Birmingham beauty-services market: salons, prices and operator concentration
Who is here, where they cluster, how they price, and how fragmented it is: the read a buyer needs before a deal. Native pricing (GBP). Data current through 13 July 2026; source observations are collected on a rolling basis.
656 providers on the platforms we track. Median haircut £24; the highest venue-menu medians sit in City Centre (£44). 97% of tracked providers are linked to one visible location; 8 operator groups run more than one.
656 platform-visible providers·16,447 priced service observations·3 covered platforms
Where the market is
Platform-visible beauty providers, mapped
Each dot is one platform-visible venue, placed by coordinates. Hover for the venue and its median list price. The clustering is the density-and-positioning read an acquirer starts from.
each dot = one platform-visible beauty venue with a priced menu · hover for venue and median price
The physical market, in context
4,125 beauty venues are visible in Birmingham
Three layers, cross-referenced against public map listings: the physical market (4,125 visible venues), the online-bookable slice, and the supply Google does not list at all. tallywire tracks 656 bookable providers with full priced menus, roughly a third of which have no map listing of their own (solo pros, chair renters, mobile): supply only the booking platforms can see.
4,125
venues visible on the map
656
bookable with priced menus (ours)
59%
no website listed on the map
11.6%
listings marked permanently closed
Who offers online booking (9.3% of map-visible listings are matched to a covered booking platform; bars scaled ×6 for readability)
Fresha
3.0%
Booksy
2.9%
Treatwell
2.8%
Setmore
0.4%
Vagaro
0.1%
Squire
0.1%
Other / unattributed
0.1%
20 operator groups run 3+ locations here, together holding just 2.1% of the visible market (largest service chain: Nails 4 U, 11 locations). Retail service counters (Boots ×25 and peers, 38 listings) are counted separately — a beauty counter is not a salon.
Operators on tracked platforms
Who runs more than one location
The multi-location operator groups visible on the booking platforms we track (grouped by normalized brand): the names an acquirer or expanding chain meets first. Operators on enterprise salon software (Zenoti, Boulevard, Phorest) are not yet tracked, so shares are measured on platform-visible supply.
97% single-site (one visible location)
of 656 platform-visible providers in the current dataset. 8 operator groups run more than one location; together they hold 19 locations (3% of tracked supply).
Largest operator groupslocations
Tandis Boutique4 locations
SuperLashLimited3 locations
Betty Glamour2 locations
J Luxe Beauty UK2 locations
art.barbers2 locations
Male Skin Clinic - Kings Heath2 locations
Median listed menu price by area
Venue-level menu medians by area (venues assigned to the nearest district). Service mix affects area comparisons; treat this as a listed-price map, not an affluence ranking. City Centre leads at £44; Solihull anchors the value tier at £25.
City Centre
£44 n=16
Jewellery Quarter
£37 n=81
Digbeth
£35 n=50
Sutton Coldfield
£35 n=69
Moseley
£30 n=86
Edgbaston
£30 n=104
Solihull
£25 n=31
Real venues, as a target list
12 of 656 provider records shown — a spread across price tiers with traction proxies: menu breadth, reviews, a representative service and its published price. The complete current roster ships in the Market File.
Venue · area · serviceservicesrating · reviewspriceplatform
Shingaar Hair-Beauty & Training AcademyJewellery Quarter · Full Face Inculding Eyebrows
136
4.9★ · 64
£25
fresha
The Kids RoomSolihull · 0-5 Boys Skinfade
16
5.0★ · 147
£18
booksy
KingzmanbarberDigbeth · Student discount available
12
5.0★ · 110
£16
booksy
Beauty pricing benchmark, Birmingham
Median list price per treatment with the interquartile range and sample size, across Booksy, Fresha, Treatwell, one canonical computation.
Treatmentmedian · IQR · n
Balayage
£120
£52–163 · n=146
Highlights
£89
£50–130 · n=433
Blow-dry
£45
£25–87 · n=1,141
Colour
£35
£13–64 · n=1,550
Facial
£35
£10–65 · n=956
Lash extensions
£30
£10–45 · n=930
Gel manicure
£30
£19–40 · n=642
Massage
£30
£10–50 · n=568
Haircut
£24
£15–40 · n=1,838
Brows
£15
£10–35 · n=1,058
Cross-platform view
How normalized treatment prices vary by platform
Platform-level medians for the same normalized treatment category in the same market. Differences may reflect provider mix as well as platform positioning; the comparison only exists in the joined data.
Treatmentspread · by platform
Balayage
1.3×
Treatwell £104 · Fresha £120 · Booksy £131
Highlights
1.1×
Booksy £80 · Fresha £90 · Treatwell £90
Colour
1.8×
Treatwell £25 · Fresha £33 · Booksy £45
Blow-dry
1.6×
Fresha £41 · Treatwell £45 · Booksy £65
Haircut
1.7×
Treatwell £18 · Booksy £22 · Fresha £30
How Birmingham compares
Median haircut across United Kingdom metros, native GBP. Cross-currency comparison uses the USD index, elsewhere.
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Method
Venues placed by provider-published coordinates. Median and percentiles over provider-published list prices across Booksy, Fresha, Treatwell, one canonical computation (n disclosed, outliers excluded). Operator grouping matches venues by normalized brand across distinct postcode districts. Area medians assign each venue to its nearest district centroid. Native GBP. Business and service data only. Coverage: bookable venues on the listed platforms; operators on enterprise salon software and venues without online booking are not yet included, so single-site share is measured on platform-visible supply. Data current through 13 July 2026; source observations are collected on a rolling basis.
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