The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 21 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank - 20 33
Permanent jobs citing SEO 0 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans - 8.088% 2.793%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 12.64% 3.788%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 5
Average salary - £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.75%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
138 87 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 74.19% 63.97% 73.74%
Number of salaries quoted 76 56 53
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,667 £26,800 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
Hertfordshire

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Android

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Web Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Web Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java