Last Updated on September 8, 2026
Your customer arrives holding numbers. They came from Checkatrade, MyBuilder or MyJobQuote, and those three do not agree with each other. This guide sets out what each publishes, where the conflicts are, and what to publish yourself so the conversation starts from your figure.
Everything below was read at source on 8 September 2026, with each guide’s own last-updated date noted.
Kitchen fitting
| Metric | Checkatrade, June 2026 | MyBuilder, 21 Aug 2026 | MyJobQuote, 12 Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headline cost | £3,500 average, £2,000 to £6,000 | £3,000 to £12,000 | £6,000 to £20,000 plus, supply and install |
| Labour only | £2,000 small, £3,500 medium, £5,000 large | £1,500 to £5,000 | £1,700 to £3,000 |
| Fitter day rate | £250 to £350, average £300 | £150 to £250 | £200 to £300 |
| Duration | not stated | 1 to 2 weeks simple, 3 to 4 weeks complex | 5 to 10 days |
| Worktop fitting | £300 to £1,000, average £500 | £200 to £2,500 | Laminate £500 to £1,200, quartz £2,500 to £4,500 plus |
Three disagreements worth naming.
The day rate is 2.3 times apart. MyBuilder’s ceiling of £250 is the bottom of Checkatrade’s range. A customer who read MyBuilder thinks £300 a day is a rip-off; a customer who read Checkatrade thinks it is the average.
The headline figures measure different scopes and none of the three says so clearly. Checkatrade’s £3,500 is labour-led. MyJobQuote’s £6,000 to £20,000 is supply plus install. MyBuilder straddles both. A customer comparing three averages is comparing three different jobs.
The duration figures are a scheduling difference, not a rounding one. Five to ten days against three to four weeks is the difference between a customer planning a holiday and a customer planning a house move.
Bathroom fitting
| Metric | Checkatrade, March and June 2026 | MyBuilder, 21 Aug 2026 | MyJobQuote, 20 July 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average new bathroom | £7,000 | around £4,500 | £7,000 |
| Typical range | £5,500 to £8,000 | £2,500 to £30,000 plus | £3,000 to £15,000 |
| Fitter day rate | £320 to £480 | not stated | £320 average, up to £480 |
| Labour, full project | £1,500 to £3,000 | £2,000 to £4,000 | £1,800 to £4,000, 45 to 60% of total |
| Old bathroom removal | £600 to £1,000 | not stated | £600 to £1,000 |
| Tiling labour, mid-sized | £950 to £1,250 | £800 to £1,500 | £950 to £1,250 |
| Duration | 5 to 10 days | not stated | 6 to 8 days average |
Here the pattern flips, and it is worth noticing. Checkatrade and MyJobQuote publish an identical average of £7,000, an identical fitter day rate of £320 average up to £480, identical tiling labour of £950 to £1,250 and identical removal costs of £600 to £1,000. MyBuilder is 36 per cent below them on the average.
Two independent guides converging on the same numbers is itself a signal. Those are the figures with the most support behind them, and they are the ones to benchmark against.
The structural point hiding in the numbers
On MyJobQuote’s own split, labour is 45 to 60 per cent of a bathroom job. On the same publisher’s kitchen figures, labour is roughly £1,700 to £3,000 of a £6,000 to £20,000 job, comfortably under 30 per cent.
So bathroom fitting is a labour-margin business and kitchen fitting, as commonly quoted, is a supply-margin business. A fitter who does not supply the kitchen is competing for the smaller half of the job, against firms that make their money on the half he is not selling.
That is not an argument for becoming a showroom. It is an argument for deciding which business you are in, and writing your website for that one rather than for both.
What to publish
- Your day rate, as a number, with what it includes.
- One itemised worked job per trade, kitchen and bathroom, with the date.
- A clear statement of whether your prices are labour only or supply and fit. This is the single biggest source of confusion in the whole category.
- What is excluded: making good, waste removal, worktop templating lead time, appliances, and anything requiring a notifiable electrical alteration.
- A dated prices-checked line, reviewed quarterly.
You are not competing with the guides on price. You are removing the ambiguity they create, which is a much easier fight to win.
Common questions
How much does a kitchen fitter charge a day in the UK?
The three main published guides disagree. Checkatrade publishes £250 to £350 with an average of £300, MyJobQuote £200 to £300, and MyBuilder £150 to £250. All three were live on 8 September 2026.
How much does a new bathroom cost?
Checkatrade and MyJobQuote both publish an average of £7,000. MyBuilder publishes around £4,500. Where two independent guides agree exactly, as they do here on the average, the day rate, tiling labour and removal costs, those are the figures with the most support.
Should I publish prices at all?
Fewer than half of independent UK business websites publish any price, on Whito’s August 2026 study of 200 sites. The consequence is not that customers stop asking about price. It is that they arrive holding a national average from a guide that disagrees with two other national averages.
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