SEO Job Trends in the Midlands

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SEO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 193 210
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 +89
Permanent jobs citing SEO 32 48 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.41% 0.72% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.80% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25 40 13
10th Percentile £29,850 £31,925 £27,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.26% -15.68%
75th Percentile £45,590 £37,500 £39,500
90th Percentile £54,800 £41,375 £43,500
England median annual salary £42,410 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.21% -5.56% -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,361 5,982 4,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.66% 89.64% 88.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,507 2,641 3,683
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,479 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SEO job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SEO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SEO

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SEO in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
West Midlands +39 24 £38,750 -3.13% 47
East Midlands -42 9 £40,000 +14.29% 39
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (37.50%) WordPress
2 4 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (6.25%) Photoshop
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Shopify
2 2 (6.25%) OpenCart
3 1 (3.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 3 (9.38%) Google Ads
2 3 (9.38%) Google Workspace
2 3 (9.38%) SaaS
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Figma
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) DB2
2 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) JUnit
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 19 (59.38%) Marketing
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Advertising
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Publishing
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Marketing Executive
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) SEO Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Digital Executive
4 3 (9.38%) Digital Marketing Executive
5 2 (6.25%) Account Manager
5 2 (6.25%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (6.25%) E-Commerce Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Account Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior SEO Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Manager
5 2 (6.25%) SEO Account Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Account Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Vendor Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) CSS
1 4 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) Django
2 2 (6.25%) EDI
2 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.25%) Flask
2 2 (6.25%) pytest
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.13%) HTML5
3 1 (3.13%) Next.js
3 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Social Media
2 7 (21.88%) Blog
3 4 (12.50%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (9.38%) Digital Media
5 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
5 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.13%) Graphic Design
6 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.13%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Analytics
2 12 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
3 10 (31.25%) Email Marketing
3 10 (31.25%) Marketing Strategy
4 9 (28.13%) E-Commerce
5 8 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
6 7 (21.88%) B2B
6 7 (21.88%) Market Research
6 7 (21.88%) Marketing Automation
7 6 (18.75%) Copywriting
7 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 6 (18.75%) Pay per click
8 5 (15.63%) User Experience
9 4 (12.50%) Agile
9 4 (12.50%) Campaign Management
9 4 (12.50%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
9 4 (12.50%) CRM
9 4 (12.50%) Multichannel Marketing
9 4 (12.50%) Product Management
9 4 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.38%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Delphi
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) PHP
4 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Grafana
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Control-M
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Google
2 8 (25.00%) HubSpot
3 3 (9.38%) Adobe
3 3 (9.38%) Ahrefs
4 2 (6.25%) Apple
4 2 (6.25%) Facebook
4 2 (6.25%) Instagram
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Screaming Frog
4 2 (6.25%) TikTok
4 2 (6.25%) YouTube
5 1 (3.13%) BMC
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Talend
5 1 (3.13%) WooCommerce