SEO Jobs in the UK excluding London

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 525 431
Rank change year-on-year +66 -94 -47
Permanent jobs citing SEO 343 208 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.38% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.39% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 283 172 380
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £24,250
25th Percentile £27,750 £34,591 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £35,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.47% -10.53% +9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 12 June 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 12 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 +82 101 £35,000 -17.65% 106
South East -38 92 £33,750 -15.63% 38
North West +36 70 £35,000 -9.44% 61
Midlands +16 66 £34,000 -20.00% 54
West Midlands +27 42 £30,000 -29.41% 26
East of England +3 33 £33,500 +21.82% 16
South West -23 33 £35,000 -7.28% 21
East Midlands -13 24 £37,500 -21.05% 30
Yorkshire +74 20 £35,000 -26.70% 31
Scotland -79 12 £35,000 -12.50% 11
North East -13 11 £30,000 - 15
Wales +12 3 £32,000 -21.48% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £33,500 - 1
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 70 (20.41%) CMS
2 62 (18.08%) WordPress
3 9 (2.62%) Umbraco
4 6 (1.75%) Drupal
4 6 (1.75%) IIS
4 6 (1.75%) Joomla!
5 3 (0.87%) Confluence
5 3 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.87%) Orchard CMS
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 16 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.79%) Photoshop
3 10 (2.92%) Adobe Illustrator
4 9 (2.62%) Adobe XD
4 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (2.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.17%) Trello
8 2 (0.58%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.29%) CapCut
9 1 (0.29%) Elementor
9 1 (0.29%) InDesign
9 1 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (4.66%) Magento
2 12 (3.50%) Shopify
3 8 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.87%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 82 (23.91%) Google Analytics
2 18 (5.25%) Azure
2 18 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (4.66%) Google Ads
4 10 (2.92%) AWS
4 10 (2.92%) Figma
5 8 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
5 8 (2.33%) Canva
6 7 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 7 (2.04%) Google Tag Manager
7 6 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.75%) Google Data Studio
7 6 (1.75%) npm
8 5 (1.46%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.17%) GitHub
9 4 (1.17%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.87%) MailChimp
10 3 (0.87%) SaaS
10 3 (0.87%) Storyblok
11 2 (0.58%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) VoIP
2 4 (1.17%) Internet
3 3 (0.87%) Intranet
4 2 (0.58%) FTP
5 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.87%) MySQL
2 14 (4.08%) Looker
3 12 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.17%) Power BI
4 4 (1.17%) Tableau
5 2 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.58%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.58%) Metadata
5 2 (0.58%) Redis
6 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (10.20%) Git
2 10 (2.92%) gulp
2 10 (2.92%) JIRA
3 6 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.29%) ESLint
7 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.29%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Storybook
7 1 (0.29%) Vite
7 1 (0.29%) YouTrack
General
1 234 (68.22%) Marketing
2 118 (34.40%) Social Skills
3 58 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (8.16%) Advertising
6 20 (5.83%) Games
7 16 (4.66%) Finance
8 12 (3.50%) Retail
9 9 (2.62%) Multimedia
10 7 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.75%) Automotive
11 6 (1.75%) Brand Awareness
11 6 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.75%) Publishing
11 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.46%) iGaming
12 5 (1.46%) Law
13 3 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 93 (27.11%) Developer
2 30 (8.75%) PHP Developer
2 30 (8.75%) Web Developer
3 24 (7.00%) Senior
4 21 (6.12%) SEO Manager
5 20 (5.83%) Administrator
5 20 (5.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 20 (5.83%) Web Administrator
6 19 (5.54%) SEO Executive
7 18 (5.25%) E-Commerce Administrator
7 18 (5.25%) SEO Specialist
8 16 (4.66%) Copywriter
9 15 (4.37%) Digital Executive
10 14 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
11 13 (3.79%) Analyst
11 13 (3.79%) WordPress Developer
12 12 (3.50%) SEO Copywriter
13 11 (3.21%) Content Manager
13 11 (3.21%) Junior
14 10 (2.92%) E-Commerce Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (35.28%) HTML
2 110 (32.07%) CSS
3 35 (10.20%) Sass
4 27 (7.87%) jQuery
5 25 (7.29%) .NET
6 24 (7.00%) React
7 21 (6.12%) HTML5
8 17 (4.96%) JSON
8 17 (4.96%) Vue
9 14 (4.08%) Laravel
9 14 (4.08%) Node.js
9 14 (4.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 12 (3.50%) LESS
11 11 (3.21%) CSS3
11 11 (3.21%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (2.92%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.92%) Electron
12 10 (2.92%) Next.js
13 9 (2.62%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.33%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 82 (23.91%) Social Media
2 65 (18.95%) Blog
3 37 (10.79%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (7.00%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.37%) Graphic Design
6 7 (2.04%) Digital Media
6 7 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.75%) Photography
8 5 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.46%) Video Editing
9 4 (1.17%) FMCG
9 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.17%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.87%) NHS
11 2 (0.58%) Animation
11 2 (0.58%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.58%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.29%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.33%) Linux
1 8 (2.33%) Windows
2 5 (1.46%) VMS
3 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (39.36%) Analytics
2 105 (30.61%) E-Commerce
3 104 (30.32%) Digital Marketing
4 103 (30.03%) User Experience
5 77 (22.45%) Web Development
6 69 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (15.16%) Pay per click
8 50 (14.58%) Marketing Strategy
9 44 (12.83%) Project Management
10 43 (12.54%) Front End Development
11 38 (11.08%) Content Management
12 37 (10.79%) A/B Testing
13 35 (10.20%) Link Building
14 33 (9.62%) B2B
15 32 (9.33%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
16 24 (7.00%) Collaborative Working
16 24 (7.00%) Content Strategy
16 24 (7.00%) Content Writing
17 23 (6.71%) Decision-Making
18 22 (6.41%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 91 (26.53%) JavaScript
2 57 (16.62%) PHP
3 22 (6.41%) SQL
4 18 (5.25%) C#
5 5 (1.46%) Python
5 5 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.87%) JSX
6 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.87%) VBA
7 2 (0.58%) Java
Qualifications
1 58 (16.91%) Degree
2 16 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.75%) HND
4 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.29%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.00%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.12%) QA
3 9 (2.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.75%) GDPR
5 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (2.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.29%) Plesk
1 1 (0.29%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 111 (32.36%) Google
2 48 (13.99%) Adobe
3 23 (6.71%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.25%) Ahrefs
5 16 (4.66%) WooCommerce
6 15 (4.37%) Screaming Frog
7 11 (3.21%) Facebook
8 10 (2.92%) HubSpot
9 7 (2.04%) Twitter
10 6 (1.75%) Instagram
11 5 (1.46%) Glassbox
11 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.17%) dotdigital
12 4 (1.17%) Hotjar
12 4 (1.17%) Progress
13 3 (0.87%) Hootsuite
13 3 (0.87%) Sage
13 3 (0.87%) TikTok
14 1 (0.29%) YouTube
14 1 (0.29%) Zend