What a LinkedIn ghostwriter costs in the UK
Updated 24 September 2026 · 8 minute read
£299 to £2,000 a month, from providers who describe the work in almost identical words.
A disclosure before any of the numbers, because you should weigh them accordingly. Inklined sells software that does part of what a ghostwriter does, so this is not a neutral page. Every figure below comes from the provider's own published page rather than from a survey of ours or an estimate, every provider is named, and all of it was checked in September 2026. The names are there so you can go and look.
Why there is no pound answer on the open web
Search this in September 2026 and nearly everything that comes back is priced in dollars. That is not a quirk of the results. The content marketing in this category is made by US agencies selling to US buyers, and the pages that rank were written to make a US price look reasonable.
The UK providers who publish at all tend to publish one number with nothing around it. A monthly figure, a list of deliverables, no sense of what moves it up or down. That is useful if you already know what the work involves, and not much help if the reason you are reading this is that you do not.
So what follows was gathered off the pages themselves. Where a provider publishes bands for the market rather than a fee for their own work, the table says so, because a price someone charges and a price someone says the market charges are different kinds of claim and only one of them is a commitment.
What UK providers actually publish
Five UK providers with a real price on the page.
| Provider | Published price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| MeridianWeb | £299, £748 and £1,495 a month, VAT included | 8 posts a month at the middle tier, weekly sync, no minimum term |
| Nautilus Marketing | £795 a month, excluding VAT | 3 posts a week, account manager, monthly report |
| Kurogo | From £2,000 a month, plus a £2,497 programme | Positioning, writing, profile management, analytics |
| Clash Creation | From £50,000 for six months | Full media management rather than a writing retainer |
| London Ghostwriting Company | £50 to £150 an hour, £250 to £900 a day | Long-form and book work, not LinkedIn |
Two things stand out. Close to seven times separates the cheapest monthly retainer from the dearest, and nothing in the deliverable lists differs by anything like seven times. The other is how few of these there are: most UK providers in this category publish nothing at all and ask you to book a call, which is a pricing strategy rather than an oversight.
Then there are the bands. These are providers describing the market rather than quoting for work, which makes them opinion, but it is dated opinion from people who sell into it every week.
| Source | Published band | What it describes |
|---|---|---|
| Blueberry Media, June 2026 | £1,000 to £1,500, then £1,500 to £3,000, then £3,000 to £6,000 a month | Entry, mid and full service |
| Kurogo | £1,000 to £3,000, then £3,000 to £8,000, then £10,000 to £25,000 | Freelancer, done-for-you, integrated media |
| Clash Creation, June 2026 | £1,000 to £3,000 for LinkedIn writing, £3,000 to £8,000 for a founder programme | Their read of the UK market |
The three agree more than they disagree, which is worth something. Done-for-you writing sits between £1,000 and £3,000 a month across all three, and everyone puts the full programme above £3,000.
The day rate that makes sense of the spread
The Alliance of Commercial Writers runs an annual survey of UK copywriters. The 2026 edition, 573 respondents, puts the median freelance day rate at £440, up roughly 10% over two years. The range runs from about £300 for someone recently freelance to £1,800 and above for writers with a sector behind them.
Work that through. Say a piece takes half a day once you count the conversation that sources it, the drafting, and two rounds of revision. At the median that is £220 of writer time for one post. Four posts a month is £880 before anyone has added a margin, an account manager or a strategy call, and before the agency has paid for the software it runs you through.
£299 a month does not buy four posts of a median UK copywriter's time. Whatever the deliverable list says, something else is producing that content.
The arithmetic changes how the top of the range looks too. £2,000 a month for twelve pieces is about £167 a piece, which is well under the median writer's half day. That is not a premium being charged for a brand name. It is roughly what the work costs when a person at UK rates does it properly, which means the interesting question is not why the expensive one is expensive.
VAT, which almost nobody mentions
Two of the providers above quote in opposite directions and neither makes anything of it. Nautilus states that its £795 excludes VAT, MeridianWeb states that its tiers include it, and neither treats the distinction as worth more than the half-line it gets.
So £795 is £954 to pay while £748 is £748, which turns a difference of under fifty pounds on the two pages into one of more than two hundred on the two invoices.
Which way it cuts depends on you. If you are VAT registered you reclaim it, so the exclusive quote is your real cost and the inclusive one is effectively a fifth cheaper than it looks. If you are under the threshold it runs the other way and the exclusive quote is the one that stings. Either way, the question to ask before you compare two numbers is which of the two you are being shown, and it is worth asking, because a good half of the pages do not say.
What the fee does not cover
Your own time, which nobody quotes.
Kurogo is unusual in publishing the figure: about an hour a week once the engagement is running, and five to six hours across the first month. That is a fair number for any arrangement meant to produce something recognisably yours, and a provider claiming substantially less is telling you something about the output rather than about their efficiency.
The hour is not overhead, it is the input. A ghostwriter working from nothing produces competent content about your subject, and competent content about your subject could carry a competitor's name without a single reader noticing.
Then the extras. Profile work, video editing, designed graphics and event content are priced separately by most of the providers above. MeridianWeb lists a one-off newsletter at £199 and an event package at £599. Ask what is inside the retainer before assuming anything is.
What you are actually choosing between
Underneath the tiers there are two products, and the pricing pages do not distinguish them.
→ Someone who writes from your material. They book time with you every week, take what you said, and turn it into something you would have said. The output is yours. The cost is that weekly hour, and the fact that when you go quiet the content goes quiet with you.
→ Someone who writes instead of you. They take a brief, research the topic and produce posts about your subject. No recurring call required. The output is competent, it is not yours, and people who know you will notice something they cannot quite name.
Price does not tell you which one you are buying. Cadence does. If nobody is putting time in your diary every week, you are buying the second one, and at the upper bands you are buying it at the price of the first.
The bands, in plain terms
→ Under £500 a month. Templates, a junior writer or an offshore team, at a volume the day-rate arithmetic says cannot be bespoke. Fine if the goal is presence. Not fine if the goal is that it sounds like you.
→ £500 to £1,500. One writer, a real conversation, two or three pieces a week. The band most one-person consultancies actually want, and the one with the widest quality range, because it covers both products described above.
→ £1,500 to £3,000. A small team, strategy, engagement, reporting. What Blueberry and Kurogo both call the done-for-you tier.
→ £3,000 and up. Multi-channel programmes, video, press, speaking preparation. A different purchase from the one most people think they are making when they search this question, and one that stops being about writing at all.
Where Inklined sits, and what it does not replace
Inklined is £49 or £129 a month, which is below the floor of everything above. That is not the same product at a discount, and pretending otherwise would be no use to you.
A ghostwriter takes the work away. Inklined does not. It takes the calls you are already running, keeps what you actually said, and does the retrieval: finding the thing you explained well in March when you need it in September. You still write, and the only difference is where you start from.
What it does not do is chase you. A ghostwriter with a standing Tuesday slot in your diary produces content in the weeks you are too busy to think, and that is a real service worth real money. If your constraint is hours rather than material, buy the person.
The two are set against each other properly, cost and control, on the LinkedIn ghostwriter comparison page.
Common questions
How much does a LinkedIn ghostwriter cost in the UK?
UK providers publishing a price in September 2026 run from £299 to £2,000 a month. Freelance day rates sit at a median of £440 according to the Alliance of Commercial Writers' 2026 survey of 573 copywriters. Agencies describing the market put done-for-you writing at £1,000 to £3,000 a month and full founder programmes at £3,000 to £8,000.
Do UK LinkedIn ghostwriters charge VAT?
Any provider trading above the registration threshold has to. Some quote inclusive and some exclusive, and the gap is 20% on numbers you are probably treating as comparable. A £795 fee quoted excluding VAT is £954 to pay. Ask which one you are being shown before you compare anything.
Why are the prices I keep seeing online so much higher?
Because almost all of them are American. US agencies dominate the content marketing for this question, and the same tier costs roughly three times more there. The reasons are structural rather than about quality, and they are set out in the companion guide to US pricing.
Is a ghostwriter worth it for a one-person consultancy?
It depends which constraint you actually have. If you have the material and no hours, you are buying time back and the maths usually works. If you have hours but no idea what to write about, a ghostwriter will not fix it, because the good ones need that material from you before they can start.
What is the cheapest way to get LinkedIn content written?
A freelance marketplace. Ghostwriter rates on Upwork have a median of $32 an hour with most between $20 and $45. What you get at that rate is a writer with no ongoing conversation with you and no knowledge of your market, which is the version of this service people most often quietly abandon after two months.
How long am I tied in for?
It varies enough to be worth asking early. MeridianWeb publishes no minimum term and monthly cancellation. Kurogo runs a thirty-day notice period after a minimum term. In the US market ninety-day minimums billed quarterly are common, and that convention is spreading.
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What a LinkedIn ghostwriter costs in the US$32 an hour at the marketplace floor, $2,000 to $6,500 a month from agencies that publish, $15,000 at the top. What separates them, and why the same tier costs three times the UK price.