The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 22 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 Salford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 10 - 14
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SEO 3 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Salford 7.143% - 2.222%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.108% - 3.448%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
Average salary £30,000 - £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
37 37 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Salford 88.10% 72.55% 64.44%
Number of salaries quoted 35 34 29
Average salary £40,000 £34,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -16.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £30,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £53,500 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
Manchester

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Salford 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 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 8 (66.67%) ActionScript
3 8 (66.67%) PHP
3 8 (66.67%) MySQL
3 8 (66.67%) Web Services
3 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 8 (66.67%) UML
3 8 (66.67%) Apache
3 8 (66.67%) SOA
3 8 (66.67%) BBC
3 8 (66.67%) LAMP
3 8 (66.67%) Games
3 8 (66.67%) Scrum
3 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (66.67%) Ruby
3 8 (66.67%) Java
3 8 (66.67%) Ontologies
3 8 (66.67%) Social Network
3 8 (66.67%) Semantic Web
3 8 (66.67%) Game Development
3 8 (66.67%) REST
3 8 (66.67%) Analytics
4 6 (50.00%) CRM
5 4 (33.33%) Social Media
6 2 (16.67%) Google
6 2 (16.67%) Marketing
6 2 (16.67%) Web Development
6 2 (16.67%) Blog
6 2 (16.67%) Podcast

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Salford 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 8 (66.67%) Web Services
1 8 (66.67%) LAMP
1 8 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (8.333%) XML
3 1 (8.333%) XSLT
3 1 (8.333%) ASP
3 1 (8.333%) XHTML
3 1 (8.333%) Ajax
3 1 (8.333%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Apache
2 1 (8.333%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (66.67%) Games
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Copywriter
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) BBC
1 8 (66.67%) Ontologies
1 8 (66.67%) Social Network
1 8 (66.67%) Semantic Web
2 4 (33.33%) Social Media
3 2 (16.67%) Blog
3 2 (16.67%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) UML
1 8 (66.67%) SOA
1 8 (66.67%) Scrum
1 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (66.67%) Game Development
1 8 (66.67%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Web Usability
4 1 (8.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 8 (66.67%) ActionScript
3 8 (66.67%) PHP
3 8 (66.67%) Ruby
3 8 (66.67%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
4 1 (8.333%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google