SEO Jobs in Scotland

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring SEO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SEO over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 269 196
Rank change year-on-year +132 -73 +17
Permanent jobs citing SEO 25 11 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.83% 0.16% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.18% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 22
10th Percentile £33,125 - £31,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -39.85%
75th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £42,813
90th Percentile £53,750 £44,125 £43,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £36,539 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -14.03% -10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,783 6,212 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.70% 91.15% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 2,458 2,089
10th Percentile £30,300 £28,425 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

SEO
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SEO in Scotland

SEO
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SEO in Scotland

SEO
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SEO in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Glasgow +167 15 £42,500 +70.00% 29
Edinburgh +28 10 £43,750 +2.94% 26
SEO
UK

SEO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (20.00%) CMS
2 3 (12.00%) Drupal
3 2 (8.00%) Umbraco
4 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (12.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Google Analytics
2 2 (8.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 13 (52.00%) Marketing
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Advertising
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Head of Digital
2 4 (16.00%) Digital Executive
2 4 (16.00%) Digital Transformation
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Business Development Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Business Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Development Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Digital Development Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Digital Marketing Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Sales Executive
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Generation Executive
4 2 (8.00%) Sales Executive
5 1 (4.00%) Content Editor
5 1 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Content Editor
5 1 (4.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) CSS3
2 2 (8.00%) HTML5
2 2 (8.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) Social Media
2 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (12.00%) Blog
3 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Digital Strategy
2 8 (32.00%) Business Development
2 8 (32.00%) Digital Marketing
3 6 (24.00%) Analytics
3 6 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) B2B
4 4 (16.00%) B2B Sales
4 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (16.00%) CRM
4 4 (16.00%) Lead Generation
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) User Experience
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (12.00%) Content Development
5 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.00%) Multichannel Marketing
5 3 (12.00%) OpenUP
5 3 (12.00%) Pay per click
5 3 (12.00%) Telesales
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Google
2 5 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) Adobe
3 2 (8.00%) HubSpot