# Refrigeration engineer hourly rate (7 figures)

> The median published figure in the Refrigeration Service Price Index is 180 GBP across 7 figures from 6 sources' own pages (range 60 to 450 GBP), read 12 October 2026.

Industrial Fridge Service · https://industrialfridgeservice.co.uk/datasets/refrigeration-service-price-index/ · computed 2026-10-26

**Median published figure:** 180 GBP (range 60 to 450 GBP; 7 published figures; 6 of 38 sources read publish one).

6 of the 38 named sources read in full publish a figure; 32 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 180 GBP across 5).

## By charge and service and equipment type

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| charge pay-per-visit | 80 GBP | 80 to 80 GBP | 1 |
| charge in-hours-callout | 180 GBP | 180 to 180 GBP | 1 |
| charge health-check-visit | 195 GBP | 195 to 195 GBP | 1 |
| charge ppm-visit | 60 GBP | 60 to 60 GBP | 1 |
| charge engineer-visit | 210 GBP | 210 to 210 GBP | 1 |
| service hourly | 80 GBP | 80 to 80 GBP | 1 |
| equipment type refrigerant-R134a-12.5kg-cylinder | 450 GBP | 450 to 450 GBP | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Gas UK: R134a 12.5 kg cylinder](https://gas-uk.co.uk/r134a-12-5kg-refrigerant.html) | 450 GBP | refrigerant-R134a-12.5kg-cylinder | 2026-10-12 |
| [Cater-Connect: commercial engineer repair call-out](https://cater-connect.co.uk/products/commercial-engineer-repair-call-out) | 210 GBP inc VAT | engineer-visit | 2026-10-12 |
| [Bear Building Services: commercial refrigeration pricing](https://bearbuildingservices.com/commercial-refrigeration-pricing/) | 195 GBP | health-check-visit | 2026-10-12 |
| [Robinsons Facilities Services: commercial refrigeration repair](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-refrigeration-repair/) | 180 GBP + VAT | in-hours-callout | 2026-10-12 |
| [Be Cool Air Conditioning: service contracts vs pay per visit](https://becoolairconditioning.co.uk/blog/air-conditioning/ac-service-contracts-2026/) | 80 GBP | pay-per-visit | 2026-10-12 |
| [Robinsons Facilities Services: commercial refrigeration repair](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-refrigeration-repair/) | 80 GBP + VAT | hourly | 2026-10-12 |
| [Kept Cold: commercial refrigeration engineer London](https://www.keptcold.co.uk/) | 60 GBP | ppm-visit | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (7)

- [Gas UK: R134a 12.5 kg cylinder](https://gas-uk.co.uk/r134a-12-5kg-refrigerant.html), read 2026-10-12: "£450.00"
- [Cater-Connect: commercial engineer repair call-out](https://cater-connect.co.uk/products/commercial-engineer-repair-call-out), read 2026-10-12: "Regular price £210.00 INC VAT"
- [Bear Building Services: commercial refrigeration pricing](https://bearbuildingservices.com/commercial-refrigeration-pricing/), read 2026-10-12: "From £195"
- [Robinsons Facilities Services: commercial refrigeration repair](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-refrigeration-repair/), read 2026-10-12: "From £180+VAT."
- [Be Cool Air Conditioning: service contracts vs pay per visit](https://becoolairconditioning.co.uk/blog/air-conditioning/ac-service-contracts-2026/), read 2026-10-12: "Pay-per-visit pricing starts at £80 to £120 for routine servicing, but emergency callouts jump to £150 to £250 before any repair work begins."
- [Robinsons Facilities Services: commercial refrigeration repair](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-refrigeration-repair/), read 2026-10-12: "Subsequent hours are charged at £80+VAT/hour."
- [Kept Cold: commercial refrigeration engineer London](https://www.keptcold.co.uk/), read 2026-10-12: "From just £60 per unit + VAT"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [Robinsons Facilities Services: catering maintenance](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-catering-maintenance/), read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Robinsons Facilities Services: refrigeration service](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-refrigeration-service/), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Bear Building Services: maintenance contracts London](https://bearbuildingservices.com/maintenance-contracts-london/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Bear Building Services: commercial fridge repair cost London](https://bearbuildingservices.com/blog/commercial-fridge-repair-cost-london/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [AMC Refrigeration Services: prices](https://www.amcrs.co.uk/amc-refrigeration-prices), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [AMC Refrigeration Services: commercial refrigeration](https://www.amcrs.co.uk/amc-commercial-refrigeration), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Caterkit Services: emergency breakdowns and repairs](https://www.caterkitservices.com/services/emergency-breakdowns-repairs), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [M&E Solutions: commercial HVAC maintenance cost](https://memsolutions.co.uk/commercial-hvac-maintenance-cost-uk/), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [M&E Solutions: preventive maintenance contract pricing](https://memsolutions.co.uk/preventive-ac-maintenance-contracts-pricing/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Be Cool Air Conditioning: maintenance contract pricing](https://becoolairconditioning.co.uk/blog/air-conditioning/ac-maintenance-contract-pricing/), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [London Appliance Repair: fridge repair cost London](https://londonappliancerepair.com/Blog/How-Much-Does-It-Cost-to-Repair-a-Fridge-in-London-in-2026), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Coolbest Refrigeration, Birmingham](https://coolbest.co.uk/), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Industrial Cooling Equipment: cold room installation cost](https://ice-ltd.co.uk/how-much-do-cold-room-installation-cost/), read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [UK Coldroom: cold room installation cost 2026](https://ukcoldroom.com/cold-room-installation-cost-uk-2026-guide/), read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [DG Climate Control: UK cold room prices](https://dgclimatecontrol.co.uk/uk-cold-room-prices), read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Cold Rooms Direct: cold room installation cost](https://coldroomsdirect.com/blog/how-much-does-a-cold-room-installation-cost/), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [CaterServe UK: price of a commercial cold room](https://caterserveuk.com/faq/what-is-the-price-of-a-commercial-cold-room-in-the-uk/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [D&A Repair: walk-in cold room buyer's guide](https://darepair.co.uk/how-much-does-a-walk-in-cold-room-cost-a-buyers-guide-for-2025/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [GM Cold Rooms price calculator](https://gmcoldrooms.com/gmcalculator.html), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [UK Gas Plumbers: commercial refrigeration repair, Reading](https://ukgasplumbers.co.uk/commercial-refrigeration-repair-reading), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [BBCS: kitchen maintenance service contracts](https://www.bbcs-ltd.com/our-services/service-contracts), read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [RS Refrigeration Services: service and maintenance contracts](https://www.rs-refrigerationservices.co.uk/service-maintenance-contracts), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Catercall](https://catercall.co.uk/), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Cairn Catering Engineers: commercial fridge and freezer repair](https://cairncateringengineers.co.uk/commercial-fridge-and-freezer-repair/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Rolls Refrigeration](https://www.rollsrefrigeration.co.uk/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [MK Refrigeration](https://mkrefrigeration.co.uk/), read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [West Country Cooling](https://www.westcountrycooling.co.uk/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Bristowe Refrigeration](https://bristowe-refrigeration.co.uk/refrigeration/), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [JLA: commercial catering equipment repairs](https://jla.com/commercial-catering-equipment-repairs/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Gas UK: R404A 9 kg cylinder](https://gas-uk.co.uk/index.php/r404a-9-kg-refrigerant.html), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [MyJobQuote: fridge and freezer repair costs](https://www.myjobquote.co.uk/costs/fridge-freezer-repair), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Cooling Post: price of high GWP refrigerants continues to rise](https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/price-of-high-gwp-refrigerants-continue-to-rise/), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 6 of the 38 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 32 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 7 figures, never sentences; 213 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the median, minimum and maximum published rate across every UK refrigeration and catering-equipment contractor that publishes one, on four separate rows the trade conflates - the call-out and first hour, the subsequent hourly rate, the out-of-hours multiplier, and the annual PPM contract per unit - beside the share that publish nothing (13 of 33 readable contractor pages read here), the contract-versus-reactive discount where a contractor publishes both, the cold-room capital cost band by room size, and the refrigerant cost per kg from wholesalers' own cylinder listings, which is the part of a regas bill the phase-down moves

## Sources

- [Robinsons Facilities Services: commercial refrigeration repair](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-refrigeration-repair/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Robinsons Facilities Services: catering maintenance](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-catering-maintenance/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Robinsons Facilities Services: refrigeration service](https://www.robinsonsfs.com/services/commercial-refrigeration-service/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Bear Building Services: commercial refrigeration pricing](https://bearbuildingservices.com/commercial-refrigeration-pricing/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Bear Building Services: maintenance contracts London](https://bearbuildingservices.com/maintenance-contracts-london/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Bear Building Services: commercial fridge repair cost London](https://bearbuildingservices.com/blog/commercial-fridge-repair-cost-london/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [AMC Refrigeration Services: prices](https://www.amcrs.co.uk/amc-refrigeration-prices) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [AMC Refrigeration Services: commercial refrigeration](https://www.amcrs.co.uk/amc-commercial-refrigeration) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Kept Cold: commercial refrigeration engineer London](https://www.keptcold.co.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Cater-Connect: commercial engineer repair call-out](https://cater-connect.co.uk/products/commercial-engineer-repair-call-out) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Caterkit Services: emergency breakdowns and repairs](https://www.caterkitservices.com/services/emergency-breakdowns-repairs) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [M&E Solutions: commercial HVAC maintenance cost](https://memsolutions.co.uk/commercial-hvac-maintenance-cost-uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [M&E Solutions: preventive maintenance contract pricing](https://memsolutions.co.uk/preventive-ac-maintenance-contracts-pricing/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Be Cool Air Conditioning: maintenance contract pricing](https://becoolairconditioning.co.uk/blog/air-conditioning/ac-maintenance-contract-pricing/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Be Cool Air Conditioning: service contracts vs pay per visit](https://becoolairconditioning.co.uk/blog/air-conditioning/ac-service-contracts-2026/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [London Appliance Repair: fridge repair cost London](https://londonappliancerepair.com/Blog/How-Much-Does-It-Cost-to-Repair-a-Fridge-in-London-in-2026) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Coolbest Refrigeration, Birmingham](https://coolbest.co.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Industrial Cooling Equipment: cold room installation cost](https://ice-ltd.co.uk/how-much-do-cold-room-installation-cost/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [UK Coldroom: cold room installation cost 2026](https://ukcoldroom.com/cold-room-installation-cost-uk-2026-guide/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [DG Climate Control: UK cold room prices](https://dgclimatecontrol.co.uk/uk-cold-room-prices) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Cold Rooms Direct: cold room installation cost](https://coldroomsdirect.com/blog/how-much-does-a-cold-room-installation-cost/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CaterServe UK: price of a commercial cold room](https://caterserveuk.com/faq/what-is-the-price-of-a-commercial-cold-room-in-the-uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [D&A Repair: walk-in cold room buyer's guide](https://darepair.co.uk/how-much-does-a-walk-in-cold-room-cost-a-buyers-guide-for-2025/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GM Cold Rooms price calculator](https://gmcoldrooms.com/gmcalculator.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [UK Gas Plumbers: commercial refrigeration repair, Reading](https://ukgasplumbers.co.uk/commercial-refrigeration-repair-reading) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BBCS: kitchen maintenance service contracts](https://www.bbcs-ltd.com/our-services/service-contracts) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [RS Refrigeration Services: service and maintenance contracts](https://www.rs-refrigerationservices.co.uk/service-maintenance-contracts) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Catercall](https://catercall.co.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Cairn Catering Engineers: commercial fridge and freezer repair](https://cairncateringengineers.co.uk/commercial-fridge-and-freezer-repair/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Rolls Refrigeration](https://www.rollsrefrigeration.co.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [MK Refrigeration](https://mkrefrigeration.co.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [West Country Cooling](https://www.westcountrycooling.co.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Bristowe Refrigeration](https://bristowe-refrigeration.co.uk/refrigeration/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [JLA: commercial catering equipment repairs](https://jla.com/commercial-catering-equipment-repairs/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Gas UK: R404A 9 kg cylinder](https://gas-uk.co.uk/index.php/r404a-9-kg-refrigerant.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Gas UK: R134a 12.5 kg cylinder](https://gas-uk.co.uk/r134a-12-5kg-refrigerant.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [MyJobQuote: fridge and freezer repair costs](https://www.myjobquote.co.uk/costs/fridge-freezer-repair) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Cooling Post: price of high GWP refrigerants continues to rise](https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/price-of-high-gwp-refrigerants-continue-to-rise/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Checkatrade: fridge repair cost guide](https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/cost-guides/fridge-repair-cost/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [refcom.org.uk](https://www.refcom.org.uk/refcom-register) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Refrigeration Service Price Index is 180 GBP across 7 figures from 6 sources' own pages (range 60 to 450 GBP), read 12 October 2026.
- 6 of the 38 named sources read in full publish a figure; 32 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- Refrigeration Service Price Index, charge pay-per-visit: median 80 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Refrigeration Service Price Index, charge in-hours-callout: median 180 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Refrigeration Service Price Index, charge health-check-visit: median 195 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Refrigeration Service Price Index, charge ppm-visit: median 60 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Refrigeration Service Price Index, charge engineer-visit: median 210 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Refrigeration Service Price Index, service hourly: median 80 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Refrigeration Service Price Index, equipment type refrigerant-R134a-12.5kg-cylinder: median 450 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 180 GBP across 5).

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