How Much Does a Maths Tutor Cost in the UK? (2026)

Maths tuition prices in the UK vary more than most parents expect: the same GCSE topic can cost £20 an hour from a university student online or well over £60 an hour from an examiner in person. The useful question isn't "what's the going rate?" but "what am I paying for, and how many hours will it take?"

Below are the typical 2026 rates by level, what moves the price, the costs that don't show up in the hourly figure, and where cheaper options make sense.

Typical maths tutor rates in the UK (2026)

What a month of tuition actually costs

Hourly rates are hard to compare because providers sell different lesson lengths and frequencies. A monthly figure is easier to budget against. At the average GCSE rate of about £34 an hour:

• One hour a week is roughly £150 a month (about 4.3 lessons).
• Two hours a week, which is common in the spring before GCSE exams, is roughly £300 a month.
• A school year of weekly lessons (around 38 weeks) is roughly £1,300.

In-person tutoring costs more in London and parts of the South East: at the published London in-person average of about £46 an hour, a weekly lesson is roughly £200 a month. Primary tuition sits lower, at roughly £120 a month for a weekly hour.

What pushes the price up or down

Level

Rates climb with the level of maths: primary is cheapest, A-Level and IB most expensive. Within GCSE, tutors who specialise in Higher tier grades 7-9 often charge more than those focused on Foundation.

Who the tutor is

University students usually sit at the bottom of the range; qualified teachers, specialist GCSE tutors and exam markers sit at the top and above. A more expensive tutor is worth it when they can diagnose what is going wrong quickly. It is not worth it if they spend the hour re-teaching the current topic.

In person or online

In-person tutors price in their travel time, which is why the in-person average is several pounds an hour higher. Online lessons with a shared whiteboard are now the norm for maths and work well from about age seven.

Where you live

For in-person lessons, location matters a lot. Published town-by-town figures range from around £30 an hour in parts of the North West and East Midlands to over £50, and around £70 at the top, in parts of the South East. Online, your postcode stops mattering.

Costs that don't appear in the hourly rate

• Agency or platform fees. Some agencies add a booking fee or an introduction fee on top of the tutor's rate.
• Minimum packages. Some providers sell blocks of 10 or 20 lessons paid upfront. Ask what happens to unused lessons.
• Cancellation policies. 24-hour or 48-hour notice periods are common; a cancelled lesson outside the window is usually charged in full.
• Materials and assessments. Learning centres often charge registration or materials fees in the first month.

Ask any provider for the total cost of the first three months, including everything. It's the fastest way to compare offers that are priced differently.

Free and low-cost options worth trying first

• Ask the school. Many schools run maths intervention or catch-up groups. Ask the maths teacher which topics your child is weakest on; it costs nothing and narrows down what a tutor would need to do.
• Free resources. Oak National Academy, BBC Bitesize, Corbettmaths and Dr Frost Maths are free and well matched to the National Curriculum and GCSE.
• Exam board past papers. AQA, Edexcel and OCR publish past papers and mark schemes free online (the most recent series are sometimes held back for teachers). For GCSE students, a marked past paper is the best diagnostic you can get without paying anyone.

Where TaleemSquare fits

We teach one-to-one maths online, following the UK National Curriculum and the AQA, Edexcel and OCR GCSE specifications. Our tutors are based outside the UK and teach in fluent English, and that cost structure is the honest reason our prices are lower than UK tutors:

We're the wrong choice if you want in-person lessons, a UK qualified teacher or examiner, or a tutor with a DBS check, which we don't currently hold for every tutor. If any of those matter to you, a UK agency is the better fit, and our guide on how to choose a maths tutor lists the questions to ask them.

If price and one-to-one attention matter most, start with the free assessment and judge the teaching yourself before paying anything. For GCSE students, our parent's guide to GCSE Maths explains tiers, grades and the grade 4 pass.