How much does a website cost for an electrician in 2026?

Here's the whole market in one table. Prices are typical for the US, UK, and Australia in 2026. Your quotes will vary, but if someone's way outside these bands, ask why.

Sometimes, yes. If you're a sole trader with full books, your work comes through word of mouth, and you just want somewhere to point people, a $20-a-month Squarespace site does the job. Put your name, your license number, your service area, and ten photos of clean switchboards on it. Done.

The honest downside isn't the look. It's that you'll spend fifteen or twenty hours fighting the editor, and the result still reads as a template to anyone comparing quotes. Builders also rank poorly against purpose-built local sites once a competitor in your area decides to take search seriously. Fine as a placeholder. Weak as a weapon.

And do the math on the subscription. $30 a month is $360 a year, every year. After four years you've paid more than a freelancer would've charged for something better that you own.

A decent freelancer charges $500 to $3,000 for a tradesman's site, depending on country and how many pages you need. The good ones are genuinely good value. The risk is continuity: when your site breaks two years later, that freelancer may have a full-time job and no interest in your hosting password. Ask up front who owns the domain, where the site is hosted, and what happens when you call in 2028.

Local agencies in the US, UK, or Australia start around $3,000 and climb fast past $10,000. You're partly paying for face-to-face meetings and someone who knows your suburb. That's real value if you want it. But a chunk of that invoice is their rent and their project managers, not your website, and small agencies routinely outsource the actual build to studios like ours anyway. You'd be surprised how often the work comes to the same place minus a markup.

Studios like ours, working from countries with lower costs, typically charge $1,000 to $4,000 for the same five-to-ten page site a local agency quotes at three times that. The math isn't mysterious. Our rent is lower than a Sydney office's. The code doesn't know where it was written.

The catch is real, so here it is. Time zones mean replies might land overnight instead of within the hour. And the offshore market has plenty of operators who'll take your money and deliver a broken template, so you have to vet harder: look at live sites they've built, demand a fixed written quote, and confirm in writing that the domain and hosting accounts are registered to you. Any studio that hesitates on that last one is planning to hold your site hostage.

If you want to see how we handle builds, our web development work shows what ships and how long it takes.

A domain runs $10 to $20 a year. Hosting for a well-built static site is $0 to $20 a month; if someone quotes $50-plus monthly hosting for a brochure site, that's a margin, not a cost. Email at your own domain adds a few dollars a month and is worth it, because quotes from sparky.dave.1987@gmail.com lose to quotes from dave@daveselectrical.com.

Watch the 'maintenance retainer.' Some agencies charge $100 to $200 a month for 'updates and security' on sites that get neither. A static site barely needs maintenance. Pay for changes when you actually want changes.

Less than most builders will sell you. The pages that earn their keep: a home page that says who you are, what you do, and where, within one screen. A services page per major line of work, because 'switchboard upgrades [suburb]' is a search someone types and a page can answer. A photo gallery of real jobs. Your license number, insurance, and a phone number that's tappable on mobile, since that's where most of your visitors are standing, often literally in the room with the problem.

Skip the blog unless you genuinely want to write one. Skip the slogan-heavy About page; two honest paragraphs and a photo of you or the van beat 'committed to excellence' every time. And put your service area in writing with actual suburb names. 'Serving the greater region' helps nobody, including Google.

One more thing builders rarely mention: reviews belong ON the site, pulled from your Google profile, not retyped testimonials with first names only. 'Janet B.' praising your punctuality convinces no one in 2026. A live review widget showing the same 40 reviews Google shows is proof.

If your books are full for the next six months, every job comes from builders who already have your number, and you're not trying to grow or raise your rates, keep your money. A free Google Business Profile with good photos and reviews will cover the people who google your name after a referral.

Same if you're planning to wind down in a couple of years, or you only subcontract and never deal with the public. A website is a tool for getting chosen by strangers. No strangers, no tool needed. We'd rather tell you that now than invoice you for something that won't earn.