Offshore web and software development for London
A large share of our London work is white-label engineering behind agencies who have won an account and need delivery capacity without permanent headcount. The rest is direct, mostly fintech, professional services and property firms where local build costs have made a worthwhile project unviable.
London is the most expensive place to build software in Europe and one of the most expensive in the world. Agency day rates of six hundred to a thousand pounds are normal, higher for anything touching regulated industries, and they reflect genuine costs: London salaries, London rent, and competition for developers from banks and technology firms paying more than any agency can.
That cost is why the offshore conversation happens here more than in any other British city, and it happens in two distinct forms. Agencies and studios subcontract delivery, usually quietly, because it is the only way to take on a large build without hiring into a pipeline that may not hold. End clients look offshore when a project they need has been quoted at a figure that cannot be justified.
We do both. The agency work is the larger half and the one we are most comfortable with, because the expectations are unambiguous on both sides and we are dealing with people who can evaluate engineering.
The London sectors we work in
A large share of our London enquiries come from agencies rather than end clients — studios that have won an account and need engineering capacity without adding headcount. We are comfortable working entirely white-label, under your brand, in your repository, with no contact with your client unless you want it.
Areas and precincts we serve
Remote delivery, so geography inside Greater London makes no difference to what we can do. Listed because buyers ask.
White-label engineering, which is most of what we do here
It is worth being open about how common this is, because the industry is oddly coy about it. A substantial proportion of London agency delivery is subcontracted, and there is nothing wrong with that provided the arrangement is clear and the supplier is competent.
Ours works like this. You own the client, the brief, the design direction and the commercial relationship entirely. We supply engineering, working inside your repository, following your conventions, your branch strategy and your definition of done. We appear nowhere unless you want us to. We will not contact your client during the engagement or approach them afterwards, and that non-solicitation is a contract term rather than a promise.
What we are good at in this arrangement is the engineering-heavy end: application work, integrations, performance rescue, and taking a sold design that has technical implications nobody costed and making it work. What we are not is a design partner, because you already have that and do it better.
The engagements that run best start before the design is signed off. A studio that involves us at pitch or wireframe stage gets a warning about the three interactions that will be disproportionately expensive to build, and can either price them properly or design around them. A studio that hands over a finalised design discovers the same thing in week four when it is a problem rather than a decision.
In practice
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.
Fintech and regulated clients: what the compliance review asks
London has more fintech and regulated financial firms than the rest of the UK combined, and engaging one means a compliance review before anything is signed. The questions are consistent and we keep the answers documented.
India has no UK adequacy decision, so any transfer of personal data needs an appropriate safeguard under Article 46. In practice that means the International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses, plus a transfer risk assessment. We sign the IDTA as standard and complete TRA questionnaires rather than deflecting them.
For most fintech builds, though, the better answer is to avoid the transfer entirely. If we do not need production personal data to build what you are asking for, we should not have it. Development against anonymised or synthetic datasets, with production access restricted to named individuals under logged conditions when it is genuinely required, removes most of the exposure and is rarely harder to build against.
Where a client is FCA-regulated there is an additional layer: outsourcing and operational resilience expectations mean you must retain responsibility and be able to evidence oversight of a material supplier. We build to that, with named access, attributable version-controlled changes, documentation readable by someone who was not involved, and an exit plan in the contract from day one.
We are not UK solicitors and this is not legal advice. Your data protection officer or compliance team should review any specific arrangement.
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.
Five hours of overlap, which changes how we can work
London is the easiest relationship we have on scheduling. Our day of 09:30 to 19:30 IST is 04:00 to 14:00 in London, so your entire morning and the start of your afternoon sit inside our working day.
That means roughly five hours of genuine overlap, four and a half under British Summer Time, and it changes the character of the engagement rather than merely making it more convenient. Daily standups work at a time that suits both sides. Pull request review happens in real time. Pairing is practical. A problem found at half past nine is being worked on within minutes rather than tomorrow.
For agency partnerships this matters a good deal, because the communication is developer to developer and benefits from being immediate. A question about an edge case in a design gets answered in a two-minute call rather than three paragraphs and a day of latency.
The residual gap works in your favour: our afternoon is your early morning, so progress lands overnight and there is something to review when you start.
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.
What we cost in sterling, and the honest comparison
These are indicative bands for original work. The honest comparison includes coordination overhead, which any offshore engagement carries and which an hourly rate comparison ignores.
For agencies on margin
Most London studios we work with bill their client at local rates and retain the difference, which is the correct commercial arrangement and one we have no interest in disrupting. We are your supplier, not a competitor, and the non-solicitation exists precisely so you can hand over a client relationship without exposure.
| Project | London agency | With us |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate site with CMS | GBP 25,000 - 80,000 | GBP 1,500 - 4,500 |
| Web application build | GBP 80,000 - 350,000 | GBP 4,500 - 35,000 |
| eCommerce build or replatform | GBP 30,000 - 120,000 | GBP 1,500 - 8,000 |
| Performance and Core Web Vitals rescue | GBP 10,000 - 40,000 | GBP 700 - 4,000 |
| White-label engineering, per developer month | GBP 9,000 - 16,000 | GBP 1,600 - 3,200 |
5 hours a day where we are both at a desk
This is the easiest major market we work with on scheduling. Our 09:30–19:30 IST day covers 04:00–14:00 GMT, so your entire morning and the start of your afternoon overlap with our working day — about five hours, four and a half under British Summer Time. A UK client can raise something at nine in the morning and have an answer before lunch.
UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
India does not hold a UK adequacy decision, so transfers to us require an appropriate safeguard — in practice the International Data Transfer Agreement, or the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses, plus a transfer risk assessment. We sign the IDTA as a matter of course and will complete your TRA questionnaire. Where data genuinely should not leave the UK, we architect for that instead and say so early.
Regulator: Information Commissioner's Office
What London buyers ask
We will tell you in the first conversation if we are a poor fit for what you are describing, including when the time difference makes us the wrong choice.
Yes, and it is the larger half of our London work. You keep the client, the brief, the design and the commercial terms. We work inside your repository to your conventions and deliver under your brand, appearing nowhere unless you want us to. The non-solicitation is a contract term. We are strongest on the engineering-heavy end: applications, integrations and performance work.
India has no UK adequacy decision, so transfers of personal data need the International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses, plus a transfer risk assessment. We sign the IDTA as standard and complete TRA questionnaires. For most builds the cleaner answer is developing against anonymised or synthetic data so no personal data transfers at all.
About five hours, four and a half under British Summer Time. Our day covers 04:00 to 14:00 UK time, so your whole morning and early afternoon are inside it. That is enough for daily standups, live pull request review and pairing, which makes London engagements feel closer to working with a European supplier than an offshore one.
We build to them. The expectation is that you retain responsibility and can evidence oversight of a material supplier, which in practice means named individuals with logged access, version-controlled and attributable changes, documentation readable by someone who was not involved, and an exit plan in the contract from day one. Your compliance team should review any specific arrangement; we are not UK solicitors.
A corporate site with a CMS is typically 25,000 to 80,000 pounds from a London agency and 1,500 to 4,500 with us. White-label engineering runs 9,000 to 16,000 per developer month locally against 1,600 to 3,200. Allow for coordination overhead when comparing total cost rather than hourly rate; the saving stays substantial but is smaller than a rate comparison suggests.
Elsewhere in United Kingdom
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