About Security guard cost
Joe, who reads UK guarding firms' own rate pages and the GOV.UK and HMRC figures under them, and replies to every enquiry himself.
Why this site exists
Almost no guarding firm publishes a rate, and those that do rarely say what a guard-hour costs them. This site sets the few published rates beside the statutory costs every firm carries, so a quote can be read against both.
Who it is for
Site managers, event organisers and business owners in the UK pricing static guarding, door supervision, patrols or key holding.
What is on this site
One question, "security guard cost", answered with a quote form that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Security guard rates UK: what firms publish per hour: Security guard cost per hour in the UK: every published rate we found, from £14.99 to £20 an hour, and how few firms publish one at all.
- What a security guard costs a firm per hour before any margin: The statutory costs under a UK guard-hour: the £12.71 National Living Wage, 15% employer NI above £96 a week, 3% pension and the £204 SIA licence.
- UK security guard price index: every published rate: Every UK guarding firm and council we read that publishes an hourly security guard rate, what it publishes, and the day we read it.
- Who publishes a price, and who makes you ask: 3 of 27 providers read for security guard cost publish a figure. These are the ones that do not.
What it does not do
- No ranking, no best-of list and no scores.
- No paid placement, no affiliate links and no sponsored rows.
- No invented figure: a firm that publishes no rate is listed as publishing none.
Who answers for it
Joseph Ellul-Turner, the person who reads every enquiry this site takes.
Reach us
Contact for a question about the site, or enquiries@securityguardcost.co.uk. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.
This is a free information site. When you send an enquiry, Joe, who runs this site, reads it and replies to you himself; no security firm receives your details and you pay nothing to ask. It carries no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate links, and no firm in the table has paid to be there. Every rate is read from the firm's or council's own page, and every wage, tax and licence figure from GOV.UK, HMRC or the Living Wage Foundation, on the date shown. A published rate is what a firm advertises, not a quote for your site.