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Plumber ads in Leicester: £5.36 a click

A Google Ads click for a plumber in Leicester costs £5.36 at the search-weighted average (418 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are up 13.6% 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
£5.36
Searches a month
418
Year on year
up 13.6%
Click cost per booked job
£159

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 £159 in clicks at £5.36 a click.

In Leicester, the lowest click price on this page is near me at £2.63. The highest click price on this page in Leicester is urgent at £13.70.

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 £159 in clicks at £5.36 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£6.93£205
Near me£2.63£78
Urgent£13.70£405
Specific jobs£8.56£253

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 Leicester

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 Leicester, at 43.5%.

In Leicester, urgent has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £13.70 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency plumber”) costs £13.70 a click, against £6.93 for “plumber”.

General searches

“plumber”
Searches a month163, 39.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£6.93

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“plumber near me”
Searches a month182, 43.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.63
In Leicester, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Urgent

Highest click price on this page
“emergency plumber”, “24 hour plumber”, “burst pipe”
Searches a month36, 8.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£13.70
In Leicester, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

“blocked drain”, “blocked drain plumber”, “hot water system repair”, “hot water system replacement”, “gas plumber”, “leaking tap repair”, “toilet repair”
Searches a month37, 8.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£8.56
Plan

Plan a month of plumber ads in Leicester

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
186.6
Calls or forms
15.0
Booked jobs
6.3
Click cost per booked job
£159

£1,000 at £5.36 a click buys about 186.6 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 15.0 calls and 6.3 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £159 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every plumber keyword tracked in Leicester

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 Leicester are “plumber near me” (182 searches a month at £2.63 a click), “plumber” (163 searches a month at £6.93 a click), and “emergency plumber” (25 searches a month at £13.70 a click).

In Leicester, “emergency plumber” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £13.70 a click, 104.5% above the £6.70 median click price for plumber across this country's tracked cities.

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

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

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
plumberGeneral searches163£6.93
plumber near meNear me182£2.63
emergency plumberUrgent25£13.70
burst pipeUrgent6no price
24 hour plumberUrgent5no price
blocked drainSpecific jobs12no price
leaking tap repairSpecific jobs10£8.56
toilet repairSpecific jobs7no price
gas plumberSpecific jobs6no price
blocked drain plumberSpecific jobs2no price
hot water system repairSpecific jobs0no price
hot water system replacementSpecific jobs0no price
Ranks and trend

How Leicester compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, plumbers searches in Leicester peaked in July 2023 at 1,850 and were lowest in December 2025 at 260. Leicester's single latest tracked month is up 100.0% on the same month a year ago and up 93.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Leicester, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "hot water system repair", down 100.0%.

  • Leicester is 5th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Leicester is 18th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Leicester is the only city in East Midlands in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Leicester sits in East Midlands, which is 2nd of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 3.1 businesses per 10,000 people across East Midlands).
  • Leicester's 109.1 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 227.5 for this service.
  • Leicester's median plumber click price of £5.36 is 20.0% below the country median of £6.70.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 13.6% on the 12 months before.
  • In Leicester, searches peak in October, about 35.7% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.
Businesses

Plumber businesses in Leicester

The Office for National Statistics counts 120 businesses in this industry in Leicester (2026), about 3.1 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 383,116 (Leicester). 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 Leicester

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

£5.36 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted plumber search terms in Leicester (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Leicester is 5th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

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

418 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, up 13.6% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for plumbers in Leicester?

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 £159 in clicks at £5.36 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 Leicester 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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