Earning potential
Your earning potential on this plumber role
Typical: 3–4 per day
Typical client spend: £250–£350
Up to 50% of every job value
Per job
£90
Per day
£360
Per week (5 days)
£1,800
Per year (~232 days)
£83,520
Estimated earning potential based on typical UK job volumes and fee levels — not a guarantee. Actual earnings depend on work flow, ticket size, and hours worked.
About the role
Domestic Gardener — Bristol and surrounding counties. Self-employed profit-share role, not a wage. You keep 30% of every job KJ Gardeners routes to you. We build the maintenance rounds with customers; you pick the round that fits your week. You'll cover regular maintenance visits (fortnightly / monthly rounds), one-off garden tidy-ups, hedge cutting, seasonal cut-back and mulching, small planting jobs, lawn scarify and feed programmes, and light pressure-wash work. Larger hard-landscape work is routed to the KJ Hard Landscaper role. Visits are dispatched via the KJ portal with the property, scope, gate access and any pet notes confirmed. Tickets range from £40 for a small hedge cut up to £600+ for a full seasonal cut-back with green waste removal. Suits an experienced gardener with own mower, strimmer, hedge trimmer, hand tools and van/trailer for green waste. NPTC PA1/PA6 required if applying weed control.
Responsibilities
- Mow, edge, strim and blow-clear lawns to a customer-ready standard
- Cut hedges square and clean, bagging or trailer-loading arisings
- Prune shrubs and small trees seasonally
- Weed borders and mulch
- Plant out small planting schemes agreed by KJ with the customer
- Scarify, aerate and feed lawns on programme rounds
- Photo-document each visit in the KJ portal (before/after)
- Manage green-waste disposal responsibly under your waste carrier registration
Requirements
- Own mower, strimmer, hedge trimmer, hand tools
- Own van and trailer for green waste
- Waste carrier registration (upper tier)
- Full UK driving licence, trailer entitlement a plus
- Public liability insurance
- Smartphone for the KJ portal
- NPTC PA1 + PA6 if you'll apply any weed control
How working with KJ actually works
From apply to first paid job — four honest steps
- 1
Apply in 60 secs
One tap on this page. No CV wall, no cover letter. Just your name, trade and coverage area.
- 2
Sign your KJ contract
Plain-English self-employed profit-share agreement — 25–50% of job value depending on the role. E-signed. No tie-in, no exclusivity trap.
- 3
Log in to the KJ Portal
See the jobs allocated to you: address, scope, customer notes, agreed price. Accept the ones you want, decline the ones you don't.
- 4
Do the work, get paid your share
Complete the job, mark it done in the portal. KJ invoices the customer. Your share lands on the regular payment cycle — no chasing, no unpaid quotes.
The KJ Portal is rolling out through 2026 — until then, early hires are onboarded and dispatched directly by the KJ ops team. Same profit-share, same transparency.
Why KJ, not a company job
A plumber does 3–4 jobs a day; a surveyor 2–4; a solicitor a handful of matters. The client pays hundreds — often thousands. You take home a fraction. The company keeps the rest.