The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swansea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 23 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 Swansea region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank - - 20
Permanent jobs citing SEO 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea - - 1.282%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 3.571%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29 48 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 64.44% 57.14% 35.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26 48 20
Average salary £36,250 £29,000 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +7.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,050 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £30,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SEO
West Wales

SEO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Pay per click
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Pay per click
1 2 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google