Website cost guide · United Kingdom
How much does a website cost in the UK?
Prices in pounds, and the three things UK businesses should check before they sign: VAT on the quote, cookie consent and the ICO data protection fee.
The short answer
From £629 for a small business site
For a small business in the UK, a website of up to 5 pages on a premium WordPress theme starts at £629 with us and takes about 15 days. A custom-coded site of up to 8 pages, built in Astro, Next.js or React, starts at £1,590 and takes about 4 weeks. Fixing an existing site starts at £199, and looking after it costs £39 a month. Before you compare quotes, check whether each one includes VAT at 20%.
- 01 · Basic Website
- £629
- 02 · Business Website
- £1,590
- 03 · Website Fix & Speed-up
- £199
- 04 · Website Care Plan
- £39
These are our usual starting prices in pounds. You get a written quote before any work starts, and the price we agree is the price you pay.
In the UK
Three things to check in the UK
Checked against the official pages. Ask about each one before you sign anything.
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VAT at 20%: included or on top?
The standard VAT rate in the UK is 20%, and a business registers for VAT once its taxable turnover goes over £90,000 a year. Some studios and freelancers are not registered and some are, so two quotes for the same site can differ by a fifth for that reason alone. Ask every studio whether its price includes VAT before you compare.
Official source GOV.UK · VAT rates -
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Cookie consent before analytics and ads
Under the ICO's cookie rules, a site must explain the cookies it sets and get a clear yes before it sets any that are not strictly necessary, such as analytics or advertising cookies. Carrying on browsing does not count as consent. Ask how the new site handles this: a banner with a real choice, and no tracking before the yes.
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The ICO data protection fee
Organisations that use personal information, sole traders included, need to pay the ICO a data protection fee unless they are exempt. A website with a contact form, a booking form or a shop collects personal information, so check with the ICO whether your business has to pay before the site goes live.
Official source ICO · Data protection fee
This is a builder's checklist, not legal or regulatory advice. Guidance changes, so check your regulator's current pages; we build the pages it asks for and make them easy for you to keep up to date.
What moves the price
Six things that decide the cost
Storvexa Your quote, line by line
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Pages and content
Five pages cost less than twenty. Writing the copy, finding photos and moving content from an old site all take time, so say up front who supplies them.
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Theme or custom code
A premium WordPress theme is the quickest and cheapest route. A site written in our own code costs more, loads faster and has no page-builder plugins to keep updating.
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What the site has to do
A contact form is simple. Online booking, payments, client logins or a shop each add work, because each has to be built, tested and kept safe.
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Languages and markets
Every extra language means translated pages and its own search setup. Prices in more than one currency add a little more.
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Connections to your tools
Linking the site to a CRM, a booking calendar, an accounting tool or a payment provider is quoted per connection, after we have seen what the tool allows.
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Speed and search work
Basic Google setup comes with every site. Full on-page SEO, a Google Business Profile and analytics come with the custom-coded package.
Total In your written quote, before any work starts
Ask before you sign
The costs people forget
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Domain and hosting
They are paid to the provider every year. We set the site up on your own domain and hosting with free SSL, so the accounts stay in your name.
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Changes after launch
Ask how long changes stay free. With us it is 6 days for a Basic site and 30 days for a custom-coded one; after that, small changes are part of the care plan.
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Keeping it safe
Updates, backups and security checks never stop. Our care plan covers them for £39 a month, with one hour of small changes, and you can cancel any time.
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Words and pictures
If nobody has written the pages yet, someone has to. Agree before the start who writes them and who pays for photos.
Process · first call to launch
How We Work
A transparent process from first call to long-term support.
Start Your Project-
Day 1 · a call
Discovery
We clarify scope, constraints and success criteria together — no sales scripts.
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Day 3 · written quote
Proposal & Roadmap
A clear estimate with milestones, honest timelines and zero surprises.
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Every week · a demo
Build & Demo
Clean architecture, automated checks and regular demos while we build.
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Launch · and after
Launch & Support
We deploy, monitor and keep improving what we built — long after launch.
Get a written quote in pounds
Tell us what you need in a few lines, or run the free audit on your current site first. You get a first reply within one working day.