National benchmark
£175
A modelled benchmark, published beside the guide spread rather than derived from it.
Our benchmark for a cladding installer is £175 a day.
Published UK price guides put cladding installers between £100 and £300, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: MyBuilder, MyJobQuote and HomeHow.
Cladding Installer rates across 30 towns
Ranked by modelled cladding installer 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 cladding installer 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 £175 | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GuildfordSouth East£155 to £268 | £206 | £31 above | |
| 2 | OxfordSouth East£150 to £260 | £200 | £25 above | |
| 3 | CambridgeEast of England£148 to £256 | £197 | £22 above | |
| 4 | BrightonSouth East£144 to £250 | £192 | £17 above | |
| 5 | BathSouth West£140 to £242 | £186 | £11 above | |
| 6 | ReadingSouth East£138 to £239 | £184 | £9 above | |
| 7 | BristolSouth West£135 to £234 | £180 | £5 above | |
| 8 | Milton KeynesSouth East£135 to £234 | £180 | £5 above | |
| 9 | CheltenhamSouth West£133 to £230 | £177 | £2 above | |
| 10 | EdinburghScotland£132 to £229 | £176 | £1 above | |
| 11 | YorkYorkshire£128 to £222 | £171 | £4 below | |
| 12 | ExeterSouth West£128 to £221 | £170 | £5 below | |
| 13 | PortsmouthSouth East£127 to £220 | £169 | £6 below | |
| 14 | NorthamptonEast Midlands£126 to £218 | £168 | £7 below | |
| 15 | SouthamptonSouth East£125 to £217 | £167 | £8 below | |
| 16 | CardiffWales£124 to £215 | £165 | £10 below | |
| 17 | NorwichEast of England£124 to £215 | £165 | £10 below | |
| 18 | ManchesterNorth West£123 to £213 | £164 | £11 below | |
| 19 | BirminghamWest Midlands£122 to £211 | £162 | £13 below | |
| 20 | LeedsYorkshire£122 to £211 | £162 | £13 below | |
| 21 | LeicesterEast Midlands£119 to £207 | £159 | £16 below | |
| 22 | CoventryWest Midlands£119 to £207 | £159 | £16 below | |
| 23 | GlasgowScotland£119 to £205 | £158 | £17 below | |
| 24 | SheffieldYorkshire£118 to £204 | £157 | £18 below | |
| 25 | DerbyEast Midlands£116 to £200 | £154 | £21 below | |
| 26 | LiverpoolNorth West£115 to £199 | £153 | £22 below | |
| 27 | NewcastleNorth East£114 to £198 | £152 | £23 below | |
| 28 | NottinghamEast Midlands£114 to £198 | £152 | £23 below | |
| 29 | Stoke-on-TrentWest Midlands£110 to £191 | £147 | £28 below | |
| 30 | SunderlandNorth East£105 to £182 | £140 | £35 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 £100 to £270
- Range the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30
Your next step
You have the £175 cladding installer benchmark, so the next step is a cladding installer 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 cladding installer day rate, ready to price a job with.
Highest town
£206
Guildford, the biggest premium over the benchmark in the 30.
Cheapest town
£140
Sunderland, £35 under the benchmark and the floor of the table.
Published guide spread
£100 to £300
What 3 named guides publish for cladding installers, checked 30 September 2026.
Hiring a cladding installer?
A cladding installer quote between £100 and £300 a day is inside what the UK guides publish, and £175 is the benchmark this site models from.
Quoting as a cladding installer?
£175 puts cladding installers joint 15 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 £175. It shows where the weight of the cladding installer table sits, and how far each end has travelled from that benchmark.
£175 benchmark
Guildford £206
Sunderland sits at the other end, on £140.
That is a £66 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 £100 to £270 scale, cladding installers 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 £158 and £180. Read that middle £22 band first when a cladding installer quote needs a quick sanity check against somewhere of a similar size.
Above the benchmark
10 towns clear £175, 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, £175Stated 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 cladding installer 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 cladding installers charged.
The full working behind every cladding installer 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, £167 to £206£184
East of England2 towns covered, £165 to £197£181
South West4 towns covered, £170 to £186£179
Scotland2 towns covered, £158 to £176£167
Wales1 town covered, £165 to £165£165
Yorkshire3 towns covered, £157 to £171£162
North West2 towns covered, £153 to £164£159
West Midlands3 towns covered, £147 to £162£159
East Midlands4 towns covered, £152 to £168£157
North East2 towns covered, £140 to £152£146
The spread is the story
A Guildford day and a Sunderland day are the same cladding installer work at a £66 difference.
How the £175 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 £175.
What the guides publish
£100 to £300
3 named UK price guides publish a cladding installer day rate.Between them they run from £100 to £300, and the £175 benchmark sits inside that.It is the figure the benchmark is published beside; the cards after it are the tests.
MyBuilder, MyJobQuote and HomeHow, checked 30 September 2026
Office for National Statistics
£698
The Office for National Statistics puts the nearest trade group at £698 a week (2025 pay survey).
ONS ASHE 2025 provisional, employee earnings, not a charge out rate · ASHE Table 14
Hudson Contract, what firms pay
£928
Hudson Contract does not track cladding on its own.Its two nearest trades are frame erection at £928 a week and insulation at £1,161 a week.
Hudson Contract, subcontractor payroll, England and Wales, three year average, July 2023 to June 2026
This Hudson figure is a nearest tradeHudson publishes no cladding installer trade.Those are its nearest published trades, not a cladding installer rate.
How the guides price cladding installer work
The same £175 as suspended ceiling installers
Cladding installers and suspended ceiling installers both benchmark at £175 on this site, so every town figure on this cladding page matches the ceiling page to the pound.Their published spreads do not match: cladding runs from £100 to £300 across three guides.
Most cladding is quoted by the square metre
Checkatrade publishes no cladding day rate at all, and prices it at £80 a square metre for uPVC, £115 for larch and £165 for cedar, labour included.MyBuilder puts a cladding team at £250 to £500 a day, which is a crew rate and not one installer.
A second pair of hands changes the quote
HomeHow prices two cladding tradespeople at £250 to £300 a day against £150 to £200 for one.A June 2026 timber cladding guide runs from £170 to £290 a day in the North of England to £280 to £480 in London.
What other cladding sources publish
BookaBuilderUK puts cladding installers at £220 to £350 a day, on a page that carries no date.Trade2Base, writing for installers in June 2026, prices a skilled cladding fitter or renderer at £180 to £280 and a two person render gang at £380 to £520.Neither is named in the spread above, because one is undated and the other advises the trade rather than the customer.
The material moves a cladding quote more than the day does
On Checkatrade figures, fitted cedar costs about twice as much a square metre as uPVC, at £165 against £80.Eurocell, which makes cladding, puts a cladding specialist at £150 to £200 a day, the same band MyJobQuote prints.
Where cladding installers are counted
ONS has no cladding code, and the Migration Advisory Committee counts cladding roles under SOC 5319, construction and building trades not elsewhere classified.Skills England files roof sheeters and cladders under roofers instead, which is why the pay figure on this cladding page is labelled the nearest trade group.
Timber cladding often brings a labourer
HomeHow prices the main timber cladding installer at £150 to £200 a day and each extra labourer at £80 to £100, on a page last updated in September 2023.That is too old for this site to name it in the cladding spread, so it is printed here instead.
One cladding guide prices by region only
The June 2026 timber cladding guide puts an installer at £240 to £420 in the South East, £190 to £330 across the Midlands and East Anglia, and £170 to £300 in Scotland and Wales.It gives no national cladding figure, so it sits beside the modelled towns rather than inside the spread.
Some cladding is quoted by the hour
MyBuilder prices standard cladding installations at £25 to £35 an hour on the same page that gives its £100 to £300 day rate.Neither HaMuch nor Checkatrade publishes an hourly cladding figure at all.
Cladding Installer wages and pay rates
What cladding installers are paid is a different measurement from the £175 a customer is charged, and both are on this page.
Paid as an employee
£698 a week
ONS publishes no cladding installer code, so the figure is the median for construction and building trades not elsewhere classified.It is a wage before tax, not a rate anybody quotes a customer.
Paid as a subcontractor
£186 a day
Hudson Contract paid £928 a week on its steel and timber frame erection series, which is £186 over five days.the nearest trade Hudson does publish, named as such and not this one
What tradespeople earn sets cladding installers beside the other 16 trades, sourced 5 September 2026.
Pricing a short job rather than a full day, the £175 works out at £25.00 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 cladding installers, and names the day it divides by.
Against the decorator benchmark
Decorators benchmark at £200 a day on this site.
Cladding work comes in £25 under that figure.
- Cladding Installer benchmark
- £175
- Painter and decorator benchmark
- £200
- Gap at the benchmark
- £25 under
London timber cladding, top
£480
A June 2026 timber cladding guide puts a London installer at £280 to £480 a day.None of the 30 towns here is London, and this site models no London rate.
Common questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word.
How much does a cladding installer charge per day in the UK?
Our benchmark for a cladding installer is £175 a day.
Published UK price guides put cladding installers between £100 and £300, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: MyBuilder, MyJobQuote and HomeHow.
Across the 30 modelled towns the figure runs from £140 in Sunderland to £206 in Guildford.
Does the cladding installer day rate include materials or VAT?
No.
The £175 is one full working day of cladding installer labour, before materials and VAT.
Why do cladding installer rates differ between towns?
The £175 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 £206 on Guildford and £140 on Sunderland.
That is a £66 gap across the 30 towns for the same day of cladding installer work.
What is the cladding installer pay rate in the UK?
The cladding installer pay rate depends on who is paying it.
ONS publishes no cladding installer code, so the figure is the median for construction and building trades not elsewhere classified.
Employed on a payroll, cladding installers earn an ONS median of £698 a week, under SOC 5319.
For cladding installers paid as subcontractors instead, the nearest Hudson Contract figure is its steel and timber frame erection series at £928 a week, which works out at about £186 a day over a five day week.
That is a nearby trade, not a cladding installer series.
Neither is the £175 a cladding installer charges a customer.
Take the data
Every figure on this page is in the file, with the same sources and the same date.
Download · CSVcladding-installer-day-rates.csv30 rows, one per town, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Cladding Installer day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/cladding-installer-day-rates/
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The cladding installer card carries the benchmark and the date, and the link goes to this page.
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Quoting cladding installer work yourself?The £175 cladding installer benchmark beside every other trade on this site, read from the side of the person sending the invoice.What should I chargeWeighing up a cladding installer quote?A £175 cladding installer 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 cladding installer day rate into a job price.