SEO Engineer Job Trends in England

Search Engine Optimisation Engineer (SEO Engineer)
UK > England

The median Search Engine Optimisation Engineer (SEO Engineer) salary in England is £44,889 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 747 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an SEO Engineer 11 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43,847 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,889 - -
75th Percentile £45,930 - -
90th Percentile £48,120 - -
UK median annual salary £48,623 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 96,039 39,178 62,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 90.48% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67,339 23,090 36,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,020
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%

SEO Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SEO Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SEO Engineer job vacancy trend in England

SEO Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for SEO Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for SEO Engineer job vacancies in England

SEO Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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 - 5 - - 2
South West - 1 £44,905 - 1
SEO Engineer
UK

SEO Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 8 October 2026, SEO Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring SEO Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) SEO
2 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) AI
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Python
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
5 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
5 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (18.18%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code

SEO Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) SEO
2 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) AI
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
5 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) GPFS
1 1 (9.09%) Lustre
1 1 (9.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) HP