Hire WordPress developers in London.
Senior London WordPress developers for custom themes, plugin development, headless builds, WooCommerce, integrations, and migrations — built properly by developers who understand WordPress at the code level. Project builds from £5,000; retainers and team augmentation available.
WordPress the way it should be built.
Custom Theme Development
Hand-coded themes with Webpack build pipelines, Advanced Custom Fields, and performance-first architecture. No page builders, no bloat.
Plugin Development
Custom plugins for unique business requirements — from API integrations and payment processing to booking systems and custom post types.
WooCommerce
Custom WooCommerce builds for e-commerce stores — product configurators, subscription systems, and checkout optimisation.
Headless & Decoupled
WordPress as the CMS with a React or Next.js front end, served over the REST API or WPGraphQL. The right call for some projects and the wrong one for many — we will tell you which.
Migrations
Moves from Squarespace, Wix, Shopify and legacy WordPress installs, with URL mapping and redirect plans written before a single page moves.
Integrations
CRMs, payment providers, booking systems, ERPs and internal tools connected through documented, testable code rather than a stack of third-party connector plugins.
What this actually costs in London.
Most agency sites make you book a call to find out whether you can afford them. Here is the short version instead.
A custom WordPress build with us starts at £5,000. That figure buys a hand-coded theme, a proper content model, and a site that does not need a plugin stack to stand up. Brochure sites for professional-services firms typically land between £5,000 and £12,000. WooCommerce stores and anything with real application logic — portals, configurators, integrations with systems you already run — generally fall between £10,000 and £40,000, driven almost entirely by how much of your business logic has to live in the site.
Ongoing work runs on a retainer from £150 per month, which is a predictable block of senior developer time rather than a support ticket queue. If you need someone inside your existing team for a sprint or a quarter, we quote a day rate after a scoping call — the number depends on the stack and the seniority you actually need, and quoting it blind would be a guess.
If you want the full market picture rather than just ours, we wrote it up: how much it costs to hire a WordPress developer in London covers freelance rates, agency rates, and the hidden costs that turn a cheap build expensive.
We're not a theme installation shop.
Our WordPress builds are custom-coded with clean, maintainable PHP, modern SCSS, ES6 JavaScript, and Webpack asset pipelines. The kind of WordPress site that scores 95+ on Lighthouse and loads in under 2 seconds — not the kind that needs 47 plugins to function.
- Custom themes built on modern development standards
- Bespoke plugins, custom post types, and REST API / WPGraphQL integrations
- WooCommerce builds and third-party integrations — see our ClickSend SMS & WooCommerce walkthrough
- Headless WordPress with React/Next.js frontends
- Platform migrations with full SEO continuity
- Ongoing maintenance, security, and performance monitoring
- WordPress Multisite and enterprise deployments
Looking for design as well as development? See our full WordPress agency services.
Get a Quote →Work with our developers the way that fits.
Transparent pricing and flexible engagements — whether you need a fixed-scope build, an ongoing retainer, or an extra pair of senior hands on your team. For a detailed breakdown of what development actually costs, read our guide on how much it costs to hire a WordPress developer in London.
Fixed-Scope Projects
Defined deliverables, timeline, and price. Custom WordPress builds from £5,000, scoped after a free discovery call. Ideal for new sites and defined feature work.
Monthly Retainers
Ongoing development, maintenance, and priority support from £150/month — a predictable block of senior developer time each month for evolving sites.
Team Augmentation
Embed a senior WordPress developer into your in-house team for a sprint or a quarter. Day rates on request after a scoping call.
Standards you can inherit and maintain.
Every build follows WordPress coding standards, ships with a modern Webpack pipeline, and is documented so your next developer — in-house or agency — can pick it up without a rewrite. We open-source our foundations: our Thorn starter theme is the same clean, hand-coded base we build client sites on.
- WordPress coding standards, PHPCS, and version control on every project
- Modern SCSS, ES6 JavaScript, and Webpack asset pipelines — no page builders
- The open-source Thorn starter theme as our production-tested foundation
- Documented handovers so your site stays maintainable long after launch
Need design as well? See our WordPress agency in London or our custom WordPress design service.
Honestly, when not to hire us.
Plenty of London WordPress work does not need an agency. Here is how the three options actually compare, including the cases where we are the wrong answer.
A freelance developer
Right when: the scope is clear, the site is small, and you have someone internally who can specify the work and review it.
Watch for: single-person availability. Holidays, illness and a better-paying client are all real risks, and there is no handover if they move on. Ask what happens to your site if they stop replying.
An agency like us
Right when: the build has integrations, migration risk, commerce, or an SEO position you cannot afford to lose — anything where a mistake is expensive to undo.
Watch for: paying agency rates for work a freelancer could do. If your project is a five-page brochure site with no integrations, we will tell you that on the call.
An in-house hire
Right when: WordPress is central to your business and there is more than a full-time job's worth of work, indefinitely.
Watch for: the true cost. A senior London WordPress developer's salary plus employer's NI, pension and tooling is a substantial annual commitment before they have shipped anything — and a single hire has no one to review their code.
Six phases, and you see work in every one.
Discovery
Requirements, content model, integrations, and the constraints nobody mentioned in the brief. Ends with a fixed scope and a fixed price.
Architecture
Content types, taxonomies, field structure and hosting decided before any code. This is the phase that determines whether the site is maintainable in three years.
Build
Theme development on our Thorn foundation, in version control, on a staging URL you can see from day one.
Content & QA
Content migration, cross-browser and device testing, accessibility checks, and Lighthouse work until performance is where it should be.
Launch
Redirect mapping, DNS, analytics and Search Console verification. On migrations, the redirect plan is signed off before we go anywhere near the live domain.
Handover
Documentation, a walkthrough recording, and repository access. You own the code. If you leave us, you leave with everything.
Sites running in the city right now.
We moved our headquarters to London in 2023, after eleven years building the studio in Toronto. The London client base has grown around professional services, property and hospitality — sectors where the site is a credibility instrument first and a marketing channel second.
- Mount St Projects — a high-end residential developer in London, where the build had to carry the same finish as the properties it presents.
- Sofreh — a London restaurant, built for the reality that most diners arrive on a phone with one thumb free.
- Jongleurs — a comedy venue group with listings, artists and ticketing across multiple sites.
Our Toronto roots still show in the client list — Wannes Law in Toronto has been with us across that whole transition. It is the reason we are comfortable running projects across time zones: we did it for a decade before it was a selling point.
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