West Midlands SEO Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SEO over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carnforth Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cradley Heath Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Romford Rotherham Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stamford Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Towcester Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Widnes Wiltshire Windsor Witney Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	143
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching permanent IT job ads	102	82
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	2.078 %	1.700 %
Salaries quoted	88	76
Average minimum salary	£25,248	£24,682
Average salary	£27,536	£26,365
% change on same period last year	+4.44 %
Average maximum salary	£29,825	£28,047
UK excluding London average salary	£29,321	£28,025
% change on same period last year	+4.62 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	4908	4824
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.716 %	2.023 %
Salaries quoted	4150	4159
Average minimum salary	£36,142	£37,278
Average salary	£39,523	£40,357
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Average maximum salary	£42,904	£43,435
UK excluding London average salary	£42,540	£44,374
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SEO across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SEO across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SEO across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwickshire	+14	34	£27,420	-3.78 %
Coventry	-1	25	£28,300	+14.84 %
Birmingham	-4	21	£29,575	+22.50 %
Herefordshire	+8	14	£22,800	-34.23 %
Staffordshire	-1	9	£24,444	-37.91 %
Solihull	-	2	£30,750	-
Shropshire	-26	2	£22,500	-10.53 %
Walsall	-	1	£25,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 100 (55.25 %) HTML 2 87 (48.07 %) CSS 3 72 (39.78 %) Marketing 4 65 (35.91 %) PHP 5 60 (33.15 %) Pay per click 6 53 (29.28 %) Photoshop 6 53 (29.28 %) Dreamweaver 7 52 (28.73 %) XHTML 8 51 (28.18 %) Internet Marketing 9 48 (26.52 %) .NET 10 45 (24.86 %) MySQL 10 45 (24.86 %) E-Commerce 11 43 (23.76 %) Web Design 12 41 (22.65 %) Advertising 12 41 (22.65 %) Flash

12 41 (22.65 %) ASP.NET 13 40 (22.10 %) XML 13 40 (22.10 %) JavaScript 14 39 (21.55 %) Web Development 15 33 (18.23 %) Internet 16 29 (16.02 %) SQL Server 16 29 (16.02 %) ASP 17 26 (14.36 %) W3C 18 25 (13.81 %) Adobe 19 24 (13.26 %) Email Marketing 20 23 (12.71 %) CMS 20 23 (12.71 %) Content Management 20 23 (12.71 %) Multimedia 21 22 (12.15 %) Adobe Illustrator 22 21 (11.60 %) InDesign

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 100 (55.25 %) HTML 2 87 (48.07 %) CSS 3 52 (28.73 %) XHTML 4 48 (26.52 %) .NET 5 41 (22.65 %) ASP.NET 6 40 (22.10 %) XML 7 29 (16.02 %) ASP 8 18 (9.945 %) RSS 9 14 (7.735 %) J2SE 10 12 (6.630 %) XSLT 11 6 (3.315 %) AJAX 12 3 (1.657 %) J2EE 12 3 (1.657 %) Spring 13 2 (1.105 %) jQuery 13 2 (1.105 %) LAMP 14 1 (0.552 %) .NET Framework 14 1 (0.552 %) Silverlight 14 1 (0.552 %) YUI 14 1 (0.552 %) DOM 14 1 (0.552 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 23 (12.71 %) CMS 2 5 (2.762 %) IIS 3 4 (2.210 %) ColdFusion 4 3 (1.657 %) Apache 4 3 (1.657 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 53 (29.28 %) Photoshop 2 22 (12.15 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 21 (11.60 %) InDesign 4 5 (2.762 %) Fireworks 5 4 (2.210 %) 3ds Max 5 4 (2.210 %) CorelDRAW 6 1 (0.552 %) MS Project 6 1 (0.552 %) MS Excel 6 1 (0.552 %) FreeHand	Business Applications 1 1 (0.552 %) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 33 (18.23 %) Internet 2 2 (1.105 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.552 %) DNS 3 1 (0.552 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 45 (24.86 %) MySQL 2 29 (16.02 %) SQL Server 3 1 (0.552 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 53 (29.28 %) Dreamweaver 2 41 (22.65 %) Flash 3 1 (0.552 %) Subversion	General 1 72 (39.78 %) Marketing 2 41 (22.65 %) Advertising 3 23 (12.71 %) Multimedia 4 19 (10.50 %) Retail 5 15 (8.287 %) Games 6 14 (7.735 %) Education 7 10 (5.525 %) Electronics 8 4 (2.210 %) Video Editing 9 3 (1.657 %) Pensions 10 2 (1.105 %) Manufacturing 11 1 (0.552 %) Construction 11 1 (0.552 %) Pharmaceutical 11 1 (0.552 %) Back Office 11 1 (0.552 %) Electric 11 1 (0.552 %) Health 11 1 (0.552 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 78 (43.09 %) Developer 2 50 (27.62 %) Web Developer 3 33 (18.23 %) Web Designer 4 25 (13.81 %) SEO Specialist 5 24 (13.26 %) .NET Developer 6 21 (11.60 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 18 (9.945 %) .NET Web Developer 8 16 (8.840 %) Marketing Manager 8 16 (8.840 %) Online Marketing Manager 9 13 (7.182 %) Senior Web Designer 10 12 (6.630 %) Senior Programmer 10 12 (6.630 %) Web Programmer 10 12 (6.630 %) Programmer 11 10 (5.525 %) PHP Developer 12 7 (3.867 %) Web Manager 13 6 (3.315 %) C# Developer 13 6 (3.315 %) Senior Developer 14 5 (2.762 %) Senior Web Developer 14 5 (2.762 %) Search Manager 15 4 (2.210 %) Marketing Executive	Miscellaneous 1 26 (14.36 %) W3C 2 3 (1.657 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (1.105 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 6 (3.315 %) Windows 2 4 (2.210 %) Linux 2 4 (2.210 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (2.210 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 60 (33.15 %) Pay per click 2 51 (28.18 %) Internet Marketing 3 45 (24.86 %) E-Commerce 4 43 (23.76 %) Web Design 5 39 (21.55 %) Web Development 6 24 (13.26 %) Email Marketing 7 23 (12.71 %) Content Management 8 16 (8.840 %) B2B 9 15 (8.287 %) B2C 10 6 (3.315 %) CRM 11 5 (2.762 %) Digital Marketing 12 4 (2.210 %) Time Management 13 3 (1.657 %) E-business 13 3 (1.657 %) Workflow 14 1 (0.552 %) Scrum 14 1 (0.552 %) Direct Marketing
Programming Languages 1 65 (35.91 %) PHP 2 40 (22.10 %) JavaScript 3 19 (10.50 %) Java 4 16 (8.840 %) DHTML 5 14 (7.735 %) C 6 12 (6.630 %) SQL 7 10 (5.525 %) C# 8 7 (3.867 %) ActionScript 9 6 (3.315 %) PHP5 9 6 (3.315 %) Delphi 9 6 (3.315 %) VB.NET 10 1 (0.552 %) VB	Qualifications 1 20 (11.05 %) Degree 2 3 (1.657 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.105 %) WAI	Vendors 1 25 (13.81 %) Adobe 2 12 (6.630 %) Google 3 5 (2.762 %) Yahoo! 4 3 (1.657 %) ATG 5 1 (0.552 %) Microsoft