National rank
17 of 30
16 towns model higher than this one.
£189 in Norwich, and Cardiff lands on the same figure.
East of England pay of £766.60 a week on £230,000 housing gets there.
Cardiff gets there on Wales pay of £704.30 and £271,000.
Modelled from two published statistics, East of England median weekly pay of £766.60 and Norwich housing at £230,000, both sourced 5 July 2026 and cross checked further down this page.
How Norwich compares with the other 29
30 towns, one axis. Norwich is the marked tick, at £189 on a rail running from £160 in Sunderland up to £235 in Guildford, which puts it £11 below the drawn £200 benchmark.
Norwich £189
£200 benchmark
Norwich sits £46 under Guildford at the top and £29 over Sunderland at the bottom.
One other town shares that mark: Cardiff, also £189.
Norwich's marker is the decorator rate.
It is the trade the model anchors on, and the other 16 move with the same multiplier, from £132 for general labourer work to £264 for electrician work.
Regional rank
2 of 2
Against the 2 towns we model in the East of England.
Versus benchmark
£11 down
5.5 percent below the £200 national decorator benchmark.
What 17 trades charge in Norwich
17 trades, one town. A Norwich day runs from £132 for general labourer up to £264 for electrician, which is a £132 span on what is otherwise the same working day, priced through East of England earnings.
Every one of the 17 is the same 5 to 6 percent down on Norwich geography, because one multiplier built from the East of England pay and Norwich house prices moves all of them together.
| Trade | Day rate | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician£16 below the £280 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £264 | |
| Plumber£15 below the £270 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £255 | |
| Bricklayer£15 below the £260 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £245 | |
| Gas and Heating Engineer£15 below the £259 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £244 | |
| General Builder£14 below the £253 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £239 | |
| Carpenter and joiner£13 below the £240 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £227 | |
| Roofer£13 below the £239 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £226 | |
| Plasterer£13 below the £230 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £217 | |
| Tiler£13 below the £229 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £216 | |
| Drainage Engineer£13 below the £225 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £212 | |
| Decorative Plasterer£13 below the £225 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £212 | |
| GroundworkerModelled only£12 below the £213 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £201 | |
| Painter and decorator£11 below the £200 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £189 | |
| Handyman£11 below the £188 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £177 | |
| Cladding Installer£10 below the £175 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £165 | |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer£10 below the £175 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £165 | |
| General Labourer£8 below the £140 benchmark on Norwich geography. | £132 |
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 Norwich 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 Norwich 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 Norwich, so the next step is pricing one of your own jobs there.
The Rate Sorted calculator opens already set to Norwich, so your own costs go in and a Norwich rate you can quote with comes out.
How long the work takes in Norwich
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 Norwich rates can be multiplied out.
A decorating job in Norwich comes to £378 to £756, on the 17th dearest day rate of the 30 towns on this site.
decorating in Norwich
£378 to £756
A painter and decorator day in Norwich models at £189, 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 Norwich
£239 to £369
A plasterer day in Norwich models at £217, 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 Norwich
£540 to £691
A tiler day in Norwich models at £216, 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 Norwich 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 Norwich measurement.The same 3 jobs come to the same money in Cardiff, which reaches £189 a decorator day on £271,000 housing and Wales pay of £704.30.
Why Norwich prices as it does
Norwich reaches £189 by a different route to Cardiff.
£230,000
The average house price, against £291,000 across the UK.
£766.60
The East of England median weekly pay Norwich is modelled on, level with the UK median of £766.60.
0.79x
Property against the UK average, 21 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 Norwich 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 Norwich charged for a day of work; what they show is why Norwich lands where it does.
East of England WEEKLY PAY
£766.60
Norwich is modelled on the East of England median for full time work, according to ONS ASHE April 2025.It is level with the UK median of £766.60 a week, and Norwich models at £189 a decorator day on it.East of England ranks 4 of the 11 regions on the register, and Norwich is 2 of the 2 East of England towns we model on it.
Norwich HOUSE PRICES
£230,000
The Norwich average, data from the ONS local housing price pages, April 2026 provisional.That is 0.79 times the UK average of £291,000, per the UK House Price Index.20 of the 30 towns we cover have more expensive housing.
Norwich questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word, and every figure in them is a Norwich figure printed above.
What is a typical day rate in Norwich?
A decorator day in Norwich models at £189.
That is number 17 of the 30 towns on this site.
Across the 17 trades a Norwich day runs from £132 for general labourer work up to £264 for electrician work, every one of them modelled on East of England earnings and Norwich house prices.
Which trade charges the most per day in Norwich?
Electrician, at £264 a day.
General Labourer work is the cheapest of the 17, at £132.
That leaves a £132 span for the same working day in the same town, and it happens because every trade carries its own national benchmark before any Norwich geography is applied to it.
Why do Norwich and Cardiff have the same day rate?
Both model at £189 for a decorator day.
They arrive there from different places: Norwich on East of England weekly pay of £766.60 against an average house price of £230,000, Cardiff on Wales pay of £704.30 against £271,000.
Housing is the wider of the two gaps, with Norwich at 0.79 times the UK average house price and Cardiff at 0.93 times.
The earnings side of the model closes most of that gap back up, which is how both land on £189.
Is Norwich dearer than Cambridge?
Cambridge is the dearer of the two: £189 in Norwich against £226 in Cambridge, a £37 gap on a decorator day.
Norwich and Cambridge both sit in the East of England.
Norwich ranks 2 of the 2 towns we model there.
Why are Norwich rates below the national benchmark?
Two published statistics move the Norwich figure: East of England median weekly pay of £766.60, 4 of the 11 regions on the register, and a local average house price of £230,000, 21 of the 30 towns.
Together they put Norwich £11 under the £200 national decorator benchmark.
That is 5.5 percent down.
Can I use these Norwich figures as a quote?
No. £189 is a modelled town figure, and the modelled range beside it, £142 to £246, is arithmetic on that figure rather than a measurement of Norwich jobs.
16 of the 17 Norwich 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 Norwich rows, £132 to £264. Each row carries its own provenance, so a modelled Norwich figure can never be read as a sourced one.
Download · CSVnorwich.csvOne row per trade, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Norwich day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/norwich/
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The Norwich 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/norwich/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/day-rates-norwich.png" alt="Day rates for 17 trades in Norwich, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
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