Freelance Umbraco Development.

Freelance Umbraco development, done by the person you hired

I'm Simon Steed, a freelance Umbraco developer based in Llandudno, North Wales and the Isle of Man. I have been building on Umbraco since 2011 and writing software commercially since 1995. In that time I have personally worked on more than 200 Umbraco sites, from version 4 right through to version 17, for clients including British Red Cross Training and the Scottish NHS iHub. In 2026, Umbraco named me an MVP, and the Silver Partnership behind my work is held directly by my own company, Simplepage Ltd.

What I build

Bespoke Umbraco sites on ASP.NET Core, with clean document types and a block editor your content team can actually use. Integrations with CRMs, payment gateways and custom APIs. Migrations and upgrades to Umbraco 17 LTS from older versions, including legacy sites other developers will not touch. Because there is no plugin marketplace in Umbraco, the quality of a build comes down to the developer writing the C#; that is exactly why you hire a specialist rather than a generalist agency.

How working with me works

My rate is £500 a day, tracked in Toggl with the log shared. You deal with me directly from first email to final deploy: I scope the work, I write the code, and there is no account manager in between. Scoping and communication are part of the service, not extra lines on the invoice. I work remotely from North Wales and support businesses and agencies across the UK and the US.

What I will tell you straight

Not every job needs a freelancer. Some are too small to pay for, and some sites are better rebuilt than patched. If that is true of yours, I will say so and point you somewhere better, usually in my first reply.

Ready to talk about your Umbraco project?

Tell me what you are running and what you need: a new build, an integration, or a migration to Umbraco 17. I will reply the same working day with an honest read and a price. If the honest read is that you do not need me, you will get that too.

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