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Pricing, in plain sight.

A day rate, a fixed-price upgrade, and retainers. No mystery quotes, no discovery-call gatekeeping.

What I charge, and why it is on this page.

Most development pricing hides behind a discovery call. Mine does not. My day rate is £500, my Umbraco 13 to 17 upgrade is a fixed £8,999 plus VAT, and I offer monthly retainers from £500: Essentials is 1 day a month at £500, Growth is 2 days at £950, Partner is 4 days at £1,800. If those numbers work for you, we can skip the dance and talk about your actual site.

Where a job can be fixed-price, I fix it before we start. Where it cannot, I track every hour in Toggl and you see the log. Either way you know what you are spending before you spend it. Booking through the Simon Antony agency costs more per hour; hiring me directly by the day is the leaner way to buy the same experience.

Contracts are just as painless: issued and signed digitally through Onboardo, contract software we built ourselves, so starting an engagement takes minutes rather than days.

Pricing

Three ways to hire me.

Day rate
Fixes, features, firefighting
£500per day
  • Senior hands on the code all day
  • Scoping and comms included, not billed extra
  • Toggl-tracked, log shared with you
  • Half days available for small jobs
Email Simon →
Monthly retainer
Your site, looked after
from £500per month
  • One day of senior time a month at the entry tier
  • Security patching and monitoring
  • Priority response when things break
  • Scale up or pause, no lock-in
Talk retainers →
The small print, out loud

What a day of my time actually includes.

01
Senior hands, the whole day

The day is spent by the person you hired. Not a junior, not an offshore team, not a project manager relaying messages. Me, in the code, on your problem.

02
Scoping and communication are free

Reading your brief, asking questions and writing up what I did are part of the service, not lines on the invoice. You are billed for building, not for talking about building.

03
Tracked, logged, visible

Every hour goes through Toggl and you can see the log. If a job comes in under the estimate, you pay for what was used, not what was quoted.

04
What I turn down

Full-service marketing, brand design, and anything I would have to learn on your money. If your job needs a team rather than a freelancer, I will say so and point you at Simon Antony or another good fit.

The numbers work? Then let's talk about the site.

Tell me what you are running and what needs doing. I will confirm the price band in my first reply, usually the same working day.