Is the domain in my name?
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Guide
What an electrician's website actually costs
Every price below comes off the provider's own published page, and the provider is named next to it. Mine included, in the table where I come out dearer.
The honest range for a proper electrician's website in the UK is £197 to £1,450 as a one-off, or £25 to £169 a month if you rent one. Here is who charges what.
| Price | What their page says you get | Provider |
|---|---|---|
| £197 | Mobile-ready layout, SEO metadata, and “you own the finished site”. Page count is not stated. The page says nothing about hosting or a domain. | MadeReal |
| £250 + £9.99/mo hosting | Built in ten days. | Vezra |
| £299 / £499 / £799 | Two pages in five days, five pages in seven days, ten pages in twelve days. Nothing upfront, no monthly fee. Their words: “The website, the domain, and the content are yours in full, no lock-in contract”. | WebLane |
| £300 or £500, then £30/mo | One page or five pages. First three months of the monthly are in the price. Extra pages £75. The domain and the files are yours and go with you if you leave. | TradesUp |
| £479 / £879 / £1,379 | Four, six, or ten-plus pages. This is their pay-once option; they also rent the same tiers monthly. | Trade Blocks |
| £500 + £50/mo | Six to eight pages in seven days. “No lock in contract, cancel with thirty days notice”. | CAPVANE |
| £500–£800 or £1,200–£1,800 | One page, or several pages. Google Business Profile set-up and schema markup included. | Outcome Digital |
| £850 / £1,200 / £1,450 | Five pages, a rebuild of an existing site, or eight to ten pages plus five town pages. | sparkyweb — me |
| Price | What their page says | Provider |
|---|---|---|
| £25/mo | Nothing upfront. The page says nothing about who owns the site. | Toolbox |
| £399 + £39/mo | Twelve-month minimum term. | Stellar Core |
| £250 + £48/mo | A choice of two templates. “No contracts”, thirty-day money back. | websitesforelectricians.co.uk |
| £49.95/mo | Nothing upfront — but a twelve-month minimum and a £600 exit fee. | Forte (noupfrontcostwebsites.co.uk) |
| £49.99/mo | The page says nothing about who owns the site. | Monster |
| £49/mo + £99 setup | Town pages generated programmatically. | BuiltLocal |
| £79 / £119 / £169 per month | Four, six, or ten-plus pages. UK hosting and a “free domain” included. | Trade Blocks |
| £85/mo | The page says nothing about who owns the site. | WeGrowTrades |
| £99 + £35/mo | The page says nothing about who owns the site. | WebConstruct |
The bottom of the market
What £200 buys, and what it does not
MadeReal sell an electrician's website for £197. Their page lists a mobile-ready layout, SEO metadata, and the line “you own the finished site”. That last bit matters, and they deserve credit for putting it in writing.
What the page does not say is how many pages you get, or anything at all about hosting and a domain. That is not an accusation. It is just the gap, and it is the same gap in most cheap offers: the build price is the build price, and the site still has to live somewhere.
The floor underneath £197
A site needs a domain and it needs hosting. Both are cheap if you buy them plainly:
- A
.co.ukdomain from Krystal at £7.99 a year, flat, no first-year trick. - Hosting from Krystal at £7 a month including VAT, with no introductory rate.
That is about £92 a year on top of whatever you paid to have it built. So £197 is really £197 plus roughly £92 every year after. Still cheap. Just not £197.
Doing it yourself
Squarespace Basic is £12 a month paid annually, or £16 paid monthly, with your own domain and no Squarespace branding. There is no free tier — after the fourteen-day trial, in their own words, “the site won't be public, and all content is marked for permanent deletion”. The “free domain” they include is free for one year, then “your domain will renew at the annual TLD price”, and the actual pound figure for that is not published.
You will see Wix, GoDaddy and Namecheap prices quoted all over the guides that rank for this search. I am not quoting any of them. Wix shows me dollars from a UK connection, GoDaddy has replaced its old plan table with a credit-based builder priced “as low as £7.49/mo” on annual prepay with no published renewal rate, and Namecheap blocked me outright. If I cannot see the number on their page, it does not go on mine.
The one thing to check at this price
WebLane sell a two-page site for £299 and say plainly: “The website, the domain, and the content are yours in full, no lock-in contract”. TradesUp sell five pages for £500 plus £30 a month, and say the domain and the files are yours and go with you.
Those are good offers. If cheap is what you need, buy from someone who writes that down.
My end of it
What £850 buys
No adjectives here, just the list. £850 is five pages, built mobile first, with a quote form and click-to-message, your certifications and reviews shown on the page, and your Google Business Profile set up. Live in two weeks. Fixed price, agreed before I start.
£1,450 is eight to ten pages: the same five, plus a dedicated EICR page, a dedicated EV charger page, and five town pages written for the places you actually drive to. Three months of looking after it is in the price.
I write the words. You get asked questions about the jobs you do and the ones you turn down, and the answers become the pages. That is the part that takes the time, and it is the part a template cannot do for you.
The domain goes in your name. The files are yours. There is no exit fee, because there is nothing to exit.
There is the full price list if you want the rest of it, and you can see what that actually looks like — that is a demo for a made-up firm called Oakmoor Electrical, not a real client's site, because I am not going to pass off someone else's work as mine.
Running costs
The bills that start after launch
Almost nobody quotes these. They are small, but they are forever, and two of them are priced to catch you out in year two.
The domain
Nominet run the .co.uk namespace. Their published
wholesale fee to a registrar is £3.90 a year plus
VAT, and it has not moved since January 2020. Everything
above that is the registrar's margin, which is fine — they have
to eat too. But it is worth knowing the real number is under four
pounds, because nobody should feel tied to anyone over it.
| Registrar | First year | After that |
|---|---|---|
| Nominet (wholesale) | £3.90 + VAT | £3.90 + VAT — unchanged since January 2020 |
| Krystal | £7.99 | £7.99 — flat, no first-year trick |
| 20i | £9.99 | £9.99 — flat |
| IONOS UK | £1 | £10 + VAT |
| names.co.uk | Free | £13.99 including VAT |
| 123 Reg | £3.99 | Not published anywhere |
The 123 Reg row is worth a second look, because their own offer terms spell out the model:
“An Offer will apply to the first year of purchase only and does not apply to renewal of existing domain names.”
“After the initial purchase term, discounted products will renew at the then-current renewal rate until cancelled.”
123 Reg, domain offer terms
Their own blog puts it more plainly still — “Think of it less as a one-off purchase and more like a subscription” — and then does not say what the subscription costs.
Hosting: read the renewal price, not the headline
This is the one that catches people. The number on the front of the box is a twelve-month promotion. Here is what each one renews at.
| Plan | Introductory | Renews at | Jump |
|---|---|---|---|
| SiteGround StartUp | £1.99/mo, twelve months upfront | £13.99/mo + VAT | 7× |
| Fasthosts Grow | 99p/mo, twelve months | £8.00/mo, “excludes VAT at 20%” | 8× |
| IONOS Plus | £1/mo, twelve months | £9/mo + VAT | 9× |
| Hostinger Single | £1.49/mo — but forty-eight months paid upfront, £71.52 | £7.99/mo “before VAT” | about 5× |
| Krystal Amethyst | £7/mo including VAT, no introductory rate | £7/mo — the same | 1× |
Worth knowing: TSOhost, quoted as a cheap option in half the guides that rank for this search, no longer exists. The domain now redirects to 123 Reg. The cheap hosting market is not a stable thing to build a plan on.
SSL — the padlock
Let's Encrypt issue the certificate free, in their own words letting you “obtain a trusted certificate at zero cost”. It is the standard, and every decent host installs it for you in a click.
123 Reg sell the same class of certificate for £143.64 for three years, renewing at £179.97 a year plus VAT. If an SSL line appears on a quote at all, ask why.
Someone to look after it
Care plans, maintenance retainers, whatever they are called. UK agencies who publish a price land in three bands.
| Band | What is in it | Providers who publish a price |
|---|---|---|
| £15–£49/mo | Updates, backups, monitoring. No editing time included. | Web-Tastic from £15, Website Helper £30 and £37, Press Forge £30 + VAT, WordPress Site Care £39 + VAT |
| £49–£99/mo | The above plus staging, and one to four hours of edits a month. | Pixelish £49 and £99 with hosting and SSL included, WPMaintain £79 and £99 + VAT |
| £100–£379/mo | Developer hours and a response-time commitment. | Press Forge top tier £149 + VAT |
One-off edits, where a published hourly rate exists, run £30 to £55 an hour plus VAT, and up to £125 an hour for emergency work.
Mine is £39 a month, it is optional, and you can take the site to your own hosting whenever you like. Here is what the £39 a month covers. I am putting my own monthly in the same section where I pull everyone else's apart, because it would be a cheek not to.
VAT — the twenty per cent nobody mentions
The UK VAT registration threshold is £90,000. Most of the prices on this page are quoted without VAT. If you are a sole trader under the threshold you cannot claim it back, so every “plus VAT” price is genuinely twenty per cent dearer to you than it looks.
I am not VAT registered at the moment, so the price you see from me is the price you pay. If that changes I will change this line.
The part that costs real money
Whose website is it when you stop paying
Price is the argument everyone has. It is not the one that will cost you. Everything below is quoted word for word from companies' own published terms.
Trade Town
Four lines from their published terms and conditions:
“The design of your website and any template you choose is copyright Trade Town Ltd.”
“Any new domain names registered are done so under the ownership and control of Trade Town Ltd.”
“Suspension of your account will mean your website will be taken offline.” — after seven days of failed payment
“If you would like to move your website to another provider, Trade Town Ltd agrees to transfer both your website files and database and your domain name, for a variable fee depending on your length of contract, as follows: 0-12 months: £3,000 + VAT”
Trade Town Ltd, terms and conditions
The ladder carries on: £2,000 between twelve and twenty-four months, £1,000 between twenty-four and thirty-six, £500 after that.
Read the first rung again. £3,000 plus VAT to take your own website and your own domain somewhere else in year one. That is more than every single build price in the first table on this page. It is more than all of them added together, near enough.
Healy Web Design
From their published pay-monthly contract terms:
“All pay monthly websites are a minimum of 24 months contract term.”
“Within the first 24 months, the website will be owned by Healy Web Design.”
“Any new domain names registered will be under the ownership and control of Healy Web Design unless purchased by yourself.”
“To cancel your monthly website payment plan will result in your server, website and emails coming down and deleted.”
Healy Web Design, pay monthly contract terms
Note the “and emails”. If your business email runs on that domain, it goes with the site.
Yell
From their advertising terms and conditions: clause 24.7 says “all IPR in Created Content shall be exclusively owned by us and shall not pass to you”. Clause 19.4 makes eighty per cent of the remaining charges payable if you cancel early. Clause 19.6 allows a notice period of up to ninety days on a fixed-term agreement.
You will read elsewhere that Yell owns your domain, or deletes your site. That is not in their terms, so I am not saying it. Those two things are true of Trade Town and Healy, where they are written down, and that is the difference between reporting and gossip.
The “free website” sum
Forte, trading as noupfrontcostwebsites.co.uk: nothing to set up, £49.95 a month, twelve-month minimum, £600 exit fee.
So it is £599.40 in year one for a template site, and you owe £600 if you walk away in month two. Free means not yet.
Five out of seven say nothing at all
I read the sales pages of seven UK trade website providers looking for one sentence about who owns the site and the domain.
Five do not mention it anywhere: Monster (£49.99/mo), WeGrowTrades (£85/mo), WebConstruct (£99 plus £35/mo), Stellar Core (£399 plus £39/mo on a twelve-month minimum) and Toolbox (nothing upfront, £25/mo).
Two are explicit, and both come down on your side. WebLane: “The website, the domain, and the content are yours in full, no lock-in contract”. TradesUp say the domain and the files are yours and leave with you. Credit where it is due.
The silence is not proof of anything bad. It is just a fact you can check yourself in two minutes. And it tells you what to do: if the pricing page does not say who owns the site, ask in writing before you pay. If they will not answer in writing, that is your answer.
The law, which is the bit that surprises people
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 11: “The author of a work is the first owner of any copyright in it.” Section 90(3): “An assignment of copyright is not effective unless it is in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor.”
The government's own guidance on ownership of copyright works says the same thing about commissioned work: “the first legal owner of copyright is the person or organisation that created the work and not you the commissioner, unless you otherwise agree it in writing.”
Plainly: a sparky who has paid £2,000 for a website does not own the copyright in it without a signed written assignment. Not an opinion. That is the default position in law, and paying the invoice does not change it.
There is a second gap worth knowing. The fourteen-day right to cancel an online purchase is a consumer right. Under the 2013 consumer contracts regulations a consumer is someone acting “for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside that individual's trade, business, craft or profession”. An electrician buying an electrician's website is acting inside his trade, so the fourteen-day cooling-off period does not apply to you. Whatever you sign, you are signed to.
Straight answer
When the cheap one is the right call
Four situations where the £197 to £500 offer is the better decision, and I would say so to your face.
1. The business is not settled yet
First year out on your own, still doing a few shifts for someone else, not certain this is the life. £197 is a test. £850 is a bet. Take the test.
2. The site only needs to exist
You have enough referrals, the phone rings on word of mouth, and all you need is for something sensible to come up when a customer searches your name before ringing. A one-page site does that, and a Google Business Profile is free.
3. There is nothing to build the content out of
No job photos, no reviews yet, no time to sit down and talk through every service you offer. Most of what makes a £1,450 site worth £1,450 comes from you. If that is not there yet, the expensive site is not better, only dearer.
4. The only actual problem is the phone number
If people already find you and simply cannot work out how to get hold of you, the fix is a page with your number on it. Not ten pages of search work.
The condition on all four
Any of these is fine, as long as three things are in writing before you pay:
- The domain is registered in your name.
- The files are yours and you can take them.
- There is no exit fee.
WebLane and TradesUp put all three in writing. Five of the seven providers I checked say nothing at all. That is the difference that matters, and it is not the price.
If none of the four describes you, and you do want it building properly, here is what I do.
The other side
When it is worth paying more
The gap between a £299 site and a £1,450 site is not quality of code or prettiness. It is three concrete things.
Pages that are actually written. A cheap site is a template with your trade dropped into it. Five town pages and a proper EICR page are five town pages and a proper EICR page — someone has to sit down and write them, and the hours are the cost. If you are chasing landlord work or EV installs specifically, that writing is the whole job.
Somebody doing the thinking. On a template you fill in the boxes. At the higher price someone asks you what work you want more of, what you want less of, and builds the site around the answer.
Ownership and no exit fee, in writing. Which, as the section above shows, is not something you can assume at any price band.
| Estimated range | Who says so |
|---|---|
| £1,000–£3,500 for a sensible tradesman site. Under £600 they call a “danger zone: rushed, template-heavy, thin on content, weak on SEO”. | SEO Bridge |
| DIY £10–£25/mo · subscription builder £49–£100/mo · agency £1,500–£6,000 | Trendjackers |
| Freelancer £1,000–£3,000 · agency £2,500–£10,000+ · local specialist studio around £1,000 plus around £200 a month | beeviral |
| Brochure site £800–£2,500 for three to five pages; average £2,000–£4,500 | Zentus |
The uncomfortable table
Three years, seven routes
Total spend over three years, built from the checked prices above. This is the table where I lose, and it stays on the page.
| Route | Year 1 | End of year 2 | End of year 3 | Who owns it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkatrade Approved, £30/mo + VAT | £432 | £864 | £1,296 | No website at all — and no leads on this tier |
| TradesUp, £500 + £30/mo, first three months in the price | £770 | £1,130 | £1,490 | Yours — domain and files go with you |
| websitesforelectricians.co.uk, £250 + £48/mo | £826 | £1,402 | £1,978 | Not stated |
| sparkyweb £850, hosted yourself — Krystal £7/mo plus a £7.99 domain, about £92 a year | £942 | £1,034 | £1,126 | Yours |
| Trade Blocks, £79/mo | £948 | £1,896 | £2,844 | Not stated |
| CAPVANE, £500 + £50/mo | £1,100 | £1,700 | £2,300 | Not stated |
| sparkyweb £850 + £39/mo Care plan | £1,318 | £1,786 | £2,254 | Yours |
Four things that table says, and I am not going to soften any of them.
I am not the cheapest in year one. Three of the routes above cost less than mine does in year one. Put my £39 care plan on top and six of them do.
I only win on cost if you host it yourself, and only from year two. £1,126 over three years is the lowest figure in the table, but it takes until year two to get there. With the care plan running the whole time, three years with me costs £2,254, which is dearer than most of the template outfits.
TradesUp is the real competition, not the £79 template shops. Five pages for £500, £30 a month, and the domain and files are yours. That is a straight offer and I am not going to pretend otherwise.
So the argument cannot be price. It has to be what is in the thing: which pages exist, who writes them, whether the town pages are written or generated, and whether it is yours on paper. If the price is all that matters to you, the table above tells you where to go, and you should go.
The other option
What a directory costs instead
Plenty of sparkies are not choosing between a cheap site and a good one. They are choosing between a site and Checkatrade. So here are those numbers too.
| Platform | Published price | What their own pages say |
|---|---|---|
| Checkatrade | Free £0 · Approved £30/mo · Growth from £59/mo, all plus VAT | Their help pages say the £30 tier does not produce leads: “Approved members do not appear in standard search results, so you shouldn't expect leads through location or trade searches” and “Our most basic plan starts from £30 + VAT per month… We don't provide you with sales leads.” No joining fee. Twelve-month fixed term, auto-renews every twelve months, and cancellation is by phone only: “Cancelling your direct debit alone will not end your contract.” The electrician-specific price is not published — you have to go through sign-up to see it. |
| MyBuilder | Pay per lead, from £7 | “You only pay a fee when the homeowner shortlists you. There are no joining fees, membership fees or any other costs.” and “The lead fee is variable… can start from £7.” You will see £15 to £40 per lead quoted around the web. It is not on their site, so it is not on mine. |
| Rated People | Nothing published | Their words: “There's a monthly fee, and there's a small cost for each lead.” The Unlimited Plan page has a phone number where the price should be. They do publish that “a max of 3 tradespeople can give quotes for each job lead”, that lead credit is capped at twenty per cent of your last three months' purchases, that it auto-renews on fourteen working days' notice, and that credits are non-refundable. |
| Bark | £1.80 per credit | Credits bought after 1 November 2025 expire after three months and are non-refundable. How many credits a lead costs is not published, so the price of a lead is not knowable in advance. |
| Which? Trusted Traders | £248 one-off non-refundable assessment, then £66/mo or £797/yr for nought to three staff. £86 or £1,029 for four to nine, £114 or £1,363 for ten to nineteen. All including VAT. | Rolling contract with three months' notice. The only one of the six with a complete published price list. |
| TrustATrader | Nothing published — quote by phone | Terms are twelve months, no cancellation right because it is a business contract, non-refundable. To their credit: “We do not operate an automatic renewal system.” |
| Google Business Profile | Free | Google's own FAQ: “Is a Business Profile on Google free? Yes, creating a Business Profile and listing your business on Google is free.” |
The short version, and every part of it comes off the companies' own pages rather than out of complaints:
Of six platforms, one — Which? Trusted Traders — publishes a full price list. Checkatrade publishes a single price, £30 plus VAT, and its own help pages confirm that tier does not produce leads. Rated People and TrustATrader publish no price at all: you have to ring. And Checkatrade's own February 2026 cancellation page confirms you cannot get out mid-term, cannot cancel by email, and that stopping the direct debit does not end the contract.
How many people get the same lead
Again, from the platforms themselves rather than from reviews. Rated People publish that “a max of 3 tradespeople can give quotes for each job lead”. Bark's own list of lead badges includes one that reads “1st to respond — No other professional has contacted this customer yet”. A badge like that only means anything if being first is the exception.
So the supportable figure is up to three or four. You will see “sold to five tradesmen” written elsewhere. The evidence does not carry it.
What Checkatrade actually costs a working sparky
The published Approved tier is £30 plus VAT, which is £36 including. One electrician posted his real monthly figure on ElectriciansForums in March 2025: “I pay £36 inc. a month just to be with them and then £64.80 inc. for leads” — £100.80 a month, or about £1,210 a year.
That is one man's post, not a price list, and I am giving it that weight. It is worth quoting only because his membership figure matches the published one exactly, which suggests the lead figure is real too.
What a Google Business Profile will not do
It is free and every sparky should have one. It does not deliver leads to you, does not vet you or give you a trust badge, does not arbitrate a dispute or guarantee your work, and does not push you up the page. Google Ads and Local Services Ads are separate paid products.
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Nine questions to ask before you pay anyone
These work on me as well as on everyone else. Ask them in writing and keep the reply. If a provider will not answer one of them in writing, that is the answer.
Who owns the copyright?
Ask for a written assignment of copyright in the site. Under section 90(3) of the 1988 Act it is not effective unless it is written and signed. Paying the invoice on its own does not do it.
What does it cost to leave in year one?
You want a number, not “we'd sort something out”. One published tradesman-website contract puts that number at £3,000 plus VAT.
If I stop paying, does it come down?
Some published terms say yes in as many words, and one includes your email with it. Ask specifically about email, because that is the part that hurts on a Monday morning.
Minimum term, and how do I cancel?
Get the term, the notice period and the method. Some contracts only accept cancellation by phone, and stopping the direct debit does not end them.
Is hosting in that monthly, and what does it renew at?
Two care plans at the same price are not the same deal if one includes hosting. And if you are buying hosting yourself, the renewal price is the one that counts, not the first-year offer.
What is the price with VAT?
Most of the market quotes without it. If you are under the £90,000 threshold you cannot claim it back, so “plus VAT” means twenty per cent dearer to you.
Who writes the words?
If the answer is you, budget your own evenings for it. If the answer is them, ask what questions they will ask you first. A page written from a template reads like one.
How many pages, and which ones?
Named pages, not “up to five”. Home, about, contact, and one page each for the work you actually want more of. Then ask what an extra page costs later.
None of that is about me. Take it to the £197 provider and ask the nine questions. If the answers are good, buy it — you will not offend me, and you will have bought it with your eyes open, which is the entire point of this page.
Mine
What I charge, and why
£850 for five pages, £1,200 to rebuild an existing site, £1,450 for eight to ten pages with EICR, EV charger and five town pages. Care afterwards is £39 a month and it is optional.
That price is my hours writing the pages, not a template licence. The domain goes in your name, the files are yours, and there is no exit fee. I take one electrician per town, which is why I am not trying to be the cheapest.
As the three-year table shows, I am dearer than several of the alternatives in year one. If that settles it for you, it settles it. Otherwise, here is what each package includes.
Questions about money
Questions sparkies ask about price
How much does an electrician website cost in the UK?
From £197 to £1,450 as a one-off, or £25 to £169 a month to rent one. Those are real published prices from named UK providers, checked on 28 August 2026, and they are all in the two tables at the top of this page.
Is £500 too cheap for a website?
No. TradesUp sell five pages at £500 and put in writing that the domain and files are yours. Cheap is not the problem. Cheap without ownership in writing is the problem, and that can happen at any price.
Why is one website £500 and another £2,500?
Mostly hours. A £500 site is a template with your trade dropped in. A £2,500 site has pages someone sat down and wrote for the work you want more of. Sometimes the gap is also a licence you are renting rather than a site you own.
What are the ongoing costs after it goes live?
A domain at roughly £8 to £14 a year, hosting from about £7 a month, and optionally a care plan, which UK agencies publish at £15 to £99 a month. SSL should be free. Watch the hosting renewal price: several jump seven to nine times after the first year.
Should I pay monthly or pay upfront?
Monthly is fine if the site is yours and you can leave with a month's notice. It is a trap when there is a minimum term and an exit fee. One published contract charges £600 to leave, another £3,000 plus VAT in year one.
Do I own the website, and what happens if I stop paying?
Not automatically. Section 90(3) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 says an assignment of copyright is not effective unless it is in writing and signed. Some published terms say the site and your email come down when you cancel. Get ownership in writing before you pay.
Is Checkatrade cheaper than a website?
The Approved tier is £30 plus VAT a month, which is £432 a year including VAT. But Checkatrade's own help pages say that tier does not produce leads. It is a twelve-month contract that auto-renews and can only be cancelled by phone.
Is a one-page website enough for a tradesman?
If the only job is to exist when someone searches your name, yes, and a free Google Business Profile does most of the rest. If you want to be found for EICR or EV charger work specifically, one page will not do it, because there is nowhere for those words to live.
Is there VAT on top?
Not on mine. I am not VAT registered at the moment, so the price you see is the price you pay. Most of the other prices on this page are quoted without VAT, so add twenty per cent before you compare them to mine.
Sourcing
Where these numbers come from
Every price on this page was read off the provider's own published page on 28 August 2026. Every quotation in quotation marks is the company's own wording from its own pricing page, help pages or published terms. Nothing here is an industry average, a survey, or a number I heard somewhere.
The four ranges in “when it is worth paying more” are the exception, and they are labelled: those are other agencies' estimates, not published prices.
Where a provider does not publish a price, this page says so rather than guessing. That applies to Rated People, TrustATrader, Checkatrade's electrician-specific tier, the renewal price of a 123 Reg domain, and the GBP prices at Wix, GoDaddy and Namecheap. Missing is a real finding. A made-up number is not.
Prices move. If you are reading this a long way from that date, check them yourself before you rely on them — and if you find one that has changed, message me on WhatsApp and I will fix it.