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The median price published here is £500, the middle half of the readings sit between £300 and £800, and the whole spread runs £249 to £1,500. That is 30 figures read from 30 of 36 providers' own pages on 2026-09-21; the rest publish nothing at all. Tell Darscover Ltd. what you need and it will price your job directly.

Source: UK SEO Retainer Price Index: every row, with its source

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UK SEO Retainer Price Index

Last updated 2026-09-21

Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 30 of 36 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 30 of the 36 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 6 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 357 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: the median, quartiles and full range of the monthly retainer band each UK provider publishes, per region and per business-size row it publishes for; the count and share of providers publishing a BAND versus a RATE CARD versus nothing at all; the movement of each provider's own band between reads, and the year-on-year rise the market states about itself (15-30% since 2024 on one publisher's reading, 12-18% since 2023 on another) measured against our own dated snapshots rather than repeated

The median published figure is £500 across 30 readings, with the middle half between £300 and £800. (UK SEO Retainer Price Index: every row, with its source)
30 of 36 providers read publish a price at all; 5 publish none. (UK SEO Retainer Price Index: every row, with its source)
The cheapest published figure is £249, by Lux Branding - local SEO cost UK 2026. (Lux Branding - local SEO cost UK 2026)
The dearest published figure is £1,500, by whitehat-seo.co.uk. (whitehat-seo.co.uk)

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“UK SEO Retainer Price Index”, Cost SEO, https://costseo.co.uk/ (updated 2026-09-21). Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 30 of the 36 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 6 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 357 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: the median, quartiles and full range of the monthly retainer band each UK provider publishes, per region and per business-size row it publishes for; the count and share of providers publishing a BAND versus a RATE CARD versus nothing at all; the movement of each provider's own band between reads, and the year-on-year rise the market states about itself (15-30% since 2024 on one publisher's reading, 12-18% since 2023 on another) measured against our own dated snapshots rather than repeated

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This site is operated by Darscover Ltd. (Triq San Mikel, San Gwann SGN, Malta), which also does the work it quotes for. It carries no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate links, and no provider in the table has paid to be there or can pay to be removed. Every figure is read from the named provider's own public page on the date shown and is what that provider advertises, not a quote for your job. Prices move; check the source before you rely on a row.

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What does an SEO retainer cost per month in the UK, per provider, per region and per business size, and who publishes a price at all?

The median published figure is £500. The middle half of the readings sit between £300 and £800 and the whole spread runs £249 to £1,500, over 30 figures read on 2026-09-21. A spread that wide is the honest answer: what you pay depends on the scope, so the table below shows every reading and who published it.(UK SEO Retainer Price Index: every row, with its source)

How many providers publish a price at all?

30 of the 36 read, out of 42 named. The others answer with a quote form. They are listed in the table as publishing no price rather than dropped, because the share of a market that will not put a number on its own page is itself a finding.(UK SEO Retainer Price Index: every row, with its source)

Where do these figures come from, and when were they read?

Each one is a sentence on the provider's own page, read on 2026-09-21 through our own fetch box and stored with the hash of the page's text, so the row can be checked against what was there that day. The row links to the page it came from.(UK SEO Retainer Price Index: every row, with its source)

Is this a price for my job?

No. Every figure here is what a provider advertises on its own page for its own packages, not a quote for your work, and the spread from £249 to £1,500 is exactly why. Scope is what moves it. Ask for a price and you get one; this page is so you know what you are hearing when you do.(UK SEO Retainer Price Index: every row, with its source)

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Darscover Ltd., which runs this site and does this work. There is no lead panel behind the form: the enquiry is read by the company that would do the job, and your details are not passed on or resold to anyone.

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