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

Platforms like to quote the top 1%. Here is the arithmetic for everyone else.

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: 45-60 minutes in a city.
• The job itself: 2 hours.
• Quoting, messaging and admin: 15 minutes.
• Consumables, fuel or parking: £5, £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 a 10% commission, about £20.50. After a 20%-plus-VAT commission, about £17.

Typical realistic earnings by category

These are the ranges we see agreed on the platform for a competent, well-reviewed tasker working in a city.

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

What a realistic week looks like

Working part-time around another job, three to six tasks a week at £60, £100 each is achievable in a dense city once you have five or six reviews. That is roughly £150, £450 a week gross, or £135, £405 after a 10% commission.

Full-time, with a van and a trade, 15-25 jobs a week at higher values puts you in the £700, £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, and on platforms that charge 0% for your own clients they cost you nothing at all.
2. Density. Three jobs within two miles beats five jobs across a city. Filter tasks by distance and be ruthless about it.
3. Response speed. The first three offers on a task win most of the work. Turn alerts on.
4. Reviews. The jump from zero to five reviews roughly doubles your win rate. Take two or three cheap, easy jobs early to get there, then stop discounting.

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. See side-hustle tax in the UK.