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Plumber ads in Belfast: £2.75 a click

A Google Ads click for a plumber in Belfast costs £2.75 at the search-weighted average (528 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 11.8% 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
£2.75
Searches a month
528
Year on year
down 11.8%
Click cost per booked job
£81

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 £81 in clicks at £2.75 a click.

In Belfast, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at £1.34. The highest click price on this page in Belfast is general searches at £4.08.

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 £81 in clicks at £2.75 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 groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£4.08£121
Near me£1.85£55
Urgent£2.01£59
Specific jobs£1.34£40

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

By intent

Where the plumber 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.

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Belfast, at 48.1%.

In Belfast, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £4.08 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency plumber”) costs £2.01 a click, against £4.08 for “plumber”.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“plumber”
Searches a month196, 37.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£4.08
In Belfast, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

“plumber near me”
Searches a month254, 48.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.85

Urgent

“emergency plumber”, “24 hour plumber”, “burst pipe”
Searches a month38, 7.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.01

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“blocked drain”, “blocked drain plumber”, “hot water system repair”, “hot water system replacement”, “gas plumber”, “leaking tap repair”, “toilet repair”
Searches a month40, 7.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.34
In Belfast, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.
Plan

Plan a month of plumber 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)

Clicks a month
363.6
Calls or forms
29.3
Booked jobs
12.3
Click cost per booked job
£81

£1,000 at £2.75 a click buys about 363.6 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 29.3 calls and 12.3 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £81 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every plumber 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 plumber keywords in Belfast are “plumber near me” (254 searches a month at £1.85 a click), “plumber” (196 searches a month at £4.08 a click), and “emergency plumber” (23 searches a month at £2.01 a click).

In Belfast, “blocked drain” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £1.34 a click, 80.0% below the £6.70 median click price for plumber across this country's tracked cities.

In Belfast, “hot water system repair” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Belfast, 4 of the 12 counted plumber keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
plumberGeneral searches196£4.08
plumber near meNear me254£1.85
emergency plumberUrgent23£2.01
burst pipeUrgent8no price
24 hour plumberUrgent7no price
leaking tap repairSpecific jobs13no price
blocked drainSpecific jobs12£1.34
gas plumberSpecific jobs7no price
toilet repairSpecific jobs6no price
blocked drain plumberSpecific jobs2no price
hot water system repairSpecific jobs0no price
hot water system replacementSpecific jobs0no price
Ranks and trend

How Belfast compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, plumbers searches in Belfast peaked in July 2023 at 1,440 and were lowest in May 2026 at 380. Belfast's single latest tracked month is up 20.0% on the same month a year ago and down 2.0% 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 "hot water system replacement", down 100.0%.

  • Belfast is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Belfast is 17th 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 3rd of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 3.5 businesses per 10,000 people across Northern Ireland).
  • Belfast's 150.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 227.5 for this service.
  • Belfast's median plumber click price of £2.75 is 59.0% below the country median of £6.70.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 11.8% on the 12 months before.
  • In Belfast, searches peak in November, about 26.6% above the monthly average, and are lowest in August.
Businesses

Plumber businesses in Belfast

The Office for National Statistics counts 125 businesses in this industry in Belfast (2026), about 3.6 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.

6 countries

Plumber click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 3rd of 6 countries by median plumber 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$4.77379.35
New ZealandUS$7.56339.16
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$8.98227.525
CanadaUS$17.57196.613
AustraliaUS$20.97354.725
United StatesUS$44.92163.050

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.

FAQ

Questions people ask about plumber ads in Belfast

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a plumber in Belfast?

£2.75 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted plumber search terms in Belfast (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Belfast is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.

How many people search for a plumber in Belfast each month?

528 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 11.8% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for plumbers 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 £81 in clicks at £2.75 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.

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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