National rank
27 of 30
26 towns model higher than this one.
£173 in Newcastle, and Nottingham lands on the same figure.
North East pay of £681.20 a week on £209,000 housing gets there.
Nottingham gets there on East Midlands pay of £703.80 and £193,000.
Modelled from two published statistics, North East median weekly pay of £681.20 and Newcastle housing at £209,000, both sourced 5 July 2026 and cross checked further down this page.
How Newcastle compares with the other 29
30 towns, one axis. Newcastle is the marked tick, at £173 on a rail running from £160 in Sunderland up to £235 in Guildford, which puts it £27 below the drawn £200 benchmark.
Newcastle £173
£200 benchmark
Newcastle sits £62 under Guildford at the top and £13 over Sunderland at the bottom.
One other town shares that mark: Nottingham, also £173.
Newcastle's marker is the decorator rate.
It is the trade the model anchors on, and the other 16 move with the same multiplier, from £121 for general labourer work to £243 for electrician work.
Regional rank
1 of 2
Against the 2 towns we model in the North East.
Versus benchmark
£27 down
13.5 percent below the £200 national decorator benchmark.
What 17 trades charge in Newcastle
17 trades, one town. A Newcastle day runs from £121 for general labourer up to £243 for electrician, which is a £122 span on what is otherwise the same working day, priced through North East earnings.
Every one of the 17 is the same 13 to 14 percent down on Newcastle geography, because one multiplier built from the North East pay and Newcastle house prices moves all of them together.
| Trade | Day rate | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician£37 below the £280 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £243 | |
| Plumber£36 below the £270 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £234 | |
| Bricklayer£34 below the £260 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £226 | |
| Gas and Heating Engineer£34 below the £259 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £225 | |
| General Builder£34 below the £253 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £219 | |
| Carpenter and joiner£32 below the £240 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £208 | |
| Roofer£32 below the £239 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £207 | |
| Plasterer£30 below the £230 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £200 | |
| Tiler£30 below the £229 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £199 | |
| Drainage Engineer£30 below the £225 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £195 | |
| Decorative Plasterer£30 below the £225 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £195 | |
| GroundworkerModelled only£28 below the £213 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £185 | |
| Painter and decorator£27 below the £200 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £173 | |
| Handyman£25 below the £188 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £163 | |
| Cladding Installer£23 below the £175 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £152 | |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer£23 below the £175 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £152 | |
| General Labourer£19 below the £140 benchmark on Newcastle geography. | £121 |
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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle, so the next step is pricing one of your own jobs there.
The Rate Sorted calculator opens already set to Newcastle, so your own costs go in and a Newcastle rate you can quote with comes out.
How long the work takes in Newcastle
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 Newcastle rates can be multiplied out.
A decorating job in Newcastle comes to £346 to £692, on the 27th dearest day rate of the 30 towns on this site.
decorating in Newcastle
£346 to £692
A painter and decorator day in Newcastle models at £173, 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 Newcastle
£220 to £340
A plasterer day in Newcastle models at £200, 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 Newcastle
£498 to £637
A tiler day in Newcastle models at £199, 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle measurement.The same 3 jobs come to the same money in Nottingham, which reaches £173 a decorator day on £193,000 housing and East Midlands pay of £703.80.
Why Newcastle prices as it does
Newcastle reaches £173 by a different route to Nottingham.
£209,000
The average house price, against £291,000 across the UK.
£681.20
The North East median weekly pay Newcastle is modelled on, 11.1 percent below the UK median of £766.60.
0.72x
Property against the UK average, 28 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle charged for a day of work; what they show is why Newcastle lands where it does.
North East WEEKLY PAY
£681.20
Newcastle is modelled on the North East median for full time work, according to ONS ASHE April 2025.It is 11.1 percent below the UK median of £766.60 a week, and Newcastle models at £173 a decorator day on it.North East ranks 11 of the 11 regions on the register, and Newcastle is 1 of the 2 North East towns we model on it.
Newcastle HOUSE PRICES
£209,000
The Newcastle average, data from the ONS local housing price pages, April 2026 provisional.That is 0.72 times the UK average of £291,000, per the UK House Price Index.23 of the 30 towns we cover have more expensive housing.
Newcastle questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word, and every figure in them is a Newcastle figure printed above.
What is a typical day rate in Newcastle?
A decorator day in Newcastle models at £173.
That is number 27 of the 30 towns on this site.
Across the 17 trades a Newcastle day runs from £121 for general labourer work up to £243 for electrician work, every one of them modelled on North East earnings and Newcastle house prices.
Which trade charges the most per day in Newcastle?
Electrician, at £243 a day.
General Labourer work is the cheapest of the 17, at £121.
That leaves a £122 span for the same working day in the same town, and it happens because every trade carries its own national benchmark before any Newcastle geography is applied to it.
Why do Newcastle and Nottingham have the same day rate?
Both model at £173 for a decorator day.
They arrive there from different places: Newcastle on North East weekly pay of £681.20 against an average house price of £209,000, Nottingham on East Midlands pay of £703.80 against £193,000.
Housing is the wider of the two gaps, with Newcastle at 0.72 times the UK average house price and Nottingham at 0.66 times.
The earnings side of the model closes most of that gap back up, which is how both land on £173.
Is Newcastle dearer than Sunderland?
Newcastle is the dearer of the two: £173 in Newcastle against £160 in Sunderland, a £13 gap on a decorator day.
Newcastle and Sunderland both sit in the North East.
Newcastle ranks 1 of the 2 towns we model there.
Why are Newcastle rates below the national benchmark?
Two published statistics move the Newcastle figure: North East median weekly pay of £681.20, 11 of the 11 regions on the register, and a local average house price of £209,000, 24 of the 30 towns.
Together they put Newcastle £27 under the £200 national decorator benchmark.
That is 13.5 percent down.
Can I use these Newcastle figures as a quote?
No. £173 is a modelled town figure, and the modelled range beside it, £130 to £225, is arithmetic on that figure rather than a measurement of Newcastle jobs.
16 of the 17 Newcastle 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 Newcastle rows, £121 to £243. Each row carries its own provenance, so a modelled Newcastle figure can never be read as a sourced one.
Download · CSVnewcastle.csvOne row per trade, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Newcastle day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/newcastle/
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<a href="https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/newcastle/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/day-rates-newcastle.png" alt="Day rates for 17 trades in Newcastle, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
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