4/30/2023 0 Comments Cost of uk driving test![]() Instructors' working hours have increased by 17% overall in 2021(equating to 4.87 hours extra per week), almost an extra working day. 37% have increased the amount of lessons each day and 33% have increased the number of days they work each week. Almost half (41%) of instructors surveyed are planning to increase the cost of lessons further in the coming six months as demand continues to remain.Īlmost a third of driving instructors (29%) have had to cancel or forgo time off in order to meet demand. This is an average increase of 15% since 2020, when only 6% of instructors priced lessons in this top band. Just over one fifth of instructors (21%) set prices between £35 - £40. Now, almost half (47%) price them between £30 - £34, up from 32% in 2020. In 2020, 52% of instructors priced lessons between £25 - £29, in 2021 only 28% fall into that band. In 2021 instructors have now upped the price of lessons by an average of 9% across the board. 30% have reduced the frequency of lessons a learner can book, while 28% have had to remove or reduce special offers or discounts on lessons.Īt the start of 2020, the average cost for a driving lesson was £28.47. In response to additional COVID measures and the sheer demand for lessons, 40% of instructors say they have had to increase the price of lessons. Prices are increasing while availability reduces 35% of instructors now have around 21-30 pupils at any one time, so your local instructor is now considerably more overstretched than last year. Since the start of 2020, instructors now have on average 27% more pupils, which equates to nearly 6 more pupils (5.76 to be exact!). 30% of instructors are turning away 5-10 enquiries per week, meaning there simply isn’t enough supply for the demand and the backlog will unlikely cease anytime soon. Instructors have seen a 227% increase in enquiries since 2020, which equates to an average of an extra 8.24 enquiries each week. Here’s what we found: Enquiries are at an all time high - 227% up on 2020 ![]() With demand reaching uncharted levels, how have driving instructors responded? What are they doing to manage demand and pressure and how will this impact the nation’s learners? To find out, we issued a survey to more than 4,000 driving instructors to establish what is happening with driving tuition in the UK in the ‘new normal’. Learners are still in the midst of this backlog and demand on instructors is higher than ever. We previously investigated the scale of instructor shortages and the driving test backlog caused by the pandemic since lessons and tests restarted in April 2021. ![]() Industries have been hit hard, especially those that require people to be in close proximity to one another, with driving tuition taking a real hit impacting both learners and instructors alike. The pandemic has shook the world and impacted all of us, changing our whole routines and throwing plans out of the window. ![]()
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