What homeowners asked Tradehand for this autumn

Of 80 homeowner quote sessions that reached a priced offer, 28 were electrician work (35%) and 17 were plumber work (21%).

Next were appliance repair (5), carpenter (4) and pest control (4). Heating engineer, gardener and kitchen fitter had 3 each. Air conditioning, cleaner, flooring fitter and handyman had 2 each. Fencing, floor sanding and refinishing, roofing, tiling and window fitting had 1 each.

Within those priced offers, the most common catalogue jobs were electrical fault-finding (18) and tap or shower repairs (13).

These are mostly catalogue quote prices, not invoices. They are asking prices shown on the platform, in pounds sterling.

On the same 80 homeowner offers, the median customer total was £152. Fifty of the 80 (63%) were between £100 and £199. Ten were £50 to £99, and twelve were £200 to £349. Three were £350 to £499, two were £500 to £749, two were £1,000 to £1,499, and one was £2,678.26, which was the highest. The lowest was £84.

Only 7 of the 80 sessions were marked accepted.

From 1 September to 10 November 2026, Tradehand's marketplace recorded 598 homeowner-side conversations (435 distinct contacts) and 242 jobs (230 distinct contacts).

Conversations ran 56 in September, 421 in October and 121 in the first ten days of November. Jobs ran 34, 112 and 96 in those same periods. November is only ten days in this window, so those counts are not a full month.

Most homeowner conversations arrived on the web (531 of 598).

Quote-session records in this extract stop on 22 October, even though jobs and conversations continue into November. Session counts should not be used as a November trend.

This speed figure is from a small slice of jobs. Only 21 of the 242 jobs reached a trader offer board.

On those 21, the median time from job creation to the first offer was 15.5 minutes (mean 70.2 minutes; nine in ten were under 3.3 hours).

Eleven jobs were accepted by a trader, in a median 55.6 minutes from job creation (mean 6.96 hours, longest 42.05 hours).

This is not a typical time to get a tradesperson for every enquiry. Most jobs in the window never went out to a board.

These figures come from Tradehand's own records, 1 September to 10 November 2026. We left out demo accounts, and anything started by a trader or a business. Prices are the totals shown to customers on 80 priced quote offers. Quote-session records in this extract run from 15 September to 22 October.

This is an early marketplace, not a sample of UK households. We're not claiming an average UK job price or a seasonal trend.

"This is a first look at what people have actually asked us for, not a claim about the whole country. In these early months, electrical and plumbing work has been the bulk of the jobs we have been able to price, and most of those quotes have come in well under £200. Where we have been able to put a job out to trades, they have often picked it up the same day. The honest bit is the sample is still small, and we will only publish numbers we can stand behind."