Dedicated developers · UK
Add senior engineers to your product team without a long recruitment process. Dedicated developers join your repositories, tickets and stand-ups on UK business hours — one engineer from £2,900 a month, or a small managed pod from £9,500.
Your options
Each option suits a different situation. Here is the honest version — including when a dedicated developer is not the answer.
The right choice for core roles you will need for years. Expect a recruitment process, often an agency fee, a notice period before they start, and employer costs such as National Insurance, pension contributions and equipment.
Flexible and quick for a well-defined task. You vet each person yourself, carry the gap when they take other work or a holiday, and knowledge often leaves with them.
Good when you want an outcome delivered to a fixed scope — we offer that too. Less suited to day-to-day roadmap work inside your team, where priorities change every sprint.
Named engineers who work inside your team and process for as long as you need them, with a company behind them when you need an extra skill.
Who it is for
The situations where the model works best. If yours is different, ask — the better answer may be a fixed-scope project.
Your engineers are at capacity and the backlog keeps growing. A dedicated developer takes whole features, not just the tickets nobody else wants.
A resignation, parental leave or a slow hiring search leaves a hole in the team. Dedicated capacity keeps the roadmap moving in the meantime.
Mobile, DevOps, data or AI work that does not yet justify a permanent hire, from engineers who have done it before.
A rebuild, migration or new product line run by a small pod while your core team keeps the existing product going.
The project agency has finished, and the product still needs steady fixes and features from people who will learn the codebase properly.
A live product and no technical co-founder: a small, steady team with a delivery lead who explains the technical calls in plain English.
Day to day
A dedicated developer is a named engineer whose agreed monthly capacity is reserved for your product. They join your chat channels, repositories and ticket board, attend your stand-ups and planning, and follow your branching, review and release rules. You set the priorities; they do the work and tell you early when something will not fit.
We look after everything around the engineer: their contract, equipment, leave planned with you in advance, and senior colleagues they can turn to on hard problems. You get daily written updates if you want them, and the work stays in your systems — so nothing is trapped in our heads or our tools.
A managed pod works the same way, with one addition: a delivery lead who runs sprint planning and reporting and owns the outcome with you. Pods combine engineers with QA as standard, and add design or DevOps when the work needs it.
Skills available
We fit into your technology rather than steering you towards ours. These are the main areas we cover — each links to a page with more detail on the role.
Product interfaces, design systems and performance work in React, Next.js, Vue, Angular and Svelte, with TypeScript throughout.
APIs, integrations and data work in Node.js, Python, PHP and Laravel, Java and Spring Boot, C# and .NET, and Go.
iOS and Android apps in React Native and Flutter, or natively in Swift and Kotlin, including store releases and OS upgrades.
CI/CD pipelines, containers, infrastructure as code, monitoring and cost control on AWS, with Docker and Kubernetes.
LLM features, retrieval, evaluation and automation, plus classical models in PyTorch and TensorFlow, built into your product.
Shopify (including headless), WooCommerce, Magento and WordPress builds, extensions and performance work.
How hiring works
Seven steps from the first conversation to an engineer shipping inside your team — and a regular check that it is still working for you.
A call about the work, the codebase, your team’s rituals and what a good first month looks like — not just a list of technologies.
Written role brief
One developer, a pair or a managed pod; the seniority the work needs; the monthly price in pounds and the notice terms.
Proposal with a monthly price
You review profiles and interview the engineers we put forward — technical questions, pairing or a code walkthrough, whatever you normally do.
Your choice of engineer
Access to repositories, tickets and environments, your security requirements met, and a first set of small tickets to learn the codebase safely.
Access, rituals and first tickets
A check with you after the first few weeks on pace, quality and communication, so any concern is raised and discussed early.
Pace and quality reviewed together
Full participation in your sprints, code reviews and releases, with daily written updates and a weekly demo of progress.
Visible progress every week
Add a skill, add a person, reduce capacity or move to a fixed-scope project as the roadmap changes — on the notice terms agreed at the start.
A team that matches the work
Pricing
A fair comparison is not salary against our monthly price. An employee also brings employer’s National Insurance, pension contributions, equipment and software licences, often a recruitment fee, and the weeks before they start and settle in. Holiday and sick leave are paid, and managing the role takes time.
A dedicated developer is priced per month in pounds — from £2,900 per developer, or from £9,500 for a managed pod with QA and a delivery lead — with no recruitment fee, and capacity you can change on the notice terms agreed at the start. Flexible hours, from £20 an hour, suit bursts of fixes and small features.
For a core role you will need for years, a permanent hire is often the better investment, and we will tell you so. Dedicated developers earn their place when you need capacity quickly, for a defined period, or in a skill you cannot yet justify hiring for.
Engagement models
Reserve a named developer for your roadmap, bring in a managed pod that owns an outcome, or buy flexible hours for bursts of work.
From £2,900 per developer / month
Ongoing roadmap work where you want named engineers inside your own sprints.
From £9,500 per month
A small cross-functional pod — engineering, QA and delivery lead — that owns an outcome.
From £20 per hour
Fixes, small features and support where the work comes in bursts rather than sprints.
Prices are in GBP. Every estimate is confirmed in writing after a discovery call — the figures above are where engagements start, not a quote.
Relevant work
A travel platform, a smart-home dashboard and a legal client-intake system — the kind of product work our developers are used to. Each case study covers the brief, the approach and the stack.
All case studiesTravel platform bringing flights, hotels, itineraries and loyalty together.
Smart-home dashboard for device control, schedules and energy use.
Client intake, risk checks and document workflows for a boutique law firm.
Why Techsleight
What you can hold us to — including what happens when something is not working.
You see profiles and interview before anyone starts. Nobody joins your team without your say-so.
Your repositories, tickets, stand-ups and review rules. Our engineers adapt to how your team already works.
Add a skill or reduce capacity on notice terms agreed up front, rather than a long lock-in.
Backend, QA, DevOps and design colleagues are available when the work needs them, without you recruiting for each role.
Everything written for you belongs to you from day one. NDA before any detailed conversation if you need one.
Engineers based in the UK and India on UK business hours, so stand-ups, reviews and incident calls happen while your team is online.
A monthly price per developer in pounds, from £2,900, with no recruitment fee and no employer costs on your side. Your contract is with a UK company.
FAQs
Straight answers on scope, cost, timelines and how we work. If yours is not here, ask us directly.
Dedicated developers start from £2,900 per developer per month, and a managed pod with QA and a delivery lead starts from £9,500 a month. The exact price depends on the skills and seniority the work needs, and is confirmed in writing before anything starts. For occasional work, flexible hours start from £20 an hour.
You contract with one company rather than with individuals, and you interview before anyone starts. On IR35: the off-payroll rules are aimed at individual contractors working through their own limited companies. Your contract here is with a company for a service, and your accountant can confirm how the rules apply to your arrangement.
Once you have interviewed and chosen, most engagements start within 5–7 working days of sign-off — the time it takes to agree access, set up accounts and plan the first tickets. With a permanent hire, the recruitment process and the candidate’s notice period both come before day one.
A dedicated developer’s agreed monthly capacity is reserved for your product: you know who is working on it and when, and they take part in your team’s rituals. If your work would not fill that capacity, flexible hours are usually the better fit.
Our engineers are based in the UK and India and work UK business hours, with overlap for stand-ups, planning and reviews. Your contract is with Krapton IT Consultancy, a UK company — Techsleight Labs is its trading name.
Tell us early. We review the fit with you after the first few weeks anyway, and together we agree the next step — more senior oversight, a change to the shape of the engagement, or ending it on the notice terms agreed at the start. The aim is a team that works, not a contract that locks you in.
Yes. Add a developer for a launch, bring in QA or DevOps for a few sprints, or reduce capacity when a project ends. Notice terms are agreed in the contract before you start, so changing the team is a planned conversation rather than a negotiation.
You direct the work — priorities, tickets and reviews — as you would with your own engineers. We handle everything around them: contracts, equipment, leave planning and support from senior colleagues. With a managed pod, a delivery lead also runs sprint planning and reporting and owns the outcome with you.
You do, from day one. The code lives in your repositories, the documentation in your tools, and the IP is yours under the contract. We are happy to sign an NDA before any detailed conversation about your product.
Yes. Starting small and adding skills as the work shows what it needs is a sensible way to use the model. QA, design, DevOps and delivery management can be added for a few sprints or for good, and you can move to a managed pod or a fixed-scope project if that suits the work better.
Start a project
Tell us about the work, your stack and your team, and when you need someone. We will reply within one working day with questions, the team shape we would suggest and the monthly price.
What happens next
Techsleight Labs is a trading name of Krapton IT Consultancy.
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