On <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/monster.com+indeed.com+hotjobs.com/?metric=sess">compete</a> I did a search analytics comparison between monster.com , indeed.com and hotjobs.com. To discover that while traffic to indeed.com and hotjobs.com has remained relatively even , monster.com traffic has increased monthly .
Visits were :
monster.com - 109,184,165
indeed.com - 19,476,287
hotjobs.com - 399,188
I've been collecting all the search terms used by users , having cleared out all the noise
words , the most popular search terms are:jobs in London , .net-jobs, Kent jobs,it jobs in scotland, technical support, jobs in oxford, java jobs , oracle dba jobs, IT jobs.
This quite surprised me as I assuemed most users would think of something specific , such as
pick a competitive skill such as replication jobs. These are direct search terms. What's interesting is that most of the traffic ITjobfeed.com gets from the search engines is a lot more niche.
To some extent this reflects that currect competitiveness of certain search terms. Whereas ITjobfeed.com has a lot of pages indexed which are very technical terms , and whcih send traffic to the site. A sample is http://www.itjobfeed.com/x10-jobs
ITjobfeed now has an IT events calendar.Predominantly for IT events in the UK, although we are happy to list an IT event from around the world. It is completely free to add your IT events listing to the calendar.
Whether you're promoting a Roadshow , training for your employees , or a seminar , contact us with your event details , we'll list and distribute to our user base
Since we've implemented a more diverse approach to our searches i.e capturing every job search users are making on ITjobfeed, there has been a marked increase in the range on searches users are making.
Possibly one reason , is that users are browsing through the top IT job searches section , which allows them to make searches , they wouldn't have made.
Check the statistics
We've all heard about the long tail , nothing new. But we've decided to list the top searches made by users on the site on the front page. This list is much different to what the standard IT job search services offer, who tend to concentrate on the most popular searches , such as Java jobs
This is as well as the top IT job searches section, which lists every search made by users on the site. On job searches starting with C the range is amazing. I set up the recording of the job searches and hadn't looked at it for a few months.
Over 300 UK locations are listed in the browse IT jobs . As well as being able to browse via the IT job searches which reflects what users are searching.
This is a new section and should allow job seekers to focus on particular areas of interest.
We'd like to hear some feedback on how we can make it a more useful search interface
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We've added an average salary per skill on the ITjobfeed IT job trends. The sample is taken from the IT job ads that are collected and added to the ITjobfeed database.
Currently the sample is 16,533 IT jobs sampled from over 100 job sites .
Further to the post below , we've added a second report .The report outlinesIT jobs trends by UK Location.The sample is taken from IT jobs collected and categorised on ITjobfeed.com. I've listed the top 10 locations of IT jobs posted .
| 1 | London | 1327 | London jobs |
| 2 | York | 137 | York jobs |
| 3 | Reading | 109 | Reading jobs |
| 4 | Cambridge | 107 | Cambridge jobs |
| 5 | Leeds | 81 | Leeds jobs |
| 6 | Manchester | 81 | Manchester jobs |
| 7 | Oxford | 78 | Oxford jobs |
| 8 | Birmingham | 63 | Birmingham jobs |
| 9 | Bristol | 62 | Bristol jobs |
| 10 | Edinburgh | 42 | Edinburgh jobs |
Everyday ITjobfeed.com sources , stores, and categorises IT job vacancies from over 100 job sites.
The aim of IT job Trends is to distill useful information about trends in the UK IT job market.
The first report analyses the frequency of different keywords , We've posted the top 10 keywords , you can see a full listing , here
| 1 | developer | 3386 | developer jobs |
| 2 | .NET | 1321 | .NET jobs |
| 3 | sap | 947 | sap jobs |
| 4 | Oracle | 347 | Oracle- jobs |
| 5 | J2EE | 283 | J2EE jobs |
| 6 | sql server | 205 | sql-server jobs |
| 7 | Technical Support | 194 | Technical-Support jobs |
| 8 | dba | 191 | dba jobs |
| 9 | Trainer | 173 | Trainer jobs |
| 10 | CRM | 119 | CRM jobs |
