The first table below looks at the demand for SEO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Rank 23 19 44
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +25
Permanent jobs citing SEO 21 3 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 8.300% 2.419% 2.256%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.589% 2.970% 2.804%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 6
Average salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
219 101 214
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 86.56% 81.45% 80.45%
Number of salaries quoted 216 78 199
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,500 £80,000
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 Welwyn Garden City region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City SEO Salary Trend

SEO
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the Welwyn Garden City region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Welwyn Garden City SEO Salary Histogram

SEO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 27 (96.43%) Marketing
2 26 (92.86%) Web Development
3 24 (85.71%) E-Commerce
3 24 (85.71%) Analytics
4 23 (82.14%) Retail
5 21 (75.00%) Web Analytics
5 21 (75.00%) Online Marketing
6 20 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (71.43%) Mobile Marketing
6 20 (71.43%) Content Management
7 18 (64.29%) Agile Software Development
8 16 (57.14%) User Stories
9 14 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (46.43%) Scrum
10 13 (46.43%) C
11 12 (42.86%) Information Architecture
12 11 (39.29%) Usability Testing
13 4 (14.29%) Photoshop
13 4 (14.29%) CSS
13 4 (14.29%) XHTML
13 4 (14.29%) Fireworks
13 4 (14.29%) HTML
13 4 (14.29%) Dreamweaver
13 4 (14.29%) Adobe
13 4 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
13 4 (14.29%) Multivariate Testing
13 4 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
13 4 (14.29%) HTML5
14 3 (10.71%) Waterfall

SEO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 (14.29%) CSS
1 4 (14.29%) XHTML
1 4 (14.29%) HTML
1 4 (14.29%) HTML5
2 3 (10.71%) jQuery
2 3 (10.71%) Ajax
3 1 (3.571%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) WordPress
1 3 (10.71%) Magento
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Photoshop
1 4 (14.29%) Fireworks
1 4 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SiteCatalyst
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Dreamweaver
General
1 27 (96.43%) Marketing
2 23 (82.14%) Retail
3 3 (10.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Junior
2 4 (14.29%) Designer
3 3 (10.71%) Photoshop Designer
3 3 (10.71%) Web Designer
4 2 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Web Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Web Producer
5 1 (3.571%) Web Content Manager
5 1 (3.571%) UI Designer
5 1 (3.571%) Product Manager
5 1 (3.571%) User Experience Designer
5 1 (3.571%) Content Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Web Development
2 24 (85.71%) E-Commerce
2 24 (85.71%) Analytics
3 21 (75.00%) Web Analytics
3 21 (75.00%) Online Marketing
4 20 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (71.43%) Mobile Marketing
4 20 (71.43%) Content Management
5 18 (64.29%) Agile Software Development
6 16 (57.14%) User Stories
7 14 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (46.43%) Scrum
9 12 (42.86%) Information Architecture
10 11 (39.29%) Usability Testing
11 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
11 4 (14.29%) Multivariate Testing
11 4 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
12 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
12 3 (10.71%) Email Marketing
12 3 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) C
2 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.71%) PHP
2 3 (10.71%) C#
2 3 (10.71%) C++
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Adobe
2 3 (10.71%) Facebook
2 3 (10.71%) Omniture
2 3 (10.71%) ATG