SEO Jobs in England

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 552 490
Rank change year-on-year +72 -62 -32
Permanent jobs citing SEO 392 413 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.45% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.47% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 346 275 517
10th Percentile £25,625 £28,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £45,000 £44,850
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +0.33% -0.33%
75th Percentile £49,928 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £77,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £36,750 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.53% -10.53% +7.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,151 88,568 126,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.83% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,953 52,310 73,829
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,958 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

SEO
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SEO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SEO in England

SEO
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SEO in England.

Salary trend for SEO in England

SEO
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SEO in England

SEO
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +3 93 £47,500 +5.56% 119
South East -6 93 £32,500 -24.86% 36
North of England +96 85 £35,000 -33.33% 95
Midlands +55 60 £37,500 -14.29% 49
North West +56 59 £35,000 -9.44% 60
West Midlands +61 38 £31,250 -31.32% 30
South West -1 34 £35,000 -0.59% 31
East of England +22 27 £33,500 +21.82% 27
East Midlands 0 22 £40,000 -8.57% 19
Yorkshire +96 18 £32,500 -56.67% 29
North East -3 8 £30,000 -20.00% 6
SEO
UK

SEO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 87 (22.19%) CMS
2 66 (16.84%) WordPress
3 7 (1.79%) Umbraco
4 6 (1.53%) Drupal
4 6 (1.53%) Joomla!
5 3 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.77%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.77%) IIS
5 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.77%) Orchard CMS
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.51%) EPiServer
Applications
1 30 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.85%) Photoshop
3 18 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (2.81%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (2.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (2.30%) Trello
7 6 (1.53%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.51%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.51%) InDesign
8 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.26%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 19 (4.85%) Magento
2 18 (4.59%) Shopify
3 7 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.77%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.26%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 110 (28.06%) Google Analytics
2 26 (6.63%) Google Ads
3 17 (4.34%) Azure
3 17 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.55%) Google Tag Manager
5 8 (2.04%) AWS
5 8 (2.04%) Canva
5 8 (2.04%) Figma
6 7 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
7 6 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 6 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.28%) GitHub
8 5 (1.28%) npm
8 5 (1.28%) SaaS
9 4 (1.02%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.02%) Google Sheets
9 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Advertising
9 4 (1.02%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.77%) MailChimp
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.53%) VoIP
2 4 (1.02%) Internet
3 3 (0.77%) Intranet
4 2 (0.51%) FTP
4 2 (0.51%) SNA
5 1 (0.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.38%) MySQL
2 12 (3.06%) Looker
3 10 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.02%) Metadata
4 4 (1.02%) Power BI
4 4 (1.02%) Tableau
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.26%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.26%) MS Access
7 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (10.71%) Git
2 19 (4.85%) JIRA
3 9 (2.30%) gulp
4 6 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.26%) ESLint
7 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.26%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.26%) Storybook
7 1 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 264 (67.35%) Marketing
2 126 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 68 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
5 40 (10.20%) Advertising
6 39 (9.95%) Finance
7 26 (6.63%) Retail
8 19 (4.85%) Games
9 16 (4.08%) Publishing
10 12 (3.06%) French Language
11 11 (2.81%) Brand Awareness
12 9 (2.30%) Multimedia
12 9 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.04%) Banking
14 6 (1.53%) Automotive
14 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.53%) Law
14 6 (1.53%) Legal
15 5 (1.28%) iGaming
15 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (23.72%) Developer
2 30 (7.65%) Web Developer
3 29 (7.40%) SEO Manager
4 28 (7.14%) Senior
5 26 (6.63%) PHP Developer
6 21 (5.36%) Administrator
7 20 (5.10%) Web Administrator
8 19 (4.85%) E-Commerce Administrator
9 18 (4.59%) Digital Executive
9 18 (4.59%) Full Stack Developer
10 17 (4.34%) Analyst
10 17 (4.34%) Content Manager
11 16 (4.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 16 (4.08%) SEO Specialist
12 15 (3.83%) Copywriter
12 15 (3.83%) E-Commerce Manager
12 15 (3.83%) Web Manager
13 14 (3.57%) Lead
13 14 (3.57%) SEO Executive
14 13 (3.32%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (34.44%) HTML
2 120 (30.61%) CSS
3 33 (8.42%) Sass
4 26 (6.63%) React
5 25 (6.38%) .NET
6 23 (5.87%) HTML5
6 23 (5.87%) jQuery
7 17 (4.34%) Vue
8 16 (4.08%) Laravel
9 15 (3.83%) JSON
9 15 (3.83%) Node.js
10 14 (3.57%) CSS3
11 11 (2.81%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.81%) LESS
11 11 (2.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 10 (2.55%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.55%) Electron
13 9 (2.30%) Next.js
14 8 (2.04%) Ajax
14 8 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 110 (28.06%) Social Media
2 62 (15.82%) Blog
3 34 (8.67%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.36%) Graphic Design
5 20 (5.10%) Algorithms
6 12 (3.06%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.81%) Video Editing
8 10 (2.55%) Digital Media
9 9 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.53%) Photography
12 4 (1.02%) FMCG
12 4 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.77%) Animation
13 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.77%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.77%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.77%) NHS
14 2 (0.51%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.79%) Linux
1 7 (1.79%) Windows
2 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (42.35%) Analytics
2 123 (31.38%) Digital Marketing
3 122 (31.12%) E-Commerce
3 122 (31.12%) User Experience
4 73 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (18.62%) Web Development
5 69 (17.60%) Project Management
6 62 (15.82%) Pay per click
7 55 (14.03%) Marketing Strategy
8 53 (13.52%) Content Management
9 42 (10.71%) A/B Testing
9 42 (10.71%) B2B
10 39 (9.95%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
11 38 (9.69%) Front End Development
12 35 (8.93%) Link Building
13 33 (8.42%) Content Strategy
13 33 (8.42%) Content Writing
14 31 (7.91%) UX Design
15 27 (6.89%) Decision-Making
15 27 (6.89%) Email Marketing
Programming Languages
1 92 (23.47%) JavaScript
2 56 (14.29%) PHP
3 23 (5.87%) SQL
4 18 (4.59%) C#
5 6 (1.53%) Dart
6 5 (1.28%) Python
6 5 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.77%) VBA
8 2 (0.51%) Java
8 2 (0.51%) JSX
Qualifications
1 80 (20.41%) Degree
2 14 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.53%) HND
4 5 (1.28%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 24 (6.12%) QA
3 9 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.26%) Plesk
Vendors
1 139 (35.46%) Google
2 51 (13.01%) Adobe
3 37 (9.44%) Microsoft
4 22 (5.61%) Ahrefs
5 17 (4.34%) Screaming Frog
6 16 (4.08%) WooCommerce
7 12 (3.06%) Facebook
8 10 (2.55%) HubSpot
9 8 (2.04%) Twitter
10 5 (1.28%) Glassbox
10 5 (1.28%) Instagram
10 5 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.02%) dotdigital
11 4 (1.02%) Progress
12 3 (0.77%) Hootsuite
12 3 (0.77%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.77%) Sage
13 2 (0.51%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.51%) TikTok
13 2 (0.51%) YouTube