How much does a handyman cost in London?

UK cost guides put a typical London handyman's full day at about £280–£350, and most London firms that publish a day rate charge more. London handyman firms do not share one hourly rate: they price by the first hour, the half-hour or the day, some plus VAT and some including it.

Typical London full day, from cost guides

Low

£280

per day

High

£350

Based on London market research, updated October 2026. First-party London Heroes data will replace this as jobs complete.

These are market-research figures, not London Heroes job data. London Heroes publishes what its own completed jobs cost in the London Home Repair Index, job by job, as they complete.

The research this band is drawn from does not state a VAT position.

Getting the best value

Batch your jobs. London firms that publish their rates charge a minimum for each visit, usually the first hour, so one visit to hang three pictures, fix a door handle, seal a bath edge and assemble a cabinet costs less than four separate visits. Write the list in advance and share photos so the handyman brings the right fixings.

Know the boundary: a good handyman will tell you when a job is really an electrician's or a Gas Safe engineer's. Describe the job in your request and we match the trade to it before anyone is assigned.

Common questions

What jobs can a handyman legally do?

General repairs, assembly, sealing, hanging, minor carpentry and like-for-like fixture swaps. Not gas work, unless they are Gas Safe registered: the law requires any business or self-employed person doing gas work to be on the Gas Safe Register. Notifiable electrical work — a new circuit, a consumer unit replacement, or adding to or altering a circuit in a special location such as the space around a bath or shower — must be self-certified by an installer registered with a competent person scheme, or certified by a registered third-party certifier or a building control body.

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