SEO Contracts in the City of London

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SEO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SEO over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 119 160
Rank change year-on-year -2 +41 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SEO 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.097% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.11% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £283 £209 £314
25th Percentile £313 £245 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £320 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -24.71% -15.84%
75th Percentile £438 £405 £491
90th Percentile £468 £447 £526
Central London median daily rate £155 £410 £425
% change year-on-year -62.20% -3.53% -15.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

SEO falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,746 1,901 2,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.84% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,265 2,018
10th Percentile £325 £378 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £765 £789 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SEO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SEO in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SEO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SEO

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SEO in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SEO in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SEO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SEO

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Brand Awareness
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Content Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blog
1 1 (50.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Integrated Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google