National benchmark
£260
A modelled benchmark, published beside the guide spread rather than derived from it.
Our benchmark for a bricklayer is £260 a day.
Published UK price guides put bricklayers between £120 and £320, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: Checkatrade, MyJobQuote, CostEstimator and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Bricklayer rates across 30 towns
Ranked by modelled bricklayer day rate, built the way the method band below sets out. The modelled range beside each town is drawn to one shared scale, so two bricklayer towns can be read straight off against each other.
Showing all 30 towns.
No town on this page matches that. All 30 are in the table, and the town index explains which towns are not modelled and why.
| # | Town | Rate | vs £260 | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GuildfordSouth East£230 to £398 | £306 | £46 above | |
| 2 | OxfordSouth East£224 to £387 | £298 | £38 above | |
| 3 | CambridgeEast of England£220 to £381 | £293 | £33 above | |
| 4 | BrightonSouth East£214 to £371 | £285 | £25 above | |
| 5 | BathSouth West£207 to £359 | £276 | £16 above | |
| 6 | ReadingSouth East£206 to £356 | £274 | £14 above | |
| 7 | BristolSouth West£200 to £347 | £267 | £7 above | |
| 8 | Milton KeynesSouth East£200 to £347 | £267 | £7 above | |
| 9 | CheltenhamSouth West£197 to £342 | £263 | £3 above | |
| 10 | EdinburghScotland£197 to £341 | £262 | £2 above | |
| 11 | YorkYorkshire£191 to £330 | £254 | £6 below | |
| 12 | ExeterSouth West£190 to £329 | £253 | £7 below | |
| 13 | PortsmouthSouth East£189 to £328 | £252 | £8 below | |
| 14 | NorthamptonEast Midlands£188 to £325 | £250 | £10 below | |
| 15 | SouthamptonSouth East£187 to £324 | £249 | £11 below | |
| 16 | CardiffWales£184 to £319 | £245 | £15 below | |
| 17 | NorwichEast of England£184 to £319 | £245 | £15 below | |
| 18 | ManchesterNorth West£183 to £317 | £244 | £16 below | |
| 19 | BirminghamWest Midlands£181 to £313 | £241 | £19 below | |
| 20 | LeedsYorkshire£180 to £312 | £240 | £20 below | |
| 21 | LeicesterEast Midlands£177 to £307 | £236 | £24 below | |
| 22 | CoventryWest Midlands£177 to £307 | £236 | £24 below | |
| 23 | GlasgowScotland£176 to £306 | £235 | £25 below | |
| 24 | SheffieldYorkshire£176 to £304 | £234 | £26 below | |
| 25 | DerbyEast Midlands£172 to £298 | £229 | £31 below | |
| 26 | LiverpoolNorth West£171 to £296 | £228 | £32 below | |
| 27 | NewcastleNorth East£170 to £294 | £226 | £34 below | |
| 28 | NottinghamEast Midlands£170 to £294 | £226 | £34 below | |
| 29 | Stoke-on-TrentWest Midlands£164 to £283 | £218 | £42 below | |
| 30 | SunderlandNorth East£156 to £270 | £208 | £52 below |
Read the rangeEvery range spans the same fraction of its own town rate, 0.75 to 1.30, so a higher priced town shows a wider one.That extra width is arithmetic and not evidence, because the range is a fixed rule rather than a measurement.
- Scale every bar drawn on £150 to £400
- Range the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30
Your next step
You have the £260 bricklayer benchmark, so the next step is a bricklayer rate that covers your own costs.
Put in the take home you want, your van and your insurance, and the Rate Sorted calculator turns them into your own bricklayer day rate, ready to price a job with.
Highest town
£306
Guildford, the biggest premium over the benchmark in the 30.
Cheapest town
£208
Sunderland, £52 under the benchmark and the floor of the table.
Published guide spread
£120 to £320
What 4 named guides publish for bricklayers, checked 30 September 2026.
Hiring a bricklayer?
A bricklayer quote between £120 and £320 a day is inside what the UK guides publish, and £260 is the benchmark this site models from.
Quoting as a bricklayer?
£260 puts bricklayers 3 of 17 on this site, between £140 for general labourer work and £280 for electrician.
How the 30 towns spread out
Every town on one axis, marked against £260. It shows where the weight of the bricklayer table sits, and how far each end has travelled from that benchmark.
£260 benchmark
Guildford £306
Sunderland sits at the other end, on £208.
That is a £98 span across the 30 towns for one day of the same work, and because every trade page on this site draws its rail on the identical £150 to £400 scale, bricklayers can be laid over any other trade here and read tick for tick.
Half the table sits here
17 of the 30 towns fall between £235 and £267. Read that middle £32 band first when a bricklayer quote needs a quick sanity check against somewhere of a similar size.
Above the benchmark
10 towns clear £260, and 9 of those are in the South East, South West or East of England.
How each town figure is built
Three inputs, in this order, and nothing else goes in.
- 01The trade benchmark, £260Stated and sourced at the top of this page. Nothing on this page works it out again.
- 02A geography multiplier, trade neutralOne multiplier per town, built from earnings data from the ONS and local house prices, applied to every trade the same way.
- 03A modelled range of 0.75 and 1.30Low and high are the town's own modelled rate multiplied by 0.75 and by 1.30, never the benchmark.
Rate estimates blend a national bricklayer day rate benchmark, checked against dated UK trade price guides, with official ONS regional earnings and local house price data.
Figures are modelled estimates for guidance, not quotes.
Sources: ONS ASHE 2025, UK House Price Index April 2026.
Nothing on this page is a survey of what bricklayers charged.
The full working behind every bricklayer figure, with each source dated, is on the methodology page.
Which regions pay the most
The median of the towns we cover in each region, which means a region with one town in it is that one town. London has no modelled town yet, so it does not appear.
South East7 towns covered, £249 to £306£274
East of England2 towns covered, £245 to £293£269
South West4 towns covered, £253 to £276£265
Scotland2 towns covered, £235 to £262£249
Wales1 town covered, £245 to £245£245
Yorkshire3 towns covered, £234 to £254£240
North West2 towns covered, £228 to £244£236
West Midlands3 towns covered, £218 to £241£236
East Midlands4 towns covered, £226 to £250£233
North East2 towns covered, £208 to £226£217
The spread is the story
A Guildford day and a Sunderland day are the same bricklayer work at a £98 difference.
How the £260 is set, and what checks it
The first card is the spread published according to the named UK price guides. The rest are independent checks that never fed the £260.
What the guides publish
£120 to £320
4 named UK price guides publish a bricklayer day rate.Between them they run from £120 to £320, and the £260 benchmark sits inside that.It is the figure the benchmark is published beside; the cards after it are the tests.
Checkatrade, MyJobQuote, CostEstimator and PriceYourJob (2025 guide), checked 30 September 2026
Office for National Statistics
ONS
The Office for National Statistics counts bricklayers and masons as one trade group (2025 pay survey).
ONS ASHE 2025 provisional, employee earnings, not a charge out rate · ASHE Table 14
Hudson Contract, what firms pay
£961
Hudson Contract, which tracks what firms pay trades, has bricklaying at £961 a week, about £192 a day.
Hudson Contract, subcontractor payroll, England and Wales, three year average, July 2023 to June 2026
Fewer guides cover this tradePrice guides disagree more than usual about bricklayers, so treat this figure with extra care.
Bricklayer wages and pay rates
What bricklayers are paid is a different measurement from the £260 a customer is charged, and both are on this page.
Paid as an employee
Not published
ONS counts bricklayers together with masons under SOC 5312 and publishes no bricklayer median on its own.
Paid as a subcontractor
£192 a day
Hudson Contract paid £961 a week on its bricklaying series, which is £192 over five days.this trade, published by Hudson under its own name
Employed, starter to experienced
£25,000 to £45,000 a year
The National Careers Service bricklayer profile prints both salaries, read 3 October 2026.They are employee salaries before tax, not the £260 a customer pays for a day.
What tradespeople earn sets bricklayers beside the other 16 trades, sourced 5 September 2026.
Pricing a short job rather than a full day, the £260 works out at £37.14 an hour on the working day this site assumes, which is ours rather than a published figure.
What the trades charge an hour sets that against the hourly range the price guides publish for bricklayers, and names the day it divides by.
Against the decorator benchmark
Decorators benchmark at £200 a day on this site.
Bricklaying comes in £60 over that figure.
- Bricklayer benchmark
- £260
- Painter and decorator benchmark
- £200
- Gap at the benchmark
- £60 over
Common questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word.
How much does a bricklayer charge per day in the UK?
Our benchmark for a bricklayer is £260 a day.
Published UK price guides put bricklayers between £120 and £320, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: Checkatrade, MyJobQuote, CostEstimator and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Across the 30 modelled towns the figure runs from £208 in Sunderland to £306 in Guildford.
Does the bricklayer day rate include materials or VAT?
No.
The £260 is one full working day of bricklayer labour, before materials and VAT.
Why do bricklayer rates differ between towns?
The £260 benchmark is spread town by town with ONS regional earnings (ASHE 2025) and local house prices (UK House Price Index, April 2026).
That is what puts £306 on Guildford and £208 on Sunderland.
That is a £98 gap across the 30 towns for the same day of bricklayer work.
What is the bricklayer pay rate in the UK?
The bricklayer pay rate depends on who is paying it.
ONS counts bricklayers together with masons under SOC 5312 and publishes no bricklayer median on its own.
For bricklayers paid as subcontractors instead, the Hudson Contract figure is its bricklaying series at £961 a week, which works out at about £192 a day over a five day week.
That is a true bricklayer series.
Neither is the £260 a bricklayer charges a customer.
Take the data
Every figure on this page is in the file, with the same sources and the same date.
Download · CSVbricklayer-day-rates.csv30 rows, one per town, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Bricklayer day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/bricklayer-day-rates/
Embed this figure
The bricklayer card carries the benchmark and the date, and the link goes to this page.
<a href="https://thedayrate.co.uk/bricklayer-day-rates/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/bricklayer-day-rates.png" alt="Bricklayer day rates in 30 UK towns, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
The bricklayer figures are free to use in an article, a fact check or a quote, and a credit with a link back is all we ask, under CC BY 4.0.
Quoting bricklayer work yourself?The £260 bricklayer benchmark beside every other trade on this site, read from the side of the person sending the invoice.What should I chargeWeighing up a bricklayer quote?A £260 bricklayer day multiplied by the day count is the sum behind a whole job price.Day rate or price per job
The full guide index carries all 12, including the ones that turn the bricklayer day rate into a job price.
None of the 30 towns modelled above is London, where this site publishes no bricklayer rate of its own and prints what the named guides publish instead.