27 Ways to Make Money from Home in the UK in 2023

27 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY FROM HOME IN THE UK – UPDATED FOR 2023

Times are changing and making money from home in the UK has never been easier. Years ago there were a handful of ways that you may have been able to work from home but today more and more people are realising that the traditional 9-5 job is becoming a thing of the past.

We live in a society now where, thankfully for us, there is more choice than ever. Giving us the opportunity to work from home on our own terms, providing more flexibility and time with the people we love and doing the things we love to do.

I am often asked what are the best ways to make money from home here in the UK, so today I will share 27 of the best ways with you.

So, whether you are looking to boost your cash or to change your life completely, you are sure to find something here that suits you!

1. Start Matched Betting (Yes it’s legal and no it’s not gambling)!

Matched Betting, despite the name, is not gambling and is totally legal. It’s basically a way of making a guaranteed profit by taking advantage of the free offers provided by bookmakers.

When I first read about matched betting I was very sceptical which stopped me from making money straight away, but once I started, what I found, was that it was relatively simple and a great way to make some tax free cash.

You can read my full post about how it all works here and read about my first 12 months doing Matched Betting here.

I use a company called Outplayed to make money with Matched Betting and I can’t recommend them enough. Everything is laid out for you step by step, so you simply follow instructions and make money. You even get a Free, no obligation trial with them where you can make £30-£40 right away today. To watch their video and register for your FREE trial click here.

2. Rent Out Your Unused Space

Gone are the days of properties mostly earning income from live-in tenants. These days, the free space in your house can be a consistent passive income source in a couple of other interesting ways.

Take storage rentals, for example. If you have extra space in your garage or home, you can earn money by providing a temporary storage solution to a family busy renovating or moving.

I get it. Storage rentals can make you a lot of money, but the idea isn’t exactly groundbreaking. There’s another way to earn from home that not a lot of people know about yet.

Thanks to modern technology, you can also make money when you rent parking space in your driveway, of all places.

Think about the struggling soul who can’t find a parking space before work every day. A platform like Stashbee (which coincidentally does parking and storage space rentals) throws them a bone by suggesting a bunch of monthly rental options from local listings at fixed prices.

But the renter isn’t the only person who benefits. Hosts can make up to £760 pounds a month just by offering parking space in the right area. Cha-ching!

3. Take Surveys to Make Extra Money

Surveys are soooo simple. You can fill them in whilst watching the TV at night or fit them in during your lunch break. Let’s be clear, you are never going to get rich doing surveys, but filling out regular simple ones can earn you a nice extra £100-£200 per month if you are consistent.

You can find Genuine Survey Sites in the UK here.

My favourite survey site is Prolific Academic. You can sign up for free and start doing surveys here.

Mobrog is also a great survey site. You can even download the app to your phone! Mobrog has a 5 star rating on trustpilot so well worth taking a look at.

4. Become a Chatline Operator

When I interviewed a stay at home mom about her career as a Chatline Operator, I was amazed to learn that you can earn up to £2000 per month with this side hustle. A job that’s sure to make you blush, but may be worth it for the financial rewards on offer. Read the full interview here.

5. Earn a Regular Income on e-Bay

This is one of my favourite ways to make money. With a little time and effort, creating a little e-Bay business or two can pay you for years to come and is totally flexible to fit around family life from home.

eBay is not just about selling your old junk. Yes you can make a lot of money selling your old stuff but there are so many other ways to make money from home with this internet giant! There are lots of ideas to get you started in my blog post here.

6. Make Fast Cash with OhMyDosh

I have found that this is one of the fastest ways to make some extra money from home. OhMyDosh are a UK company that pays you for doing simple tasks on-line. If you need quick money today, this is one of the best ways to get it Click here to read how it all works.

You can register with OhMyDosh here totally FREE and make your first £1 immediately!

7. Set Up a Blog or Website (It’s easier than you think)!

Setting up a blog or website does take some time and effort but it is sooo worth it! I had never set up anything like this in my life so if I can do it anybody can. I am totally not technical so rest assured you need no technical knowledge. Once you’ve got it up and running and you start to get traffic you can earn a passive income which is the thing I love most about my blog!

Blogging can be so much fun and you learn as you earn along the way. There’s no need to wait until you understand it, you can simply get started and, like most things, you will just get better at it with time.

It’s also the most flexible way to earn a passive income. Say you move to the Philippines to see what a different country has to offer. Your website stays exactly where it’s always been and you can keep making money. Of course, you may need to use a platform that allows you to transfer money to the Philippines, but it’s super simple to follow the on-screen instructions.

If you are interested in setting up your own Blog or Website to work from wherever you want to in the world, you can start for just £2.83 per month which is crazy!….. click here for my step by step instructions to get set up today.

You can also read about my first 12 months blogging and how I started to earn money from my blog here.

8. Make Extra Money with Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing in a nutshell is where you earn money by recommending products you use to other people. The earning potential with affiliate marketing is huge and a large chunk of my monthly income comes from this.

Click here to read a step by step guide to how Affiliate Marketing works.

My affiliate marketing income grew after taking this $7 course. I can’t recommend it enough if you want to learn from somebody who has already done it and earns a multiple six-figure income!

9. Start Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing is my new favourite way to make money online, and it can be done from anywhere in the world!

When I first looked into it, I thought it looked complicated so I sat on the sidelines and watched. What a mistake that was! I decided to jump in and bought a couple of low cost courses to learn the basics. The courses were good but when it came to the tech side of things I was left hanging with no support. Because of that, I only made a few dollars here and there BUT I could see the potential so I began looking for something where all the tech was done for me, an automated business where I could make more than just a few dollars and guess what I found it! I found a Blueprint that is proven and I couldn’t be more excited.

Within 48 hours my website was set up for me, all the tech stuff was done for me and I had step-by-step instructions to connect the few bits I needed to (which for a non-techy person like me was perfect).

In addition, there was a free community of over 4,000 people for support AND mentorship from a 6 figure earner! Because of all this, I had 70 leads in my first week and made my first high-ticket sale within days! I was seriously blown away!

The amazing thing about this, is the profit is 100% so you can earn $50, $150 or $300 for each sale paid daily. $300 daily is a whopping $109,000 a year! If you want to see what the Blueprint is all about, go here and you can watch the free video.

10. Sell Digital Products

The thing I love about selling digital products is that you don’t have to handle anything physically. Therefore, there is no need for postage, packing and storage of products.

You simply sell products online. These could be in the form of:

Digital Printables
Courses
Photographs
Graphic Art
eBooks
Audio and Music
Fonts

This is a great way to make passive income while you sleep too! If you don’t want to create your own digital products, you can sell someone elses, and for 100% profit. Learn how here.

Related: 65 Craft Ideas to Make Money

11. Become a Pet Sitter

If you love animals then this could be perfect for you. Yes, you can get paid to look after other people’s pets while they are away on holiday! If you think this side hustle may interest you, read more about the possibilities in this post here.

Related: 17 Hobbies that Make Money

12. Become a Virtual Assistant

Can you type? Are you organised? Are you a whizz on social media? Do you have office skills that you would like to utilise at home? Then why not become a virtual assistant.

As the on-line business world grows, more and more people are in need of support to run their on-line businesses and that’s where you come in. You could find yourself supporting on-line marketers or large international companies. The opportunities are endless.

I touched on some of the opportunities available in this post here.

13. Become a Mystery Shopper

Mystery shopping is so much fun. I have done a number of mystery shops, including visiting a travel agent and pretending to be interested in booking a holiday to checking out how tidy a bank was. However, you can also do mystery shopping from home.

I have done mystery shopping jobs on the telephone and also by inviting people into my home to provide quotations. For one of the jobs, I got paid £250 for about 3 hours work, not bad eh! Here is a list of reputable mystery shopping companies in the UK, although not all of them will provide work from home opportunities.

ESA Retail
GBW Solutions
GFK Mystery Shopping
Helion Research
Mystery Dining Company
Performance in People
QDOS mystery shopping
Retail Active
Retail Maxim
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14. Make Money with Amazon

There are a few ways to make money with Amazon but this is my favourite here.

It’s basically reviewing products that you already have in your home! Once you’ve done the review the income is completely passive.

This is by far one of the easiest ways to make money online, watch the full video here.

15. Make Extra Money by Entering Competitions

Competitions are a fun and exciting way to make money and if you take it seriously and put in the hours you could actually find yourself making a full-time income from it.

Winning prizes and selling them is a great way to make money from home in the UK and anybody can do it!

Not convinced? You can read here how you could win over £20,000 in prizes. Also, read here how one UK Blogger won over £11,000 in prizes in one year.

Maybe now it looks a little more interesting? If you fancy trying your hand at becoming a serious comper, then I recommend this book you can buy off Amazon. It has great reviews, was written by a professional comper and shares all the tips and tricks you need to be successful!

16. Join 20 Cogs

20 Cogs is simply a website where you earn money by completing offers. This usually involves signing up to various companies (some well known such as Amazon and some less known).

Each time you complete an offer you earn a set amount, from £2.50 to £30. These payments add up very quickly!

As you complete each ‘cog’ the colour will change to show it’s been completed and then approved but be patient because it can sometimes take a couple of days for the offer to go through.

You can earn a total of £200 if you complete all the cogs but there are a few things to be aware of.

Firstly, I would recommend you set up a separate e-mail address as you are likely to receive lots of junk mail from the offers into your inbox. Also make sure you read all the small print on the offers and only sign up to the ones you feel comfortable with.

Overall, 20 cogs is a great way to make an extra £100-£200 from home. You can sign up and get started for free here.

17. Make Money with Phone Apps

If you spend a lot of time on your phone then why not use Phone apps to make some extra money while you are sitting at home.

There are now lots of apps available enabling you to make money from home. Just by doing small jobs or answering surveys you can earn some extra cash or gift cards. Each task might only be a small amount of money but watching your totals add up can be good fun and very satisfying!

The tasks may not be very exciting but can usually be fitted in whilst you are out and about or in between other jobs.

If you fancy earning money from your phone, I highly recommend you download this book for just 99p. It lists 50 legitimate apps to make you money. You’ll make that money back in your first day so it won’t actually cost you a penny to get started.

18. Make Extra Money on Fiverr

Are you any good at Graphic Design, Writing, Translation, Virtual Assistant Services or just about anything? Then you can offer your services on Fiverr. This is a popular platform for people looking to get things done at unbeatable prices. Your job is to offer your services on there, starting at a fiver. You can them upsell and provide further services.

Fiverr is a great platform to buy and sell services to help you to grow your income and your business. You can set up your Fiverr account for FREE here.

19. Sell E-books

If you don’t have the time or don’t think you are any good at writing, why not get somebody to ghost write for you.

I mentioned Fiverr earlier as a way to to offer your services to make money. Well you can also use Fiverr to buy services to help you to make money too! There are plenty of writers here on Fiverr that you can pay to write a book, then you just sell it as your own!

20. Sell a Course

Are you knowledgeable about something in particular? If so, you could write and sell a course on-line. There are lots of people doing this successfully and making six figure incomes from it!

Think about what skills you have. Is it something you could easily teach somebody else? Then why not get paid for your knowledge.

Udemy is a great place to start. Udemy is an online teaching and learning marketplace. Basically people sell their knowledge to other people who want to learn. Everybody knows about something right?

One of my favourite courses on there is Tidy Up Your Home, The Konmari Method. This course was simply written by Marie Kondo. She loves to tidy and declutter and wrote a course to show people how they can change their lives by learning to tidy and stay organised.

What could you teach others? Or what you could learn from one of the courses to start making money yourself another way?

21. Sell on Facebook

Facebook is the perfect way to set up a business from home. Creating a Facebook Business Page is really simple to do and you can set up any business you wish.

This is particularly useful for local business and sales but can also be used worldwide to sell your products and services.

22. Get Paid to Test Websites

Did you know you can get paid to test out websites?

WhatUsersDo is a company that asks you to test out websites and pays you for it! The tests only take around 20 minutes each to complete and you can get paid £5 for each website that you test.

This is a fun and easy way to make money from home on-line.

23. Earn Cashback

This is by far the simplest way to make money from home. Earn cashback on everything you purchase from holidays to buying stuff off eBay to home insurance. All you need to do is sign up to Topcashback for free here, then everytime you purchase something from one of the retailers listed, you purchase it through the Topcashback site and earn your cashback, it’s that simple.

You can read my post explaining how Topcashback works here.

Don’t miss out on free cash and set up your sign up to Topcashback for FREE here now.

24. Become an English Language Tutor

Being an English teacher on-line can sound daunting if you have no teaching experience. This however, is far from the truth. Often, people learn a new language just by being able to chat with somebody who is a native speaker of that country.

If you like to talk then this could be the perfect way for you to make money from home. Companies such as Cambly are reputable and you can sign up with them to start your teaching career.

25. Make Money on Social Media

So, we are all on it, all of the time! But, what if I told you that you could make money from it? Yes, i’m talking about Social Media. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc etc. Not only can you make money from it, but you can make a full-time income from it! Read here about the possibilities.

26. Make Money on Youtube

Youtube is definitely the ‘thing’ at the moment. There are people reported to have made millions from Youtube videos alone.

There are so many ways you can make money on Youtube. One way is to post a video of something funny that just happened. If you are lucky, your video could go viral and you could make yourself some decent money. Another ways is to set up a Youtube channel and intentionally make money. By that I mean, shoot weekly videos with information that people want.

You then link your Youtube account to Google Adsense and make money from the ads shown on your video.

This, unless you are very lucky, is not a way to get rich quick. However, with time and effort, you can make yourself a nice income from home, working around your existing life.

Alternatively, you can make money from Youtube the easier way with no filming, marketing or website. Click here to try it out!

27. Swagbucks

Swagbucks is one of my favourite ways that you can make money from home. With Swagbucks, you will get a variety of tasks to complete, earning money for each one. You can sign up to Swagbucks totally FREE here and start earning money straight away.