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Boiler & Heating ads in Leicester: £3.82 a click

A Google Ads click for a boiler and heating engineer in Leicester costs £3.82 at the search-weighted average (144 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 0.6% on the 12 months before. Prices are in GBP, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
£3.82
Searches a month
144
Year on year
down 0.6%
Click cost per booked job
£113

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about £113 in clicks at £3.82 a click.

In Leicester, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at £0.90. The highest click price on this page in Leicester is specific jobs at £4.43.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about £113 in clicks at £3.82 a click.

Cost per booked job in Leicester is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Leicester figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£0.90£27
Near me£2.96£88
Urgent£2.94£87
Specific jobs£4.43£131

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

By intent

Where the boiler & heating searches are in Leicester

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in Leicester, at 60.8%.

In Leicester, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £4.43 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency boiler repair”) costs £2.94 a click, against £0.90 for “boiler engineer”.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“boiler engineer”, “heating engineer”
Searches a month16, 11.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£0.90
In Leicester, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

“boiler engineer near me”, “heating engineer near me”
Searches a month22, 15.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.96

Urgent

“emergency boiler repair”, “boiler breakdown”
Searches a month18, 12.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.94

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“boiler repair”, “boiler installation”, “boiler service”, “central heating installation”, “gas safe engineer”
Searches a month87, 60.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£4.43
In Leicester, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“air conditioning installation”
Searches a month32
Click price, weighted avg£4.15
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of boiler & heating ads in Leicester

Put in your own value per job and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
261.8
Calls or forms
21.1
Booked jobs
8.9
Click cost per booked job
£113

£1,000 at £3.82 a click buys about 261.8 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 21.1 calls and 8.9 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £113 in clicks.

Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every boiler & heating keyword tracked in Leicester

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched boiler & heating keywords in Leicester are “boiler service” (38 searches a month at £3.76 a click), “boiler installation” (16 searches a month at £1.92 a click), and “gas safe engineer” (16 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Leicester, “boiler engineer” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £0.90 a click, 86.0% below the £6.41 median click price for boiler & heating across this country's tracked cities.

In Leicester, “central heating installation” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Leicester, 6 of the 11 counted boiler & heating keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
boiler engineerGeneral searches8£0.90
heating engineerGeneral searches8no price
heating engineer near meNear me12£2.96
boiler engineer near meNear me10no price
emergency boiler repairUrgent10£2.94
boiler breakdownUrgent8no price
boiler serviceSpecific jobs38£3.76
boiler installationSpecific jobs16£1.92
gas safe engineerSpecific jobs16no price
boiler repairSpecific jobs15£8.79
central heating installationSpecific jobs2no price
air conditioning installation
Related, not counted
Related keywords32£4.15
Ranks and trend

How Leicester compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, boiler and heating engineers searches in Leicester peaked in December 2022 at 860 and were lowest in July 2025 at 90. Leicester's single latest tracked month is up 36.4% on the same month a year ago and up 25.0% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Leicester, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "boiler breakdown", up 80.0%.

  • Leicester is 6th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Leicester is 17th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Leicester is the only city in East Midlands in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Leicester sits in East Midlands, which is 2nd of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 3.1 businesses per 10,000 people across East Midlands).
  • Leicester's 37.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 62.7 for this service.
  • Leicester's median boiler & heating click price of £3.82 is 40.4% below the country median of £6.41.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 0.6% on the 12 months before.
  • In Leicester, searches peak in December, about 43.4% above the monthly average, and are lowest in July.
Businesses

Boiler & heating businesses in Leicester

The Office for National Statistics counts 120 businesses in this industry in Leicester (2026), about 3.1 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: local units, VAT or PAYE registered, rounded to 5.

Population: 383,116 (Leicester). Source: ONS mid-year population estimates via Nomis, dataset NM_2002_1, 2025.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

6 countries

Boiler & heating click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 3rd of 6 countries by median boiler & heating click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
New ZealandUS$6.81110.86
IrelandUS$7.5449.15
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$8.5962.725
CanadaUS$13.46155.013
AustraliaUS$15.61224.925
United StatesUS$34.59151.650

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules

Rules for boiler and heating engineers in the United Kingdom

Regulator or register: Gas Safe Register.

Gas boiler work must legally be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer.

FAQ

Questions people ask about boiler & heating ads in Leicester

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a boiler and heating engineer in Leicester?

£3.82 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted boiler & heating search terms in Leicester (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Leicester is 6th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a boiler and heating engineer in Leicester each month?

144 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 0.6% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for boiler and heating engineers in Leicester?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about £113 in clicks at £3.82 a click.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district). Click prices convert from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 2026-09 average. Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for United Kingdom, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Leicester with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

DataForSEO reports click prices in US$; they convert to GBP at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 GBP = 1.3406 US$).

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

Data and sources

Search data pulled 13 October 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

DatasetLicence
DataForSEO, retrieved 13 October 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2026
Open Government Licence v3.0
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

Related: Boiler & Heating in London, Boiler & Heating in Birmingham, Boiler & Heating in Manchester, Boiler & Heating across United Kingdom, All services in Leicester.

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