Free for NI tradespeople

NI tradesperson day rates for 2026, on your side of the quote.

You know what your work is worth. This is for the customer who waves a UK price site at you: researched Northern Ireland figures, compiled from real NI quotes, because those sites are working from GB datasets, not NI data. The day rates are below, free. The full pack with whole-job ranges takes about a minute to get.

Tradesperson day rates in Northern Ireland, 2026

Compiled from written NI quotes gathered for our pricing guides. Every trade prices their own way, and rightly so, these are simply the bands the NI market is quoting in 2026. Handy as a second reference, and handier still when a customer needs shown that Northern Ireland is not England.

TradeIndicative NI day rate (2026)
Electrician£220 to £360
Plumber / heating engineer£220 to £350
Joiner / carpenter£200 to £320
Bricklayer£180 to £300
General builder / multi-trade£180 to £300
Painter and decorator£150 to £260
Labourer£110 to £170

Open data, free to cite: the full day-rates dataset (CC BY 4.0). For the pricing method behind the numbers, see how to price a job as an NI tradesperson.

What is in it

The same benchmarks behind our public guides and Cost Index, gathered into one email you can keep.

A full 8-page PDF, built for the van
Not a newsletter. A proper document: NI day rates for 7 skilled trades, plus every whole-job benchmark we publish, with every spec and tier. Save it, print it, hand it to a customer.
Every job range homeowners are quoted
Kitchens, bathrooms, extensions per square metre, rewires, boilers, roofs, windows, insulation and gas safety. Useful the next time a customer says another quote came in lower.
Win the quote, not just price it
What a professional quote includes for each job, the questions informed customers now ask, and a plain-English page on pricing method and materials markup. The trade who answers without blinking gets picked.
NI data, not GB datasets
Every UK-wide cost site a customer has ever quoted at you was built on GB datasets, not Northern Ireland data. The pack gives you the word-for-word answer, with a source behind you.
Updates when the numbers move
We re-review the benchmarks as prices change and send you the updated pack. Nothing else, and one-click unsubscribe on every email.
Why we give it away. A homeowner who understands fair NI pricing argues less with a fair quote. The data is published openly under CC BY 4.0 either way, so you can quote it to customers with a credit: see the open Cost Index.

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Pricing questions NI trades ask

What is a typical tradesperson day rate in Northern Ireland in 2026?

Indicative 2026 NI day rates: electricians £220 to £360, plumbers and heating engineers £220 to £350, joiners and carpenters £200 to £320, bricklayers and general builders £180 to £300, painters and decorators £150 to £260, labourers £110 to £170. These are compiled from written NI quotes for the NI Trades pricing guides. They are the bands the market is quoting, individual rates rightly sit above or below them depending on specialism, certification and demand.

How much should I charge as a tradesperson in NI?

That is your call, you know your costs, your speed and your worth better than any website ever will. What the benchmarks are for is context: where the NI market is quoting in 2026, so you can see where your rate sits if you want to, and push back with a source when a customer compares you against UK-wide figures that come from GB datasets, not from what Northern Ireland customers are actually quoted. If a full costing method is ever useful, our free how-to-price guide has one.

Are trade day rates lower in Northern Ireland than the rest of the UK?

Northern Ireland is its own market with its own going rates. UK-wide day-rate sites are built on GB datasets, so their figures rarely match what is actually quoted here, and judging an NI quote against them is judging it against the wrong market. That is why we publish NI-specific benchmarks compiled from real NI quotes.

What is in the NI Trade Pricing Pack and is it really free?

The pack is an email with the researched 2026 NI benchmarks: indicative day rates for seven trades, whole-job price ranges homeowners are being quoted (kitchens, bathrooms, extensions, rewires, boilers, roofs, windows, insulation), and links to the open datasets behind them. It is free, you can unsubscribe from any email in one click, and the underlying data is published openly under CC BY 4.0 regardless.