SEO Jobs in England

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 549 471
Rank change year-on-year +61 -78 -41
Permanent jobs citing SEO 410 381 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.46% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.48% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 339 260 557
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £42,500 £44,850
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% -5.24% -0.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £59,500 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £36,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.29% -10.53% +9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,689 79,484 137,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.98% 95.48% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55,784 48,470 74,128
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,324 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,881 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

SEO
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SEO in England

SEO
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SEO in England

SEO
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SEO in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SEO in England

SEO
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SEO within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 of England +101 99 £35,000 -17.65% 118
London -17 92 £45,000 - 107
South East -35 91 £33,750 -18.18% 43
North West +55 69 £35,000 -9.44% 64
Midlands +33 64 £34,000 -20.00% 65
West Midlands +30 40 £30,000 -29.41% 34
South West -10 33 £35,000 -7.89% 27
East of England +9 31 £33,500 +21.82% 23
East Midlands -5 24 £37,500 -6.25% 33
Yorkshire +80 20 £35,000 -33.96% 35
North East -13 10 £30,000 - 19
SEO
UK

SEO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 90 (21.95%) CMS
2 68 (16.59%) WordPress
3 9 (2.20%) Umbraco
4 6 (1.46%) Drupal
4 6 (1.46%) Joomla!
5 5 (1.22%) IIS
6 4 (0.98%) Confluence
7 3 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.73%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.73%) Orchard CMS
8 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (4.15%) Photoshop
4 11 (2.68%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (2.20%) Adobe XD
6 9 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (2.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.49%) Elementor
7 2 (0.49%) FileZilla
7 2 (0.49%) Sketch
7 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.24%) CapCut
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 20 (4.88%) Shopify
2 18 (4.39%) Magento
3 8 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.73%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.24%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 112 (27.32%) Google Analytics
2 24 (5.85%) Google Ads
3 19 (4.63%) Azure
3 19 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.93%) Google Tag Manager
5 11 (2.68%) Figma
6 9 (2.20%) AWS
7 8 (1.95%) Adobe Analytics
7 8 (1.95%) Canva
8 6 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 6 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.46%) npm
8 6 (1.46%) SaaS
9 5 (1.22%) GitHub
9 5 (1.22%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.98%) ChatGPT
10 4 (0.98%) Google Sheets
11 3 (0.73%) Google Data Studio
11 3 (0.73%) MailChimp
11 3 (0.73%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.46%) VoIP
2 4 (0.98%) Internet
3 3 (0.73%) Intranet
4 2 (0.49%) FTP
4 2 (0.49%) SNA
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.34%) MySQL
2 12 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.68%) Looker
4 5 (1.22%) Power BI
5 4 (0.98%) Metadata
5 4 (0.98%) Tableau
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.49%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.24%) MS Access
7 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Power Query
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (10.00%) Git
2 19 (4.63%) JIRA
3 10 (2.44%) gulp
4 6 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) ESLint
7 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.24%) Storybook
7 1 (0.24%) Vite
7 1 (0.24%) YouTrack
General
1 275 (67.07%) Marketing
2 133 (32.44%) Social Skills
3 69 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.95%) Organisational Skills
5 41 (10.00%) Advertising
6 36 (8.78%) Finance
7 26 (6.34%) Retail
8 20 (4.88%) Games
9 18 (4.39%) Publishing
10 12 (2.93%) French Language
11 10 (2.44%) Multimedia
11 10 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.20%) Banking
13 6 (1.46%) Automotive
13 6 (1.46%) Brand Awareness
13 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.46%) Law
13 6 (1.46%) Legal
13 6 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.22%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 100 (24.39%) Developer
2 31 (7.56%) Web Developer
3 28 (6.83%) PHP Developer
3 28 (6.83%) Senior
4 26 (6.34%) SEO Manager
5 21 (5.12%) Administrator
5 21 (5.12%) Copywriter
5 21 (5.12%) Full Stack Developer
6 20 (4.88%) SEO Specialist
6 20 (4.88%) Web Administrator
7 19 (4.63%) Content Manager
7 19 (4.63%) E-Commerce Administrator
8 18 (4.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 18 (4.39%) Lead
9 17 (4.15%) Analyst
9 17 (4.15%) SEO Executive
10 16 (3.90%) Digital Executive
10 16 (3.90%) Lead Developer
10 16 (3.90%) Web Manager
11 15 (3.66%) E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (34.63%) HTML
2 127 (30.98%) CSS
3 36 (8.78%) Sass
4 31 (7.56%) .NET
5 27 (6.59%) React
6 26 (6.34%) HTML5
7 24 (5.85%) jQuery
8 19 (4.63%) Vue
9 17 (4.15%) Laravel
10 16 (3.90%) JSON
11 15 (3.66%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.66%) Node.js
12 14 (3.41%) CSS3
13 13 (3.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 12 (2.93%) LESS
15 11 (2.68%) AngularJS
15 11 (2.68%) Tailwind CSS
16 10 (2.44%) Electron
16 10 (2.44%) Next.js
17 8 (1.95%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 116 (28.29%) Social Media
2 67 (16.34%) Blog
3 38 (9.27%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (6.10%) Algorithms
5 19 (4.63%) Graphic Design
6 11 (2.68%) Video Editing
7 10 (2.44%) Digital Media
7 10 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.71%) Photography
10 5 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.98%) FMCG
11 4 (0.98%) NHS
11 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.73%) Animation
12 3 (0.73%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.49%) EPoS
13 2 (0.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.20%) Windows
2 8 (1.95%) Linux
3 4 (0.98%) VMS
4 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (42.68%) Analytics
2 132 (32.20%) E-Commerce
3 126 (30.73%) Digital Marketing
4 124 (30.24%) User Experience
5 82 (20.00%) Web Development
6 78 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (16.83%) Project Management
8 60 (14.63%) Pay per click
9 55 (13.41%) Marketing Strategy
10 52 (12.68%) Content Management
11 45 (10.98%) Front End Development
12 42 (10.24%) A/B Testing
13 41 (10.00%) B2B
14 39 (9.51%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
15 35 (8.54%) Content Strategy
15 35 (8.54%) Link Building
16 34 (8.29%) Content Writing
17 30 (7.32%) Copywriting
17 30 (7.32%) Full Stack Development
18 29 (7.07%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 101 (24.63%) JavaScript
2 56 (13.66%) PHP
3 24 (5.85%) SQL
4 23 (5.61%) C#
5 6 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.98%) Python
7 3 (0.73%) JSX
7 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.73%) VBA
8 2 (0.49%) Dart
9 1 (0.24%) Java
Qualifications
1 79 (19.27%) Degree
2 16 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.95%) DBS Check
4 6 (1.46%) HND
5 3 (0.73%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.24%) CIPD
6 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.83%) Accessibility
2 22 (5.37%) QA
3 9 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.24%) Plesk
Vendors
1 143 (34.88%) Google
2 53 (12.93%) Adobe
3 33 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 25 (6.10%) Ahrefs
5 19 (4.63%) Screaming Frog
6 17 (4.15%) WooCommerce
7 13 (3.17%) Facebook
8 10 (2.44%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.71%) Twitter
10 6 (1.46%) Instagram
11 5 (1.22%) Glassbox
12 4 (0.98%) dotdigital
12 4 (0.98%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.98%) Progress
13 3 (0.73%) Hootsuite
13 3 (0.73%) Sage
13 3 (0.73%) TikTok
14 1 (0.24%) Optimizely
14 1 (0.24%) YouTube