SEO Jobs in the UK excluding London

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 552 436
Rank change year-on-year +86 -116 -29
Permanent jobs citing SEO 311 209 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.35% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.36% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 275 166 353
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £23,850
25th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £68,750
UK median annual salary £36,539 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.03% -10.53% +9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

SEO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SEO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SEO in the UK excluding London

SEO
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SEO in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SEO in the UK excluding London

SEO
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SEO in the UK excluding London

SEO
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -18 90 £33,750 -20.59% 37
North of England +112 87 £35,000 -33.33% 85
North West +64 61 £35,000 -9.44% 50
Midlands +36 56 £35,500 -11.25% 52
West Midlands +48 38 £31,250 -28.57% 32
South West -4 34 £35,000 -0.59% 22
East of England +30 27 £33,500 +21.82% 24
Yorkshire +98 18 £32,500 -56.67% 28
East Midlands -6 18 £40,000 - 20
Scotland -78 11 £38,750 -3.13% 11
North East -4 8 £30,000 -20.00% 7
Wales +3 3 £32,000 -21.48% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £33,500 -
SEO
UK

SEO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 62 (19.94%) CMS
2 59 (18.97%) WordPress
3 6 (1.93%) Drupal
3 6 (1.93%) Joomla!
3 6 (1.93%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.96%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.96%) IIS
4 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.96%) Orchard CMS
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.64%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 14 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.18%) Photoshop
3 10 (3.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 10 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 7 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.93%) Adobe XD
6 4 (1.29%) Trello
7 2 (0.64%) FileZilla
8 1 (0.32%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 16 (5.14%) Magento
2 10 (3.22%) Shopify
3 7 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.96%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 77 (24.76%) Google Analytics
2 18 (5.79%) Google Ads
3 11 (3.54%) Azure
3 11 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.89%) AWS
5 8 (2.57%) Canva
6 7 (2.25%) Adobe Analytics
6 7 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 7 (2.25%) Figma
7 6 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.93%) Google Tag Manager
8 5 (1.61%) ChatGPT
8 5 (1.61%) Google Data Studio
8 5 (1.61%) npm
9 4 (1.29%) GitHub
10 3 (0.96%) MailChimp
10 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Advertising
10 3 (0.96%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.96%) SaaS
11 2 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.93%) VoIP
2 4 (1.29%) Internet
3 3 (0.96%) Intranet
4 2 (0.64%) FTP
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.04%) MySQL
2 15 (4.82%) Looker
3 9 (2.89%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.96%) Power BI
4 3 (0.96%) Tableau
5 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.64%) Metadata
6 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Redis
6 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (9.97%) Git
2 10 (3.22%) JIRA
3 9 (2.89%) gulp
4 6 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.32%) ESLint
7 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Storybook
7 1 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 216 (69.45%) Marketing
2 106 (34.08%) Social Skills
3 56 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.32%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (9.00%) Advertising
6 19 (6.11%) Games
7 17 (5.47%) Finance
8 11 (3.54%) Retail
9 8 (2.57%) Multimedia
10 7 (2.25%) Brand Awareness
11 6 (1.93%) Automotive
11 6 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.61%) iGaming
12 5 (1.61%) Law
12 5 (1.61%) Publishing
12 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.64%) Billing
14 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 81 (26.05%) Developer
2 28 (9.00%) PHP Developer
3 26 (8.36%) Web Developer
4 24 (7.72%) Senior
5 20 (6.43%) Administrator
5 20 (6.43%) SEO Manager
5 20 (6.43%) Web Administrator
6 18 (5.79%) E-Commerce Administrator
7 17 (5.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 17 (5.47%) SEO Executive
8 16 (5.14%) Digital Executive
9 14 (4.50%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (4.50%) SEO Specialist
10 12 (3.86%) Analyst
11 11 (3.54%) Copywriter
12 10 (3.22%) Content Manager
12 10 (3.22%) Lead
12 10 (3.22%) WordPress Developer
13 9 (2.89%) Junior
13 9 (2.89%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (36.01%) HTML
2 101 (32.48%) CSS
3 31 (9.97%) Sass
4 26 (8.36%) jQuery
5 23 (7.40%) React
6 21 (6.75%) .NET
7 17 (5.47%) HTML5
8 15 (4.82%) JSON
9 14 (4.50%) Node.js
9 14 (4.50%) Vue
10 13 (4.18%) Laravel
11 11 (3.54%) CSS3
11 11 (3.54%) LESS
11 11 (3.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 10 (3.22%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.22%) Electron
13 8 (2.57%) Ajax
13 8 (2.57%) Next.js
14 7 (2.25%) Tailwind CSS
15 6 (1.93%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 73 (23.47%) Social Media
2 60 (19.29%) Blog
3 32 (10.29%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.43%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.82%) Graphic Design
6 7 (2.25%) Digital Media
7 6 (1.93%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.61%) Video Editing
9 4 (1.29%) FMCG
9 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.29%) Photography
10 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.64%) Animation
11 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.64%) NHS
11 2 (0.64%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.32%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.25%) Linux
2 5 (1.61%) Windows
3 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (40.19%) Analytics
2 97 (31.19%) Digital Marketing
2 97 (31.19%) E-Commerce
2 97 (31.19%) User Experience
3 65 (20.90%) Web Development
4 60 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (15.43%) Marketing Strategy
5 48 (15.43%) Pay per click
6 44 (14.15%) Project Management
7 38 (12.22%) Front End Development
8 37 (11.90%) A/B Testing
9 36 (11.58%) Content Management
10 33 (10.61%) B2B
11 32 (10.29%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
11 32 (10.29%) Link Building
12 24 (7.72%) Content Writing
13 23 (7.40%) Content Strategy
14 22 (7.07%) Decision-Making
15 21 (6.75%) Competitor Analysis
15 21 (6.75%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 82 (26.37%) JavaScript
2 55 (17.68%) PHP
3 19 (6.11%) SQL
4 14 (4.50%) C#
5 6 (1.93%) Python
6 4 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.96%) VBA
8 2 (0.64%) Java
8 2 (0.64%) JSX
Qualifications
1 55 (17.68%) Degree
2 14 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.93%) HND
4 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.43%) Accessibility
2 18 (5.79%) QA
3 9 (2.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (3.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.32%) Plesk
1 1 (0.32%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 103 (33.12%) Google
2 44 (14.15%) Adobe
3 24 (7.72%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.82%) WooCommerce
5 12 (3.86%) Ahrefs
6 10 (3.22%) Screaming Frog
7 9 (2.89%) Facebook
8 8 (2.57%) HubSpot
9 7 (2.25%) Twitter
10 5 (1.61%) Glassbox
11 4 (1.29%) dotdigital
11 4 (1.29%) Instagram
11 4 (1.29%) Progress
12 3 (0.96%) Hootsuite
12 3 (0.96%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.96%) Sage
12 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.32%) Marketo
13 1 (0.32%) TikTok
13 1 (0.32%) YouTube