SEO Job Trends in Birmingham

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SEO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 123 96
Rank change year-on-year +28 -27 +54
Permanent jobs citing SEO 6 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.23% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £30,625 - £28,500
25th Percentile £33,911 - £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,639 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.10% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £48,897 - £40,000
90th Percentile £50,000 - £41,500
West Midlands median annual salary £38,750 £40,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +33.33% -29.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,377 1,742 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.01% 92.41% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 968 820 930
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,060 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SEO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SEO job vacancy trend in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SEO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SEO

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Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SEO in Birmingham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) SEO Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Account Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Account Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior SEO Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Manager
2 2 (33.33%) SEO Account Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Account Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Vendor Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) EDI
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Screaming Frog