In the UK in 2026, a professional small-business website typically costs £1,000–£3,000 as a one-off from a freelancer or small studio, £2,500–£10,000 from an agency, or £240–£360 a year DIY on a site builder. Our own prices, published: rebuilds from £750, larger builds from £2,950 — fixed quote after a free review. This guide explains what moves the number, with our real prices as the reference point, because most cost guides only quote market ranges.
The honest short answer
“Professional website” covers everything from a five-page brochure site to a booking-driven trading machine, which is why every price you find online is a range. The way through is to anchor on real, published prices rather than averages. We publish ours below — not because every project lands on them, but because a real number you can hold someone to beats a “from £999” that doubles by the second call.
Real prices: what we charge
| Project | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Website rebuild | from £750 one-off | Your existing site rebuilt properly — design, copy structure, speed, mobile, SEO basics — on your own domain |
| Larger builds | from £2,950 | Multi-page sites with booking, portals or systems behind them — scoped and fixed-priced before we start |
Every project starts with a free review of the site you have now: what is losing you enquiries, what we would do about it, and a fixed quote. You keep the review whether you hire us or not. The proof is on the same page — our own live brand plus six demonstration rebuilds of real UK businesses you can open and judge.
What the wider UK market charges in 2026
So you can sanity-check any quote, the published ranges from UK studios and cost guides this year cluster tightly:
- DIY builders (Wix, Squarespace): roughly £240–£360 a year with a domain and email — cheapest, but the design, copy and speed are on you.
- Freelancers and small studios: about £1,000–£3,000 for a professional lead-generating small-business site.
- Agencies: typically £2,500–£10,000 for a standard small-business site, more with strategy, content and campaigns attached.
- Ongoing costs: budget £400–£2,000 a year for hosting, domain, maintenance and small changes.
Anything dramatically cheaper than these bands is usually a template with your logo on it — which is fine, as long as that is what you knowingly bought.
What actually moves the price
- Pages and copy. Five pages of finished, persuasive copy is a different job from “we’ll send you the text”. Writing is where cheap sites quietly fail.
- Design from scratch vs a rework. A rebuild of an existing site with real content to work from costs less than a brand-new brand.
- Function. Booking, payments, member areas, portals or anything with a login moves you from “website” to “system” — see what that involves.
- Integrations and data. Connecting a CRM, importing products, migrating old content — hours that have to live somewhere in the price.
- Who hosts and maintains it. A one-off build leaves you holding hosting, updates and fixes; a hosted arrangement prices that in monthly.
One-off or monthly?
Both are legitimate; they just suit different businesses. A one-off build suits a firm with someone happy to own hosting and updates. Monthly suits a business that wants one number and no surprises — the site stays live, fast and fixed without anyone in-house thinking about it. That is why we publish ours: rebuilds from £750 one-off, larger builds from £2,950.
How to judge a quote (five questions)
- Is the scope written down — pages, copy, who supplies what — before the price is agreed?
- Is it a fixed price or an estimate? Whose risk is an overrun?
- Who owns the domain, the site and the content afterwards? (It should be you.)
- What happens after launch — hosting, updates, small changes, and at what cost?
- Can you see real, live work — not mock-ups? Ours is here, including six rebuilds you can open right now.
What you get for the money (and when)
A properly built small-business site should load fast on a phone, read clearly, say who you are and what you charge without a treasure hunt, and make the next step obvious. On timing: a rebuild typically takes days to a couple of weeks; larger builds are scoped with their own timeline in the fixed quote. Our process is the same five steps every time — understand, design, build, test on real use, then improve.
How to think about the return
A website is the only salesperson that works every hour you are closed. The arithmetic: if your average job or customer is worth £500 and a better site converts just two extra enquiries a month, that is £12,000 a year against a £750–£3,000 build. The judgement is not whether a professional site costs money — it is whether the one you have now is quietly costing more. That is exactly what the free review is for.