SEO Job Trends in the North of England

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SEO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 238 252
Rank change year-on-year +69 +14 +136
Permanent jobs citing SEO 95 38 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.91% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 81 22 23
10th Percentile £26,548 £26,475 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 - £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £30,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -29.41% +54.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,438 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £71,200 £65,500
England median annual salary £42,410 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.21% -5.56% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,633 8,529 6,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.34% 89.80% 90.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,561 3,882 5,257
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,225 £82,548
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 North of England

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

SEO job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SEO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SEO

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SEO in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Yorkshire +31 43 £36,500 +21.67% 52
North West +46 42 £35,000 -33.01% 70
North East +13 11 £40,000 +33.33% 11
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.47%) WordPress
2 6 (6.32%) CMS
3 2 (2.11%) Drupal
3 2 (2.11%) EPiServer
3 2 (2.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.32%) Photoshop
3 4 (4.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (4.21%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (3.16%) Elementor
5 1 (1.05%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Magento
2 7 (7.37%) Shopify
3 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.95%) Google Analytics
2 14 (14.74%) Google Ads
3 6 (6.32%) Figma
4 2 (2.11%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (2.11%) Google Docs
4 2 (2.11%) Google Sheets
4 2 (2.11%) Google Workspace
4 2 (2.11%) MailChimp
4 2 (2.11%) npm
4 2 (2.11%) SaaS
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.05%) AWS
5 1 (1.05%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.05%) GitHub
5 1 (1.05%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.05%) Sprout Social
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) Looker
2 4 (4.21%) Metadata
3 1 (1.05%) MySQL
3 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) GitLab
2 2 (2.11%) Grunt
2 2 (2.11%) gulp
2 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.11%) Selenium
2 2 (2.11%) webpack
3 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.05%) JUnit
3 1 (1.05%) Pivotal Tracker
General
1 46 (48.42%) Marketing
2 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.68%) Advertising
4 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.53%) Finance
6 8 (8.42%) Retail
7 7 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Brand Awareness
8 3 (3.16%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (18.95%) SEO Manager
2 15 (15.79%) Account Manager
3 10 (10.53%) SEO Account Manager
4 9 (9.47%) Senior
5 8 (8.42%) E-Commerce Manager
6 7 (7.37%) E-Commerce Specialist
6 7 (7.37%) Marketing Manager
6 7 (7.37%) PPC Executive
7 5 (5.26%) Digital Marketing Manager
7 5 (5.26%) SEO Specialist
8 4 (4.21%) Coordinator
8 4 (4.21%) Developer
8 4 (4.21%) PPC Account Manager
8 4 (4.21%) PPC Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Account Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Senior SEO Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Technical Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Technical Account Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.42%) CSS
1 8 (8.42%) HTML
2 4 (4.21%) HTML5
3 2 (2.11%) .NET
3 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Cordova
3 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.11%) CSS3
3 2 (2.11%) Ionic Framework
3 2 (2.11%) jQuery
3 2 (2.11%) Node.js
3 2 (2.11%) Redux
3 2 (2.11%) RESTful
3 2 (2.11%) Sass
4 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.05%) Flask
4 1 (1.05%) Next.js
4 1 (1.05%) pytest
4 1 (1.05%) Spring
4 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.42%) Social Media
2 9 (9.47%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.32%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.11%) Blog
6 2 (2.11%) FMCG
6 2 (2.11%) Graphic Design
6 2 (2.11%) NHS
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.63%) Digital Marketing
1 31 (32.63%) E-Commerce
2 25 (26.32%) Pay per click
3 24 (25.26%) Analytics
4 20 (21.05%) User Experience
5 17 (17.89%) B2B
6 14 (14.74%) Agile
6 14 (14.74%) CRM
6 14 (14.74%) Paid Search
7 13 (13.68%) Customer Experience
8 12 (12.63%) Email Marketing
9 10 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (10.53%) B2C
10 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
11 8 (8.42%) Content Strategy
12 7 (7.37%) Budget Management
13 6 (6.32%) A/B Testing
13 6 (6.32%) Lead Generation
13 6 (6.32%) Link Building
13 6 (6.32%) Remarketing
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
2 3 (3.16%) SQL
3 2 (2.11%) Java
3 2 (2.11%) Python
4 1 (1.05%) C#
4 1 (1.05%) Delphi
4 1 (1.05%) PHP
4 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (6.32%) Degree
2 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.21%) QA
3 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.05%) Grafana
1 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (43.16%) Google
2 12 (12.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.47%) Adobe
4 8 (8.42%) Screaming Frog
5 5 (5.26%) HubSpot
6 4 (4.21%) Ahrefs
6 4 (4.21%) Hotjar
6 4 (4.21%) TikTok
6 4 (4.21%) YouTube
7 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.11%) Zoho
9 1 (1.05%) Hootsuite
9 1 (1.05%) New Relic
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle
9 1 (1.05%) Pardot
9 1 (1.05%) WooCommerce