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Roofer ads in Reading: £7.45 a click

A Google Ads click for a roofer in Reading costs £7.45 at the search-weighted average (180 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 2.3% 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
£7.45
Searches a month
180
Year on year
down 2.3%
Click cost per booked job
£220

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 £220 in clicks at £7.45 a click.

In Reading, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at £2.83. The highest click price on this page in Reading is near me at £9.62.

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 £220 in clicks at £7.45 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.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£2.83£84
Near me£9.62£285
Specific jobs£6.01£178

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

By intent

Where the roofer 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.

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Reading, at 47.8%.

In Reading, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £9.62 a click.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“roofer”, “roofing”
Searches a month36, 20.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.83
In Reading, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

Highest click price on this page
“roofer near me”
Searches a month86, 47.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£9.62
In Reading, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Urgent

“emergency roof repair”, “roof leak repair”
Searches a month15, 8.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Specific jobs

“roof repair”, “roof restoration”, “re-roofing”, “roof replacement”, “metal roofing”, “tile roof repair”
Searches a month43, 23.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£6.01

Related keywords

Not counted
“gutter replacement”
Searches a month10
Click price, weighted avg£26.22
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 roofer ads in Reading

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
134.2
Calls or forms
10.8
Booked jobs
4.5
Click cost per booked job
£220

£1,000 at £7.45 a click buys about 134.2 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 10.8 calls and 4.5 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £220 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every roofer 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 roofer keywords in Reading are “roofer near me” (86 searches a month at £9.62 a click), “roofer” (18 searches a month at £2.83 a click), and “roofing” (18 searches a month at £2.83 a click).

In Reading, “tile roof repair” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £9.64 a click, 123.7% above the £4.31 median click price for roofer across this country's tracked cities.

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

In Reading, 5 of the 11 counted roofer keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
rooferGeneral searches18£2.83
roofingGeneral searches18£2.83
roofer near meNear me86£9.62
roof leak repairUrgent11no price
emergency roof repairUrgent4no price
roof repairSpecific jobs15no price
metal roofingSpecific jobs9£4.00
roof replacementSpecific jobs8no price
tile roof repairSpecific jobs5£9.64
re-roofingSpecific jobs4no price
roof restorationSpecific jobs2no price
gutter replacement
Related, not counted
Related keywords10£26.22
Ranks and trend

How Reading compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, roofers searches in Reading peaked in September 2025 at 510 and were lowest in May 2024 at 100. Reading's single latest tracked month is up 38.5% 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 Reading, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "re-roofing", down 50.0%.

  • Reading is 22nd of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Reading is 18th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Reading is 2nd of 2 South East England cities by click price, the highest.
  • 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 12th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 1.6 businesses per 10,000 people across South East England).
  • Reading's 98.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 74.2 for this service.
  • Reading's median roofer click price of £7.45 is 72.9% above the country median of £4.31.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 2.3% on the 12 months before.
  • In Reading, searches peak in September, about 58.2% above the monthly average, and are lowest in May.
Businesses

Roofer businesses in Reading

The Office for National Statistics counts 20 businesses in this industry in Reading (2026), about 1.1 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.

6 countries

Roofer click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 1st of 6 countries by median roofer click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$5.7874.225
CanadaUS$8.2160.413
IrelandUS$8.24149.35
AustraliaUS$9.2395.225
New ZealandUS$9.2596.06
United StatesUS$28.4957.850

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.

FAQ

Questions people ask about roofer ads in Reading

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a roofer in Reading?

£7.45 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted roofer search terms in Reading (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Reading is 22nd of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a roofer in Reading each month?

180 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 2.3% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for roofers in Reading?

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 £220 in clicks at £7.45 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 Reading 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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