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Electrician ads in Sunderland: £1.77 a click

A Google Ads click for an electrician in Sunderland costs £1.77 at the search-weighted average (182 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are up 15.3% 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
£1.77
Searches a month
182
Year on year
up 15.3%
Click cost per booked job
£52

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 £52 in clicks at £1.77 a click.

In Sunderland, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at £1.38. The highest click price on this page in Sunderland is specific jobs at £3.36.

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 £52 in clicks at £1.77 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£1.38£41
Near me£1.55£46
Specific jobs£3.36£99

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

By intent

Where the electrician searches are in Sunderland

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

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Sunderland, at 48.6%.

In Sunderland, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £3.36 a click.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“electrician”
Searches a month42, 23.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.38
In Sunderland, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

“electrician near me”
Searches a month88, 48.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.55

Urgent

“emergency electrician”, “24 hour electrician”
Searches a month12, 6.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“ceiling fan installation”, “switchboard upgrade”, “ev charger installation”, “smoke alarm installation”, “lighting installation”, “electrical contractor”
Searches a month39, 21.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£3.36
In Sunderland, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“solar electrician”
Searches a month2
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
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 electrician ads in Sunderland

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
565.0
Calls or forms
45.5
Booked jobs
19.1
Click cost per booked job
£52

£1,000 at £1.77 a click buys about 565.0 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 45.5 calls and 19.1 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £52 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every electrician keyword tracked in Sunderland

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 electrician keywords in Sunderland are “electrician near me” (88 searches a month at £1.55 a click), “electrician” (42 searches a month at £1.38 a click), and “ev charger installation” (22 searches a month at £3.36 a click).

In Sunderland, “electrician” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £1.38 a click, 73.2% below the £5.15 median click price for electrician across this country's tracked cities.

In Sunderland, “switchboard upgrade” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Sunderland, 3 of the 10 counted electrician keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
electricianGeneral searches42£1.38
electrician near meNear me88£1.55
emergency electricianUrgent8no price
24 hour electricianUrgent4no price
ev charger installationSpecific jobs22£3.36
electrical contractorSpecific jobs8no price
ceiling fan installationSpecific jobs4no price
smoke alarm installationSpecific jobs3no price
lighting installationSpecific jobs2no price
switchboard upgradeSpecific jobs0no price
solar electrician
Related, not counted
Related keywords2no price
Ranks and trend

How Sunderland compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, electricians searches in Sunderland peaked in September 2022 at 840 and were lowest in December 2025 at 90. Sunderland's single latest tracked month is up 114.3% on the same month a year ago and up 50.0% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Sunderland, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "ceiling fan installation", up 400.0%.

  • Sunderland is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Sunderland is 24th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Sunderland is 1st of 2 Tyne and Wear cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Sunderland is 2nd of 2 Tyne and Wear cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • For this service, Sunderland sits in Tyne and Wear, which is 6th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 4.9 businesses per 10,000 people across Tyne and Wear).
  • Sunderland's 63.4 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 170.0 for this service.
  • Sunderland's median electrician click price of £1.77 is 65.6% below the country median of £5.15.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 15.3% on the 12 months before.
  • In Sunderland, searches peak in September, about 57.5% above the monthly average, and are lowest in July.
Businesses

Electrician businesses in Sunderland

The Office for National Statistics counts 170 businesses in this industry in Sunderland (2026), about 5.9 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 287,070 (Sunderland). 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

Electrician click prices in 6 countries

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

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$4.42314.75
New ZealandUS$6.10214.36
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$6.90170.025
CanadaUS$7.85106.513
AustraliaUS$17.29290.425
United StatesUS$20.9990.850

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 electricians in the United Kingdom

Electricians are not nationally licensed in the UK; registration with a competent-person scheme is voluntary, not a mandatory licence.

FAQ

Questions people ask about electrician ads in Sunderland

How much does a Google Ads click cost for an electrician in Sunderland?

£1.77 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted electrician search terms in Sunderland (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Sunderland is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.

How many people search for an electrician in Sunderland each month?

182 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, up 15.3% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for electricians in Sunderland?

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 £52 in clicks at £1.77 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 Sunderland 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

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