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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 527 439
Rank change year-on-year +61 -88 -35
Permanent jobs citing SEO 326 208 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.37% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.39% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 278 169 373
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £24,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £36,270 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.66% -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 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £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 £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 2 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 2 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 97 £35,000 -17.65% 96
South East -25 90 £33,750 -20.59% 52
North West +44 67 £35,000 -9.44% 54
Midlands +35 59 £34,500 -18.82% 52
West Midlands +23 38 £30,000 -29.41% 23
South West -14 33 £35,000 -8.50% 25
East of England +7 30 £33,500 +21.82% 25
East Midlands -2 21 £40,000 - 31
Yorkshire +70 20 £35,000 -33.96% 31
Scotland -80 11 £38,750 -3.13% 9
North East -8 10 £30,000 - 11
Wales +4 3 £32,000 -21.48% 3
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 66 (20.25%) CMS
2 59 (18.10%) WordPress
3 7 (2.15%) Umbraco
4 6 (1.84%) Drupal
4 6 (1.84%) Joomla!
5 4 (1.23%) IIS
6 3 (0.92%) Confluence
6 3 (0.92%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.92%) Orchard CMS
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 15 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.99%) Photoshop
3 10 (3.07%) Adobe Illustrator
4 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (2.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (2.15%) Adobe XD
6 7 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.23%) Trello
8 2 (0.61%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.31%) CapCut
9 1 (0.31%) Elementor
9 1 (0.31%) InDesign
9 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (4.91%) Magento
2 11 (3.37%) Shopify
3 8 (2.45%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.92%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 81 (24.85%) Google Analytics
2 17 (5.21%) Google Ads
3 14 (4.29%) Azure
3 14 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.07%) AWS
5 8 (2.45%) Adobe Analytics
5 8 (2.45%) Canva
5 8 (2.45%) Figma
6 7 (2.15%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 7 (2.15%) Google Tag Manager
7 6 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.84%) Google Data Studio
7 6 (1.84%) npm
8 5 (1.53%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.23%) GitHub
9 4 (1.23%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.92%) MailChimp
10 3 (0.92%) SaaS
10 3 (0.92%) Storyblok
11 2 (0.61%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.84%) VoIP
2 4 (1.23%) Internet
3 3 (0.92%) Intranet
4 2 (0.61%) FTP
5 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.28%) MySQL
2 15 (4.60%) Looker
3 10 (3.07%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.23%) Power BI
4 4 (1.23%) Tableau
5 2 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.61%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.61%) Metadata
5 2 (0.61%) Redis
6 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (10.12%) Git
2 10 (3.07%) gulp
2 10 (3.07%) JIRA
3 6 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.31%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.31%) ESLint
6 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Storybook
6 1 (0.31%) Vite
6 1 (0.31%) YouTrack
General
1 225 (69.02%) Marketing
2 114 (34.97%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.12%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (8.28%) Advertising
6 19 (5.83%) Games
7 16 (4.91%) Finance
8 11 (3.37%) Retail
9 8 (2.45%) Multimedia
10 6 (1.84%) Automotive
10 6 (1.84%) Brand Awareness
10 6 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.53%) iGaming
11 5 (1.53%) Law
11 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.53%) Publishing
11 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 86 (26.38%) Developer
2 30 (9.20%) PHP Developer
3 27 (8.28%) Web Developer
4 25 (7.67%) Senior
5 20 (6.13%) Administrator
5 20 (6.13%) SEO Manager
5 20 (6.13%) Web Administrator
6 19 (5.83%) SEO Executive
7 18 (5.52%) E-Commerce Administrator
7 18 (5.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 18 (5.52%) SEO Specialist
8 15 (4.60%) Digital Executive
9 14 (4.29%) Full Stack Developer
10 13 (3.99%) Analyst
10 13 (3.99%) Copywriter
11 11 (3.37%) WordPress Developer
12 10 (3.07%) Content Manager
12 10 (3.07%) Junior
12 10 (3.07%) Lead
13 9 (2.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (35.89%) HTML
2 106 (32.52%) CSS
3 33 (10.12%) Sass
4 27 (8.28%) jQuery
5 24 (7.36%) React
6 23 (7.06%) .NET
7 19 (5.83%) HTML5
8 15 (4.60%) JSON
8 15 (4.60%) Vue
9 14 (4.29%) Laravel
9 14 (4.29%) Node.js
10 12 (3.68%) LESS
10 12 (3.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 11 (3.37%) CSS3
12 10 (3.07%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.07%) Electron
13 9 (2.76%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (2.45%) Ajax
14 8 (2.45%) Next.js
15 7 (2.15%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 78 (23.93%) Social Media
2 62 (19.02%) Blog
3 35 (10.74%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (7.36%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.60%) Graphic Design
6 7 (2.15%) Digital Media
6 7 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.53%) Video Editing
8 4 (1.23%) FMCG
8 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.23%) Photography
9 3 (0.92%) NHS
10 2 (0.61%) Animation
10 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.61%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.61%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.31%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.45%) Linux
2 6 (1.84%) Windows
3 3 (0.92%) VMS
3 3 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (41.10%) Analytics
2 104 (31.90%) E-Commerce
3 101 (30.98%) Digital Marketing
4 100 (30.67%) User Experience
5 71 (21.78%) Web Development
6 66 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (15.34%) Pay per click
8 48 (14.72%) Marketing Strategy
9 44 (13.50%) Project Management
10 39 (11.96%) Front End Development
11 37 (11.35%) A/B Testing
12 36 (11.04%) Content Management
12 36 (11.04%) Link Building
13 33 (10.12%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
14 32 (9.82%) B2B
15 24 (7.36%) Content Writing
16 23 (7.06%) Content Strategy
16 23 (7.06%) Decision-Making
17 21 (6.44%) Collaborative Working
17 21 (6.44%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 85 (26.07%) JavaScript
2 56 (17.18%) PHP
3 20 (6.13%) SQL
4 15 (4.60%) C#
5 5 (1.53%) Python
5 5 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.92%) JSX
6 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.92%) VBA
7 2 (0.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 57 (17.48%) Degree
2 15 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.84%) HND
4 4 (1.23%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.31%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.44%) Accessibility
2 19 (5.83%) QA
3 9 (2.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (3.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.31%) Plesk
1 1 (0.31%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 111 (34.05%) Google
2 46 (14.11%) Adobe
3 23 (7.06%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.52%) Ahrefs
5 16 (4.91%) WooCommerce
6 15 (4.60%) Screaming Frog
7 10 (3.07%) Facebook
8 9 (2.76%) HubSpot
9 7 (2.15%) Twitter
10 5 (1.53%) Glassbox
10 5 (1.53%) Instagram
11 4 (1.23%) dotdigital
11 4 (1.23%) Hotjar
11 4 (1.23%) Progress
11 4 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.92%) Hootsuite
12 3 (0.92%) Sage
13 2 (0.61%) TikTok
14 1 (0.31%) Marketo
14 1 (0.31%) YouTube