News UK Trades Businesses Bounce Back from Covid, but Soaring Costs Mean One-in-eight Fears Failure Within a Year 8th October 2021 Demand for UK trades has boomed since the end of the initial lockdown in July 2020. Plumbers, electricians, building-maintenance firms and other trades making up the UK’s 1.3-million-business field-service sector have seen their workloads increase