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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", "embed": "

500 GBP

median published figure, UK SEO Retainer Price Index, across 30 sources, read 21 September 2026

Source: costseo.co.uk UK SEO Retainer Price Index
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