How much does a website for an electrician actually cost?

If you're an electrician in the UK, you've probably had the same experience as every other spark I've spoken to this year. You Google "electrician website cost", you get three quotes that make no sense together — one for £199, one for £1,800, and someone on Facebook offering "£29.99 a month, no upfront" — and you close the laptop and get back to the job.

Let's sort that out. I build these for a living, mostly for trades, and I'd rather give you the real numbers than sell you the most expensive option. Here's what electrician websites actually cost in 2026, what you actually get at each price, and the few things that genuinely matter for getting enquiries. If you run a one-man band, a two-van team, or you're NICEIC registered and quoting rewires all week, this is written for you.

What an electrician's website needs to do (and what it doesn't)

An electrician's site is not a tech project. It's a trust project. People are letting you into their home to touch their electrics. They want to know three things fast: are you qualified, are you local, and will you pick up?

So the site that works is pretty predictable:

• Services laid out clearly - rewires, consumer units / fuse boards, fault finding, landlord certificates (EICR), lighting, EV chargers if you do them. One page per service, not one paragraph crammed on the homepage.
• Proof - before/afters of a board change, a rewire kitchen, a clean testing sticker. Phone photos in daylight are perfect. Stock photos of a man holding a lightbulb are not.
• Coverage area honest - "Electrician covering Wigan, Leigh, Bolton" beats "Electrician UK" every time. That's your local SEO - see what you need to rank in 2026.
• Tap-to-call everywhere - sticky header, sticky footer on mobile, not buried three clicks deep. Most spark enquiries come from a phone, often in a hurry.
• Certs and trust - NICEIC / NAPIT / SELECT badges where they belong (footer, service page), not giant and shouty. Reviews next to them. A single recent review next to "EICR for landlords - from £120" does more than any badge.

That's the whole job. No booking calendar you don't need, no fancy animation. A handful of pages done well, kept fresh.

The £200-£400 range: looks okay on a laptop, fights you on a phone

This is the "£249 website that will change your business" ad. It's usually a drag-and-drop builder you populate yourself, or a very junior freelancer. You'll get something that exists — it has an address on the internet — but it'll be thin. Titles all say "Home", services are one block of text, the contact form sometimes doesn't send, and the mobile menu hides your phone number behind two taps.

Worse, support is mostly absent. I looked at one from a spark in Rotherham last month: £299 down, £12 a month "hosting". The site hadn't been updated since the day it launched, Google Business Profile still said old number, no SSL padlock. He was losing jobs to a competitor with a cleaner site even though he was better qualified. That's the cost of cheap that people forget — not money lost, but jobs you never got a call for.

If you need something live tomorrow and have zero budget, it'll do as a placeholder. But expect to rebuild it within a year.

The £900-£2,200 range: the traditional agency

This is where most electricians get quoted, and where the build quality is genuinely good. Proper pages, mobile considered, decent copy. You'll get discovery calls, a draft, revisions. It will look the part — like the examples on our work page but with more meetings.

The problem is what happens after. Hosting sold back to you at £20-£40 a month. A "care plan" at £50-£90. £75 an hour to swap a phone number or add EV charging to your services list. Rewires are seasonal, EICRs spike for landlords in spring, emergency call-outs have their own rhythm — your site needs to reflect that with small, regular tweaks. If each tweak is an invoice, you just won't do it. That's why we wrote why so many sites go stale — the pricing punishes staying current.

Always ask an agency quoting £1,400: what does year two cost all-in, and what does a single text change cost? Compare that honestly to an everything-included £29.99/month figure. They are the same site — we explain why in why a £2k site and a £29.99/month site are the same site — but the lifetime bill is not the same at all.

The £29.99/month route: built for how sparks actually work

This is our lane, so bias noted - but here's why it fits electricians particularly well.

You pay nothing upfront. We design, build, host, secure and maintain the site, and we include small monthly edits. New NICEIC card arrived? Send a photo. Want to push landlord EICRs this quarter? We can build out that page properly and add it to the navigation. Finished a full rewire in Sale and want six photos in the gallery? That's an included edit, not a £60 invoice you'll put off until December.

Over a year that's about £360. Over three years about £1,080 — which is less than a single agency build before you've paid hosting. The key isn't just cost; it's freshness. An electrician's credibility compounds when the site shows recent work and current certs. Our roofer cost breakdown shows the same maths — trades that stay current win more clicks even without ads. And because it's month-to-month with no contract, we have to earn you every month.

What to demand whichever way you go

• Emergency path clear. If you do 24/7 or same-day fault finding, that needs its own block and button above the fold — "Emergency Electrician - Call Now". Don't make a panicked customer hunt.
• EICR and landlord content done properly. Landlords search very specifically: "EICR certificate [town] cost". Give that page a price range, what’s included, how long it takes, and a review next to it.
• Real local pages, not a list dump. If you cover Bolton, Bury and Wigan, say that in real sentences, with service area content that matches your Manchester or Leeds style structure. One site, clear geography. Not 30 town names hidden in the footer.
• Speed on a phone first. Ask the designer to load the site on their own phone on 4G. If the number isn't tappable instantly, it's not ready.

The bottom line for sparks

You don't need a £2,000 brochure to be trusted. You need a fast, honest, local site that proves you're qualified, shows recent work, and makes calling you effortless - and you need it kept current without dreading the invoice. That's what keeps you findable for "electrician near me" without living on a leads platform. Speaking of which, if you split your time between paid leads and your own site, read do you need a website if you use Checkatrade/MyBuilder? - it breaks down the true cost of not owning your enquiries.

If you want a blunt quote for your patch — one man, two vans, or a team — just tell us your towns and services. We'll tell you what we'd build, what the monthly edits cover, and how long to expect before "electrician in [your town]" starts moving. No upfront cost, no contract — see how it works.