The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank165154167
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+13
Matching permanent IT job ads189219871295
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.569 %1.620 %1.356 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category2.128 %2.225 %1.915 %
Number of salaries quoted174418271162
Average salary£35,000£34,000£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94 %+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£23,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£52,500£47,500
UK excluding London average salary£31,500£30,000£27,500
% change year-on-year
+5.00 %+9.09 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
889158928967609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.73 %72.82 %70.81 %
Number of salaries quoted755227477355328
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

SEO
Demand Trend

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

SEO Demand Trend

SEO
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SEO within the UK.

SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-81831£35,000+2.94 %
LondonUp+8927£40,000-
South EastDown-68294£35,000+2.94 %
City of LondonUp+47192£40,000+1.26 %
North WestUp+5186£27,500+1.85 %
YorkshireUp+14155£30,000+15.38 %
West YorkshireUp+11101£31,250+15.74 %
East of EnglandDown-6294£32,500-7.14 %
West MidlandsUp+1493£32,500+3.17 %
LeedsUp+1778£30,000+12.14 %
SurreyDown-3478£30,000-14.28 %
CheshireUp+2274£27,500-6.77 %
ManchesterDown-3465£27,500+5.76 %
BerkshireDown-4251£45,000+28.57 %
South WestDown-2743£32,500+30.00 %
OxfordshireDown-1739£33,500-1.47 %
HertfordshireDown-2039£37,500-11.76 %
East MidlandsDown-3639£27,500-8.33 %
StaffordshireUp+1636£40,000+1.26 %
ScotlandUp+1932£31,250+11.60 %
LancashireUp+1132£26,000-5.45 %
HampshireDown-4529£35,000+7.69 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1727£33,000+10.00 %
MacclesfieldUp+1925£30,000-
South YorkshireDown-1125£27,500-1.78 %
North YorkshireUp+2424£30,000-11.11 %
ReadingDown-224£45,000+55.17 %
EssexDown-123£27,500-21.42 %
Stoke-on-TrentUp+1320£41,250+20.43 %
BirminghamDown-519£30,000+9.09 %

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11876 (51.84 %)CSS
21818 (50.23 %)HTML
31697 (46.89 %)Marketing
41587 (43.85 %)JavaScript
51127 (31.14 %)E-Commerce
61024 (28.30 %)Social Media
7966 (26.69 %)Pay per click
8963 (26.61 %)PHP
9840 (23.21 %)jQuery
10692 (19.12 %)CMS
11652 (18.02 %)XHTML
12641 (17.71 %)Google
13609 (16.83 %)Web Development
14597 (16.50 %)MySQL
15591 (16.33 %).NET
16575 (15.89 %)Ajax
17557 (15.39 %)XML
18516 (14.26 %)Photoshop
19495 (13.68 %)HTML5
20488 (13.48 %)Online Marketing
21486 (13.43 %)SQL
22484 (13.37 %)Web Analytics
23479 (13.24 %)Content Management
24456 (12.60 %)Google Analytics
25446 (12.32 %)Digital Marketing
26438 (12.10 %)Degree
27404 (11.16 %)ASP.NET
28395 (10.91 %)C#
29387 (10.69 %)Project Management
30360 (9.947 %)Retail

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11876 (51.84 %)CSS
21818 (50.23 %)HTML
3840 (23.21 %)jQuery
4652 (18.02 %)XHTML
5591 (16.33 %).NET
6575 (15.89 %)Ajax
7557 (15.39 %)XML
8495 (13.68 %)HTML5
9404 (11.16 %)ASP.NET
10320 (8.842 %)Flash
11307 (8.483 %)CSS3
12189 (5.222 %)Web Services
13188 (5.195 %)LAMP
14185 (5.112 %)ASP
15140 (3.868 %)JSP
16123 (3.399 %)JSON
17103 (2.846 %)XSLT
1899 (2.736 %)Ruby on Rails
1991 (2.515 %)J2EE
2082 (2.266 %)WebSphere
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1692 (19.12 %)CMS
2239 (6.604 %)WordPress
3227 (6.272 %)Drupal
4182 (5.029 %)Apache
5131 (3.620 %)IIS
6119 (3.288 %)Magento
7114 (3.150 %)Joomla!
897 (2.680 %)SharePoint
938 (1.050 %)WebLogic
1035 (0.967 %)SharePoint Server
1130 (0.829 %)Alfresco
1229 (0.801 %)Umbraco
1328 (0.774 %)Liferay
1427 (0.746 %)TeamSite
1525 (0.691 %)Facebook Platform
1624 (0.663 %)Tomcat
1723 (0.636 %)Apache Solr
1822 (0.608 %)Documentum
1822 (0.608 %)ColdFusion
1822 (0.608 %)Kentico
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1516 (14.26 %)Photoshop
2170 (4.697 %)Adobe Illustrator
3147 (4.062 %)MS Excel
4106 (2.929 %)Fireworks
597 (2.680 %)MS Visio
673 (2.017 %)MS Office
749 (1.354 %)MS PowerPoint
824 (0.663 %)InDesign
914 (0.387 %)Spreadsheet
1012 (0.332 %)Acrobat
115 (0.138 %)SPSS
124 (0.111 %)MS Project
124 (0.111 %)FastStats
124 (0.111 %)Google Apps
133 (0.083 %)ImageReady
142 (0.055 %)GIMP
142 (0.055 %)Final Cut Pro
151 (0.028 %)Adobe After Effects
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1456 (12.60 %)Google Analytics
268 (1.879 %)WebTrends
352 (1.437 %)SiteCatalyst
422 (0.608 %)Optimost
518 (0.497 %)Dynamics CRM
610 (0.276 %)Pivotal CRM
76 (0.166 %)Tridion
83 (0.083 %)Summit
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1351 (9.699 %)Internet
269 (1.907 %)HTTP
357 (1.575 %)Intranet
445 (1.243 %)FTP
529 (0.801 %)DNS
620 (0.553 %)SSH
717 (0.470 %)Firewall
816 (0.442 %)HTTPS
816 (0.442 %)SMTP
911 (0.304 %)SSL
911 (0.304 %)IMAP
1010 (0.276 %)TCP/IP
119 (0.249 %)SAN
125 (0.138 %)VoIP
134 (0.111 %)Network Security
134 (0.111 %)Fibre Channel
143 (0.083 %)Reverse Proxy
143 (0.083 %)Broadband
143 (0.083 %)Extranet
152 (0.055 %)SMS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1597 (16.50 %)MySQL
2306 (8.455 %)SQL Server
368 (1.879 %)SQL Server 2005
441 (1.133 %)SQL Server 2008
528 (0.774 %)PostgreSQL
627 (0.746 %)RDBMS
725 (0.691 %)Data Warehouse
819 (0.525 %)Hadoop
917 (0.470 %)Oracle 11g
1016 (0.442 %)Business Intelligence Development Studio
1114 (0.387 %)SQL Server 2000
1211 (0.304 %)Crystal Reports
1310 (0.276 %)ETL
149 (0.249 %)GIS
158 (0.221 %)Pentaho
165 (0.138 %)Oracle 10g
165 (0.138 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
165 (0.138 %)Clementine
165 (0.138 %)Oracle 9i
165 (0.138 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1242 (6.687 %)Subversion
2188 (5.195 %)Dreamweaver
398 (2.708 %)Visual Studio
485 (2.349 %)Git (software)
531 (0.857 %)JIRA
628 (0.774 %)Selenium
723 (0.636 %)PHPUnit
819 (0.525 %)Axure RP
918 (0.497 %)PhoneGap
1016 (0.442 %)Balsamiq Mockups
1016 (0.442 %)Firebug
1114 (0.387 %)Synon
1213 (0.359 %)Mercurial
1311 (0.304 %)NetBeans
149 (0.249 %)NUnit
149 (0.249 %)Eclipse
149 (0.249 %)Team Foundation Server
149 (0.249 %)JSUnit
158 (0.221 %)Talend Open Studio
158 (0.221 %)Ant
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11697 (46.89 %)Marketing
2360 (9.947 %)Retail
3250 (6.908 %)Finance
4241 (6.659 %)Advertising
5124 (3.426 %)Games
6112 (3.095 %)Publishing
773 (2.017 %)Multimedia
832 (0.884 %)Telecoms
832 (0.884 %)German Language
928 (0.774 %)Music
1019 (0.525 %)Billing
1118 (0.497 %)Pharmaceutical
1215 (0.414 %)Legal
1314 (0.387 %)French Language
1314 (0.387 %)Spanish Language
1413 (0.359 %)Dutch Language
1413 (0.359 %)Manufacturing
1511 (0.304 %)Back Office
1610 (0.276 %)Arabic Language
1610 (0.276 %)Music Industry
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11318 (36.42 %)Developer
2623 (17.21 %)Web Developer
3356 (9.837 %)PPC Manager
4355 (9.809 %)PPC Analyst
4355 (9.809 %)PPC Executive
4355 (9.809 %)PPC Specialist
5281 (7.765 %)PHP Developer
6272 (7.516 %)Designer
7247 (6.825 %)Front-End Developer
8236 (6.521 %)Marketing Manager
9213 (5.886 %)Analyst
10196 (5.416 %)Senior Developer
11193 (5.333 %)Web Designer
12163 (4.504 %).NET Developer
13160 (4.421 %)SEO Executive
14126 (3.482 %)Web Manager
15112 (3.095 %)Architect
15112 (3.095 %)Consultant
16111 (3.067 %)Project Manager
1795 (2.625 %)ASP.NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11024 (28.30 %)Social Media
2252 (6.963 %)W3C
3151 (4.172 %)Open Source
4150 (4.145 %)Digital Media
5136 (3.758 %)Social Network
6110 (3.040 %)Web 2.0
7106 (2.929 %)Blog
896 (2.653 %)iPhone
985 (2.349 %)Blackberry
1082 (2.266 %)Computer Science
1178 (2.155 %)Copywriting
1263 (1.741 %)Graphic Design
1356 (1.547 %)Statistics
1455 (1.520 %)iPad
1552 (1.437 %)Management Information System
1641 (1.133 %)N-Tier
1738 (1.050 %)SaaS
1837 (1.022 %)New Media
1936 (0.995 %)Smartphone
2030 (0.829 %)Mathematics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1283 (7.820 %)Linux
2217 (5.996 %)Windows
3145 (4.007 %)Android
485 (2.349 %)Apple iOS
562 (1.713 %)UNIX
645 (1.243 %)Windows Server 2008
734 (0.939 %)Windows Mobile
830 (0.829 %)Windows Server 2003
927 (0.746 %)BlackBerry OS
1022 (0.608 %)webOS
1022 (0.608 %)CentOS
1114 (0.387 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
129 (0.249 %)Windows Phone 7
137 (0.193 %)Debian
137 (0.193 %)Windows 2000
146 (0.166 %)AIX
154 (0.111 %)Mac OS X
162 (0.055 %)Solaris
162 (0.055 %)Fedora
171 (0.028 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11127 (31.14 %)E-Commerce
2966 (26.69 %)Pay per click
3609 (16.83 %)Web Development
4488 (13.48 %)Online Marketing
5484 (13.37 %)Web Analytics
6479 (13.24 %)Content Management
7446 (12.32 %)Digital Marketing
8387 (10.69 %)Project Management
9307 (8.483 %)Web Design
10287 (7.930 %)Agile Software Development
11267 (7.378 %)Email Marketing
12255 (7.046 %)OO
13228 (6.300 %)CRM
14202 (5.582 %)MVC
15172 (4.753 %)Scrum
16151 (4.172 %)B2B
17127 (3.509 %)B2C
18125 (3.454 %)TDD
19118 (3.261 %)Marketing Strategy
20117 (3.233 %)Information Architecture
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11587 (43.85 %)JavaScript
2963 (26.61 %)PHP
3486 (13.43 %)SQL
4395 (10.91 %)C#
5333 (9.201 %)Java
6163 (4.504 %)ActionScript
7158 (4.366 %)Ruby
8132 (3.647 %)Python
9131 (3.620 %)PHP5
10118 (3.261 %)VB.NET
1163 (1.741 %)T-SQL
1257 (1.575 %)ActionScript 3.0
1341 (1.133 %)C
1432 (0.884 %)Perl
1530 (0.829 %)Objective-C
1624 (0.663 %)ActionScript 2.0
1722 (0.608 %)C++
1821 (0.580 %)VB
1919 (0.525 %)PL/SQL
2015 (0.414 %)XPath
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1438 (12.10 %)Degree
213 (0.359 %)Microsoft Certification
312 (0.332 %)PRINCE2 Certification
410 (0.276 %)ISEB
57 (0.193 %)PMI Certification
65 (0.138 %)PMP
74 (0.111 %)MCSE
74 (0.111 %)MCITP
83 (0.083 %)ISTQB
83 (0.083 %)NVQ Level 4
92 (0.055 %)MBA
92 (0.055 %)MCP
92 (0.055 %)Postgraduate
101 (0.028 %)CIMA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
180 (2.211 %)QA
232 (0.884 %)WAI
326 (0.718 %)ISO 9001
425 (0.691 %)WCAG
524 (0.663 %)PAS 78
63 (0.083 %)SLA
71 (0.028 %)GCP
71 (0.028 %)PCI DSS
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
123 (0.636 %)Active Directory
27 (0.193 %)Varnish
34 (0.111 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.055 %)vCloud
51 (0.028 %)Hyper-V
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
115 (0.414 %)Foglight
214 (0.387 %)Puppet
310 (0.276 %)ZABBIX
46 (0.166 %)Plesk
51 (0.028 %)BMC PATROL
51 (0.028 %)HP Quality Center
51 (0.028 %)EMC NetWorker
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1641 (17.71 %)Google
2246 (6.797 %)Microsoft
3230 (6.355 %)Adobe
4197 (5.443 %)Facebook
5154 (4.255 %)Omniture
6108 (2.984 %)Zend
794 (2.597 %)Twitter
893 (2.570 %)Oracle
977 (2.128 %)Vignette
1075 (2.072 %)ATG
1148 (1.326 %)hybris
1244 (1.216 %)IBM
1340 (1.105 %)Yahoo!
1435 (0.967 %)Sitecore
1533 (0.912 %)Coremetrics
1631 (0.857 %)Salesforce.com
1727 (0.746 %)AccuRev
1822 (0.608 %)Red Hat
1822 (0.608 %)Symbian
1921 (0.580 %)Eloqua