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Hire a Technical SEO Specialist.

Crawl, speed and structured data issues, fixed.

Also called: Technical SEO Analyst, SEO Auditor

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • E-commerce
  • SaaS & tech
  • Agencies
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Technical SEO Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Runs full-site crawls in Screaming Frog or SitebulbAuditing and indexation
  • Diagnoses Core Web Vitals using PageSpeed Insights, CrUXPerformance
  • Designs and implements JSON-LD schema via the CMS or Google Tag ManagerStructured data
  • Compares raw and rendered HTML on React, Next.js or Vue sitesJavaScript and architectureDoing
In your tools
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Analytics 4
  • PageSpeed Insights
  • Lighthouse
  • Chrome DevTools
  • Google Tag Manager

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Technical SEO Specialist£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns full technical audits for sites up to about 50,000 URLs with light review.

  • Prioritised technical audit
  • Developer ticket backlog with acceptance criteria
  • Schema implementation for key templates

2-4 years of technical SEO for small to mid-sized sites.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Technical SEO Specialist

Tasks

  • Auditing and indexation

    • Runs full-site crawls in Screaming Frog or Sitebulb
    • Analyses Search Console page indexing and URL inspection data
    • Reviews and maintains robots.txt, XML sitemaps, canonicals
    • Analyses server log files to understand Googlebot behaviour

  • Performance

    • Diagnoses Core Web Vitals using PageSpeed Insights, CrUX
    • Writes developer tickets with specific fixes and acceptance criteria

  • Structured data

    • Designs and implements JSON-LD schema via the CMS or Google Tag Manager
    • Validates markup in the Rich Results Test and Schema Markup Validator

  • JavaScript and architecture

    • Compares raw and rendered HTML on React, Next.js or Vue sites
    • Reviews site architecture, internal link depth and URL structure

  • Migrations and international

    • Plans site and platform migrations
    • Implements and validates hreflang

  • Developer collaboration and monitoring

    • Maintains the technical SEO backlog in Jira or Linear and QA fixes
    • Sets up automated crawls and alerting

Tested before you meet them

  1. Technical SEO knowledge testAll levels45 min
  2. Test-site technical auditAll levels3 hrs
  3. Schema, regex and redirect practicalIntern to Expert40 min
  4. Log file and data analysisIntermediate and up60 min
  5. Migration negotiation role-playIntermediate and up40 min
  6. Case study walkthroughIntermediate and up30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

87%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Technical SEO Specialist is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Auditing and indexation, performance, structured data and javascript and architecture, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including technical SEO knowledge test, test-site technical audit and schema, regex and redirect practical. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Technical SEO Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Technical SEO Specialist works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Technical SEO Specialist owns full technical audits for sites up to about 50,000 URLs with light review. An Expert Technical SEO Specialist leads migrations end to end, runs log file analysis and designs hreflang architecture. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Technical SEO Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Screaming Frog Log File Analyser, before you meet them.

In week one: full access to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools; seats in Screaming Frog or Sitebulb and the monitoring tool; and access to server logs or CDN logs arranged with the dev team. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Technical SEO Analyst and SEO Auditor. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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