The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 24 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 Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 32 41 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Permanent jobs citing SEO 2 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 1.325% 2.162% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.653% 2.667% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
Average salary £31,250 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
121 150 156
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 80.13% 81.08% 79.59%
Number of salaries quoted 38 136 151
Average salary £40,750 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.50% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £59,000
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 Stevenage region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (100.00%) Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) Multimedia
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (100.00%) Multimedia
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Web Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA