Rated People

We’re the UK’s number 1 online marketplace connecting homeowners with quality local tradespeople. Over 50,000 tradespeople use our site to grow their reputation and expand their business.

Founded 2005
51-200 employees
  • Marketplace
  • Headquarters address
    240 Blackfriars Rd, London SE1, UK

    We’re the UK’s number 1 online marketplace connecting homeowners with quality local tradespeople. And we do it on a pretty impressive scale.

    Over 50,000 tradespeople use our site to fill gaps in their diary, grow their reputation and expand their business. Between them they specialise in over 30 trades.

    Over 1,000,000 jobs are posted every year by homeowners wanting to make the most of where they live.

    Once the work is complete, homeowners leave a review of the tradesperson – and it’s this feedback that gives other homeowners peace of mind that they’ve found someone reliable.

    We’ve been doing this for over 10 years and the amount of reviews you can read about tradespeople is already impressive – and continues to go from strength to strength.

    Each tradesperson has a profile page where their reviews are listed, and only homeowners who have found their tradesperson through our site are allowed to leave a review.

    For homeowners, posting a job is free. Our tradespeople pay a subscription fee along with a small cost to quote for each job.

    Our vision is to connect good homeowners with good tradespeople to deliver better homes, better work and better lives.

    We want the excitement and potential of home improvement to be the only thing on people’s minds. Finding a reliable tradesperson should be easy, just the first step in a satisfying process of making the most of your home. Everything we do is shaped towards that feeling.

    We work solidly to prevent rogues on our site, and we put the best tradespeople in the spotlight – the ones who are reliable, skilled and trustworthy.

    We want tradespeople to have the confidence to grow their business and take control of their workload. Whatever their ambitions, whether it’s to fill a few gaps in the diary, or if they want enough work to take on new staff and hire apprentices – we’re there for them.

    Tech stack

    AWS, Docker, ECS, Symfony2, Java, Spring MySQL, Postgres
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