National benchmark
£229
A modelled benchmark, published beside the guide spread rather than derived from it.
Our benchmark for a tiler is £229 a day.
Published UK price guides put tilers between £140 and £350, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: HaMuch, MyJobQuote, HomeHow, Checkatrade and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Tiler rates across 30 towns
Ranked by modelled tiler 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 tiler 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 £229 | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GuildfordSouth East£202 to £350 | £269 | £40 above | |
| 2 | OxfordSouth East£197 to £341 | £262 | £33 above | |
| 3 | CambridgeEast of England£194 to £335 | £258 | £29 above | |
| 4 | BrightonSouth East£188 to £326 | £251 | £22 above | |
| 5 | BathSouth West£182 to £316 | £243 | £14 above | |
| 6 | ReadingSouth East£181 to £313 | £241 | £12 above | |
| 7 | BristolSouth West£176 to £306 | £235 | £6 above | |
| 8 | Milton KeynesSouth East£176 to £306 | £235 | £6 above | |
| 9 | CheltenhamSouth West£174 to £302 | £232 | £3 above | |
| 10 | EdinburghScotland£173 to £300 | £231 | £2 above | |
| 11 | YorkYorkshire£167 to £290 | £223 | £6 below | |
| 12 | ExeterSouth West£167 to £290 | £223 | £6 below | |
| 13 | PortsmouthSouth East£167 to £289 | £222 | £7 below | |
| 14 | NorthamptonEast Midlands£165 to £286 | £220 | £9 below | |
| 15 | SouthamptonSouth East£164 to £285 | £219 | £10 below | |
| 16 | CardiffWales£162 to £281 | £216 | £13 below | |
| 17 | NorwichEast of England£162 to £281 | £216 | £13 below | |
| 18 | ManchesterNorth West£161 to £280 | £215 | £14 below | |
| 19 | BirminghamWest Midlands£159 to £276 | £212 | £17 below | |
| 20 | LeedsYorkshire£159 to £276 | £212 | £17 below | |
| 21 | LeicesterEast Midlands£156 to £270 | £208 | £21 below | |
| 22 | CoventryWest Midlands£156 to £270 | £208 | £21 below | |
| 23 | GlasgowScotland£155 to £269 | £207 | £22 below | |
| 24 | SheffieldYorkshire£155 to £268 | £206 | £23 below | |
| 25 | DerbyEast Midlands£151 to £261 | £201 | £28 below | |
| 26 | LiverpoolNorth West£150 to £260 | £200 | £29 below | |
| 27 | NewcastleNorth East£149 to £259 | £199 | £30 below | |
| 28 | NottinghamEast Midlands£149 to £259 | £199 | £30 below | |
| 29 | Stoke-on-TrentWest Midlands£144 to £250 | £192 | £37 below | |
| 30 | SunderlandNorth East£137 to £238 | £183 | £46 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 £130 to £350
- Range the modelled range, the rate x 0.75 and x 1.30
Your next step
You have the £229 tiler benchmark, so the next step is a tiler 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 tiler day rate, ready to price a job with.
Highest town
£269
Guildford, the biggest premium over the benchmark in the 30.
Cheapest town
£183
Sunderland, £46 under the benchmark and the floor of the table.
Published guide spread
£140 to £350
What 5 named guides publish for tilers, checked 30 September 2026.
Hiring a tiler?
A tiler quote between £140 and £350 a day is inside what the UK guides publish, and £229 is the benchmark this site models from.
Quoting as a tiler?
£229 puts tilers 9 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 £229. It shows where the weight of the tiler table sits, and how far each end has travelled from that benchmark.
£229 benchmark
Guildford £269
Sunderland sits at the other end, on £183.
That is a £86 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 £130 to £350 scale, tilers 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 £207 and £235. Read that middle £28 band first when a tiler quote needs a quick sanity check against somewhere of a similar size.
Above the benchmark
10 towns clear £229, 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, £229Stated 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 tiler 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 tilers charged.
The full working behind every tiler 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, £219 to £269£241
East of England2 towns covered, £216 to £258£237
South West4 towns covered, £223 to £243£234
Scotland2 towns covered, £207 to £231£219
Wales1 town covered, £216 to £216£216
Yorkshire3 towns covered, £206 to £223£212
North West2 towns covered, £200 to £215£208
West Midlands3 towns covered, £192 to £212£208
East Midlands4 towns covered, £199 to £220£205
North East2 towns covered, £183 to £199£191
The spread is the story
A Guildford day and a Sunderland day are the same tiler work at a £86 difference.
How the £229 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 £229.
What the guides publish
£140 to £350
5 named UK price guides publish a tiler day rate.Between them they run from £140 to £350, and the £229 benchmark sits inside that.It is the figure the benchmark is published beside; the cards after it are the tests.
HaMuch, MyJobQuote, HomeHow, Checkatrade and PriceYourJob (2025 guide), checked 30 September 2026
Office for National Statistics
ONS
The Office for National Statistics files tilers under its general construction trade groups.
ONS ASHE 2025 provisional, employee earnings, not a charge out rate · ASHE Table 14
Hudson Contract, what firms pay
£1,021
Hudson Contract does not track tiling on its own, so the best it offers is £1,021 a week across all trades, about £204 a day.
Hudson Contract, subcontractor payroll, England and Wales, three year average, July 2023 to June 2026
Fewer guides cover this tradeFewer price guides publish tiler day rates, so treat this figure with extra care.
This Hudson figure is not a trade figureRead that Hudson number as a whole industry benchmark, not a tiler rate.
What does tiling cost?Tiling labour by the square metre and by the job. Worked from published production rates, with what four named guides charge and what each of those prices covers.Tiling cost →How long does tiling take?Published production rates in the three room size bands the register prints, a worked bathroom, and the cure figures nobody publishes, stated rather than filled in.Tiling times →
Tiler wages and pay rates
What tilers are paid is a different measurement from the £229 a customer is charged, and both are on this page.
Paid as an employee
Not published
ONS runs no tiler code at all, filing the trade inside the general construction groups SOC 5319 and SOC 5321.
Paid as a subcontractor
£204 a day
Hudson Contract paid £1,021 a week on its all trades series, which is £204 over five days.ALL trades averaged together, because Hudson publishes no series for this one
Employed, starter to experienced
£21,000 to £38,000 a year
The National Careers Service tiler profile prints both salaries, read 3 October 2026.They are employee salaries before tax, not the £229 a customer pays for a day.
What tradespeople earn sets tilers beside the other 16 trades, sourced 5 September 2026.
Pricing a short job rather than a full day, the £229 works out at £32.71 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 tilers, and names the day it divides by.
Against the decorator benchmark
Decorators benchmark at £200 a day on this site.
Tiling comes in £29 over that figure.
- Tiler benchmark
- £229
- Painter and decorator benchmark
- £200
- Gap at the benchmark
- £29 over
Common questions
The same answers the structured data on this page gives a search engine, word for word.
How much does a tiler charge per day in the UK?
Our benchmark for a tiler is £229 a day.
Published UK price guides put tilers between £140 and £350, checked 30 September 2026.
Sources: HaMuch, MyJobQuote, HomeHow, Checkatrade and PriceYourJob (2025 guide).
Across the 30 modelled towns the figure runs from £183 in Sunderland to £269 in Guildford.
Does the tiler day rate include materials or VAT?
No.
The £229 is one full working day of tiler labour, before materials and VAT.
Why do tiler rates differ between towns?
The £229 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 £269 on Guildford and £183 on Sunderland.
That is a £86 gap across the 30 towns for the same day of tiler work.
What is the tiler pay rate in the UK?
The tiler pay rate depends on who is paying it.
ONS runs no tiler code at all, filing the trade inside the general construction groups SOC 5319 and SOC 5321.
For tilers paid as subcontractors instead, the nearest Hudson Contract figure is its all trades series at £1,021 a week, which works out at about £204 a day over a five day week.
That is an all trades average, as Hudson has no tiler series.
Neither is the £229 a tiler charges a customer.
Take the data
Every figure on this page is in the file, with the same sources and the same date.
Download · CSVtiler-day-rates.csv30 rows, one per town, with the rate, the modelled range and the published spread.
Cite this pageThe Day Rate Report, Tiler day rates, 30 September 2026, https://thedayrate.co.uk/tiler-day-rates/
Embed this figure
The tiler card carries the benchmark and the date, and the link goes to this page.
<a href="https://thedayrate.co.uk/tiler-day-rates/"><img src="https://thedayrate.co.uk/og/tiler-day-rates.png" alt="Tiler day rates in 30 UK towns, from The Day Rate Report" width="1200" height="630"></a>
The tiler 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 tiler work yourself?The £229 tiler benchmark beside every other trade on this site, read from the side of the person sending the invoice.What should I chargeHow long does undefined take?Published production rates and worked days, the other half of a undefined job price at £229 a day.How long undefined takes
The full guide index carries all 12, including the ones that turn the tiler day rate into a job price.
None of the 30 towns modelled above is London, where this site publishes no tiler rate of its own and prints what the named guides publish instead.