Website cost guide · Greater Manchester

How much does a website cost in Greater Manchester?

Greater Manchester has more than 105,000 VAT or PAYE registered businesses across ten boroughs, and most of them employ four people or fewer. This guide sets out what a website costs in pounds, the free and low-cost help the city-region's councils and Growth Hub run, and what to check before you sign a quote.

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The short answer

Website prices for Greater Manchester businesses

For a small business in Greater Manchester, 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 what each one includes: pages, written content, hosting, changes after launch and VAT.

01 · Basic Website
£629
02 · Business Website
£1,590
03 · Website Fix & Speed-up
£199
04 · Website Care Plan
£39

Our usual starting prices in GBP. You get a written quote before any work starts, and the price we agree is the price you pay.

Official figures · Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester in numbers

Official figures on the businesses that buy websites in Greater Manchester, and on the public support they can use. Each number carries its year and links to the page it comes from.

VAT or PAYE registered enterprises in Greater Manchester (March 2025)
105,760
That is up from 105,425 in 2023, across the ten boroughs from Wigan to Tameside. A crowded local market means your website has to say plainly what you do, where you work and how to get in touch.
Official source Office for National Statistics · Enterprises in Greater Manchester by status and size (ad hoc 3324)
Greater Manchester enterprises employing 0 to 4 people (March 2025)
81,880
About 77% of the city-region's businesses are this small. For most of them a focused site of five to eight pages they can update themselves is a better buy than a large custom build.
Official source Office for National Statistics · Enterprises in Greater Manchester by status and size (ad hoc 3324)
Enterprises in the Manchester district alone (March 2025)
23,710
More than one in five of Greater Manchester's businesses are in the city of Manchester, with Stockport (12,100) and Trafford (11,490) next. If you serve one borough, say so on your site; searchers often add the town name.
Official source Office for National Statistics · Enterprises in Greater Manchester by status and size (ad hoc 3324)
Greater Manchester businesses the GM Business Growth Hub says use its support each year
14,000+
The Hub gives this as its average yearly business engagements from 2022/23 to 2025/26, and says 120,000 businesses had benefited by the end of March 2025. It is worth a free conversation with an adviser before you write your website brief.
Official source GM Business Growth Hub · Home page

Only in Greater Manchester

What is different about buying a website in Greater Manchester

The UK-wide rules are on the UK guide. These are the services, programmes and local routes that apply in Greater Manchester. Check each one yourself before you rely on it. This page is not legal or tax advice.

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    Free, publicly funded advice from the Growth Hub

    The GM Business Growth Hub says it is publicly funded and that its support for Greater Manchester businesses comes at no charge. It does not build websites, but an adviser can help you set goals and a budget before you ask studios for quotes. Ask what is available for your business and check what is open at the time.

    Official source GM Business Growth Hub · Home page
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    Scale-up programmes have turnover thresholds

    The Hub has run Spark to Scale for businesses turning over £120k or more and ASCEND for those with £1M or more turnover. If your website is part of a bigger growth plan, check whether a programme is open, whether you qualify and what it covers before you plan your budget around it.

    Official source GM Business Growth Hub · Home page
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    Online-shop compliance help from your councils

    Greater Manchester Business Compliance Support represents the ten Greater Manchester councils and works alongside their trading standards teams. It offers a free signposting service and advice packages charged at cost only. Its online sales guidance covers the pre-contract information, the 14-day cancellation period and the ban on pre-ticked boxes. Before a shop goes live, ask your builder where each of these will appear, then check with the service if you are unsure.

    Official source Greater Manchester Business Compliance Support · Online sales
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    Look for funding through the finder, not a website grant

    Salford City Council's funding page (last updated 1 October 2025) lists GC Business Finance, the Growth Hub's Business Support and Funding Finder and the GOV.UK finance and support finder. None of them is described as a grant for websites. If a supplier tells you a grant will pay for your site, ask for the scheme's name and check its rules and closing date on the official page.

    Official source Salford City Council · Get funding for your business
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    Free tools for running the site after launch

    The Growth Hub's digital tools include the GM Skills Map, which lists more than 1,700 training courses for individuals and companies across Greater Manchester, and a Business Support and Funding Finder. If you plan to update your own pages or run your own marketing, check the Skills Map for a course before launch, and ask your builder for a handover session that fits it.

    Official source GM Business Growth Hub · Digital tools

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.

  2. 02

    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.

  3. 03

    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.

  4. 04

    Languages and markets

    Every extra language means translated pages and its own search setup. Prices in more than one currency add a little more.

  5. 05

    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.

  6. 06

    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

FAQ · 06

Questions from Greater Manchester businesses

Asked before anyone asks for a quote.

Ask us anything else

It depends on what you need built. With us, a 5-page WordPress site takes about 15 days and a custom-coded site of up to 8 pages takes about 4 weeks. The prices at the top of this page are in pounds. When you compare quotes from studios, check what each one includes: pages, written content, hosting, changes after launch and VAT.

Yes. The GM Business Growth Hub says it is publicly funded and that its support comes at no charge. It says more than 14,000 Greater Manchester businesses a year use it, on average. It does not build websites, but an adviser can help you work out your goals and budget before you ask for quotes. Check its site to see what is open now.

Greater Manchester Business Compliance Support represents the ten Greater Manchester councils and works alongside their trading standards teams. It offers a free signposting service and advice packages charged at cost only. Its online sales guidance covers pre-contract information, the 14-day cancellation period and pre-ticked boxes, so ask it about these before your shop goes live.

We did not find a current Greater Manchester grant aimed at paying for a website. Council pages point instead to finance routes and the Growth Hub's Business Support and Funding Finder. Schemes open and close, so if a supplier says a grant will cover your site, ask for the scheme's name and check its rules and dates on the official page.

We are a remote studio, so we work with Greater Manchester businesses by video call and email. Calls are booked in UK time, prices are in pounds, and before any work starts you get a written quote that lists the pages, features, timeline and what happens after launch. You review the site at each stage before it goes live.

Usually not. In March 2025 about 77% of Greater Manchester's VAT or PAYE registered businesses employed four people or fewer, according to the ONS. For most of them, a clear site of five to eight pages that explains the service, names the boroughs covered and makes contact easy does more than a large build.

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