💰 2026 price guide
Website design costs in Nottinghamshire (2026 guide)
Most agencies will not put a number on their website until you have filled in a form. We think that is unhelpful, so here are the real price bands for a business website in Nottinghamshire in 2026, what each one includes, and how to tell who is worth paying more for.
The figures are based on twenty years of quoting for businesses in Mansfield, Nottingham, Worksop, Newark and the surrounding towns, plus what we see when we take over sites built by others.
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A new business website in Nottinghamshire costs from £299 + VAT for a starter brochure site, £1,500 to £3,000 for a custom brochure site, £3,000 to £8,000 for a bespoke business website, and £2,500 to £10,000+ for an online shop. Managed hosting is around £365 + VAT a year. dijitul gives a fixed quote before any work starts. Call 01623 650333.
Websites from £299 + VAT · Hosting & support from £1 per day + VAT · Local SEO from £99 + VAT per month · Fixed quotes, no lock-in
📊 Price bands
What a website costs in Nottinghamshire in 2026
These are honest ranges for a properly built site from an established local supplier. You can find cheaper and you can find far dearer; this is where most good work sits.
| Type of website | Typical cost (+ VAT) | Best for | Timescale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter brochure site | £299 – £999 | Sole traders and new businesses that need a credible presence fast: up to five pages, contact form, mobile-first | 1 – 3 weeks |
| Custom brochure site | £1,500 – £3,000 | Established small businesses: bespoke design, 5 – 15 pages, help with copy and photos, SEO structure | 4 – 8 weeks |
| Bespoke business site | £3,000 – £8,000 | Firms where the site is the main source of enquiries: discovery, copywriting, location pages, integrations, booking or quoting tools | 6 – 12 weeks |
| Online shop | £2,500 – £10,000+ | Product businesses on WooCommerce, Shopify or OpenCart: product setup, payments, shipping, VAT, accounts integration | 6 – 16 weeks |
| Bespoke web software | £8,000 – £20,000+ | Portals, booking systems, quoting tools and internal systems built to your process | 3 – 6 months |
Then the running costs, which matter more than most people expect:
| Ongoing cost | Typical price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Managed hosting & support | £365 + VAT a year (£1 a day) | UK hosting, updates, backups, security, a person to ring. Cheap unmanaged hosting is £60 – £120 a year but you do the work. |
| Domain name | £10 – £25 a year | Must be registered in your business name. Non-negotiable. |
| SSL certificate | Included | Anyone charging separately for a basic SSL in 2026 is padding the invoice. |
| Local SEO | from £99 + VAT a month | Optional, no lock-in at dijitul. The difference between having a site and being found. |
| Platform fees (Shopify, Wix, Squarespace) | £15 – £300+ a month | Only if you choose a hosted platform. WordPress and OpenCart have none. |
📝 Band by band
What you get at each price
Starter brochure site: £299 to £999
A professionally built WordPress site on a proven layout, with your branding, up to around five pages, a contact form, Google Maps, mobile-first design and the basic SEO set up correctly. You supply the words and photos, we make them work. This is the right buy for a new trade, a sole trader or anyone replacing a site that is embarrassing them. It is also what we mean by websites from £299.
Custom brochure site: £1,500 to £3,000
Design starts from a blank page rather than a layout. Expect a discovery call, a custom homepage and inner page design, help writing or editing your copy, a proper photo plan, service pages that are structured to rank, and training so you can edit it yourself. Most established Nottinghamshire businesses with a handful of services sit here.
Bespoke business site: £3,000 to £8,000
For firms where the website is the main way work arrives. Adds professional copywriting, location pages for each town you serve, integrations with your CRM or booking system, quoting tools, case studies, and a conversion-focused structure. This is the band where the difference between a good and a bad supplier is largest, because the value is in the thinking, not the pixels.
Online shop: £2,500 to £10,000+
Product data, categories, payment gateways, shipping rules, VAT handling, stock and accounts integration, and the checkout testing that stops abandoned baskets. A 50-product WooCommerce or Shopify shop sits at the low end; a 3,000-product trade catalogue with account pricing sits well above it. We build on Shopify, WooCommerce and OpenCart and will tell you which fits.
Bespoke web software: £8,000 upwards
Customer portals, booking and rota systems, quoting engines, internal tools. Scoped and priced as a project with staged payments. If a supplier quotes this kind of work without a written specification, be cautious.
🤔 Why pay more
What the extra money actually buys
Two quotes for “a ten-page website” can be £800 apart and both be fair. The difference is nearly always in these things.
- Discovery. Someone asks what the site is for, who the customer is and what a good enquiry looks like before designing anything.
- Copywriting. Words written for your customers and for search, rather than pasted from your old brochure.
- Custom design. A layout built around your services, not a theme with the colours changed.
- SEO structure. Page hierarchy, headings, internal links, schema and speed handled at build time, not bolted on later.
- Integrations. Booking, quoting, CRM, accounts, reviews. Each one is work, and each one is where cheap sites quietly fail.
- Testing. On real phones, on slow connections, with real form submissions.
- Training and handover. You can edit the site, and you own the domain, the hosting account and the files.
- Aftercare. Who fixes it on a Saturday. This is the one people forget to price and regret most.
Who is worth paying more for
Not the biggest name. For a Nottinghamshire small business the supplier worth a premium is the one who:
- Has been trading long enough that you can find sites they built five years ago, still live and still looked after.
- Hosts and supports websites in-house, so the person who built it is the person who fixes it.
- Gives you a fixed, itemised quote in writing before work starts.
- Registers the domain in your name and hands over full access at launch.
- Has reviews you can check and an office you could visit.
- Tells you when you do not need something. A supplier who talks you down from a £5,000 quote to a £1,500 one has just shown you how they will behave for the next five years.
If that reads like a description of dijitul, that is deliberate, but it is also a fair checklist for anyone. Our five checks before you sign guide goes deeper.
⚠️ Watch for
Hidden costs that catch Nottinghamshire businesses out
- “Free” website builders. Free until you want your own domain, no adverts, a contact form and more than one page. Then £15 to £40 a month forever, and you cannot take the site with you.
- Premium theme and plugin licences. Perfectly normal, but they renew annually. Ask what is on the list and who pays from year two.
- Stock photography. Budget £50 to £300 if you have no photos, or half a day with a local photographer, which is usually the better spend.
- Hosting after year one. The classic: a year bundled free, then £40 a month.
- SEO retainers with a twelve-month lock-in. Ours is monthly rolling from £99 + VAT. If someone needs a contract to keep you, ask why.
- The domain in someone else’s name. Not a cost until you try to leave, at which point it is the biggest one.
What dijitul charges
No lock-in contracts. Fixed quotes before work starts. All prices exclude VAT.
Websites
from £299
+ VAT
WordPress builds, online shops and rebuilds. Fixed quote before we start.
Hosting & support
from £1
+ VAT per day
UK hosting, updates, backups, security and a real person on the phone.
Local SEO
from £99
+ VAT per month
Get found across Nottinghamshire. No lock-in contract, honest reporting.
Private AI
from £79
+ VAT per month
An AI assistant trained on your own documents, hosted in the UK.
💬 Get a number
Want a fixed price for your website?
Tell us what the site needs to do and roughly how many pages or products, and we will give you a fixed quote, usually within a working day. If a £299 site will do the job, we will say so. If you are comparing us with a freelancer, we will help you compare fairly.
❓ FAQs
Website cost questions
How much does a new business website cost in Nottinghamshire?
In 2026, a starter brochure website costs from £299 + VAT, a custom brochure site £1,500 to £3,000, a bespoke business site £3,000 to £8,000, and an online shop £2,500 to £10,000 or more depending on products and integrations. Ongoing costs are hosting from £365 + VAT a year and, optionally, local SEO from £99 + VAT a month. dijitul gives a fixed quote before any work starts.
Why is one quote £500 and another £5,000 for what sounds like the same website?
Because they are not the same website. The cheaper quote is usually a template with your logo and text dropped in; the dearer one includes discovery, custom design, copywriting, SEO structure, integrations, testing and aftercare. Neither is wrong, but you should know which you are buying. Ask each supplier for an itemised list of what is included.
Who is worth paying more for?
A supplier who will still be there in three years, hosts and supports the site in-house, gives you a fixed written quote, registers the domain in your name, can show live sites that are still standing, and has reviews you can check. Paying more for a bigger design agency name rarely pays back for a Nottinghamshire small business; paying more for reliability and aftercare usually does.
Does the website price include hosting?
At dijitul, no, and we think that is the honest way to do it: the build is a one-off fixed price, and managed UK hosting and support is £365 + VAT a year (about £1 a day). Some suppliers bundle a year of hosting into the build, then charge considerably more from year two. Always ask what hosting costs after the first year.
Do I have to pay everything up front?
No. We agree the payment schedule in writing before work starts. A deposit to book the project with the balance on launch is usual for smaller sites, and staged payments for larger builds.
Is a cheap website a false economy?
Not automatically. A £299 site that loads fast, works on a phone and has your phone number at the top will beat a £5,000 site that nobody can find. It becomes a false economy when it is built on a platform you do not control, cannot be updated, or has no one behind it when it breaks.
In a world full of digital agencies offering similar services, the difference with Dijitul is the human side of the partnership. The service never feels sterile or transactional. It feels personal.
Ed Mayne — 5★ Google review
A Nottinghamshire agency with prices on the page
We are at The Bungalow, 11 St John St, Mansfield NG18 1QJ and cover the whole county. Call 01623 650333 or send a message and you will get a straight answer on cost.
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