National rank
22 of 30
21 towns model higher than this one.
£182 in Coventry, and Leicester lands on the same figure.
West Midlands pay of £730.40 a week on £218,000 housing gets there.
Leicester gets there on East Midlands pay of £703.80 and £235,000.
Modelled from two published statistics, West Midlands median weekly pay of £730.40 and Coventry housing at £218,000, both sourced 5 July 2026 and cross checked further down this page.
How Coventry compares with the other 29
30 towns, one axis. Coventry is the marked tick, at £182 on a rail running from £160 in Sunderland up to £235 in Guildford, which puts it £18 below the drawn £200 benchmark.
Coventry £182
£200 benchmark
Coventry sits £53 under Guildford at the top and £22 over Sunderland at the bottom.
One other town shares that mark: Leicester, also £182.
Coventry's marker is the decorator rate.
It is the trade the model anchors on, and the other 16 move with the same multiplier, from £127 for general labourer work to £254 for electrician work.
Regional rank
2 of 3
Against the 3 towns we model in the West Midlands.
Versus benchmark
£18 down
9.0 percent below the £200 national decorator benchmark.
What 17 trades charge in Coventry
17 trades, one town. A Coventry day runs from £127 for general labourer up to £254 for electrician, which is a £127 span on what is otherwise the same working day, priced through West Midlands earnings.
Every one of the 17 is the same 9 percent down on Coventry geography, because one multiplier built from the West Midlands pay and Coventry house prices moves all of them together.
| Trade | Day rate | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician£26 below the £280 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £254 | |
| Plumber£25 below the £270 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £245 | |
| Bricklayer£24 below the £260 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £236 | |
| Gas and Heating Engineer£24 below the £259 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £235 | |
| General Builder£23 below the £253 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £230 | |
| Carpenter and joiner£22 below the £240 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £218 | |
| Roofer£22 below the £239 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £217 | |
| Plasterer£21 below the £230 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £209 | |
| Tiler£21 below the £229 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £208 | |
| Drainage Engineer£21 below the £225 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £204 | |
| Decorative Plasterer£21 below the £225 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £204 | |
| GroundworkerModelled only£20 below the £213 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £193 | |
| Painter and decorator£18 below the £200 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £182 | |
| Handyman£17 below the £188 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £171 | |
| Cladding Installer£16 below the £175 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £159 | |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer£16 below the £175 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £159 | |
| General Labourer£13 below the £140 benchmark on Coventry geography. | £127 |
Heads upEvery benchmark is a modelled estimate published beside the spread the price guides themselves publish, and is never the median of a directory.Each row above says what Coventry does to that trade.The day rate ranges the price guides publish are national, so they sit on each trade's own page rather than being reprinted on all 30 town pages.Follow any Coventry row to read them.
Scale every bar drawn on £110 to £440Bar the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30No spread 1 of the 17 rows, marked MODELLED ONLY, where no UK price guide publishes a comparable day rate
Your next step
You have what 17 trades charge in Coventry, so the next step is pricing one of your own jobs there.
The Rate Sorted calculator opens already set to Coventry, so your own costs go in and a Coventry rate you can quote with comes out.
How long the work takes in Coventry
A rate prices a day and a job takes several of them. This site publishes a length for 3 of the 17 trades above, so those 3 Coventry rates can be multiplied out.
A decorating job in Coventry comes to £364 to £728, on the 22nd dearest day rate of the 30 towns on this site.
decorating in Coventry
£364 to £728
A painter and decorator day in Coventry models at £182, and decorating a living room takes 2 to 4 days.Source: Robin Gofton, Decorator's Forum UK, job reports.How long does decorating take?
plastering in Coventry
£230 to £355
A plasterer day in Coventry models at £209, and skimming 35 square metres of wall and a 16 square metre ceiling takes 1.1 to 1.7 days.Source: Methvin plastering production rates, updated 1 August 2026, fast to slow.How long does plastering take?
tiling in Coventry
£520 to £666
A tiler day in Coventry models at £208, and fixing and grouting 20 square metres of bathroom wall takes 2.5 to 3.2 days.Source: Methvin tiling production rates, updated 1 August 2026, fast to slow.How long does tiling take?
Read the sumEach figure above is a Coventry day rate multiplied by a job length, and Day rate or price per job? is where that sum is worked in full.It is our arithmetic rather than a price anybody quoted, and none of the 3 lengths is a Coventry measurement.The same 3 jobs come to the same money in Leicester, which reaches £182 a decorator day on £235,000 housing and East Midlands pay of £703.80.
Why Coventry prices as it does
Coventry reaches £182 by a different route to Leicester.
£218,000
The average house price, against £291,000 across the UK.
£730.40
The West Midlands median weekly pay Coventry is modelled on, 4.7 percent below the UK median of £766.60.
0.75x
Property against the UK average, 25 percent below it.
ONS local housing prices, April 2026 provisional, UK House Price Index.
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) April 2025 regional medians.
Registers sourced 5 July 2026.
How Coventry stands on the two cross checks
Both are published statistics. Neither sets a rate on this page, and neither is a survey of what anyone in Coventry charged for a day of work; what they show is why Coventry lands where it does.
West Midlands WEEKLY PAY
£730.40
Coventry is modelled on the West Midlands median for full time work, according to ONS ASHE April 2025.It is 4.7 percent below the UK median of £766.60 a week, and Coventry models at £182 a decorator day on it.West Midlands ranks 6 of the 11 regions on the register, and Coventry is 2 of the 3 West Midlands towns we model on it.
Coventry HOUSE PRICES
£218,000
The Coventry average, data from the ONS local housing price pages, April 2026 provisional.That is 0.75 times the UK average of £291,000, per the UK House Price Index.22 of the 30 towns we cover have more expensive housing.
Coventry questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word, and every figure in them is a Coventry figure printed above.
What is a typical day rate in Coventry?
A decorator day in Coventry models at £182.
That is number 22 of the 30 towns on this site.
Across the 17 trades a Coventry day runs from £127 for general labourer work up to £254 for electrician work, every one of them modelled on West Midlands earnings and Coventry house prices.
Which trade charges the most per day in Coventry?
Electrician, at £254 a day.
General Labourer work is the cheapest of the 17, at £127.
That leaves a £127 span for the same working day in the same town, and it happens because every trade carries its own national benchmark before any Coventry geography is applied to it.
Why do Coventry and Leicester have the same day rate?
Both model at £182 for a decorator day.
They arrive there from different places: Coventry on West Midlands weekly pay of £730.40 against an average house price of £218,000, Leicester on East Midlands pay of £703.80 against £235,000.
Housing is the wider of the two gaps, with Coventry at 0.75 times the UK average house price and Leicester at 0.81 times.
The earnings side of the model closes most of that gap back up, which is how both land on £182.
Is Coventry dearer than Birmingham?
Birmingham is the dearer of the two: £182 in Coventry against £186 in Birmingham, a £4 gap on a decorator day.
Coventry and Birmingham both sit in the West Midlands.
Coventry ranks 2 of the 3 towns we model there.
Why are Coventry rates below the national benchmark?
Two published statistics move the Coventry figure: West Midlands median weekly pay of £730.40, 6 of the 11 regions on the register, and a local average house price of £218,000, 23 of the 30 towns.
Together they put Coventry £18 under the £200 national decorator benchmark.
That is 9.0 percent down.
Can I use these Coventry figures as a quote?
No. £182 is a modelled town figure, and the modelled range beside it, £137 to £237, is arithmetic on that figure rather than a measurement of Coventry jobs.
16 of the 17 Coventry rows carry a spread that UK price guides publish nationally, on the trade's own page, and 1 are modelled with none.
Take the data
17 Coventry rows, £127 to £254. Each row carries its own provenance, so a modelled Coventry figure can never be read as a sourced one.
Download · CSVcoventry.csvOne row per trade, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Coventry day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/coventry/
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The Coventry card carries the decorator rate and the date it was sourced, and the link goes to this page.
<a href="https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/coventry/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/day-rates-coventry.png" alt="Day rates for 17 trades in Coventry, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
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