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

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 52 50 71
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +21
Permanent jobs citing SEO 6 10 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.145% 1.984% 0.901%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.630% 2.506% 1.124%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 6
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +29.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,950 £35,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £44,250
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
368 399 534
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 70.23% 79.17% 80.18%
Number of salaries quoted 260 319 418
Average salary £45,000 £49,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% -1.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £70,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
South East

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Middlesex SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 12 (80.00%) CSS
1 12 (80.00%) HTML5
1 12 (80.00%) CSS3
2 9 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (60.00%) Backbone.js
2 9 (60.00%) QUnit
2 9 (60.00%) Jasmine
2 9 (60.00%) Node.js
2 9 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (60.00%) Grails
2 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (60.00%) Groovy
2 9 (60.00%) Git (software)
2 9 (60.00%) Mocha
2 9 (60.00%) BDD
2 9 (60.00%) HTML
2 9 (60.00%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (60.00%) JUnit
2 9 (60.00%) Internet
2 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (60.00%) TDD
2 9 (60.00%) Pair Programming
2 9 (60.00%) Subversion
2 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Degree
3 6 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Google
4 4 (26.67%) Pay per click

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 12 (80.00%) CSS
1 12 (80.00%) HTML5
1 12 (80.00%) CSS3
2 9 (60.00%) Backbone.js
2 9 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (60.00%) Node.js
2 9 (60.00%) Grails
2 9 (60.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 3 (20.00%) Ajax
3 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
1 3 (20.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JUnit
1 9 (60.00%) Subversion
1 9 (60.00%) Git (software)
1 9 (60.00%) Mocha
1 9 (60.00%) QUnit
1 9 (60.00%) Jasmine
General
1 3 (20.00%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Advertising
2 2 (13.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
1 9 (60.00%) Web Developer
1 9 (60.00%) Front-End Developer
1 9 (60.00%) Front-End Web Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Web Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Head of Technology
3 1 (6.667%) PPC Specialist
3 1 (6.667%) Marketing Executive
3 1 (6.667%) PPC Manager
3 1 (6.667%) PPC Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Digital Marketing Executive
3 1 (6.667%) PPC Executive
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Social Media
3 1 (6.667%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (60.00%) TDD
1 9 (60.00%) Pair Programming
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
1 9 (60.00%) BDD
1 9 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Pay per click
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
6 1 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (6.667%) Time Management
6 1 (6.667%) Online Marketing
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (60.00%) Groovy
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft