A website for a London business costs £495 with us for a starter site of 1 to 5 pages, live in about 7 days, at the same fixed price we charge in every other UK town. We work remotely across all 32 boroughs and the City. Design, development, e-commerce and SEO in one place, and you own everything at the end.
Last reviewed 14 October 2026.
Do London web designers charge more?
Yes, many do, because rent in Shoreditch or Soho is built into the day rate rather than into anything that ends up on your site. Five pages built in central London are the same five pages built anywhere else. We work remotely, so you get the build without the overhead: £495 for a starter site, £1,495 for a full business site, from £3,995 for e-commerce or something bespoke.
That is not a dig at London studios. If you need a brand strategy workshop and a team in a room, pay for it. If you need a site that loads fast and turns searches into enquiries, you are paying for postcode.
How many businesses are there in London?
552,505 VAT or PAYE registered enterprises in 2026, which is 19.8% of every business in the UK, according to ONS UK Business Counts on Nomis. 90.1% of them employ fewer than 10 people, against 89.1% across the UK, so the typical London competitor is a micro firm, not an agency client. The count is anything but even across the 33 council areas:
| Area | Enterprises, 2026 | What that means for your site |
|---|---|---|
| Westminster | 56,365 | The most crowded in London; credibility has to land in the first screen |
| Camden | 38,445 | Professional and creative firms side by side |
| Hackney | 26,290 | Startups and studios; a templated look stands out for the wrong reason |
| City of London | 24,420 | Finance and law; trust signals before anything else |
| Ealing | 18,430 | Biggest business base in west London outside the centre |
| Wandsworth | 15,275 | Local retail and services with high design expectations |
| Croydon | 14,955 | A trade market where “near me” searches decide the job |
| Bromley | 14,715 | Close to Croydon in size; rank for “Bromley”, not “London” |
| Richmond upon Thames | 12,305 | Independents competing on look and reviews |
| Kingston upon Thames | 8,380 | The smallest count in London, so the easiest place to rank |
Trading in London means competing borough by borough, not city-wide. What works is different depending on where your customers actually are:
- Central and City, professional services, consultancies and firms where the site has to signal credibility inside five seconds. Design and clarity matter more than volume of pages.
- East London, startups, studios and independents, where looking templated is fatal because everyone around you looks sharp.
- Outer boroughs, Croydon, Bromley, Barnet, Ealing, Enfield and the rest are a local trade market like anywhere else. Here the win is ranking for “electrician Bromley” rather than “electrician London”, which is a fight you will not win and do not need.
- South and West, Wandsworth, Richmond, Kingston: strong local retail and services, high expectations on design.
If you serve a handful of boroughs, the site should say so in a way Google can read, rather than just saying “London”.
What we build for London businesses
- Professional and financial services, solicitors, accountants, consultancies and agencies that need to look established from the first click.
- Trades and property services, builders, electricians, plumbers and decorators, built to win borough-level “near me” searches. See websites for tradespeople.
- Hospitality and independent retail, bookings, menus, opening hours and the local search signals that actually bring people through the door.
- Clinics and practices, dental, cosmetic, physio and private medical, where the site fills the diary. See dental and medical websites.
- E-commerce, Stripe-integrated stores, subscriptions and digital products, shipping nationally or delivering locally.
How many London boroughs can I add to my Google Business Profile?
20 is the most, and London has 33 council areas, so a business that covers the whole city has to choose. Google’s service area help page also says you cannot set a radius around your base, and the whole area should sit within about two hours’ drive of it. Pick the boroughs that actually send you work and name them on the site as well.
Ranking for “web design London” is a decade-long fight against agencies with budgets. Ranking for what your customers actually type is a different job and a winnable one. That means borough and neighbourhood pages where they make sense, a Google Business Profile pointed correctly, proper structure and schema, and pages that answer the specific question someone arrived with. Our guide to local SEO for UK businesses explains how the map pack works, and because nearly all of these searches happen on a phone, every build is mobile-first.
See the work before you spend anything
We keep ten fully built demo sites live so you can click through one for your industry and judge the build quality yourself. You can also see platforms we designed, built and run ourselves, which is a fairer test than a portfolio of screenshots.
Should a London business have a page for every borough?
No, only for the boroughs that genuinely send you work. Three good borough pages beat thirty thin ones, because Google ignores pages that say the same thing with a different place name. If most of your jobs come from Bromley, Croydon and Sutton, those three deserve a page each, written about the streets, the customers and the jobs you actually do there. Everything else can sit under one London page. If you are not sure which boroughs earn their keep, your enquiry history and your Google Business Profile insights will tell you inside an afternoon.
How much does a website cost in London?
£495 for a Starter site, £1,495 for a Business site and from £3,995 for Premium, with no London markup on any of them.
- Starter (£495), 1 to 5 pages, custom design, mobile-first build, basic SEO and analytics, contact form, hosting setup.
- Business (£1,495), up to 15 pages, a CMS you can edit yourself, advanced SEO and speed, payments, 90 days support.
- Premium (from £3,995), e-commerce or web app, integrations, full SEO strategy, 12 months support.
See the full packages, or read our honest guide to what a website should cost in 2026.
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Boroughs and areas we build for in London
Local searches convert far better than city-wide ones. These pages cover the specific areas:
- Web design in Croydon
- Web design in Bromley
- Web design in Ealing
- Web design in Camden
- Web design in Hackney
- Web design in Wandsworth
- Web design in Richmond
Web design across the UK
We also build for businesses in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow.