National rank
14 of 30
13 towns model higher than this one.
Northampton is the highest of the 4 East Midlands towns we cover.
£192 a day, and 13 towns in the country model higher.
Modelled from two published statistics, East Midlands median weekly pay of £703.80 and Northampton housing at £293,000, both sourced 5 July 2026 and cross checked further down this page.
How Northampton compares with the other 29
30 towns, one axis. Northampton is the marked tick, at £192 on a rail running from £160 in Sunderland up to £235 in Guildford, which puts it £8 below the drawn £200 benchmark.
Northampton £192
£200 benchmark
Northampton sits £43 under Guildford at the top and £32 over Sunderland at the bottom.
Northampton's marker is the decorator rate.
It is the trade the model anchors on, and the other 16 move with the same multiplier, from £134 for general labourer work to £269 for electrician work.
Regional rank
1 of 4
Against the 4 towns we model in the East Midlands.
Versus benchmark
£8 down
4.0 percent below the £200 national decorator benchmark.
What 17 trades charge in Northampton
17 trades, one town. A Northampton day runs from £134 for general labourer up to £269 for electrician, which is a £135 span on what is otherwise the same working day, priced through East Midlands earnings.
Every one of the 17 is the same 4 percent down on Northampton geography, because one multiplier built from the East Midlands pay and Northampton house prices moves all of them together.
| Trade | Day rate | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician£11 below the £280 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £269 | |
| Plumber£11 below the £270 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £259 | |
| Bricklayer£10 below the £260 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £250 | |
| Gas and Heating Engineer£10 below the £259 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £249 | |
| General Builder£10 below the £253 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £243 | |
| Carpenter and joiner£10 below the £240 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £230 | |
| Roofer£10 below the £239 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £229 | |
| Plasterer£9 below the £230 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £221 | |
| Tiler£9 below the £229 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £220 | |
| Drainage Engineer£9 below the £225 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £216 | |
| Decorative Plasterer£9 below the £225 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £216 | |
| GroundworkerModelled only£9 below the £213 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £204 | |
| Painter and decorator£8 below the £200 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £192 | |
| Handyman£8 below the £188 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £180 | |
| Cladding Installer£7 below the £175 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £168 | |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer£7 below the £175 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £168 | |
| General Labourer£6 below the £140 benchmark on Northampton geography. | £134 |
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 Northampton 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 Northampton 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 Northampton, so the next step is pricing one of your own jobs there.
The Rate Sorted calculator opens already set to Northampton, so your own costs go in and a Northampton rate you can quote with comes out.
How long the work takes in Northampton
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 Northampton rates can be multiplied out.
A decorating job in Northampton comes to £384 to £768, on the 14th dearest day rate of the 30 towns on this site.
decorating in Northampton
£384 to £768
A painter and decorator day in Northampton models at £192, 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 Northampton
£243 to £376
A plasterer day in Northampton models at £221, 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 Northampton
£550 to £704
A tiler day in Northampton models at £220, 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 Northampton 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 Northampton measurement.
Why Northampton prices as it does
Northampton carries East Midlands prices without East Midlands being the reason.
£293,000
The average house price, against £291,000 across the UK.
£703.80
The East Midlands median weekly pay Northampton is modelled on, 8.2 percent below the UK median of £766.60.
1.01x
Property against the UK average, 1 percent above 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 Northampton 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 Northampton charged for a day of work; what they show is why Northampton lands where it does.
East Midlands WEEKLY PAY
£703.80
Northampton is modelled on the East Midlands median for full time work, according to ONS ASHE April 2025.It is 8.2 percent below the UK median of £766.60 a week, and Northampton models at £192 a decorator day on it.East Midlands ranks 10 of the 11 regions on the register, and Northampton is 1 of the 4 East Midlands towns we model on it.
Northampton HOUSE PRICES
£293,000
The Northampton average, data from the ONS local housing price pages, April 2026 provisional.That is 1.01 times the UK average of £291,000, per the UK House Price Index.11 of the 30 towns we cover have more expensive housing.
Northampton questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word, and every figure in them is a Northampton figure printed above.
What is a typical day rate in Northampton?
A decorator day in Northampton models at £192.
That is number 14 of the 30 towns on this site.
Across the 17 trades a Northampton day runs from £134 for general labourer work up to £269 for electrician work, every one of them modelled on East Midlands earnings and Northampton house prices.
Which trade charges the most per day in Northampton?
Electrician, at £269 a day.
General Labourer work is the cheapest of the 17, at £134.
That leaves a £135 span for the same working day in the same town, and it happens because every trade carries its own national benchmark before any Northampton geography is applied to it.
Is Northampton dearer than Leicester?
Northampton is the dearer of the two: £192 in Northampton against £182 in Leicester, a £10 gap on a decorator day.
Northampton and Leicester both sit in the East Midlands.
Northampton ranks 1 of the 4 towns we model there.
Why are Northampton rates below the national benchmark?
Two published statistics move the Northampton figure: East Midlands median weekly pay of £703.80, 10 of the 11 regions on the register, and a local average house price of £293,000, 12 of the 30 towns.
Together they put Northampton £8 under the £200 national decorator benchmark.
That is 4.0 percent down.
Can I use these Northampton figures as a quote?
No. £192 is a modelled town figure, and the modelled range beside it, £144 to £250, is arithmetic on that figure rather than a measurement of Northampton jobs.
16 of the 17 Northampton 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 Northampton rows, £134 to £269. Each row carries its own provenance, so a modelled Northampton figure can never be read as a sourced one.
Download · CSVnorthampton.csvOne row per trade, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Northampton day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/northampton/
Embed this figure
The Northampton 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/northampton/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/day-rates-northampton.png" alt="Day rates for 17 trades in Northampton, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
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