SEO Job Trends in Wales

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SEO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 72 91
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +20
Permanent jobs citing SEO 8 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.77% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.27% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £48,125 £46,375 £36,882
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,563 £38,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +21.88% -1.85%
75th Percentile £55,000 £51,563 £47,500
90th Percentile £56,500 £52,125 £52,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £39,875
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.58% -11.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 787 739 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 75.89% 83.88% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 533 355 637
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,149 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SEO
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

SEO job vacancy trend in Wales

SEO
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SEO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SEO

SEO
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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 Wales +7 7 £50,000 +2.56% 5
West Wales - 1 £55,200 -
SEO
UK

SEO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (25.00%) WordPress
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Brand Awareness
2 1 (12.50%) Police
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) SEO Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Account Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Account Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Senior SEO Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Technical Manager
3 2 (25.00%) SEO Account Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Account Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Producer
4 1 (12.50%) Head of Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Django
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Flask
1 1 (12.50%) pytest
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Blog
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Social Media
1 1 (12.50%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Analytics
1 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (12.50%) API Development
2 1 (12.50%) API Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Campaign Management
2 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Generation
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) Multichannel Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Sales Enablement
2 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Delphi
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Screaming Frog
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle