Painter ads in Reading: £1.09 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 £32 in clicks at £1.09 a click.

Cost per booked job in Reading is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Reading 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 painter searches are in Reading

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 Reading, at 75.4%.

In Reading, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £7.00 a click.

Plan a month of painter ads in Reading

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Every painter keyword tracked in Reading

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 painter keywords in Reading are “fence painting” (52 searches a month at £0.16 a click), “painters near me” (12 searches a month at £7.00 a click), and “exterior house painting” (10 searches a month at £0.06 a click).

In Reading, “painters near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £7.00 a click, 944.8% above the £0.67 median click price for painter across this country's tracked cities.

In Reading, “commercial painters” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

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

How Reading compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, painters searches in Reading peaked in April 2025 at 310 and were lowest in December 2022 at 60. Reading's single latest tracked month is down 20.0% on the same month a year ago and down 20.0% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Reading, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "commercial painters", down 40.0%.

• Reading is 23rd of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, among the three highest.
• Reading is 21st of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Reading is 1st of 2 South East England cities by click price, the lowest.
• Reading is 2nd of 2 South East England cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
• For this service, Reading sits in South East England, which is 17th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three highest (an average of 2.2 businesses per 10,000 people across South East England).
• Reading's 64.8 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 50.9 for this service.
• Reading's median painter click price of £1.09 is 62.7% above the country median of £0.67.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 25.5% on the 12 months before.
• In Reading, searches peak in April, about 57.1% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.

Painter businesses in Reading

The Office for National Statistics counts 35 businesses in this industry in Reading (2026), about 1.9 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 183,762 (Reading). 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.

Painter click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 1st of 6 countries by median painter 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.

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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.