National benchmark
£239
A modelled benchmark, published beside the guide spread rather than derived from it.
Our benchmark for a roofer is £239 a day.
Published UK price guides put roofers between £150 and £360, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: Checkatrade, HaMuch, MyJobQuote and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Roofer rates across 30 towns
Ranked by modelled roofer 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 roofer 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 £239 | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GuildfordSouth East£211 to £365 | £281 | £42 above | |
| 2 | OxfordSouth East£206 to £356 | £274 | £35 above | |
| 3 | CambridgeEast of England£203 to £351 | £270 | £31 above | |
| 4 | BrightonSouth East£197 to £341 | £262 | £23 above | |
| 5 | BathSouth West£190 to £329 | £253 | £14 above | |
| 6 | ReadingSouth East£188 to £326 | £251 | £12 above | |
| 7 | BristolSouth West£185 to £320 | £246 | £7 above | |
| 8 | Milton KeynesSouth East£185 to £320 | £246 | £7 above | |
| 9 | CheltenhamSouth West£182 to £315 | £242 | £3 above | |
| 10 | EdinburghScotland£181 to £313 | £241 | £2 above | |
| 11 | YorkYorkshire£175 to £303 | £233 | £6 below | |
| 12 | ExeterSouth West£174 to £302 | £232 | £7 below | |
| 13 | PortsmouthSouth East£173 to £300 | £231 | £8 below | |
| 14 | NorthamptonEast Midlands£172 to £298 | £229 | £10 below | |
| 15 | SouthamptonSouth East£171 to £296 | £228 | £11 below | |
| 16 | CardiffWales£170 to £294 | £226 | £13 below | |
| 17 | NorwichEast of England£170 to £294 | £226 | £13 below | |
| 18 | ManchesterNorth West£169 to £293 | £225 | £14 below | |
| 19 | BirminghamWest Midlands£167 to £289 | £222 | £17 below | |
| 20 | LeedsYorkshire£166 to £287 | £221 | £18 below | |
| 21 | LeicesterEast Midlands£163 to £282 | £217 | £22 below | |
| 22 | CoventryWest Midlands£163 to £282 | £217 | £22 below | |
| 23 | GlasgowScotland£162 to £281 | £216 | £23 below | |
| 24 | SheffieldYorkshire£161 to £280 | £215 | £24 below | |
| 25 | DerbyEast Midlands£158 to £273 | £210 | £29 below | |
| 26 | LiverpoolNorth West£157 to £272 | £209 | £30 below | |
| 27 | NewcastleNorth East£155 to £269 | £207 | £32 below | |
| 28 | NottinghamEast Midlands£155 to £269 | £207 | £32 below | |
| 29 | Stoke-on-TrentWest Midlands£151 to £261 | £201 | £38 below | |
| 30 | SunderlandNorth East£143 to £248 | £191 | £48 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 £140 to £370
- Range the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30
Your next step
You have the £239 roofer benchmark, so the next step is a roofer 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 roofer day rate, ready to price a job with.
Highest town
£281
Guildford, the biggest premium over the benchmark in the 30.
Cheapest town
£191
Sunderland, £48 under the benchmark and the floor of the table.
Published guide spread
£150 to £360
What 4 named guides publish for roofers, checked 30 September 2026.
Hiring a roofer?
A roofer quote between £150 and £360 a day is inside what the UK guides publish, and £239 is the benchmark this site models from.
Quoting as a roofer?
£239 puts roofers 7 of 17 on this site, between £140 for general labourer work and £280 for electrician.
How the 30 towns spread out
Every town on one axis, marked against £239. It shows where the weight of the roofer table sits, and how far each end has travelled from that benchmark.
£239 benchmark
Guildford £281
Sunderland sits at the other end, on £191.
That is a £90 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 £140 to £370 scale, roofers 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 £216 and £246. Read that middle £30 band first when a roofer quote needs a quick sanity check against somewhere of a similar size.
Above the benchmark
10 towns clear £239, 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, £239Stated 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 roofer 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 roofers charged.
The full working behind every roofer 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, £228 to £281£251
East of England2 towns covered, £226 to £270£248
South West4 towns covered, £232 to £253£244
Scotland2 towns covered, £216 to £241£229
Wales1 town covered, £226 to £226£226
Yorkshire3 towns covered, £215 to £233£221
North West2 towns covered, £209 to £225£217
West Midlands3 towns covered, £201 to £222£217
East Midlands4 towns covered, £207 to £229£214
North East2 towns covered, £191 to £207£199
The spread is the story
A Guildford day and a Sunderland day are the same roofer work at a £90 difference.
How the £239 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 £239.
What the guides publish
£150 to £360
4 named UK price guides publish a roofer day rate.Between them they run from £150 to £360, and the £239 benchmark sits inside that.It is the figure the benchmark is published beside; the cards after it are the tests.
Checkatrade, HaMuch, MyJobQuote and PriceYourJob (2025 guide), checked 30 September 2026
Office for National Statistics
ONS
The Office for National Statistics counts roofers, roof tilers and slaters as one trade group (2025 pay survey).
ONS ASHE 2025 provisional, employee earnings, not a charge out rate · ASHE Table 14
Hudson Contract, what firms pay
£841
Hudson Contract, which tracks what firms pay trades, has roofing at £841 a week, about £168 a day.
Hudson Contract, subcontractor payroll, England and Wales, three year average, July 2023 to June 2026
Roofer wages and pay rates
What roofers are paid is a different measurement from the £239 a customer is charged, and both are on this page.
Paid as an employee
Not published
ONS counts roofers, roof tilers and slaters as one occupation under SOC 5313 and publishes no separate roofer median.
Paid as a subcontractor
£168 a day
Hudson Contract paid £841 a week on its roofing series, which is £168 over five days.this trade, published by Hudson under its own name
Employed, starter to experienced
£26,000 to £42,000 a year
The National Careers Service roofer profile prints both salaries, read 3 October 2026.They are employee salaries before tax, not the £239 a customer pays for a day.
What tradespeople earn sets roofers beside the other 16 trades, sourced 5 September 2026.
Pricing a short job rather than a full day, the £239 works out at £34.14 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 roofers, and names the day it divides by.
Against the decorator benchmark
Decorators benchmark at £200 a day on this site.
Roofing comes in £39 over that figure.
- Roofer benchmark
- £239
- Painter and decorator benchmark
- £200
- Gap at the benchmark
- £39 over
Common questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word.
How much does a roofer charge per day in the UK?
Our benchmark for a roofer is £239 a day.
Published UK price guides put roofers between £150 and £360, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: Checkatrade, HaMuch, MyJobQuote and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Across the 30 modelled towns the figure runs from £191 in Sunderland to £281 in Guildford.
Does the roofer day rate include materials or VAT?
No.
The £239 is one full working day of roofer labour, before materials and VAT.
Why do roofer rates differ between towns?
The £239 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 £281 on Guildford and £191 on Sunderland.
That is a £90 gap across the 30 towns for the same day of roofer work.
What is the roofer pay rate in the UK?
The roofer pay rate depends on who is paying it.
ONS counts roofers, roof tilers and slaters as one occupation under SOC 5313 and publishes no separate roofer median.
For roofers paid as subcontractors instead, the Hudson Contract figure is its roofing series at £841 a week, which works out at about £168 a day over a five day week.
That is a true roofer series.
Neither is the £239 a roofer charges a customer.
Take the data
Every figure on this page is in the file, with the same sources and the same date.
Download · CSVroofer-day-rates.csv30 rows, one per town, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Roofer day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/roofer-day-rates/
Embed this figure
The roofer card carries the benchmark and the date, and the link goes to this page.
<a href="https://thedayrate.co.uk/roofer-day-rates/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/roofer-day-rates.png" alt="Roofer day rates in 30 UK towns, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
The roofer 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 roofer work yourself?The £239 roofer benchmark beside every other trade on this site, read from the side of the person sending the invoice.What should I chargeWeighing up a roofer quote?A £239 roofer 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 roofer day rate into a job price.
None of the 30 towns modelled above is London, where this site publishes no roofer rate of its own and prints what the named guides publish instead.