How much does a small business website cost in the UK?

Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy and WordPress.com sit here. You'll pay £10–£30/month for the plan and domain, and the "cost" is your time — typically 20–40 hours to end up with something serviceable. Fine for a hobby or a proof-of-concept, painful once you're trying to run a real business.

Most independent web designers in the UK charge somewhere in this range for a 5–8 page small business site. You get a proper design conversation, a mobile-first build, basic SEO, and a real human to email. Quality varies wildly — always ask to see three live sites they built in the last year, not a portfolio of mockups.

Small UK studios (like us) sit here. You get a designer and a developer, a defined process, copy help, on-page SEO baked in, and usually a fixed launch date. This is the sweet spot for most local businesses turning £150k+ a year — enough polish to compete, without the overhead of a full agency.

Larger agencies price for a bigger scope: brand work, custom integrations, e-commerce, multi-location SEO, ongoing retainers. Worth it if you have a real growth budget and a marketing lead to work with them — overkill for a single-location shop or trade.

• Hosting — £5–£20/month for fast UK hosting. Free hosting is almost always slow.
• Domain — around £12/year for a .co.uk, £15/year for a .com.
• Email — £4–£8/month per mailbox on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
• Content updates — either a small retainer (£30–£100/month) or your own time.
• SSL certificate — should be free and included; if a quote lists it as an extra, walk away.

Our packages are fixed price and start at £399 for a multi-page mobile site, £649 for a small business site with local SEO baked in, and £1,149 for our flagship Signature build. Every package includes design, build, on-page SEO, copy help and a real launch date — no surprise invoices.