A coworking space in the UK is a shared floor you can book for a single day, with a desk, wifi and somewhere to take a call. Wezoo lists 416 buildings with coworking desks across the United Kingdom, in 175 towns and cities, from 21 operators, and you can book any of them for one day without a membership. This guide covers what is included, where the desks actually are, what they cost, how a hot desk differs from a dedicated desk, and how booking works.
Wezoo snapshot: coworking in the United Kingdom
- 416 buildings with coworking desks across the UK
- 175 towns and cities with at least one building
- Day rates listed from £11.88 to £143.88 per person
- 21 operators, including Regus, Spaces, HQ, Basepoint, Elementa, Signature, Clockwise, Wizu Workspace, Spacemade and Huckletree
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Every listed price is in pounds sterling, with tax and the booking fee already included
What you get with a coworking space in the UK, and what you do not
A day on a coworking floor buys you a seat in a shared room, not a room of your own. Every one of the 416 UK buildings lists wifi on its coworking desks, and 278 of them list natural light. Beyond that the picture varies by building, so the detail below is what the buildings themselves publish rather than a general promise.
Counting across all 416 buildings: 371 list catering, 346 list breakout spaces, 339 sit near a public car park and 286 near public transport. 252 are wheelchair accessible, 184 have a members’ lounge, 126 have their own parking, 119 have a coffee and tea bar, and 115 have bike storage. Smaller numbers list a staffed reception (81), climate control (79), phone booths (38) and an on-site restaurant (37). Lockers appear on four and a bar on two.
What you do not get is as important. A hot desk is not assigned, so you take whatever is free when you arrive and clear it when you leave. Meeting rooms are almost never bundled: at most buildings they are a separate booking at a separate price, and coffee is only explicitly included on 40 of the 416. There is no storage between visits unless the building happens to list lockers. And a coworking desk gives you no address you can register a company to. That is a different product, covered in our guide to the virtual office in the UK.
Where coworking space is available in the UK: the cities and how many in each
Supply is heavily weighted to London but it is not only London. Of the 416 buildings, 98 carry a London address, and the full list reaches 175 towns and cities, from Aberdeen to Exeter. The table below counts the buildings on each Wezoo area page, so the figure is the one you will see when you open that page.
| Area |
Buildings with coworking desks |
|---|---|
| Greater London |
116 |
| Surrey |
14 |
| Hampshire |
13 |
| Leeds |
13 |
| Manchester |
12 |
| Hertfordshire |
11 |
| Kent |
9 |
| Birmingham |
9 |
| Edinburgh |
8 |
| Belfast |
7 |
| Bristol |
6 |
| Liverpool |
6 |
| Glasgow City |
6 |
| Cardiff |
5 |
| Essex |
5 |
| Reading |
4 |
| Nottingham |
4 |
| Cambridgeshire |
4 |
| Sheffield |
3 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
3 |
| Oxfordshire |
2 |
Within Greater London the concentration is sharper again: Westminster lists 25 buildings, the City of London 20, Camden 13 and Islington 6. If you are searching by part of the capital rather than by borough, our guides to central London, north London, south London and west London break the city down by area. Outside London, the city guides run to Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, Liverpool, Cardiff and Belfast, and the county guides cover Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Kent, Essex and Oxfordshire.
Twelve coworking spaces in the UK, one in each of twelve cities
The buildings below are one per city, chosen to show the geographic and price spread rather than to rank anyone. Each day rate is the lowest listed on that building’s own page, per person, with tax and the booking fee included.
1. The Gatehouse, London
The Gatehouse by Spacemade, Wandsworth
A Spacemade building on Armoury Way, SW18 1TH. Desks from £33.00 a day. The floor comes with a coffee and tea bar, phone booths, breakout space, a lounge, bike storage and a staffed reception, which makes it a reasonable choice if your day involves calls as well as typing.
2. 37 Lombard Street, London
37 Lombard Street by Hubflow, City of London
Hubflow’s building sits at 37 Lombard Street, EC3V 9BQ. Desks from £33.00 a day, and coffee, tea and water are listed as included rather than extra. It also lists phone booths, a bar, climate control and bike storage.
3. Huckletree Ancoats, Manchester
Huckletree Ancoats by Huckletree, Manchester
On Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD. Desks from £26.40 a day, with breakout space, a lounge, catering and a staffed reception. The coworking group here is sized for up to 30 people, so it is a genuinely open floor rather than a few spare seats.
4. Clockwise Leeds
Clockwise Leeds by Clockwise, Greek Street
Greek Street, LS1. Desks from £33.00 a day, with coffee, tea and water included, plus breakout space, a lounge, phone booths, bike storage and on-site parking. Leeds has 13 buildings on Wezoo, the joint third largest count in the country.
5. Birmingham Brindleyplace, Birmingham
Birmingham Brindleyplace by Elementa, Birmingham
Elementa’s floor at 3 Brindleyplace, B1 2JB. Desks from £29.70 a day, with coffee, tea and water included, a lounge, breakout space, bike storage and a staffed reception.
6. Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh
Fort Kinnaird by Regus, Edinburgh
A Regus floor at Unit 30, EH15 3RD. Desks from £25.08 a day. It has its own parking and a restaurant on site, which is unusual: only 37 of the 416 UK buildings list one.
7. 2 West Regent Street, Glasgow
2 West Regent Street by Wizu Workspace, Glasgow
Wizu Workspace’s building at 2 West Regent Street, G2 1RW. Desks from £33.00 a day, with phone booths, breakout space, a lounge, bike storage and step-free access.
8. One Temple Quay, Bristol
Bristol by Elementa, One Temple Quay
Elementa’s Bristol floor at One Temple Quay, Temple Back East, BS1 6DZ. Desks from £29.70 a day, with coffee, tea and water included, a lounge, breakout space and bike storage.
9. Weavers Business Park, Belfast
Weavers Business Park by HQ, Belfast
HQ’s building at Units 7A and 7B, Weavers Court, BT12 5GH. Desks from £38.28 a day, with parking, phone booths, a lounge, a coffee and tea bar, bike storage and step-free access. Belfast lists seven buildings in total.
10. Brunel House, Cardiff
Brunel House by Regus, Cardiff
A Regus floor on the fifteenth storey at CF24 0EB. Desks from £38.28 a day, with catering, a lounge, breakout space and step-free access.
11. 301 Tea Factory, Liverpool
301 Tea Factory by Spaces, Liverpool
A Spaces building at 301 Tea Factory, L1 4DQ. Desks from £38.28 a day, with catering, breakout space and step-free access, and it is one of the 286 UK buildings that sit near public transport.
12. Boho 5, Middlesbrough
Boho 5 by HQ, Middlesbrough
HQ’s building on Bridge Street East, TS2 1NY. Desks from £11.88 a day, which is the lowest coworking rate listed anywhere in the UK on Wezoo. It lists catering, natural light and a position near public transport, and that is the whole list: this is a plain working floor at a plain price.
What a coworking space costs in the UK: day pass, part time and full time
Wezoo sells the day. Across the 416 UK buildings, 412 carry a published day rate, one is priced by the hour and three show no rate at all and quote on request. The listed day rates run from £11.88 to £143.88 per person, and every figure already includes tax and the booking fee, so the number you see is the number you pay.
Three buildings sit at the floor of £11.88 a day, all of them HQ: Boho 5 in Middlesbrough, Sovereign House in Nottingham and Kingston House in Hull. At the other end, the highest listed rate of £143.88 is shared by three central London addresses. Most of what sits in between is in the twenties and thirties, and a central postcode is the single thing that moves a rate the most.
Book a day at the lowest listed rate in the UK:
Part time and full time are a different purchase. Monthly bundles, whether that is a few days a week or unlimited access, are memberships sold by the operator and agreed directly with them, and they are not what Wezoo lists. If you want a set number of days a month at one building, speak to that operator. If you want to use several buildings in several towns across a year, booking the day each time keeps you free to change your mind, and you can compare what that works out at using our guide to coworking space costs in the UK.
Hot desk or dedicated desk: which one you need
A hot desk is unassigned. You book the day, take any free seat and leave nothing behind. A dedicated desk is the same floor with your name on one particular desk, kept for you between visits, and sold by the month.
The question is really about how often you go in and how much you carry. If you are in two or three days a week at the same address, want a second screen left set up and a drawer you can lock, a dedicated desk is the better fit and you arrange it with the operator. If you move between cities, work from home most of the week, or want a desk for a specific run of days, the hot desk is the one that matches: nothing to cancel, nothing running in the background. Our hot desk versus dedicated desk comparison works through the trade-off in more detail.
If what you actually want is a door that shuts, neither answer is right. That is a private office, and the UK inventory for it is covered in our guide to the private office in the UK.
Who uses coworking space in the UK
The clearest driver is hybrid work. The Office for National Statistics found that 28% of working adults in Great Britain hybrid worked between January and March 2025, and that share has risen steadily since 2022 while travel-to-work-only has fallen. A large group of people now needs somewhere to work that is neither the kitchen table nor a desk they are paying for five days a week.
In practice the people booking a day fall into a few groups. Remote employees who need two quiet days away from the house. Freelancers and consultants who want a professional room to work in, and somewhere to meet a client that is not a cafe. Small teams who are fully remote but get together once a month. People travelling for work who need four hours between meetings in a city they do not live in. And firms running a hybrid policy who would rather pay for the days their people actually show up.
Who it suits less well: anyone handling confidential calls all day, anyone who needs to leave equipment set up overnight, and anyone who needs a registered business address. The first two point to a private office, the third to a virtual office.
How to book a coworking space on Wezoo
- Open the UK coworking listings or go straight to a town using one of the city guides above.
- Pick a building. The page shows the day rate per person, what is included and the opening hours.
- Choose your date. Availability is shown on the building’s own page.
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Book as a guest. No membership, no subscription and no account needed, and the price you see is the price you pay.
You will get instant confirmation, so there is nothing to wait for and nobody to chase. If you also need a meeting room for part of the day, book it separately at the same building rather than assuming it comes with the desk.
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Frequently asked questions
How many coworking spaces are there in the UK?
Wezoo lists 416 buildings with coworking desks across the United Kingdom, spread over 175 towns and cities and run by 21 operators. Greater London accounts for 116 of them.
How much does a coworking space cost per day in the UK?
Listed day rates on Wezoo run from £11.88 to £143.88 per person, tax and booking fee included. The lowest rate is at HQ buildings in Middlesbrough, Nottingham and Hull. Central city-centre addresses sit at the top of the range.
Do I need a membership to use a coworking space in the UK?
Not on Wezoo. You book a single day as a guest, with no membership, no subscription and no account required. Monthly memberships exist, but they are sold by the operator directly rather than through Wezoo.
Is coworking space tax deductible in the UK?
Costs incurred wholly and exclusively for business purposes are generally allowable, and a day desk booked for work usually falls under that heading. How it is treated depends on whether you are self-employed or a limited company, so confirm your own position with your accountant or with HMRC before you claim.
What are the disadvantages of coworking?
A hot desk is not yours, so you cannot leave anything set up and you may not get the same seat twice. Meeting rooms are a separate booking at nearly every building, and coffee is only explicitly included on 40 of the 416 UK buildings. You also cannot register a company at a coworking desk.
What is the difference between a hot desk and a dedicated desk?
A hot desk is unassigned and booked by the day. A dedicated desk is a specific desk kept for you, sold monthly by the operator. Wezoo lists the hot desk, which is the one you can book for a single day.
