National rank
28 of 30
27 towns model higher than this one.
£173 in Nottingham, and Newcastle lands on the same figure.
East Midlands pay of £703.80 a week on £193,000 housing gets there.
Newcastle gets there on North East pay of £681.20 and £209,000.
Modelled from two published statistics, East Midlands median weekly pay of £703.80 and Nottingham housing at £193,000, both sourced 5 July 2026 and cross checked further down this page.
How Nottingham compares with the other 29
30 towns, one axis. Nottingham 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.
Nottingham £173
£200 benchmark
Nottingham sits £62 under Guildford at the top and £13 over Sunderland at the bottom.
One other town shares that mark: Newcastle, also £173.
Nottingham'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
4 of 4
Against the 4 towns we model in the East Midlands.
Versus benchmark
£27 down
13.5 percent below the £200 national decorator benchmark.
What 17 trades charge in Nottingham
17 trades, one town. A Nottingham 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 East Midlands earnings.
Every one of the 17 is the same 13 to 14 percent down on Nottingham geography, because one multiplier built from the East Midlands pay and Nottingham house prices moves all of them together.
| Trade | Day rate | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| Electrician£37 below the £280 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £243 | |
| Plumber£36 below the £270 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £234 | |
| Bricklayer£34 below the £260 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £226 | |
| Gas and Heating Engineer£34 below the £259 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £225 | |
| General Builder£34 below the £253 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £219 | |
| Carpenter and joiner£32 below the £240 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £208 | |
| Roofer£32 below the £239 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £207 | |
| Plasterer£30 below the £230 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £200 | |
| Tiler£30 below the £229 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £199 | |
| Drainage Engineer£30 below the £225 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £195 | |
| Decorative Plasterer£30 below the £225 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £195 | |
| GroundworkerModelled only£28 below the £213 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £185 | |
| Painter and decorator£27 below the £200 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £173 | |
| Handyman£25 below the £188 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £163 | |
| Cladding Installer£23 below the £175 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £152 | |
| Suspended Ceiling Installer£23 below the £175 benchmark on Nottingham geography. | £152 | |
| General Labourer£19 below the £140 benchmark on Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham, so the next step is pricing one of your own jobs there.
The Rate Sorted calculator opens already set to Nottingham, so your own costs go in and a Nottingham rate you can quote with comes out.
How long the work takes in Nottingham
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 Nottingham rates can be multiplied out.
A decorating job in Nottingham comes to £346 to £692, on the 28th dearest day rate of the 30 towns on this site.
decorating in Nottingham
£346 to £692
A painter and decorator day in Nottingham 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 Nottingham
£220 to £340
A plasterer day in Nottingham 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 Nottingham
£498 to £637
A tiler day in Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham measurement.The same 3 jobs come to the same money in Newcastle, which reaches £173 a decorator day on £209,000 housing and North East pay of £681.20.
Why Nottingham prices as it does
Nottingham reaches £173 by a different route to Newcastle.
£193,000
The average house price, against £291,000 across the UK.
£703.80
The East Midlands median weekly pay Nottingham is modelled on, 8.2 percent below the UK median of £766.60.
0.66x
Property against the UK average, 34 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham charged for a day of work; what they show is why Nottingham lands where it does.
East Midlands WEEKLY PAY
£703.80
Nottingham 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 Nottingham models at £173 a decorator day on it.East Midlands ranks 10 of the 11 regions on the register, and Nottingham is 4 of the 4 East Midlands towns we model on it.
Nottingham HOUSE PRICES
£193,000
The Nottingham average, data from the ONS local housing price pages, April 2026 provisional.That is 0.66 times the UK average of £291,000, per the UK House Price Index.25 of the 30 towns we cover have more expensive housing.
Nottingham questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word, and every figure in them is a Nottingham figure printed above.
What is a typical day rate in Nottingham?
A decorator day in Nottingham models at £173.
That is number 28 of the 30 towns on this site.
Across the 17 trades a Nottingham day runs from £121 for general labourer work up to £243 for electrician work, every one of them modelled on East Midlands earnings and Nottingham house prices.
Which trade charges the most per day in Nottingham?
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 Nottingham geography is applied to it.
Why do Nottingham and Newcastle have the same day rate?
Both model at £173 for a decorator day.
They arrive there from different places: Nottingham on East Midlands weekly pay of £703.80 against an average house price of £193,000, Newcastle on North East pay of £681.20 against £209,000.
Housing is the wider of the two gaps, with Nottingham at 0.66 times the UK average house price and Newcastle at 0.72 times.
The earnings side of the model closes most of that gap back up, which is how both land on £173.
Is Nottingham dearer than Derby?
Derby is the dearer of the two: £173 in Nottingham against £176 in Derby, a £3 gap on a decorator day.
Nottingham and Derby both sit in the East Midlands.
Nottingham ranks 4 of the 4 towns we model there.
Why are Nottingham rates below the national benchmark?
Two published statistics move the Nottingham figure: East Midlands median weekly pay of £703.80, 10 of the 11 regions on the register, and a local average house price of £193,000, 26 of the 30 towns.
Together they put Nottingham £27 under the £200 national decorator benchmark.
That is 13.5 percent down.
Can I use these Nottingham 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 Nottingham jobs.
16 of the 17 Nottingham 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 Nottingham rows, £121 to £243. Each row carries its own provenance, so a modelled Nottingham figure can never be read as a sourced one.
Download · CSVnottingham.csvOne row per trade, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Nottingham day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/day-rates/nottingham/
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The Nottingham 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/nottingham/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/day-rates-nottingham.png" alt="Day rates for 17 trades in Nottingham, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
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