The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 17 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 Solihull region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank - - 29
Permanent jobs citing SEO 0 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull - - 2.500%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 3.650%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 5
Average salary - - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
189 106 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 80.08% 69.74% 68.50%
Number of salaries quoted 137 76 95
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £23,700 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £43,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
West Midlands

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) Marketing
2 3 (75.00%) Graphic Design
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Smarty
2 3 (75.00%) Online Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
4 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (25.00%) Web Design
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) WordPress
4 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (25.00%) Dreamweaver

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Smarty
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Online Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) SQL