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The Rate Book

The Rate Book: price every job from your real costs.

Tradesman day rates in the UK run from £140 to £280 a day, the typical rates for 17 trades.

Pick yours below. Its Rate Book puts that rate, your town's rate and your own costs in one file.

Rates from UK price guides and ONS earnings data, reviewed October 2026. Each trade page says how well sourced it is.

Four tradespeople standing together beside a work van on a terraced street at dusk: an electrician with a coil of cable, a plumber with a pipe wrench, a carpenter with a cordless drill and a bricklayer in a hi vis vest.
Trades covered17
Town rates for yours31
Tax year built in2026/27
One payment£39

Day rates for 17 trades. One Rate Book each.

Each one opens that trade's Rate Book, £39 once.

Every version has a free sample, so you can look before you pay.

Each figure is the typical day rate we model. Its trade page says how well sourced it is.

No reviews yet, because it is new. Rates reviewed October 2026.

Not sure of your number yet? Work it out on the calculator first.

Work more than one trade? The questions below cover which to pick.

What your choice changes, and what it does not.

The same in all 17

  • The sheets, the sums and the layout
  • Tax year 2026/27 built into every calculation
  • Quote and invoice that fill themselves in
  • Excel and Google Sheets

Yours alone, once you pick

  • Your trade's national typical day rate
  • All 31 town rates for your trade
  • Every worked example, priced in your trade
  • The words to send when you put your rate up
£39One payment, no subscription.Works in Excel and Google Sheets.

The checkout and the free sample sit on each trade's own page.

The questions that come up first.

What changes between the 17 versions?

The day rates, the town table and the worked examples.

Each one is the trade you pick, never another trade standing in for it.

The sheets, the sums and the layout are the same in all 17.

I work more than one trade. Which do I pick?

The one you invoice under most.

That is the trade whose town rates your number is held against.

Your own costs and hours drive the figure either way.

Can I look before I decide?

Yes. Every version opens a free sample from its own page.

No account, no email and nothing to cancel.

My trade is not on the list. What then?

Tell us which trade is missing and it goes on the list to be built.

These 17 are the trades the rate data covers, and nothing outside them is built from a guess.

Why would my day rate differ from the typical rate?

The figure is a national typical rate, built from UK price guides where they publish one.

Your town moves it, and each Rate Book carries every town's modelled rate.

Your own costs, days off and tax move it again. The free calculator works that out.

Want the working first? The method page shows every step. Trade missing? Tell us.