Best Website Builder for UK Tradesmen (2026): Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Tradify and MyTradeSite Compared

Every website builder you look at is aimed at online shops, photographers and cafés, and the first thing each one asks you to do is design something. This is a comparison of the five a tradesman is most likely to end up looking at, written for someone on the tools all day who wants a website that exists, not a website project. Prices were checked in September 2026 and will drift; check the day you buy.

What a tradesman's website needs

It is not a shop and it is not a portfolio. It has to do four things.

• Say what you do and where. A page for each service and a page for each area, because "boiler repair Wimborne" and "electrician Poole" are what people actually type.
• Make it easy to get in touch. A form and a phone number on every page, and the enquiry has to reach you while you are up a ladder, not sit in an inbox.
• Look right on a phone. Most of the people who find you are on one.
• Not need you. If keeping it going takes an evening a month, it will not get done.

That last one is the whole argument. Read the rest with it in mind.

Wix

The best-known builder: hundreds of templates, drag-and-drop editing, an AI setup that produces a starting layout from a few questions.

What you get: an empty site with a nice template. You write every page and choose every photo. The AI setup gives you a homepage and a contact page; the service and area pages that get a tradesman found are yours to build, one at a time.

Price, checked September 2026: Light £9, Core £16, Business £25, Business Elite £119 a month on annual billing. A free plan exists, but it carries Wix branding and you cannot use your own domain on it.

Time: an afternoon to get something up; several evenings for a page per service and per town.

Squarespace

Cleaner templates than Wix and a nicer editor. Built for creative businesses, and it shows: the templates want big photographs and short text.

What you get: the same as Wix in practice. A good-looking shell, and the work of filling it. No trade-specific structure, no service or area pages unless you make them.

Price, checked September 2026: Basic £12, Core £17, Plus £29, Advanced £79 a month on annual billing, or £16, £24, £36 and £89 month to month. No free plan; there is a 14-day trial.

Time: the same as Wix.

WordPress

The most flexible option and the most technical: rent hosting, install WordPress, pick a theme, add plugins for forms and SEO, keep all of it updated.

What you get: anything you can build or pay someone to build, and the responsibility for it. When a plugin update breaks the contact form, you find out when the enquiries stop.

Price: hosting from a few pounds a month, plus a theme and plugins. Cheap if your time is free.

Time: a weekend if you know what you are doing.

Tradify

Not a website builder. Tradify is job-management software (quoting, scheduling, invoicing) with a simple website available as an add-on. Included because a tradesman looking for a website often needs the rest too.

What you get: the job management is the point of it. The website is a simple presence, not a set of service and area pages written for your trade.

Price, checked September 2026: £34, £37 or £44 per user per month, depending on plan. Per user matters: you, a mate and an apprentice is three subscriptions.

MyTradeSite

Built for UK tradesmen and nothing else. You pick your trade, tick the services you offer, add the areas you cover, and the site is generated: a page for each service, a page for each area, about, gallery, contact, fifteen or more pages in total, written for your trade, before you pay anything.

What you get: the website plus the tools around it. Enquiries come to you as a text and an email. Quotes with a link the customer taps to accept. Invoices with your bank details on them, deposit and final. Job costing and a monthly profit and loss. Your five most relevant Google reviews on your homepage, updated daily, once you connect your Google profile. A free .co.uk domain when you subscribe. Assign jobs to your team by text, no per-user fee.

What you don't get: a design tool. You can change colours, logo, photos and every word of text, but the layout is the layout. If you want a site that looks like nobody else's, this is not it.

Price: £99 a month, everything included. You see the finished site before you pay, no card needed.

The comparison

Prices checked September 2026, annual billing where offered.

A word on website design

Most people who find this page searched for website design for tradesmen, so here is the honest answer. A trade website does not need to be beautiful. It needs to be clear, quick, and obviously about a real business in a real place. Your van on the homepage, your real photos in the gallery, your reviews, your number. A customer with a leaking tank is not judging your typography.

Where design does matter is trust: a site that looks abandoned, with stock photos and a 2019 copyright line, loses the job to the one that looks looked-after. That is an upkeep problem, not a design problem, and it is the reason a builder that leaves the upkeep to you tends to end up abandoned.

If you want a site that is genuinely designed, hire a designer and go in with your eyes open about what a web designer costs and when you actually need one. For most sole traders, the useful question is not "which looks best" but "which one will still be accurate in a year without me touching it".

The honest difference

It is not price. £9 against £99 is a real gap and you can see it. The difference is what happens after you pay.

Wix and Squarespace hand you an empty editor and a good template; the writing, the pages, the photos and the updates are your job. Done well, the result is a perfectly good website, and some tradesmen enjoy doing it. MyTradeSite hands you a finished site, the tools to run the jobs it brings in, and the person who built it answering the messages. You are paying for the work being done and for it staying done.

If you want to see the whole thing before deciding, the demo dashboard is open with no signup.

For a straight breakdown of what each route costs over a year, see how much a tradesman website costs.