SEO Jobs in England

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SEO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SEO over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 562 474
Rank change year-on-year +78 -88 -16
Permanent jobs citing SEO 388 399 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.44% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.46% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 339 273 537
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,900 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,539 £43,000 £44,850
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -4.12% +4.91%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £77,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £36,539 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.03% -10.53% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SEO is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,438 86,230 127,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,979 51,187 72,943
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

SEO
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SEO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SEO in England

SEO
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SEO in England.

Salary trend for SEO in England

SEO
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SEO in England

SEO
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 94 £47,500 +5.56% 127
South East -6 90 £33,750 -20.59% 37
North of England +109 88 £35,000 -26.32% 92
North West +55 62 £35,000 -9.44% 53
Midlands +40 55 £35,000 -12.50% 58
West Midlands +58 37 £30,000 -29.41% 35
South West -7 34 £35,000 -0.59% 23
East of England +24 27 £33,500 +21.82% 22
Yorkshire +88 18 £32,500 -56.67% 32
East Midlands 0 18 £40,000 - 23
North East -5 8 £30,000 -20.00% 7
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UK

SEO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (22.16%) CMS
2 65 (16.75%) WordPress
3 7 (1.80%) Umbraco
4 6 (1.55%) Drupal
4 6 (1.55%) Joomla!
5 3 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.77%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.77%) IIS
5 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.77%) Orchard CMS
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.52%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
Applications
1 28 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.64%) Photoshop
3 11 (2.84%) Adobe Illustrator
4 9 (2.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.32%) Trello
5 6 (1.55%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.52%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) Elementor
7 1 (0.26%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 18 (4.64%) Magento
1 18 (4.64%) Shopify
2 7 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.77%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.26%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 108 (27.84%) Google Analytics
2 25 (6.44%) Google Ads
3 17 (4.38%) Azure
3 17 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.84%) Google Tag Manager
5 8 (2.06%) AWS
5 8 (2.06%) Canva
5 8 (2.06%) Figma
6 7 (1.80%) Adobe Analytics
7 6 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.29%) GitHub
8 5 (1.29%) npm
8 5 (1.29%) SaaS
9 4 (1.03%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.03%) Google Sheets
9 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Advertising
9 4 (1.03%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.77%) MailChimp
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.55%) VoIP
2 4 (1.03%) Internet
3 3 (0.77%) Intranet
4 2 (0.52%) FTP
4 2 (0.52%) SNA
5 1 (0.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.19%) MySQL
2 12 (3.09%) Looker
3 10 (2.58%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.03%) Metadata
4 4 (1.03%) Power BI
4 4 (1.03%) Tableau
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.26%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.26%) MS Access
7 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (10.82%) Git
2 18 (4.64%) JIRA
3 9 (2.32%) gulp
4 6 (1.55%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.26%) ESLint
7 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.26%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.26%) Storybook
7 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 261 (67.27%) Marketing
2 122 (31.44%) Social Skills
3 68 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.86%) Organisational Skills
5 40 (10.31%) Advertising
6 39 (10.05%) Finance
7 24 (6.19%) Retail
8 19 (4.90%) Games
9 16 (4.12%) Publishing
10 12 (3.09%) French Language
11 9 (2.32%) Multimedia
11 9 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.06%) Banking
13 7 (1.80%) Brand Awareness
14 6 (1.55%) Automotive
14 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.55%) Law
14 6 (1.55%) Legal
15 5 (1.29%) iGaming
15 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (23.71%) Developer
2 29 (7.47%) Web Developer
3 28 (7.22%) Senior
4 26 (6.70%) PHP Developer
5 25 (6.44%) SEO Manager
6 21 (5.41%) Administrator
7 20 (5.15%) Web Administrator
8 19 (4.90%) E-Commerce Administrator
8 19 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
9 18 (4.64%) Content Manager
10 17 (4.38%) Digital Executive
10 17 (4.38%) SEO Specialist
11 16 (4.12%) Analyst
11 16 (4.12%) Copywriter
11 16 (4.12%) Web Manager
12 15 (3.87%) E-Commerce Manager
12 15 (3.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (3.87%) Lead
12 15 (3.87%) SEO Executive
13 14 (3.61%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (34.02%) HTML
2 117 (30.15%) CSS
3 33 (8.51%) Sass
4 26 (6.70%) .NET
5 25 (6.44%) React
6 23 (5.93%) HTML5
7 22 (5.67%) jQuery
8 17 (4.38%) Vue
9 16 (4.12%) Laravel
10 15 (3.87%) Node.js
11 14 (3.61%) CSS3
11 14 (3.61%) JSON
12 11 (2.84%) .NET Core
12 11 (2.84%) AngularJS
12 11 (2.84%) LESS
12 11 (2.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 10 (2.58%) Electron
14 8 (2.06%) Ajax
14 8 (2.06%) Next.js
14 8 (2.06%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 104 (26.80%) Social Media
2 62 (15.98%) Blog
3 34 (8.76%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (5.67%) Algorithms
5 19 (4.90%) Graphic Design
6 12 (3.09%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.84%) Video Editing
8 10 (2.58%) Digital Media
9 9 (2.32%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.55%) Photography
12 5 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (1.03%) FMCG
14 3 (0.77%) Animation
14 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.77%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.77%) NHS
15 2 (0.52%) EPoS
15 2 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.80%) Linux
1 7 (1.80%) Windows
2 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (42.78%) Analytics
2 122 (31.44%) Digital Marketing
2 122 (31.44%) E-Commerce
3 121 (31.19%) User Experience
4 73 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (18.81%) Web Development
5 67 (17.27%) Project Management
6 59 (15.21%) Pay per click
7 55 (14.18%) Marketing Strategy
8 52 (13.40%) Content Management
9 42 (10.82%) A/B Testing
9 42 (10.82%) B2B
10 39 (10.05%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
10 39 (10.05%) Front End Development
11 34 (8.76%) Content Strategy
11 34 (8.76%) Content Writing
11 34 (8.76%) Link Building
12 30 (7.73%) UX Design
13 28 (7.22%) Email Marketing
14 27 (6.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 92 (23.71%) JavaScript
2 54 (13.92%) PHP
3 22 (5.67%) SQL
4 19 (4.90%) C#
5 6 (1.55%) Dart
6 5 (1.29%) Python
6 5 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.77%) VBA
8 2 (0.52%) JSX
9 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 75 (19.33%) Degree
2 14 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.55%) HND
4 5 (1.29%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.47%) Accessibility
2 24 (6.19%) QA
3 9 (2.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (2.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.26%) Plesk
Vendors
1 136 (35.05%) Google
2 48 (12.37%) Adobe
3 35 (9.02%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.15%) Ahrefs
5 16 (4.12%) WooCommerce
6 15 (3.87%) Screaming Frog
7 9 (2.32%) Facebook
8 8 (2.06%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.80%) Twitter
10 5 (1.29%) Glassbox
11 4 (1.03%) dotdigital
11 4 (1.03%) Instagram
11 4 (1.03%) Progress
12 3 (0.77%) Hootsuite
12 3 (0.77%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.77%) Sage
12 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.52%) Optimizely
14 1 (0.26%) Qubit
14 1 (0.26%) YouTube