4 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton - 1.114% 4.594%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.681% 5.118%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 12
Average salary - £35,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
273 238 254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 78.67% 66.30% 89.75%
Number of salaries quoted 242 208 220
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
Bedfordshire

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) B2C
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) CMS
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Volume Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Web Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) B2B

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) CMS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) B2C
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Volume Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Web Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
Luton, Bedfordshire
Familiarity with web analytics tools and other online marketing technologies... Keywords: SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, Campaign Reporting, Link Development, Link Building, Search, Search Marketing, SEM, PPC, Organic, Google...
Intelligent People
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Implement monitoring and reporting processes and best practice PPC... "Experience managing search engines other than Google and be highly competent managing and optimising campaigns within Facebook... Keywords: Pay-...
Intelligent People
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013