How much do taskers actually earn in the UK? (2026 figures)

What you earn from task work depends on your hourly rate after travel, costs and fees, not the headline job price. Here is the arithmetic, and how to keep more of it.

Start from the hourly rate, not the job price

A £90 furniture assembly job is not £90 an hour. Count:

• Travel to and from the job: 45 to 60 minutes in a city.
• The job itself: 2 hours.
• Quoting, messaging and admin: 15 minutes.
• Consumables, fuel or parking: £5 to £15.

That £90 is roughly 3.5 hours of your day and £10 of costs. Before platform fees you are at about £23 an hour. After fees on Taskerama:

Fee	What you keep per hour
Starting tier, 20% + VAT	About £17
Top tier, 12.5% + VAT	About £19
Your own client, 0% commission (2.9% + 20p processing)	About £22

The fee falls as your earnings rise, and the jobs you bring yourself are almost all yours.

Typical earnings by category

Typical ranges for a competent, well-reviewed tasker working in a city, after platform fees.

Work	Typical job	Per hour after fees	Notes
Furniture assembly	£35 to £120	£20 to £30	Fast once you own the tools
Handyman / odd jobs	£40 to £150	£22 to £35	Best margin if you carry stock
Cleaning (domestic)	£30 to £120	£14 to £20	Repeat clients are everything
End-of-tenancy cleaning	£120 to £350	£18 to £25	Long days, needs a team or a long shift
Man with a van	£50 to £200	£25 to £40	Vehicle costs and insurance come off this
Gardening / clearance	£40 to £400	£18 to £30	Taking waste away needs a carrier licence
TV mounting / smart home	£45 to £120	£30 to £45	Short jobs, high rate, tools pay for themselves
Admin / design / remote	£15 to £60/hr	£15 to £50	No travel time, more competition

What a realistic week looks like

Working part-time around another job, three to five tasks a week at £50 to £90 each is roughly £150 to £450 a week gross. After Taskerama's starting-tier fee that is about £114 to £342, and at the top tier about £128 to £383. Jobs for your own clients keep almost all of it.

Full-time, with a van and a trade, 15 to 25 jobs a week at higher values puts you in the £700 to £1,500 a week range gross. That is a real business, with real costs: vehicle, insurance, tools, fuel, accounting.

The four things that change your numbers most

1. Repeat clients. A customer who books you monthly is worth ten one-off jobs. On Taskerama, rebooking a client through a payment link costs 0% commission, so they are close to pure margin.
2. Density. Three jobs within two miles beats five jobs across a city. Set your task alerts by radius and be ruthless about distance.
3. Response speed. Offers on Taskerama are shown in the order they arrive, so an early, well-written offer is the first one a poster reads. Turn instant alerts on.
4. Reviews. Your first few reviews make the biggest difference, and taskers appear on category and location pages ordered by number of reviews. Nobody can pay to rank higher. If you have reviews elsewhere, show that rating on your profile from day one.

Tax

You must tell HMRC once your gross self-employed income exceeds the £1,000 trading allowance in a tax year. Platforms report your earnings to HMRC annually, and Taskerama gives you a yearly earnings statement to make filing easier. See side-hustle tax in the UK.

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