National benchmark
£259
A modelled benchmark, published beside the guide spread rather than derived from it.
Our benchmark for a gas and heating engineer is £259 a day.
Published UK price guides put gas and heating engineers between £180 and £480, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: HaMuch, CostEstimator, MyJobQuote and MyBuilder.
Gas and Heating Engineer rates across 30 towns
Ranked by modelled gas and heating engineer day rate, built the way the method band below sets out. The modelled range beside each town is drawn to one shared scale, so two gas and heating engineer towns can be read straight off against each other.
Showing all 30 towns.
No town on this page matches that. All 30 are in the table, and the town index explains which towns are not modelled and why.
| # | Town | Rate | vs £259 | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GuildfordSouth East£229 to £397 | £305 | £46 above | |
| 2 | OxfordSouth East£222 to £385 | £296 | £37 above | |
| 3 | CambridgeEast of England£219 to £380 | £292 | £33 above | |
| 4 | BrightonSouth East£213 to £369 | £284 | £25 above | |
| 5 | BathSouth West£206 to £358 | £275 | £16 above | |
| 6 | ReadingSouth East£205 to £355 | £273 | £14 above | |
| 7 | BristolSouth West£200 to £346 | £266 | £7 above | |
| 8 | Milton KeynesSouth East£200 to £346 | £266 | £7 above | |
| 9 | CheltenhamSouth West£197 to £341 | £262 | £3 above | |
| 10 | EdinburghScotland£196 to £339 | £261 | £2 above | |
| 11 | YorkYorkshire£190 to £329 | £253 | £6 below | |
| 12 | ExeterSouth West£189 to £328 | £252 | £7 below | |
| 13 | PortsmouthSouth East£188 to £326 | £251 | £8 below | |
| 14 | NorthamptonEast Midlands£187 to £324 | £249 | £10 below | |
| 15 | SouthamptonSouth East£186 to £322 | £248 | £11 below | |
| 16 | CardiffWales£183 to £317 | £244 | £15 below | |
| 17 | NorwichEast of England£183 to £317 | £244 | £15 below | |
| 18 | ManchesterNorth West£182 to £316 | £243 | £16 below | |
| 19 | BirminghamWest Midlands£180 to £312 | £240 | £19 below | |
| 20 | LeedsYorkshire£179 to £311 | £239 | £20 below | |
| 21 | LeicesterEast Midlands£176 to £306 | £235 | £24 below | |
| 22 | CoventryWest Midlands£176 to £306 | £235 | £24 below | |
| 23 | GlasgowScotland£176 to £304 | £234 | £25 below | |
| 24 | SheffieldYorkshire£175 to £303 | £233 | £26 below | |
| 25 | DerbyEast Midlands£171 to £296 | £228 | £31 below | |
| 26 | LiverpoolNorth West£170 to £295 | £227 | £32 below | |
| 27 | NewcastleNorth East£169 to £293 | £225 | £34 below | |
| 28 | NottinghamEast Midlands£169 to £293 | £225 | £34 below | |
| 29 | Stoke-on-TrentWest Midlands£163 to £282 | £217 | £42 below | |
| 30 | SunderlandNorth East£155 to £269 | £207 | £52 below |
Read the rangeEvery range spans the same fraction of its own town rate, 0.75 to 1.30, so a higher priced town shows a wider one.That extra width is arithmetic and not evidence, because the range is a fixed rule rather than a measurement.
- Scale every bar drawn on £150 to £400
- Range the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30
Your next step
You have the £259 gas and heating engineer benchmark, so the next step is a gas and heating engineer rate that covers your own costs.
Put in the take home you want, your van and your insurance, and the Rate Sorted calculator turns them into your own gas and heating engineer day rate, ready to price a job with.
Highest town
£305
Guildford, the biggest premium over the benchmark in the 30.
Cheapest town
£207
Sunderland, £52 under the benchmark and the floor of the table.
Published guide spread
£180 to £480
What 4 named guides publish for gas and heating engineers, checked 30 September 2026.
Hiring a gas and heating engineer?
A gas and heating engineer quote between £180 and £480 a day is inside what the UK guides publish, and £259 is the benchmark this site models from.
Quoting as a gas and heating engineer?
£259 puts gas and heating engineers 4 of 17 on this site, between £140 for general labourer work and £280 for electrician.
What to charge, trade by tradeWhat gas and heating engineers earn
How the 30 towns spread out
Every town on one axis, marked against £259. It shows where the weight of the gas and heating engineer table sits, and how far each end has travelled from that benchmark.
£259 benchmark
Guildford £305
Sunderland sits at the other end, on £207.
That is a £98 span across the 30 towns for one day of the same work, and because every trade page on this site draws its rail on the identical £150 to £400 scale, gas and heating engineers can be laid over any other trade here and read tick for tick.
Half the table sits here
17 of the 30 towns fall between £234 and £266. Read that middle £32 band first when a gas and heating engineer quote needs a quick sanity check against somewhere of a similar size.
Above the benchmark
10 towns clear £259, and 9 of those are in the South East, South West or East of England.
How each town figure is built
Three inputs, in this order, and nothing else goes in.
- 01The trade benchmark, £259Stated and sourced at the top of this page. Nothing on this page works it out again.
- 02A geography multiplier, trade neutralOne multiplier per town, built from earnings data from the ONS and local house prices, applied to every trade the same way.
- 03A modelled range of 0.75 and 1.30Low and high are the town's own modelled rate multiplied by 0.75 and by 1.30, never the benchmark.
Rate estimates blend a national gas and heating engineer day rate benchmark, checked against dated UK trade price guides, with official ONS regional earnings and local house price data.
Figures are modelled estimates for guidance, not quotes.
Sources: ONS ASHE 2025, UK House Price Index April 2026.
Nothing on this page is a survey of what gas and heating engineers charged.
The full working behind every gas and heating engineer figure, with each source dated, is on the methodology page.
Which regions pay the most
The median of the towns we cover in each region, which means a region with one town in it is that one town. London has no modelled town yet, so it does not appear.
South East7 towns covered, £248 to £305£273
East of England2 towns covered, £244 to £292£268
South West4 towns covered, £252 to £275£264
Scotland2 towns covered, £234 to £261£248
Wales1 town covered, £244 to £244£244
Yorkshire3 towns covered, £233 to £253£239
North West2 towns covered, £227 to £243£235
West Midlands3 towns covered, £217 to £240£235
East Midlands4 towns covered, £225 to £249£232
North East2 towns covered, £207 to £225£216
The spread is the story
A Guildford day and a Sunderland day are the same gas and heating engineer work at a £98 difference.
How the £259 is set, and what checks it
The first card is the spread published according to the named UK price guides. The rest are independent checks that never fed the £259.
What the guides publish
£180 to £480
4 named UK price guides publish a gas and heating engineer day rate.Between them they run from £180 to £480, and the £259 benchmark sits inside that.It is the figure the benchmark is published beside; the cards after it are the tests.
HaMuch, CostEstimator, MyJobQuote and MyBuilder, checked 30 September 2026
Office for National Statistics
£738
The Office for National Statistics counts heating engineers with plumbers, at £738 a week (2025 pay survey).
ONS ASHE 2025 provisional, employee earnings, not a charge out rate · ASHE Table 14
Hudson Contract, what firms pay
£1,221
Hudson Contract, which tracks what firms pay trades, publishes no heating trade, so its nearest is plumbing at £1,221 a week, about £244 a day.
Hudson Contract, subcontractor payroll, England and Wales, three year average, July 2023 to June 2026
Fewer guides cover this tradeFour price guides publish a comparable heating engineer figure, against six for plumbing, so treat this figure with extra care.
This Hudson figure is a nearest tradeHudson publishes no gas and heating engineer trade.Those are its nearest published trades, not a gas and heating engineer rate.
Gas and Heating Engineer wages and pay rates
What gas and heating engineers are paid is a different measurement from the £259 a customer is charged, and both are on this page.
Paid as an employee
£738 a week
ONS publishes no gas engineer code, so the figure is the plumbers and heating installers median the trade is counted inside.It is a wage before tax, not a rate anybody quotes a customer.
Paid as a subcontractor
£244 a day
Hudson Contract paid £1,221 a week on its plumbing series, which is £244 over five days.the nearest trade Hudson does publish, named as such and not this one
Employed, starter to experienced
£25,000 to £45,000 a year
The National Careers Service gas service technician profile prints both salaries, read 3 October 2026.They are employee salaries before tax, not the £259 a customer pays for a day.
What tradespeople earn sets gas and heating engineers beside the other 16 trades, sourced 5 September 2026.
Pricing a short job rather than a full day, the £259 works out at £37.00 an hour on the working day this site assumes, which is ours rather than a published figure.
What the trades charge an hour sets that against the hourly range the price guides publish for gas and heating engineers, and names the day it divides by.
Against the decorator benchmark
Decorators benchmark at £200 a day on this site.
Gas and heating work comes in £59 over that figure.
- Gas and Heating Engineer benchmark
- £259
- Painter and decorator benchmark
- £200
- Gap at the benchmark
- £59 over
HaMuch London high
£480
HaMuch publishes London heating engineers up to £480 a day.None of the 30 towns here is London, and this site models no London rate.
Common questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word.
How much does a gas and heating engineer charge per day in the UK?
Our benchmark for a gas and heating engineer is £259 a day.
Published UK price guides put gas and heating engineers between £180 and £480, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: HaMuch, CostEstimator, MyJobQuote and MyBuilder.
Across the 30 modelled towns the figure runs from £207 in Sunderland to £305 in Guildford.
Does the gas and heating engineer day rate include materials or VAT?
No.
The £259 is one full working day of gas and heating engineer labour, before materials and VAT.
Why do gas and heating engineer rates differ between towns?
The £259 benchmark is spread town by town with ONS regional earnings (ASHE 2025) and local house prices (UK House Price Index, April 2026).
That is what puts £305 on Guildford and £207 on Sunderland.
That is a £98 gap across the 30 towns for the same day of gas and heating engineer work.
What is the gas and heating engineer pay rate in the UK?
The gas and heating engineer pay rate depends on who is paying it.
ONS publishes no gas engineer code, so the figure is the plumbers and heating installers median the trade is counted inside.
Employed on a payroll, gas and heating engineers earn an ONS median of £738 a week, under SOC 5315.
For gas and heating engineers paid as subcontractors instead, the nearest Hudson Contract figure is its plumbing series at £1,221 a week, which works out at about £244 a day over a five day week.
That is a nearby trade, not a gas and heating engineer series.
Neither is the £259 a gas and heating engineer charges a customer.
Is a gas engineer day rate the same as a gas and heating engineer day rate?
Yes, this page covers one trade and publishes one benchmark of £259 a day.
Not one of the guides behind this benchmark prints a day rate under the words "gas engineer": three publish it for a heating engineer and one for a Gas Safe engineer, so the page is named for what the sources publish.
Take the data
Every figure on this page is in the file, with the same sources and the same date.
Download · CSVgas-engineer-day-rates.csv30 rows, one per town, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Gas and Heating Engineer day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/gas-engineer-day-rates/
Embed this figure
The gas and heating engineer card carries the benchmark and the date, and the link goes to this page.
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The gas and heating engineer figures are free to use in an article, a fact check or a quote, and a credit with a link back is all we ask, under CC BY 4.0.
Quoting gas and heating engineer work yourself?The £259 gas and heating engineer benchmark beside every other trade on this site, read from the side of the person sending the invoice.What should I chargeWeighing up a gas and heating engineer quote?A £259 gas and heating engineer day multiplied by the day count is the sum behind a whole job price.Day rate or price per job
The full guide index carries all 12, including the ones that turn the gas and heating engineer day rate into a job price.
None of the 30 towns modelled above is London, where this site publishes no gas and heating engineer rate of its own and prints what the named guides publish instead.