Which pays more, Content Marketing Manager or SEO Specialist?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Content Marketing Manager vs SEO Specialist

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 3.4% apart. There is 1.7× more demand for SEO Specialist. Listings for SEO Specialist move faster — median age 80 days against 95.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Content Marketing Manager	SEO Specialist	Gap
Open postings	25,358	42,147	-16,789
Posted this week	1,906	2,724
Median salary	$91,000	$88,000	+$3k
25th percentile	$72k	$69.5k
75th percentile	$113k	$109k
Salary disclosed	2.7%	7.0%
Remote share	7.0%	5.2%	+1.8pp
Median age of posting	95d	80d
Open over 60 days	34.6%	48.1%
Visa sponsorship	12.4%	11.5%

Pay

Pay distribution

Content Marketing Manager

$41k$157k

SEO Specialist

$40k$152k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Content Marketing Manager

just posted95d median90d+

SEO Specialist

just posted80d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Content Marketing Manager — technologies

AWS

72.0%

Swift

65.8%

Node.js

59.6%

PostgreSQL

53.4%

JavaScript

47.2%

Java

41.0%

Docker

34.8%

SEO Specialist — technologies

PostgreSQL

72.0%

Java

65.8%

Tableau

59.6%

Kubernetes

53.4%

47.2%

Kotlin

41.0%

Snowflake

34.8%

Content Marketing Manager — employers

Pinewood Education

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Umbra Security

8.0%

Tidewater Insurance

7.2%

Ironbark Manufacturing

6.5%

Beacon Robotics

5.8%

Lakeshore Hospitality

5.1%

SEO Specialist — employers

Northwind Systems

9.4%

Halcyon Energy

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Lakeshore Hospitality

7.2%

Aperture Labs

6.5%

Cobalt Financial

5.8%

Ironbark Manufacturing

5.1%

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Other Marketing comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.