Electricians in the UK

Electricians in the UK: common questions

How many electricians are listed in the UK?

Promote Your Business lists 3 electricians in the UK. Those listings were last added or updated on 7 October 2026. The directory is not exhaustive — it holds the businesses that have been submitted and reviewed, not every electrician trading in the area.

Do electricians in the UK have to be registered or licensed?

Electrical work in a UK home must comply with Part P of the Building Regulations. There is no single licence, but registered competent-person schemes let an electrician self-certify their own work.

How do I check a electrician in the UK is qualified?

Ask which competent person scheme they are registered with — NICEIC and NAPIT are both currently authorised — and check the registration on the single register at electricalcompetentperson.co.uk. Scheme brands merge and change hands, so treat the government’s list of authorised competent person schemes on gov.uk as the authority rather than a logo on a van. A registered electrician issues a Building Regulations compliance certificate; an unregistered one means you must notify building control yourself.

Are the electricians listed here vetted or reviewed?

Every submission is checked before it appears. If the business's own website names it and the details are complete, it is published automatically; anything else is read by a person, who checks that the business is real, that the details make sense, and that the category and location are right. Nothing is scraped from other sites. That is a check on the listing, not an endorsement of the work — Promote Your Business publishes no ratings, star scores or customer reviews, so you should still make your own checks before hiring.

Electricians: guides worth reading first

• How to choose a tradesperson in the UK

  The checks that actually reduce risk when hiring a trade: verifying registration, comparing quotes properly, your cancellation rights, and what to do when it goes wrong.

• What a trader must give you in writing before work starts in your home

  The information a trader is legally required to hand you before you are bound by a contract agreed in your home, and what it means if they never do.

• Quote or estimate? What the difference means when the bill arrives

  A quote you accept becomes a term of the contract; an estimate can move. What the Consumer Rights Act 2015 says you owe when the final bill is higher than expected.