Builder ads in Belfast: £3.51 a click
A Google Ads click for a renovation builder in Belfast costs £3.51 at the search-weighted average (102 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 25.2% on the 12 months before. Prices are in GBP, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.
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 £104 in clicks at £3.51 a click.
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 £104 in clicks at £3.51 a click.
Cost per booked job in Belfast is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Belfast figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.
| Intent group | Click price | Per booked job |
|---|---|---|
| Near me | £4.80 | £142 |
| Specific jobs | £1.69 | £50 |
Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.
Where the builder searches are in Belfast
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 Belfast, at 57.4%.
In Belfast, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £4.80 a click.
General searches
Near me
Specific jobs
Related keywords
Not countedPlan a month of builder ads in Belfast
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)
£1,000 at £3.51 a click buys about 284.9 clicks a month.
If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 22.9 calls and 9.6 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £104 in clicks.
Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.
Every builder keyword tracked in Belfast
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 builder keywords in Belfast are “builders near me” (34 searches a month at £4.80 a click), “bathroom renovation” (14 searches a month at £1.44 a click), and “house extensions” (13 searches a month with no Google click price).
In Belfast, “bathroom renovation” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £1.44 a click, 56.0% below the £3.27 median click price for builder across this country's tracked cities.
In Belfast, “renovation builder” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 1 search a month.
In Belfast, 3 of the 9 counted builder keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.
| Keyword | Intent | Searches | Click |
|---|---|---|---|
| home builder | General searches | 8 | no price |
| renovation builder | General searches | 1 | no price |
| builders near me | Near me | 34 | £4.80 |
| bathroom renovation | Specific jobs | 14 | £1.44 |
| house extensions | Specific jobs | 13 | no price |
| home renovations | Specific jobs | 10 | no price |
| kitchen renovation | Specific jobs | 10 | £2.03 |
| home extensions | Specific jobs | 8 | no price |
| custom home builder | Specific jobs | 3 | no price |
| new home builder Related, not counted | Related keywords | 5 | no price |
How Belfast compares in the United Kingdom
Over the 48 months tracked, renovation builders searches in Belfast peaked in March 2023 at 250 and were lowest in May 2026 at 60. Belfast's single latest tracked month is down 23.1% on the same month a year ago and down 33.3% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Belfast, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "renovation builder", down 83.3%.
- Belfast is 18th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
- Belfast is 21st of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
- Belfast is the only city in Northern Ireland in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
- For this service, Belfast sits in Northern Ireland, which is 2nd of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 3.3 businesses per 10,000 people across Northern Ireland).
- Belfast's 29.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 53.2 for this service.
- Belfast's median builder click price of £3.51 is 7.3% above the country median of £3.27.
- Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 25.2% on the 12 months before.
- In Belfast, searches peak in January, about 20.5% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Builder businesses in Belfast
The Office for National Statistics counts 115 businesses in this industry in Belfast (2026), about 3.3 for every 10,000 people.
What is counted: local units, VAT or PAYE registered, rounded to 5.
Population: 351,927 (Belfast). 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.
Builder click prices in 6 countries
United Kingdom is 2nd of 6 countries by median builder click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.
| Country | Median click (US$) | Searches per 100,000 people | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | US$2.76 | 85.8 | 5 |
| United Kingdom this page's country | US$4.38 | 53.2 | 25 |
| Australia | US$6.72 | 155.4 | 25 |
| New Zealand | US$7.21 | 91.3 | 6 |
| Canada | US$9.31 | 83.8 | 13 |
| United States | US$18.50 | 75.9 | 50 |
Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.
Rules for renovation builders in the United Kingdom
Builders are not nationally licensed in the UK; trade-body membership is voluntary, not a mandatory licence.
Questions people ask about builder ads in Belfast
How much does a Google Ads click cost for a renovation builder in Belfast?
£3.51 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted builder search terms in Belfast (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Belfast is 18th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
How many people search for a renovation builder in Belfast each month?
102 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 25.2% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).
What does a booked job cost in clicks for renovation builders in Belfast?
At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about £104 in clicks at £3.51 a click.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district). Click prices convert from US$ 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 Belfast 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.
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.
| Dataset | Licence |
|---|---|
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 |
ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district) Business counts, 2026 | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
Population | |
September 2026 monthly average | US government work |
Related: Builder in London, Builder in Birmingham, Builder in Manchester, Builder across United Kingdom, All services in Belfast.
