SEO Jobs in the North of England

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 401 341
Rank change year-on-year +100 -60 -49
Permanent jobs citing SEO 96 29 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.51% 0.18% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.19% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 83 15 96
10th Percentile £24,750 £34,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £37,398 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £51,250 £66,875 £43,750
90th Percentile £57,633 £142,750 £53,250
England median annual salary £36,539 £42,500 £44,850
% change year-on-year -14.03% -5.24% -0.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,325 15,604 17,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.27% 96.70% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,565 7,763 10,660
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,840 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SEO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SEO in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SEO in the North of England.

Salary trend for SEO in the North of England

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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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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
North West +52 67 £35,000 -9.44% 51
Yorkshire +72 20 £35,000 -33.96% 33
North East -8 9 £30,000 - 11
SEO
England

SEO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (17.71%) CMS
2 11 (11.46%) WordPress
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (11.46%) Photoshop
2 5 (5.21%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.08%) FileZilla
5 1 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.04%) Elementor
5 1 (1.04%) Sketch
5 1 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Shopify
2 3 (3.13%) Sage 200
3 2 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.21%) Google Analytics
2 10 (10.42%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (6.25%) Google Ads
4 5 (5.21%) Google Tag Manager
5 3 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (3.13%) Google Data Studio
5 3 (3.13%) npm
5 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.13%) Storyblok
6 2 (2.08%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.04%) AWS
7 1 (1.04%) Basecamp
7 1 (1.04%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Intranet
2 2 (2.08%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Looker
2 4 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (3.13%) Power BI
3 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.13%) Tableau
4 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Git
2 6 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.21%) gulp
4 3 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.04%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.04%) Storybook
6 1 (1.04%) YouTrack
General
1 58 (60.42%) Marketing
2 52 (54.17%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.63%) Games
5 8 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (7.29%) Finance
7 6 (6.25%) Automotive
8 4 (4.17%) Advertising
9 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.08%) Publishing
11 1 (1.04%) Esports
11 1 (1.04%) Law
11 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (32.29%) Developer
2 12 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 11 (11.46%) Senior
4 9 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 8 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Junior
5 8 (8.33%) SEO Manager
6 7 (7.29%) Copywriter
7 6 (6.25%) Games Developer
7 6 (6.25%) Junior Developer
7 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.25%) SEO Copywriter
8 5 (5.21%) Analyst
8 5 (5.21%) Content Manager
8 5 (5.21%) Senior PHP Developer
8 5 (5.21%) Web Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Full Stack PHP Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 4 (4.17%) SEO Executive
9 4 (4.17%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (36.46%) HTML
2 26 (27.08%) CSS
3 13 (13.54%) Node.js
4 12 (12.50%) Sass
5 11 (11.46%) LESS
5 11 (11.46%) React
6 10 (10.42%) Electron
6 10 (10.42%) JSON
7 8 (8.33%) Ajax
7 8 (8.33%) Vue
8 7 (7.29%) .NET
8 7 (7.29%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.25%) HTML5
10 5 (5.21%) jQuery
11 4 (4.17%) Next.js
11 4 (4.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 3 (3.13%) CSS3
12 3 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (2.08%) Laravel
13 2 (2.08%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.83%) Social Media
2 15 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (14.58%) Algorithms
3 14 (14.58%) Blog
4 3 (3.13%) NHS
5 2 (2.08%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.96%) Analytics
2 30 (31.25%) User Experience
3 24 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 24 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 21 (21.88%) Web Development
5 18 (18.75%) B2B
6 16 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
8 13 (13.54%) Link Building
9 12 (12.50%) Content Management
9 12 (12.50%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
9 12 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (12.50%) Pay per click
10 11 (11.46%) Content Strategy
10 11 (11.46%) Content Writing
11 10 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (10.42%) DevOps
11 10 (10.42%) Open Source
12 9 (9.38%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.29%) JavaScript
2 17 (17.71%) PHP
3 9 (9.38%) SQL
4 8 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.13%) JSX
6 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Degree
2 14 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.25%) HND
4 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.04%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Plesk
Vendors
1 42 (43.75%) Google
2 15 (15.63%) Adobe
3 9 (9.38%) Ahrefs
4 8 (8.33%) Screaming Frog
5 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.17%) WooCommerce
7 3 (3.13%) Facebook
7 3 (3.13%) Sage
7 3 (3.13%) Twitter
8 1 (1.04%) Hotjar
8 1 (1.04%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.04%) Instagram
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.04%) TikTok