Printed starting prices, verified
Best tradesman insurance: the insurers, and what each one publishes
There is no best insurer in the abstract and this page does not name one. It shows what each insurer was willing to put in writing when its own pages were read, and leaves the choosing to you.
- median printed starting price
- £5.31
- printed starting prices, lowest to highest
- £3.46 to £8.4
- insurers in the record
- 8
By insurer
| Insurer | From, per month | From, per year | Occupations covered | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protectivity | £3.46/month | protectivity.com | September 2026 | ||
| Markel Direct | £5/month | 200 professions | markeluk.com | September 2026 | |
| Hiscox UK | £5.2/month | hiscox.co.uk | September 2026 | ||
| Rhino Trade Insurance | £5.21/month | £62.5/year | rhinotradeinsurance.com | September 2026 | |
| Simply Business | £5.4/month | simplybusiness.co.uk | September 2026 | ||
| Suited | £5.51/month | suited.insure | September 2026 | ||
| Clear Business | £5.64/month | clearbusiness.co.uk | September 2026 | ||
| PolicyBee | £8.4/month | policybee.co.uk | September 2026 | ||
| ABT Insurance | prints no starting price | £76.2/year | abtinsurance.co.uk | September 2026 | |
| Admiral Business | prints no starting price | ||||
| AXA UK | not readable on the last run | ||||
| constructaquote | prints no starting price | ||||
| Craftcover | prints no starting price | ||||
| Direct Line for Business | prints no starting price | ||||
| Salon Gold | prints no starting price | ||||
| Superscript | not readable on the last run | ||||
| Tradesman Saver | prints no starting price | £55/year | tradesmansaver.co.uk | September 2026 |
Insurers are here because a UK business owner meets them on this shelf, not because any of them pays to be. Nobody can buy a position in this table, and an insurer that prints no price is listed with that fact rather than left out.
Insurer pages
- PolicyBee Prints a monthly starting price against a named limit of cover, and sells by occupation rather than by policy type.
- Simply Business Publishes a monthly starting price per cover and a separate one on many of its trade pages, with the limit footnoted.
- Hiscox UK An insurer rather than a broker, printing a monthly starting price with the customer base it was derived from.
- Markel Direct Prints a monthly starting price and the number of professions it covers, with the basis of the monthly figure footnoted.
- Rhino Trade Insurance Prints both a monthly and an annual starting price on the same page, with the range of limits it offers.
- Clear Business Prints a monthly starting price for business cover quoted from a panel of named insurers.
- Suited Prices cover by cover on one page, printing a separate monthly starting price for each type of cover it sells.
- Tradesman Saver Prices ANNUALLY: prints a yearly starting price for tradesman cover and no monthly figure at all.
- ABT Insurance Prices ANNUALLY, in packages that bundle insurance with membership and accreditation for beauty and hair trades.
- Protectivity Prints no price on its home page and a separate monthly starting price on each product page.
Cite or embed this figure
The published starting price for business liability cover in the UK business insurance market was £5.31 in read September 2026, across 8 insurers and schemes recorded in Insurance by Profession UK Business Insurance Starting-Price Record.
Cite as: "Insurance by Profession UK Business Insurance Starting-Price Record", updated 2026-09-11, https://insurancebyprofession.com/vendors/.