Agency fees typically run 15 to 25 per cent of first-year salary, depending on seniority, payable when the SEO starts. On a £50,000 SEO manager that is roughly £7,500 to £12,500. Set against a mis-hire, which can cost months of lost organic growth, hiring the right person first time is well worth it.

SEO executives and specialists, SEO managers, technical SEOs, content and digital PR specialists, and heads of SEO or organic, plus interim SEO consultants for project work. We match the practitioner to your remit and platform rather than sending generic CVs.

Look past tools and tactics and ask for results: specific traffic and revenue they moved, the work behind it, and how they measured it. A specialist agency screens for exactly this, so you interview practitioners with a proven track record rather than people who simply interview well.

With a specialist agency, you can often see a strong shortlist within days and complete a hire in around four weeks, because the network is already live. Senior or niche SEO roles take a little longer, but move far quicker than a cold search that commonly runs six weeks or more.

Yes. SEO is one of the most remote-friendly disciplines, so we recruit UK-wide into office, hybrid and fully remote roles. As a UK-wide SEO recruitment agency, that lets us widen the search well beyond your local area and reach the best practitioners wherever they are.

An in-house SEO owns your organic channel end to end and builds deep knowledge of your brand and platform, while an agency team gives you broader, cross-account experience for a monthly fee. Most growing eCommerce brands eventually want an in-house lead to set direction, with agency or freelance support for peak workloads. We recruit the permanent, in-house side.

It depends on where your gap is. If crawling, indexing, site speed or a replatform is holding rankings back, hire technical first. If your foundations are sound but you are not winning enough queries, a content and on-page specialist moves the needle faster. A good SEO manager can cover both at smaller scale, and we help you scope which the role really needs.

Beyond the basics, an eCommerce SEO needs category and product-page optimisation, faceted-navigation and crawl-budget control, structured data for products, and the commercial sense to prioritise pages by revenue rather than traffic alone. Comfort with GA4, Search Console and a crawler such as Screaming Frog is expected, and the best also understand how SEO works alongside paid and CRO.

Yes. Alongside permanent hires we place interim and contract SEO consultants for replatforms, migrations, audits and cover during a gap. Day rates vary by seniority and scope, and we can advise which is the better fit, a permanent hire or a fixed project engagement, for what you need to achieve.

eCommerce SEO works at scale across thousands of product and category pages, so technical structure, internal linking and crawl efficiency carry far greater weight than on a small brochure site. Product availability, seasonality and pricing all affect rankings and clicks, and success is measured in revenue and margin rather than sessions. It is a distinct skill set, and we screen for it.

Every permanent placement comes with a rebate or replacement period, so if a hire leaves or is not right within the agreed window, we replace them. In practice, screening for real results up front is what prevents most mis-hires, which is why our process focuses on proven outcomes rather than interview polish.