Mechanic ads in Nottingham: £2.79 a click

What a booked job costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for mechanic (15.51% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked job. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

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

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

Where the mechanic searches are in Nottingham

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 Nottingham, at 45.2%.

In Nottingham, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £4.29 a click.

Plan a month of mechanic ads in Nottingham

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.

Every mechanic keyword tracked in Nottingham

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 mechanic keywords in Nottingham are “mechanic near me” (72 searches a month at £2.10 a click), “mechanic” (38 searches a month at £2.76 a click), and “car service” (34 searches a month at £3.23 a click).

In Nottingham, “car mechanic” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £8.75 a click, 400.0% above the £1.75 median click price for mechanic across this country's tracked cities.

In Nottingham, “emergency mobile mechanic” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 1 search a month.

In Nottingham, 6 of the 9 counted mechanic keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Nottingham compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, mechanics searches in Nottingham peaked in January 2023 at 1,030 and were lowest in July 2023 at 140. Nottingham's single latest tracked month is down 17.4% on the same month a year ago and down 13.6% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Nottingham, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "car won't start", down 27.3%.

• Nottingham is 24th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, among the three highest.
• Nottingham is 22nd of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Nottingham is the only city in Nottinghamshire in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
• For this service, Nottingham sits in Nottinghamshire, which is 15th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 7.4 businesses per 10,000 people across Nottinghamshire).
• Nottingham's 63.9 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 242.1 for this service.
• Nottingham's median mechanic click price of £2.79 is 59.4% above the country median of £1.75.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 12.9% on the 12 months before.
• In Nottingham, searches peak in January, about 40.3% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.

Mechanic businesses in Nottingham

The Office for National Statistics counts 240 businesses in this industry in Nottingham (2026), about 7.4 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 325,765 (Nottingham). 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.

Mechanic click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 4th of 6 countries by median mechanic click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

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 mechanics in the United Kingdom

Regulator or register: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).

DVSA regulates MOT testing stations; general mechanics and garages are not separately licensed.

Questions people ask about mechanic ads in Nottingham

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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.