How Much Does a Carpet Cleaner Cost in the UK? (2026 City-by-City Guide)

The cost of hiring a carpet cleaner in the UK varies considerably depending on your location. Carpet Cleaners in the UK should hold NCCA (National Carpet Cleaners Association) membership recommended certification (verified at National Carpet Cleaners Association). This guide lists 2026 carpet cleaner prices for all 200 UK cities in our database — click any city for a full local pricing guide.

Regional price tip: London carpet cleaner costs typically run 40–50% above the national average. Cities in the North East and Northern Ireland are often 15–25% below average. Use the region jump-links below to find your area quickly.

📄 Carpet Cleaner — National Price Overview (2026)

UK Range (typical jobs): £5 – £600
Typical Duration: 2–6 hours
Certification Required: NCCA (National Carpet Cleaners Association) membership recommended
Cities Covered: 200 UK cities

The UK national average is used as the baseline. London typically costs 40–50% above the national average; Northern Ireland and parts of the North East are 15–25% below. Prices within each region can also vary by suburb and whether your job requires emergency call-out rates.

What a Carpet Cleaner Job Typically Involves

A standard carpet cleaner quote usually covers:

Labour for hot-water extraction (steam) cleaning of all carpets within the agreed areas
Pre-treatment of visible stains and high-traffic soiling
Deodorising treatment where included (confirm in advance)
Grooming of carpet pile on completion
Drying time guidance — most carpets are walkable within 2–4 hours and fully dry within 6–12 hours

Routine vacuuming and spot-treating stains with proprietary cleaners is effective DIY maintenance. Professional hot-water extraction removes deep-set soiling, allergens, and bacteria that consumer hire machines and vacuum cleaners cannot reach — independent tests show professional extraction removes around 98% of allergens versus approximately 25% for consumer machines. Professional cleaning is the minimum standard required by most tenancy agreements for end-of-tenancy handback, and DIY cleaning rarely meets inventory clerk standards.

Greater London

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
London	£30 – £65 per hour	Full guide →

South East England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Aldershot	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Aylesbury	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Basingstoke	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Bognor Regis	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Brighton	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Canterbury	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Chichester	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Crawley	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Dover	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Eastbourne	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Epsom	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Farnham	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Folkestone	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Guildford	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Hastings	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
High Wycombe	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Horsham	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Lewes	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Maidstone	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Margate	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Medway	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Milton Keynes	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Oxford	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Portsmouth	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Ramsgate	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Reading	£25 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Redhill	£25 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Reigate	£25 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Royal Tunbridge Wells	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Slough	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Southampton	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Tonbridge	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Winchester	£25 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Windsor	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Woking	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Worthing	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →

South West England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Bath	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Bournemouth	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Bristol	£25 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Cheltenham	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Cirencester	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Dorchester	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Exeter	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Gloucester	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Paignton	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Plymouth	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Poole	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Salisbury	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Stroud	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Swindon	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Taunton	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Torquay	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Truro	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Weston-super-Mare	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Weymouth	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Yeovil	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →

East of England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Basildon	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Bedford	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Bury St Edmunds	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Cambridge	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Chelmsford	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Colchester	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Ely	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Great Yarmouth	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Harlow	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Hemel Hempstead	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Huntingdon	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Ipswich	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
King's Lynn	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Lowestoft	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Luton	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Norwich	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Peterborough	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Southend-on-Sea	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
St Albans	£25 – £55 per hour	Full guide →
Stevenage	£20 – £50 per hour	Full guide →
Watford	£25 – £50 per hour	Full guide →

East Midlands

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Buxton	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Chesterfield	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Corby	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Derby	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Grantham	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Kettering	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Leicester	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Lincoln	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Loughborough	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Mansfield	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Northampton	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Nottingham	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →

West Midlands

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Birmingham	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Burton upon Trent	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Coventry	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Dudley	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Hereford	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Kidderminster	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Lichfield	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Nuneaton	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Redditch	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Royal Leamington Spa	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Rugby	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Shrewsbury	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Solihull	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Stafford	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Stoke-on-Trent	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Stratford-upon-Avon	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Tamworth	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Telford	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Walsall	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Wolverhampton	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Worcester	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →

Yorkshire and the Humber

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Barnsley	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Beverley	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Bradford	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Dewsbury	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Doncaster	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Grimsby	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Harrogate	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Huddersfield	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Hull	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Keighley	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Leeds	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Rotherham	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Scarborough	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Scunthorpe	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Sheffield	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Wakefield	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
York	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →

North West England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Altrincham	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Birkenhead	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Blackburn	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Blackpool	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Bolton	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Burnley	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Carlisle	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Chester	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Crewe	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Lancaster	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Liverpool	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Macclesfield	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Manchester	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Oldham	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Preston	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Rochdale	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Runcorn	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Salford	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Southport	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
St Helens	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Stockport	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Warrington	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Wigan	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →

North East England

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Bishop Auckland	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Darlington	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Durham	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Gateshead	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Hartlepool	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Middlesbrough	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Newcastle upon Tyne	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
South Shields	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Stockton-on-Tees	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Sunderland	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →

Scotland

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Aberdeen	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Ayr	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Coatbridge	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Dundee	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Dunfermline	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
East Kilbride	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Edinburgh	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Falkirk	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Glasgow	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Greenock	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Hamilton	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Inverness	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Kilmarnock	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Kirkcaldy	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Livingston	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Motherwell	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Paisley	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Perth	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
St Andrews	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →
Stirling	£20 – £45 per hour	Full guide →

Wales

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Barry	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Bridgend	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Caerphilly	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Cardiff	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Llanelli	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Merthyr Tydfil	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Newport	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Penarth	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Pontypridd	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Swansea	£20 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Wrexham	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →

Northern Ireland

City / Town	Typical Hourly Rate (2026)
Armagh	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Bangor	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Belfast	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Derry	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Enniskillen	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Lisburn	£15 – £40 per hour	Full guide →
Newry	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →
Newtownabbey	£15 – £35 per hour	Full guide →

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a carpet cleaner cost in the UK?

UK carpet cleaner costs vary significantly by location. Typical job prices run £5 – £600. London tends to run 40–50% above the national average; cities in the North East and Northern Ireland are often 15–25% below. Click any city in the table above for a full local pricing breakdown.

What is the average hourly rate for a carpet cleaner in the UK?

Hourly rates for carpet cleaners depend on your location and the time of call-out. Standard daytime rates (Mon–Fri 8am–6pm) are the lowest; evening, weekend and emergency call-outs typically attract a 30–60% surcharge. Most carpet cleaners also charge a minimum call-out fee equivalent to 30–60 minutes of work.

Do I need a certified carpet cleaner?

Yes — Carpet Cleaner work legally requires NCCA (National Carpet Cleaners Association) membership recommended certification in the UK. Verify credentials at National Carpet Cleaners Association before hiring.

How many quotes should I get for carpet cleaner work?

Always obtain at least three written, itemised quotes before committing to any carpet cleaner job. This lets you compare on price, qualifications and professionalism rather than defaulting to the lowest figure, which may indicate corner-cutting.

What should a carpet cleaner quote include?

A proper carpet cleaner quote should state: the full scope of work, itemised labour and materials, whether VAT is included, expected start and completion dates, call-out or minimum visit fees, and any workmanship guarantee offered.

Are carpet cleaner prices higher in London?

Yes — London carpet cleaner rates are typically 40–50% above the UK national average, driven by higher demand, travel costs and cost of living. The South East also runs 10–20% above average. Use the regional tables above to find your city's rates.

How can I check if a carpet cleaner is properly qualified?

Use the official National Carpet Cleaners Association checker to verify registration in seconds. Ask the tradesperson to produce qualification certificates, public liability insurance documents, and any relevant accreditation before work begins. A trustworthy professional will have these documents readily available.

Should I pay a deposit to a carpet cleaner?

A deposit of 10–20% is normal practice for larger carpet cleaner jobs. Never pay more than 25% upfront, and always pay by card or bank transfer rather than cash so you have a clear payment record. Avoid any tradesperson who demands full payment before starting.

What are the red flags when hiring a carpet cleaner?

Warning signs include: demands for a large cash deposit before any work starts, inability to produce insurance or qualification proof, refusal to provide a written quote, significantly undercutting all other estimates, and pressuring you to decide immediately. A reputable carpet cleaner will never rush you.

How do I find a reliable carpet cleaner near me?

Use vetted platforms such as Checkatrade, Rated People or TrustMark to find reviewed carpet cleaners in your area. Personal recommendations from neighbours or friends remain the most reliable method. Always verify public liability insurance of at least £1 million before agreeing to any work.

Price disclaimer: Prices above are 2026 estimates based on regional trade cost-index data. Actual quotes will vary by contractor experience, job complexity, materials, and market conditions. Always request at least three written quotes before committing to any work. ServicePriceHub.uk is an independent price reference guide and is not affiliated with any tradesperson or trade body.

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