SEO Jobs with Work from Home Options

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 467 378
Rank change year-on-year +57 -89 -18
Permanent jobs citing SEO 187 202 616
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.49% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.51% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 173 165 341
10th Percentile £25,500 £32,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £36,539 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.03% -10.53% +9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SEO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SEO trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SEO.

SEO salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SEO over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SEO salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 43 (22.99%) CMS
2 35 (18.72%) WordPress
3 5 (2.67%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.60%) Orchard CMS
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.07%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) Drupal
6 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (4.28%) Photoshop
3 8 (4.28%) Trello
4 7 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (2.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (1.07%) FileZilla
7 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.53%) Elementor
8 1 (0.53%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (3.74%) Magento
1 7 (3.74%) Shopify
2 2 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.53%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 72 (38.50%) Google Analytics
2 8 (4.28%) Google Ads
2 8 (4.28%) Google Tag Manager
3 6 (3.21%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 6 (3.21%) Canva
4 4 (2.14%) Figma
4 4 (2.14%) Google Sheets
5 3 (1.60%) Azure
5 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.60%) GitHub
5 3 (1.60%) Google Data Studio
5 3 (1.60%) MailChimp
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Advertising
5 3 (1.60%) npm
5 3 (1.60%) SaaS
6 2 (1.07%) AWS
6 2 (1.07%) Squarespace
6 2 (1.07%) Storyblok
6 2 (1.07%) Stripe
7 1 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) VoIP
2 2 (1.07%) FTP
2 2 (1.07%) SNA
3 1 (0.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.35%) Looker
2 8 (4.28%) MySQL
3 3 (1.60%) Metadata
4 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.53%) MS Access
4 1 (0.53%) Power BI
4 1 (0.53%) Power Query
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Git
1 13 (6.95%) JIRA
2 4 (2.14%) gulp
3 3 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 125 (66.84%) Marketing
2 56 (29.95%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.16%) Advertising
3 19 (10.16%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (9.63%) Finance
5 17 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.88%) Games
7 8 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.28%) Publishing
7 8 (4.28%) Retail
8 6 (3.21%) Law
8 6 (3.21%) Legal
9 4 (2.14%) French Language
10 3 (1.60%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.07%) Billing
11 2 (1.07%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (22.99%) Developer
2 19 (10.16%) PHP Developer
3 16 (8.56%) Administrator
3 16 (8.56%) Senior
3 16 (8.56%) Web Administrator
4 15 (8.02%) SEO Executive
5 14 (7.49%) E-Commerce Administrator
5 14 (7.49%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (4.81%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.28%) Content Manager
7 8 (4.28%) Copywriter
7 8 (4.28%) Digital Project Manager
7 8 (4.28%) Web Manager
8 7 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (3.74%) Lead
8 7 (3.74%) PPC Executive
9 6 (3.21%) Games Developer
9 6 (3.21%) Lead Full Stack Developer
9 6 (3.21%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.21%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (39.57%) HTML
2 65 (34.76%) CSS
3 13 (6.95%) Sass
4 12 (6.42%) .NET
4 12 (6.42%) Node.js
5 11 (5.88%) React
6 10 (5.35%) Electron
6 10 (5.35%) JSON
7 9 (4.81%) .NET Core
7 9 (4.81%) jQuery
8 7 (3.74%) CSS3
8 7 (3.74%) HTML5
8 7 (3.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 6 (3.21%) Next.js
9 6 (3.21%) Vue
10 4 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.14%) LESS
11 3 (1.60%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.60%) Blazor
11 3 (1.60%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.39%) Social Media
2 36 (19.25%) Blog
3 25 (13.37%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.88%) Graphic Design
5 10 (5.35%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.81%) Video Editing
7 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.21%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.67%) Digital Media
10 3 (1.60%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.60%) NHS
10 3 (1.60%) Photography
10 3 (1.60%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.07%) EPoS
11 2 (1.07%) FMCG
11 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.53%) PMI
12 1 (0.53%) Podcast
12 1 (0.53%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Windows
2 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (51.34%) Analytics
2 59 (31.55%) E-Commerce
3 55 (29.41%) User Experience
4 45 (24.06%) Digital Marketing
5 29 (15.51%) A/B Testing
6 27 (14.44%) Marketing Strategy
7 25 (13.37%) Content Strategy
7 25 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (13.37%) Web Development
8 23 (12.30%) Pay per click
9 22 (11.76%) Link Building
10 21 (11.23%) Project Management
11 20 (10.70%) B2B
12 19 (10.16%) Front End Development
13 18 (9.63%) Content Management
14 17 (9.09%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
15 15 (8.02%) Agile
15 15 (8.02%) CRM
15 15 (8.02%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (8.02%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.39%) JavaScript
2 28 (14.97%) PHP
3 9 (4.81%) C#
4 3 (1.60%) SQL
4 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.07%) JSX
6 1 (0.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (18.18%) Degree
2 12 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.21%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Plesk
Vendors
1 81 (43.32%) Google
2 26 (13.90%) Adobe
3 17 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.42%) Screaming Frog
5 9 (4.81%) Ahrefs
5 9 (4.81%) WooCommerce
6 8 (4.28%) Facebook
7 5 (2.67%) Twitter
8 4 (2.14%) Progress
9 3 (1.60%) Hootsuite
9 3 (1.60%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.07%) Instagram
11 1 (0.53%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.53%) Pardot
11 1 (0.53%) TikTok
11 1 (0.53%) YouTube