SEO Jobs in the South East

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 302 366
Rank change year-on-year +4 +64 -66
Permanent jobs citing SEO 93 110 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.72% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.77% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 79 83 80
10th Percentile £24,850 £31,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £28,125 £38,750 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £44,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £45,700 - £72,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,110 14,363 18,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.93% 94.48% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,934 8,329 12,098
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SEO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SEO in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SEO in the South East.

Salary trend for SEO in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SEO in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Thames Valley +42 43 £37,500 -6.25% 12
Berkshire +37 30 £37,500 -6.25% 6
Kent +7 20 £27,500 -29.03% 3
Hampshire -11 16 £30,000 -33.33% 2
East Sussex -2 9 £40,000 -11.11% 4
Oxfordshire +23 7 £32,500 -54.39% 3
Buckinghamshire -14 6 £21,500 -73.94% 3
Sussex - 3 £37,500 - 1
West Sussex +21 1 £43,500 +51.30% 7
Surrey -7 1 - - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 22 (23.66%) CMS
2 7 (7.53%) WordPress
3 6 (6.45%) Joomla!
4 5 (5.38%) Drupal
5 4 (4.30%) Umbraco
6 3 (3.23%) Orchard CMS
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
8 1 (1.08%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.08%) InDesign
3 1 (1.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Magento
2 5 (5.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (5.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.28%) Google Analytics
2 5 (5.38%) Canva
2 5 (5.38%) Google Ads
3 4 (4.30%) AWS
4 2 (2.15%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.15%) Serverless
5 1 (1.08%) Asana
5 1 (1.08%) Azure
5 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.08%) Figma
5 1 (1.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.08%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.08%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.08%) MailChimp
5 1 (1.08%) Miro
5 1 (1.08%) npm
5 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) Looker
2 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.23%) MySQL
4 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) JIRA
2 4 (4.30%) Git
3 3 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.08%) Vite
General
1 75 (80.65%) Marketing
2 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.43%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (11.83%) Advertising
4 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.68%) Retail
6 7 (7.53%) Multimedia
7 3 (3.23%) Brand Awareness
7 3 (3.23%) Games
7 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) French Language
8 2 (2.15%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.08%) Back Office
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (19.35%) Administrator
1 18 (19.35%) E-Commerce Administrator
1 18 (19.35%) Web Administrator
2 14 (15.05%) Digital Executive
3 11 (11.83%) Developer
4 9 (9.68%) SEO Specialist
5 4 (4.30%) Content Coordinator
5 4 (4.30%) Coordinator
5 4 (4.30%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (4.30%) Marketing Executive
5 4 (4.30%) PPC Specialist
5 4 (4.30%) Senior
5 4 (4.30%) Web Developer
6 3 (3.23%) .NET Developer
6 3 (3.23%) Marketing Manager
6 3 (3.23%) SEO Manager
7 2 (2.15%) Digital Project Manager
7 2 (2.15%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (2.15%) Social Media Manager
7 2 (2.15%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (36.56%) CSS
1 34 (36.56%) HTML
2 11 (11.83%) .NET
3 7 (7.53%) jQuery
3 7 (7.53%) Sass
4 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.30%) React
5 3 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.23%) Blazor
5 3 (3.23%) Laravel
5 3 (3.23%) Symfony
5 3 (3.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (3.23%) Vue
6 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (38.71%) Blog
2 22 (23.66%) Social Media
3 6 (6.45%) Graphic Design
4 5 (5.38%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.38%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.38%) Video Editing
5 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.15%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.08%) Photography
7 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.08%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.23%) Windows
1 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) E-Commerce
2 42 (45.16%) Digital Marketing
3 33 (35.48%) User Experience
4 30 (32.26%) Analytics
4 30 (32.26%) Project Management
5 17 (18.28%) A/B Testing
5 17 (18.28%) Market Research
6 16 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (16.13%) Competitor Analysis
8 12 (12.90%) Marketing Strategy
9 11 (11.83%) Content Management
10 9 (9.68%) Kanban
10 9 (9.68%) Mobile Development
10 9 (9.68%) PRINCE2
10 9 (9.68%) Scrum
10 9 (9.68%) Web Development
11 8 (8.60%) Pay per click
12 7 (7.53%) B2B
12 7 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.28%) JavaScript
2 9 (9.68%) SQL
3 7 (7.53%) PHP
4 3 (3.23%) Python
5 2 (2.15%) C#
6 1 (1.08%) Java
6 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (21.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) QA
2 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.30%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Google
2 11 (11.83%) Adobe
3 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.45%) Facebook
5 4 (4.30%) HubSpot
5 4 (4.30%) Instagram
5 4 (4.30%) Progress
5 4 (4.30%) WooCommerce
6 3 (3.23%) Hootsuite
6 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.15%) TikTok
7 2 (2.15%) Twitter
7 2 (2.15%) YouTube
8 1 (1.08%) Marketo
8 1 (1.08%) Screaming Frog