PLUGINPIP RESEARCH / UK 2026

UK WordPress Maintenance Pricing Benchmark 2026

A transparent snapshot of publicly advertised UK WordPress maintenance and care-plan pricing.

01 / HEADLINE FINDINGS

What publicly advertised maintenance plans cost.

This is a market snapshot, not a recommendation or league table. Prices are recorded as advertised and the scope behind each plan can differ substantially.

LOWEST£25per month
MEDIAN£54.50per month
MEAN£65.25per month
UPPER QUARTILE£79per month
HIGHEST£125per month

02 / PLUGINPIP CARE

What PluginPip charges,
and what the responsibility includes.

PluginPip is not included in the 16-provider benchmark sample. Our own pricing is shown separately so the research remains a market snapshot rather than a comparison engineered around our service.

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PLUGINPIP CARE PLAN

Essential Care

£59/month

Routine WordPress core, plugin and theme updates, backup checks, health monitoring and a clear escalation route when something needs attention.

PLUGINPIP CARE PLAN

Business Care

£119/month

Everything in Essential Care, plus more frequent attention, practical support and a small agreed allowance for routine website changes.

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Priority Care

£199/month

For important WordPress sites that need closer attention, priority handling and a larger agreed support allowance.

WHAT THE STARTING PLAN COVERS

From £59/month

  • Controlled WordPress core updates
  • Plugin and theme updates with compatibility checks
  • Backup checks and recovery readiness
  • Security and vulnerability review
  • Uptime and website health monitoring
  • Post-update checks on important website journeys
  • Routine maintenance fixes and clear escalation
  • WooCommerce maintenance and store checks where scoped

03 / INTERPRETATION

Price alone does not tell you what is being maintained.

The sample shows a wide advertised entry-price range, from £25 to £125 per month.

That spread is not surprising because maintenance plans can include very different responsibilities. Some focus on core, theme and plugin updates; others add backups, uptime monitoring, security work, content changes, hosting, development time or recovery support.

For buyers, the useful comparison is therefore not simply “which plan is cheapest?” but “who is responsible for updates, backups, recovery, monitoring, security incidents and support when something fails?”

PluginPip's own Essential Care plan starts at From £59/month. That sits close to the market median in this sample, but the more important comparison is the agreed responsibility and support scope.

Compare what the 16 entry plans actually include

Read the full WordPress maintenance cost guide

04 / METHOD

How the benchmark was built.

We recorded the lowest publicly advertised monthly recurring WordPress maintenance or care plan aimed at ordinary business websites from each provider. We excluded charity-only prices, multisite-only tiers, annual-billing discounts, hosting-only plans and providers without a published monthly price. VAT treatment varies by provider, so headline prices are reported as advertised rather than normalised.

The median is the central price in the sample and is less sensitive to unusually high or low plans than the mean. The lower and upper quartiles show the middle 50% of advertised entry prices, which in this sample runs from approximately £49 to £79 per month.

Published prices can change. The source appendix remains available for verification, but it is not intended as a provider directory or recommendation list.

05 / MEDIA & DATA

Ready-to-use figures
for journalists and editors.

The underlying provider-level data is available as CSV. Please retain the date checked and methodology context when quoting the figures.

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QUOTE 01£25 to £125/month

The lowest and highest publicly advertised entry prices in the 16-provider sample.

QUOTE 02£54.50 median

The midpoint of the published monthly entry prices in the sample.

QUOTE 03£49 to £79

The approximate middle 50% of advertised entry prices.

QUOTE 045× spread

The highest advertised entry price was five times the lowest.

MEDIA CONTACT

Jason Sellstrom · Founder, PluginPip Ltd

Available for comment on WordPress maintenance pricing, website care responsibilities and practical technology issues affecting UK SMEs.

hello@pluginpip.co.uk

Suggested attribution: PluginPip Ltd, UK WordPress Maintenance Pricing Benchmark 2026. Prices checked 29 September 2026.

06 / SOURCE APPENDIX

16 public UK maintenance offers.

Ordered alphabetically for source verification. No provider is ranked, recommended or endorsed. External source links open in a separate tab.

ProviderEntry planAdvertised monthly pricePricing noteVerification
Aventus Digital Basic £49/month Advertised monthly price Source
BugShield Shield Light £99/month Advertised monthly price Source
Cambria Digital Basic £79/month From price Source
Devibi Essentials £99/month Advertised monthly price Source
Futurefaced Essential £45/month From price Source
JustSimple UK Basic Care Plan £59/month Advertised monthly price Source
Logicsofts Starter £49/month Advertised monthly price Source
Newt Labs Maintenance £79/month Month-to-month, ex VAT Source
Press Forge Essential £30/month Ex VAT Source
Rubber Duckers Website Care £125/month Advertised monthly price Source
SearchAbove Bronze £50/month Advertised monthly price Source
Verithora Entry care plan £49/month Advertised monthly price Source
WP Care Pros Maintain £49/month + VAT Source
WP Miracle WP Care Plans £79/month From price Source
WP Monkey Lite £25/month Advertised monthly price Source
WPMaintain Brochure, Static & Basic Websites £79/month Ex VAT Source

07 / CITATION + REUSE

Use the data. Keep the context.

You may quote the headline figures with attribution to PluginPip Ltd, UK WordPress Maintenance Pricing Benchmark 2026 and a link to this page. For substantial reuse of the table or commercial republication, contact PluginPip first.

Suggested citation: PluginPip Ltd (2026), UK WordPress Maintenance Pricing Benchmark 2026, prices checked 29 September 2026.

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