Who we are and how remote delivery works for UK clients
BtechWaleTech is three engineers working from India. One of us is a full stack developer who writes most of the front-end and application code. Another of us covers AI and machine learning, AWS, data science, technical SEO and deployment. The third of us runs project management alongside data science, AI and automation work. When you send a question, one of us answers it, and the answer comes from the person doing the work rather than an account manager relaying it. More about the team is on the about page.
We want to be plain about what we are not. We do not have a UK office, a virtual address in London, a UK-registered company or any local staff, and this page does not pretend otherwise. We are not a large agency with a sales team. We are a small group of engineers who have organised our working day around clients in other time zones, and the UK is one of the easiest to work with because your morning is our afternoon.
Remote delivery changes less than most people expect. A website or web app is built in a code repository and reviewed on a staging link, not in a meeting room. What makes a remote project succeed is written clarity: a scope that lists what will and will not be built, a fixed update rhythm, decisions confirmed in writing, and a staging site you can open on your own phone whenever you like. We run every project that way, so you are never waiting for a meeting to find out where things stand.
Most UK enquiries that suit a team like ours fall into a few groups. Small firms and sole traders whose site was built on a page builder years ago, loads slowly and no longer describes what they sell. Growing businesses that need a proper store or a customer portal but cannot justify a London agency retainer. And UK design and marketing agencies that need dependable development capacity behind their own client relationships. If your project needs someone on site every week, or a supplier with UK professional indemnity insurance as a contract condition, a local agency is the better choice, and we will say so.
Website, software and automation services for UK businesses
Web development. Business websites, landing pages and content sites built on Astro, Next.js or React, or on WordPress when your team wants to edit pages themselves in a familiar editor. For most service businesses we recommend a static site: it loads quickly on a train with patchy signal, costs very little to host and offers almost nothing for an attacker to break. The static plan covers up to 100 pages, responsive layouts, enquiry forms routed to email and WhatsApp, hosting, SSL and deployment. Details are on the web development service page.
Website design. Design starts from what a UK buyer checks before they contact anyone: what you do, where you work, what it roughly costs, whether you are properly registered and accredited, and how quickly they can reach you. We agree the page structure and wireframes before visual design, design the mobile layout first, and keep sliders, autoplay video and heavy animation off pages where they slow people down. Copy is written in British English, and we can work with your existing brand guidelines or propose a simple visual system if you do not have one.
Custom software and web apps. Client portals, booking systems, quoting tools, internal dashboards and admin panels built around the way your team already works: a job-sheet system for a trades business, a document portal for an accountancy practice, a stock and order dashboard for a small wholesaler. Many businesses that ask for a mobile app actually need a progressive web app that installs from the browser and updates without app store review. Custom web apps start from US$900.
AI automation. Automation starts from US$600 and suits work your team repeats every week: sorting enquiry emails, extracting data from invoices and delivery notes, drafting product descriptions for review, or answering routine customer questions from your own documentation. We map the current workflow first and scope the build against the hours it saves. If a task happens twice a month, we will tell you it is not worth automating.
Maintenance. Two months of maintenance are included free after launch: content updates, bug fixes, dependency and security updates, backups, and uptime and speed checks. After that, plans start from US$120/mo, or you can contact us only when something needs changing. Nothing locks you in.
Ecommerce for UK sellers: Shopify, Stripe, PayPal and Klarna
Ecommerce builds start from US$750. The platform decision comes first. For most UK product businesses with a catalogue under a few thousand items, Shopify is the sensible default: hosting, security and card compliance are handled for you, and Shopify Payments, which runs on Stripe, takes cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay without a separate merchant account. WooCommerce suits businesses already invested in WordPress that want full control of their data. A custom build on Stripe makes sense when your pricing, product configuration or trade accounts do not fit a standard platform.
At checkout, UK shoppers expect the familiar options. Cards and digital wallets through Stripe or Shopify Payments cover most of them. PayPal is still a reassuring fallback for many buyers. Klarna and Clearpay let customers spread the cost; the provider carries the credit decision and supplies the wording and messaging it requires, and we place that messaging where the provider's rules say it should go. For trade customers we can add account pricing, invoice terms and minimum order quantities, and for subscriptions we use Stripe Billing or Shopify's subscription apps rather than building billing logic from scratch.
The UK-specific details are where generic templates tend to fall short:
- VAT display. Consumer prices shown including VAT, with trade prices shown excluding VAT where you sell to businesses, and VAT numbers captured for B2B orders.
- Delivery rules. Royal Mail, Evri, DPD or Parcelforce rates at checkout, with separate rules for the Scottish Highlands and islands, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland, where carriers often charge more or goods rules differ.
- Returns and cancellations. Distance sales to consumers generally carry a cancellation period, so the returns page, the order confirmation email and the returns form need to be easy to find rather than buried in the terms.
- Honest pricing and reviews. UK consumer law has tightened on hidden fees and fake reviews, so we build product pages that show the full price and connect only to genuine review sources.
- Product data for Google. Product structured data and a Merchant Center feed so price and availability can appear in Google Shopping and free listings.
We test the full purchase flow, including a real refund, before launch. Filters and collection pages are built so they do not generate thousands of thin, near-duplicate URLs that waste Google's attention, which is one of the most common SEO problems we see on UK stores that grew on a template.
SEO for google.co.uk: local, national and hreflang en-GB
UK searches are local and specific. People search for a service plus a town, a London borough, a county or sometimes a postcode area, and the results for an accountant in Leeds have almost nothing in common with the results for a national accountancy brand. Good UK SEO starts by deciding which of those games you are playing. A plumber in Salford needs service-area pages and a well-kept Google Business Profile. A software firm selling nationally needs strong product and comparison pages. A retailer needs category pages that match how people actually shop.
Every site we build ships with the technical groundwork: clean URLs, unique titles and descriptions written for UK queries, structured data describing your organisation and services, an XML sitemap, fast mobile pages and internal links that help both visitors and crawlers. We verify the site in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, submit the sitemap and check indexing after launch. For local visibility we guide you through setting up or tidying your Google Business Profile, which must be owned and verified by you, and keep business details consistent across the UK directories that already list you.
Area pages are where many UK sites go wrong. Twenty pages that swap the town name in otherwise identical text are thin content, and Google treats them that way. We only build a page for a place when you genuinely serve it and have something specific to say: jobs you have done there, travel times, local regulations, prices that differ. One strong page often beats a dozen weak ones.
If you sell outside the UK, we set up hreflang annotations so Google shows the right version in each market: en-GB for the UK, en-IE for Ireland, en-US for the United States and cy-GB for Welsh pages. Each version needs its own URL, its own prices and its own spelling where it matters. A .co.uk or .uk domain is a clear UK signal; a .com with an /uk/ folder works well when you run several markets from one site.
Monthly SEO starts from US$150/mo and covers technical fixes, new content on a schedule, internal linking, local listing work and a monthly report from Search Console data. In competitive UK markets, London above all, expect progress over months rather than weeks, and be wary of anyone who guarantees a position. More detail is on the SEO services page.
UK coverage, region by region
We work with businesses in every part of the UK, always remotely. The notes below are not a claim to local presence. They describe what businesses in each region commonly need online and the questions we ask early, because a holiday cottage in Cornwall, a tool maker in the Black Country and a fintech in Shoreditch start from very different places.
London
City of London, Canary Wharf, Westminster, Shoreditch, Camden, Croydon
London is the most crowded search market in the country. Financial services cluster in the City and Canary Wharf, fintech and startups around Shoreditch and Old Street, law firms around Holborn and Chancery Lane, and creative, media and property businesses across every borough. For national phrases the competition is fierce and well funded, so smaller London businesses usually win by going narrow: a specific service in a specific borough, or a specialist offer that big firms do not bother to explain.
Buyers in London are often short of time and comparing several suppliers at once. Sites need to load quickly, answer the pricing question early and make contact easy from a phone. For finance and legal firms the credibility details matter: regulatory status, named people, clear fees where rules require them. Many London audiences are multilingual, so we can build language versions where the demand is real and the translated text comes from a qualified translator.
South East and East of England
Reading, Oxford, Brighton, Southampton, Portsmouth, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Kent
The Thames Valley around Reading and Slough is home to many technology and B2B firms that care about page speed, clean analytics and documentation. Oxford and Cambridge produce university spin-outs and life sciences companies that need credible sites for investors, recruits and partners, often with a careful line on what can be claimed about research. Brighton has a large digital and creative community, and Milton Keynes and the M1 corridor host logistics and distribution businesses that need quote tools and customer portals rather than brochures.
Along the coast, Southampton and Portsmouth bring port, marine and defence supply chains, while Kent, Sussex and the south coast have strong tourism, hospitality and food and drink producers. Commuter towns across the region are full of trades and professional services competing locally, where service-area pages and a well-maintained Google Business Profile do most of the work.
South West
Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset
Bristol combines aerospace engineering in the north of the city with one of the strongest creative and natural history filmmaking scenes in the country, and a busy startup community. Bath and the Cotswolds edge rely heavily on tourism, independent retail and professional services. Exeter and Plymouth bring universities, marine science and defence supply, while Cornwall, Devon and Dorset run on seasonal tourism, holiday lets and food and drink producers.
Seasonality shapes the work here. Holiday-let and attraction sites need their content refreshed and ranking before bookings start in winter and spring, and direct booking matters because marketplace commission is a large share of a small operator's margin. Producers selling cider, cheese, gin or seafood need shops with sensible delivery rules and clear information on perishable goods. Rural broadband and mobile coverage can be weak, so lightweight pages are a practical requirement, not a nicety.
Midlands
Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Stoke-on-Trent
Birmingham is a major centre for professional services, retail and the historic Jewellery Quarter, surrounded by the Black Country's manufacturing and engineering firms. Coventry and Warwickshire have deep roots in automotive engineering, Derby in rail and aero engines, Stoke-on-Trent in ceramics, and Leicester in textiles and food manufacturing. The motorway network through the region makes it a centre for warehousing and logistics.
Much of the Midlands economy is B2B, and B2B buyers do not want a glossy brochure. They want specifications, tolerances, materials, certifications, capacity and a named contact who can answer a technical question. We build searchable product catalogues, downloadable datasheets, request-for-quote forms that accept drawings, and trade ordering portals for repeat customers. These sites rarely need to rank for huge national phrases; they need to be found for precise part and process terms and to convince a procurement team quickly.
North West
Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Chester, Preston, Lancaster
Manchester has one of the largest digital and tech communities outside London, and MediaCityUK in Salford anchors a big broadcast and media cluster. The city is also a centre for professional services, higher education and a crowded hospitality and events scene. Liverpool brings its port, a strong visitor economy built on music, football and culture, and a growing digital sector. Cheshire and Lancashire add manufacturing, chemicals, life sciences and many family-run firms.
The North West has a lot of design and marketing agencies, and some need extra development capacity without hiring. We can work white-label behind an agency, build to its designs and standards and stay out of client conversations unless invited. For local businesses, Greater Manchester's many towns, from Stockport to Bolton to Wigan, each have their own search patterns, so area pages have to reflect where you actually work.
Yorkshire and the Humber
Leeds, Sheffield, York, Hull, Bradford, Harrogate
Leeds is one of the UK's largest financial and legal centres outside London, with a growing health and digital sector. Sheffield turned its steel heritage into advanced manufacturing and materials research, and its supply chains need detailed capability pages. York runs on tourism, heritage and rail, Harrogate on conferences and events, Bradford on textiles, food manufacturing and a large independent business community, and Hull on its port and the offshore wind industry.
Businesses here tend to value straight talking and fair prices, which suits the way we quote: itemised, with what is excluded written down. Event venues and visitor attractions need calendars that are easy to update. Manufacturers and energy suppliers need pages that pass a buyer's technical sniff test. Professional firms in Leeds compete hard on search, so their sites need depth on each practice area rather than a single services page.
North East
Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Durham
The North East combines a large automotive manufacturing base around Sunderland and its supplier network, chemicals and process industries on Teesside, energy and offshore engineering, and a growing digital and software scene in Newcastle. Durham and Newcastle universities feed research and start-up activity, and the region has a strong base of training providers, colleges and public-facing organisations.
Many businesses here serve regional customers and compete with national providers who outspend them on advertising. A fast, well-structured site that ranks for local and trade searches can be one of the cheapest ways to hold ground. Suppliers to large manufacturers need clear quality accreditations and a straightforward way to request documents, and training providers need course pages with dates, funding notes and enrolment forms that are simple to keep current.
Scotland
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling
Edinburgh is a major financial and investment centre and a tourist city whose population surges during the August festivals, so hospitality and events businesses need content live and ranking well before summer. Glasgow has a large professional services, retail, creative and engineering base. Aberdeen is the centre of the UK offshore energy industry and its move towards renewables. Dundee has a long history in video games, and Inverness is the gateway to the Highlands tourism economy. Whisky distilleries and food and drink producers sell to visitors and export markets from all over the country.
A few Scottish details affect the build. Scotland has its own legal system, so terms and conditions drafted for England and Wales should be checked by a Scottish solicitor if you sell to Scottish consumers. Couriers often apply surcharges for Highlands and Islands postcodes, which your checkout should show honestly rather than surprise customers with. Some organisations want Scottish Gaelic content or a .scot domain; we handle the technical side and you supply reviewed text.
Wales
Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrexham, Bangor, Aberystwyth
Cardiff is the capital and the centre of Welsh government, media and professional services, and South Wales around Newport has a compound semiconductor cluster. Swansea brings a university, marine and energy businesses and a busy visitor economy along the Gower. North and West Wales rely heavily on tourism, outdoor activities and farming, with Eryri and Pembrokeshire drawing visitors all year and especially in summer.
Language is the key Welsh consideration. Public bodies in Wales operate under Welsh Language Standards, and many private businesses choose to publish bilingually because their customers expect it. A good bilingual site gives each language its own URLs, uses hreflang for en-GB and cy-GB, lets visitors switch language on the same page and lets your team edit both versions easily. We build all of that; the Welsh text itself should come from a qualified translator or a Welsh-speaking member of your team.
Northern Ireland
Belfast, Derry~Londonderry, Newry, Lisburn, Enniskillen
Belfast has become a notable centre for cyber security, software and fintech, alongside film and television production and a strong professional services base. Agri-food businesses are important across Northern Ireland, and many firms sell both into Great Britain and across the border into the Republic of Ireland.
That cross-border trade shapes the website. Businesses often need prices in both sterling and euros, en-GB and en-IE pages with correct hreflang, and delivery rules that reflect how goods move between Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic under the Windsor Framework. Customs and VAT on goods are questions for your accountant, but once the rules are clear we build them into the checkout so customers see the right price and delivery option from the start.
UK GDPR, cookies, accessibility, company details and VAT
UK websites that handle personal data sit under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and cookies and similar tracking fall under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, usually called PECR. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 is changing parts of both in stages, including new exemptions for some low-risk analytics cookies, so check current Information Commissioner's Office guidance before relying on any of them. The practical build rule stays the same for now: advertising pixels and non-essential cookies should not load until a visitor actively agrees, and rejecting them should be as easy as accepting. We wire consent in from the start, holding scripts back until consent is given, rather than pasting a banner on top of a site that has already dropped every cookie.
Beyond cookies, we keep data collection deliberate. Contact and quote forms collect only the fields you need, submit over HTTPS to a destination you control, and are covered by a privacy notice that describes what actually happens to the data. Where enquiries flow into a CRM or email platform, we list which third parties receive what, which makes your own records easier to keep. Marketing emails need consent or a genuine existing-customer relationship under PECR, so sign-up forms get clear, unticked consent checkboxes.
Accessibility. Public sector bodies have specific accessibility regulations. Private businesses have duties under the Equality Act 2010 not to put disabled people at a substantial disadvantage, and WCAG 2.2 level AA is the practical benchmark most organisations use. We build to it by default: semantic structure, keyboard navigation, visible focus, sufficient colour contrast, labelled forms, captions where there is video and text alternatives for meaningful images. If you also sell to consumers in the EU, the European Accessibility Act may apply to parts of your service there.
Company details. UK limited companies are generally expected to show their registered name, company number, the part of the UK where they are registered and their registered office address on their website, and VAT-registered businesses should show their VAT number. Sole traders and partnerships have their own disclosure rules, and some professions add more: solicitors display the SRA digital badge, registered charities state their charity status, and CQC-registered care providers display their rating. We build a proper footer and legal page structure for whichever applies to you.
VAT. Your own prices to UK consumers should normally include VAT if you are registered. Our invoices come from India and do not include UK VAT; if your business is VAT registered, services bought from abroad usually fall under the reverse charge. Your accountant should confirm the treatment.
We are engineers, not lawyers, solicitors or data protection advisers. We will not write your privacy policy as legal advice, certify compliance or tell you that you are covered. What we do is build the site so that a qualified adviser has very little to fix, and apply the changes they recommend quickly.
Time zones: how the UK working day overlaps with India
India Standard Time is five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and four and a half hours ahead of British Summer Time. India does not change its clocks, so the gap narrows by an hour when the UK moves to summer time on the last Sunday in March and widens again on the last Sunday in October. We are available from 9am to 9pm India time, seven days a week on WhatsApp, which covers the whole UK morning and the first part of the afternoon in every season.
UK time and the matching time in India | UK time | India, UK winter (GMT) | India, UK summer (BST) | Good for |
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| 9:00am | 2:30pm | 1:30pm | Calls, reviews and decisions |
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| 11:00am | 4:30pm | 3:30pm | Calls and screen-share walkthroughs |
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| 1:00pm | 6:30pm | 5:30pm | Calls and quick questions |
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| 3:00pm | 8:30pm | 7:30pm | Last call slot; messages answered same day |
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| 5:30pm | 11:00pm | 10:00pm | Send feedback; it is picked up next morning India time |
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In practice that gives a rhythm many UK clients like. You review the staging site and send feedback over lunch or in the afternoon; we apply it in our evening and the next morning; you see the changes when you start work. For an urgent production problem we pick up early in your morning, and we warn you in advance about Indian public holidays such as Diwali that affect the schedule.
Quotes, GBP invoicing and payment milestones
Before any work starts you get a written scope listing deliverables, page count, integrations, timeline, milestones, revision rounds and the quoted price, plus a clear list of what is not included. Changes during the project are quoted in writing and approved by you before we build them, so the final invoice matches what you agreed.
International prices are set in US dollars. If you prefer, we invoice in pounds sterling at the exchange rate agreed on the day of the quote, so a later currency movement does not change your price. Most UK clients pay through Wise, which lets you make an ordinary UK bank transfer to a local account at low cost; an international wire from your business bank also works. We do not ask for card payments over the phone or for payment to personal accounts.
Payment is split into milestones, typically a deposit to start, a payment when the staging site is ready for review and the balance at launch. For maintenance and monthly SEO we invoice monthly and you can stop with notice. The pricing page, terms and refund policy set out the rest.
Buying guide: hiring an offshore web developer from the UK
Hiring a developer abroad can save a lot of money, and it can also go badly. Most failures come from vague scope, poor communication and missing handover rather than from the distance itself. Whether you choose us or someone else, these are the questions worth asking before you pay anything:
- Who exactly will do the work? Ask for names and profiles. A company that cannot tell you who will write the code may be reselling it.
- Is the scope written down? A proper quote lists pages, features, integrations, revision rounds, timeline and exclusions. If it is one line, expect arguments later.
- How are payments staged? Milestone payments tied to visible progress protect both sides. Be cautious about paying everything upfront.
- Who owns the domain, hosting and code? The answer should be you, from day one for the domain and at final payment for the code.
- When can you talk? Ask which UK hours they are available and how quickly they reply. A good overlap matters more than a promise of round-the-clock availability.
- Can you see work in progress? A staging link you can open at any time is worth more than weekly screenshots.
- What happens after launch? Ask how bugs are handled, what maintenance costs and whether you can leave with everything.
- Do they understand UK expectations? British English, VAT display, cookie consent and company details are basic signs that a developer has thought about your market.
- Are they honest about limits? Be wary of guaranteed first-page rankings, fake reviews or claims of offices that do not exist.
You will notice that we answer each of these on this page. That is deliberate: if a remote supplier cannot answer them in writing before you sign, they will not get easier once the project is running.
What drives the cost of a UK website
Our starting prices are low compared with typical UK agency quotes for similar work, and the difference comes from our cost base in India rather than from cutting the deliverable. But a starting price is exactly that. The final quote depends on requirements, and it helps to know which requirements move it.
Pages and content. A ten-page service site with copy you supply is at the low end. Writing the copy, producing area pages with genuinely different content, or migrating hundreds of old posts adds time. Our 299+ page SEO website plan starts from US$300 because large sites are generated from structured data rather than written one page at a time, but the data and the quality checks still take work.
Features and integrations. Booking systems, customer logins, CRM integrations such as HubSpot or Salesforce, accounting links such as Xero or QuickBooks, and payment flows each add design, build and testing time. A store with a few simple products differs from one with variants, bundles, trade pricing and subscriptions.
Design depth. Working from your existing brand is quicker than creating one. Custom illustration, photography direction or animation are extras we will quote separately or suggest you source locally.
Running costs. Budget for the yearly domain renewal, hosting, any paid plugins or Shopify subscription, payment provider fees and email services. A static site is usually the cheapest to run. We list expected running costs in the quote so you are not surprised later.
When you compare quotes, compare what is included: hosting setup, SEO groundwork, cookie consent, accessibility checks, handover and aftercare. A cheaper quote that excludes these can end up costing more.
Redesigning or moving an existing UK site without losing rankings
Plenty of UK businesses already have a website that ranks for something useful, even if it looks dated. The biggest risk in a redesign is throwing that away. Rankings usually drop after a relaunch for predictable reasons: URLs change without redirects, pages that earned links are deleted, titles are rewritten carelessly, or the new site is launched with a staging setting that tells search engines not to index it.
Before we touch the design, we export every URL that receives traffic or links from Search Console and analytics, and map each one to its new home. Where a URL has to change, it gets a permanent 301 redirect to the closest matching page, not a blanket redirect to the home page. Titles and body copy that rank are carried over or improved deliberately, and structured data is added rather than lost.
If you are leaving a website builder such as Wix or Squarespace, or a previous developer who controls your hosting, we also plan the handover of the domain, email records and any forms that feed your CRM, so nothing silently stops working on launch day. After launch we monitor Search Console for crawl errors and ranking changes, fix broken redirects quickly and report what moved.
Domains, hosting and data location for UK sites
Your domain should be registered in your name, with the login in your hands. A .co.uk or .uk domain is the clearest signal to UK buyers and to Google that you serve the UK; a .com works well if you trade internationally, and many businesses register both and redirect one to the other so nobody else can take the name. We configure DNS, email records such as SPF, DKIM and DMARC so your emails are less likely to land in spam, and SSL on every domain.
Static sites are served from a global content delivery network with edge locations in London, so they load quickly across the UK. For applications that store personal data we can deploy to UK or EU cloud regions, for example the AWS London region, and document where data lives and which providers process it. If your sector has specific data residency rules, tell us at the start and we will design around them.