What UK Job-Management Software Actually Costs in 2026

If you have tried to price up job-management software recently, you will have discovered the same thing everyone else does: roughly half the market does not tell you what it costs. You get a "Request pricing" button and a discovery call.

This is a genuine, widely-shared frustration — contractors have taken to compiling and publishing their own comparisons precisely because vendors will not. So here is a straight account of what the main UK options publish, taken from their own pricing pages and checked on 2 August 2026.

Two things before the numbers. First, prices change, so treat this as a snapshot and check the source links before you make a decision. Second, we build a competing product, so we have made a point of only stating things that are on the vendors' own pages, with the link next to each one. Where we could not verify something, we say so rather than filling the gap.

What the vendors that publish actually charge

ServiceM8 — metered on jobs, not seats

ServiceM8 publishes UK pricing in sterling: a Free tier at £0, then Starter £25, Growing £59, Premium £119 and Premium Plus £269 per month excluding VAT. The critical structural point is what the meter counts. ServiceM8 charges by jobs per month — 30 on Free, 50, 150, 500 and 1,500+ up the tiers — and includes unlimited users from Starter upward. SMS is charged separately. The pricing page states there are no lock-ins and that you can move between plans at any time, with a 14-day free trial that does not require a card.

What that means practically: if you have eight engineers doing a modest number of larger jobs, this model is unusually friendly. If you have two people doing hundreds of small call-outs, it is not.

Tradify — per user, published, straightforward

Tradify publishes UK pricing at £34 (Lite), £37 (Pro) and £44 (Plus) per user per month, plus a Custom tier for large teams. Fourteen-day free trial. There are optional add-ons — a website at £10/month, SMS at £0.10 a message. No minimum term is stated on the pricing page.

Per-user pricing is easy to model and easy to be caught by: five people on Plus is £220 a month, ten is £440. It scales linearly with headcount whether or not those extra people generate extra work.

Joblogic — per user, annual billing, longer terms

Joblogic publishes Standard from £45 per user per month billed annually, giving a worked example of £225/month for a five-user team. Premium and Enterprise are priced on request. The pricing page is unusually candid about commitment: it states most customers commit to 24 or 36 months, with 12-month terms available if preferred. It also states an implementation fee may apply on bigger projects with integrations, while smaller customers can self-serve at no extra cost.

Credit where it is due — publishing the typical contract length rather than burying it is more transparent than most of this market manages.

Jobber — published, but in dollars

Jobber publishes plans on its UK page in US dollars: Core $29, Connect $99, Grow $149 and Plus $399 per month on annual billing, with additional users at $29/month each. Three billing options are offered — monthly with no commitment, monthly on a 12-month term, or prepaid annual. Fourteen-day free trial on Grow, no card required. At the time of checking, no GBP pricing was published on the UK page, so a UK buyer is exposed to the exchange rate.

Who does not publish a price at all

BigChange's pricing page carries no plan names and no prices. It offers a "Request pricing" call to action, lists what is included in all plans and what the paid extras are, and states no contract term, setup fee or trial. That is the whole of what is published.

simPRO does not publish per-user pricing either. We attempted to retrieve its pricing page directly on the access date and received an HTTP 403, so we are not going to characterise its terms beyond that — if you are evaluating simPRO, get the quote and the contract terms in writing.

We have deliberately not included ServiceTitan in the comparison, because we did not verify its published UK position first-hand and we are not prepared to publish numbers we have not checked.

The model matters more than the headline price

The instinct is to line up the monthly figures and pick the cheapest. That will mislead you, because these are not the same pricing model wearing different numbers.

• Per user (Tradify, Joblogic, Jobber's extra seats) scales with headcount. Predictable, and it penalises putting occasional users — an apprentice, a part-time bookkeeper, a subbie — into the system. Many firms respond by sharing logins, which quietly destroys the audit trail they bought the software for.
• Per job (ServiceM8) scales with volume. Unlimited users is genuinely valuable for a site-based business where a lot of people need to touch a job briefly. It punishes high-volume, low-value work.
• Quote-only (BigChange, simPRO) means the price is a function of your negotiation and your apparent size, and it makes comparison shopping expensive in time.

Work out your own shape first — headcount, jobs per month, how many people need occasional access — and only then compare. A firm with twelve engineers and forty jobs a month and a firm with three engineers and four hundred jobs a month should reach opposite conclusions from the same table.

The costs that are not on the pricing page

Three things that do not appear in any of the numbers above and regularly dwarf them:

Implementation and data migration. Joblogic is explicit that a fee may apply on larger projects. Others handle this in the quote. Ask for it as a separate line, in writing, before you commit.

The internal cost of running it. The most expensive outcome in this category is buying a capable system that needs someone to maintain it, and then either hiring that person or watching the system decay while everyone drifts back to WhatsApp. Ask any vendor directly how many hours a week their typical customer your size spends administering it.

Getting out. Contract length is a cost. So is data export. Ask what happens to your job history, documents and photos if you leave, and get the answer in the contract rather than from the salesperson.

Where GUVNR stands — and why it is not in the table

GUVNR is not in the comparison because GUVNR has no published price, and it would be hypocritical to write this article and then quote one we have not committed to.

Our stated intention is transparent published pricing with no setup or implementation fee. That is an intention, not a plan you can hold us to yet — pricing is planned, not decided. GUVNR is also not generally available: the public site is a waitlist, and the only company running on it today is the contractor that builds it. When we publish a price it will go on a page like the ones linked below, with the numbers on it.

If you are weighing up whether to buy anything at all right now, the hidden cost of running on email, WhatsApp and spreadsheets is the more useful place to start — it sets out what you are actually trying to fix.

Check this yourself

Everything above is linked in the sources below and was checked on 2 August 2026. Pricing pages change without notice, sometimes monthly. Before you sign anything, open the source link, confirm the current figure, and get contract length and exit terms in writing.