Hire a WordPress

Developer UK

Easy to adjust. Monthly retainers run on 30-day rolling notice — increase, decrease or pause with a month's notice. Weekly blocks are booked on 48-hour notice, so you only buy what you need. Hourly work has a 2-hour minimum and no commitment beyond that booking.

Yes. We assign one named developer to your account. You'll know who you're working with, they'll know your codebase, and there's no handoff overhead each time you have a new task. If your assigned developer is unavailable (holiday, illness), we'll notify you in advance and arrange cover with a full context handover.

Yes, all code is committed to your Git repository (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar). If you don't have one set up, we'll create it. All commits have clear messages so you have a full history of every change made to your codebase.

Yes, entirely. All code produced is yours. No proprietary frameworks, no licence restrictions, no dependency on us to maintain it. If you end the engagement, we'll produce a full handover document and clean code export within 5 working days.

WordPress developer retainers start from £800/month for 10 hours. Weekly blocks are £350 for 8 hours. Ad hoc hourly work is available at £95/hour with a 2-hour minimum. All work is logged and reported — you know exactly what was done with every hour. No long-term contracts: retainers run on 30-day rolling notice.

Anything within WordPress and the surrounding stack: custom theme development, plugin development and customisation, WooCommerce development, REST API integrations, performance optimisation, security hardening, content migrations, block editor (Gutenberg) development, bug fixes, staging environment setup, deployment pipeline configuration, and ongoing maintenance. If you have a specific task in mind, the discovery call is the fastest way to confirm whether it's in scope.

Yes. We adapt to your tools — Jira, Linear, Asana, Monday, Trello, ClickUp or a simple spreadsheet. All we need is a way to receive tasks, communicate progress and report on hours. We don't require clients to adopt our workflow. If you don't have a system, we'll suggest a lightweight setup that works for the engagement.

Yes. Many of our clients are WordPress agencies that need overflow capacity, specialist headless development skills or a reliable developer for client emergencies. We work white-label — your clients don't know we're involved, all code is committed under your repository, and we communicate through your preferred channels. NDAs are standard for agency engagements.

A monthly retainer gives you a reserved block of developer hours each month — priority access, consistent allocation, best value per hour. A weekly block is a smaller commitment: 8 hours in a given week, booked 48 hours in advance. Hourly work is the most flexible option — a minimum of 2 hours, booked on request, no recurring commitment. For most ongoing projects, a retainer is more cost-effective and ensures your developer knows your codebase well. For occasional tasks, hourly or weekly blocks make more sense.

Yes, and it's a common scenario. We review the codebase before onboarding and document any issues — undocumented dependencies, non-standard configurations, security vulnerabilities or outdated plugins. If the existing code has significant problems, we'll flag them and present options before starting work. We won't silently maintain code that creates liability for your business.

We provide a task update at the end of every working session and a weekly summary covering hours used, tasks completed and what's planned for the following week. For clients on monthly retainers, we include a monthly report with a full hour log. Direct communication is via Slack or email — your preferred channel. We don't use long, formal status reports unless you request them.

Contact us directly by email or phone and mark it as urgent. For existing clients, we aim to have a developer looking at an urgent issue within 2 hours during business hours. For new clients with a site emergency — broken checkout, hacked site, theme failure — we can often start within 4 hours of the initial call. Emergency work is charged at standard hourly rates; there's no emergency surcharge.