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Emergency electrician

A same-day attendance for a fault that is unsafe or has cut power, charged as a call-out plus time rather than a fixed price. Emergency electrician work is carried out by all 316 electricians, with businesses concentrated in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol and Colchester. The national median of published prices is £110 per visit across 11 UK towns, researched August 2026. Emergency electrician cost guide

318
Electricians listed
265
Register-listed
3
Claimed profiles
41
Areas covered
£80–£100
Typical UK price / hour
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Electricians who do emergency callouts

Worth knowing

  • The businesses use emergency call-out, 24 hour electrician and same day electrician as other names for this work.
  • Published ratings run from 2.9 to 5.0, with a median rating of 5.0 across 251 rated businesses. The most-reviewed business has 725 reviews, while the total is 9839 reviews.
  • Among the businesses on trade registers, 209 are registered as installers and 122 as inspectors. Scheme figures include 165 with NICEIC, 76 with NAPIT, 22 with Part P and 1 with REFCOM.
  • Trading history includes 97 of 316 active companies at Companies House, incorporated between 1999 and 2025, with a median year of 2019. A total of 315 of 316 have their own website.
  • The businesses also offer EICR, rewires, consumer units, fault finding, EV chargers, lighting, PAT testing, partial rewire and 29 other services.

Common problems

Where we cover

London

Questions people ask

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