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Custom web apps, portals, SaaS products and integrations for UK companies, built by a Lahore team with UK-hours overlap and full IP transfer.
Offshore software development UK firms buy from us means handing a defined build, or a dedicated team, to engineers in Lahore while you keep product ownership, source code and data control. We build custom web applications, SaaS products, portals and integrations for UK businesses, with a written scope, sprint demos in your morning and code in your repository from the first commit.
Key takeaways
- UK contract software developers had a median day rate of £525 in the six months to October 2026, per IT Jobs Watch.
- Engagement options: fixed-scope project, dedicated team, or a monthly retainer for an existing product.
- Code lives in your GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket organisation; IP assigns to you on payment.
- Lahore is 4 to 5 hours ahead of the UK, giving a daily overlap for stand-ups and reviews.
Why UK businesses choose our offshore software development
The usual trigger is cost. When a single UK contractor bills hundreds of pounds a day, a small product team quickly becomes a five-figure monthly commitment. Pakistan's software sector has grown into a serious export industry, with IT exports reaching a record $4.6 billion according to ProPakistani, and Lahore is one of its main hubs.
Cost alone is a poor reason to choose a supplier, though. UK clients stay with us for three other reasons:
- Senior involvement. Junaid Tariq, our founder, has 18+ years building custom software, CRMs and WordPress plugins and reviews architecture on every project.
- Product thinking. We also run SEO and paid media, so we build software that has to win customers, not only pass tests. Our CRM and ERP development and web development teams sit in the same office.
- Transparent delivery. Shared board, sprint demos, readable commit history and staging environments you can open at any time.
- No lock-in. Documentation, deployment scripts and credentials are handed over as we go, not held back for the final invoice.
If you are still weighing the model itself, our guide to outsourcing software development to Pakistan covers the risks honestly, and the profile of our Lahore software house shows the team you would work with.
Software development services we offer in the UK
Our custom software development practice covers the full lifecycle. For UK clients the most common projects are:
SaaS products and MVPs
Multi-tenant apps with subscriptions, roles and admin panels, built to launch then scale.
Learn moreClient and supplier portals
Secure logins for customers to track orders, download documents or raise tickets.
Logistics and freight systems
Quote engines, load boards, consignment tracking and driver job flows for UK hauliers and forwarders.
CRM and ERP
Sales pipelines, inventory and operations software shaped to your process.
Learn moreMobile companions
Flutter apps that share the same API as your web platform.
Learn moreIntegrations and automation
Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Stripe, GoCardless, Companies House data, Microsoft 365 and internal APIs.
Engagement models
| Model | Best when | How you pay |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed-scope project | Requirements are clear and stable | Milestones against a written spec |
| Dedicated team | Roadmap is ongoing and evolving | Monthly fee per engineer |
| Retainer | Existing product needs fixes and small features | Monthly block of hours |
UK off-payroll working rules (IR35) are aimed at individual contractors working through personal companies. Buying a defined service from an overseas company is a different arrangement, but your accountant should confirm how it applies to you.
UK industries and case studies
Freight and logistics is the sector where we see the strongest fit in the UK: marketplaces matching loads to carriers, quote calculators and tracking dashboards are complex to build but well understood by our team. Ecommerce businesses are close behind, usually needing custom order routing, warehouse tools or marketplace integrations that off-the-shelf plugins cannot handle.
Other UK sectors we build for include property lettings and management (drawing on our real estate CRM experience), private healthcare (booking and patient records, see our clinic management software work), training providers and B2B wholesalers.
Pricing for UK businesses
The useful benchmark for offshore software development UK pricing is the local day rate. IT Jobs Watch reports a median of £525 a day for UK software developer contracts in the six months to 24 October 2026, with the 10th percentile at £363 and the 90th at £617. A small team of three contractors at the median works out at well over £30,000 a month before management time.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery sprint | Workshops, user stories, wireframes, architecture and fixed quote | [Add your GBP price] |
| MVP build | Core features, admin panel, deployment, 30 days of fixes | [Add your GBP price] |
| Dedicated developer | Full-time engineer with lead oversight, monthly | [Add your GBP price] |
| Support retainer | Monitoring, updates, small features | [Add your GBP price] |
For context on how Lahore rates are set, our software development cost guide for Pakistan lists published local ranges and salary data. Hosting (AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean) and third-party licences are billed to your own accounts at cost.
Our process
- Discovery
One to two weeks of workshops producing user stories, data model, wireframes and a priced roadmap.
- Architecture and setup
Repository in your organisation, CI/CD pipeline, staging and production environments in your cloud account.
- Two-week sprints
Planning at the start, a recorded demo at the end, and a running changelog you can share with stakeholders.
- Testing and security
Automated tests for core flows, code review on every pull request, dependency scanning and OWASP-based checks before release.
- Launch and handover
Production deployment, monitoring, documentation and a knowledge-transfer session for your in-house team or next supplier.
The offshore projects that fail rarely fail on code quality. They fail because nobody wrote down what done looks like. We spend the first fortnight on exactly that.
Junaid Tariq, FounderHow we work with UK clients: time zones, currency, contracts
Pakistan runs on PKT (UTC+5) all year. Against UK winter time (GMT) Lahore is 5 hours ahead; during BST it is 4 hours ahead. Our stand-ups happen in your morning, so a bug reported at 9am London time can be picked up the same working day and often fixed by your afternoon.
Contracts and IP
- Master services agreement plus statement of work for each phase; mutual NDA before discovery if you prefer.
- Assignment of copyright and IP in bespoke code to your company on payment, with open-source components listed by licence.
- Governing law can be England and Wales if your legal team requires it.
Data protection
If our engineers can access personal data in your system, we act as a processor under UK GDPR and sign a data processing agreement. Because Pakistan does not have a UK adequacy decision, restricted transfers normally rely on the ICO's international data transfer agreement, in force since March 2022, plus a transfer risk assessment. Where possible we work with anonymised or test data so production records never leave UK hosting. This is general guidance, not legal advice.
Invoices are in GBP or USD, payable by bank transfer or Wise, monthly in arrears for teams and by milestone for fixed projects. We also serve offshore software clients in the USA and European companies on the same terms. Read who owns the source code for more on ownership, or contact our Lahore office directly.
Software Development by location
We deliver software development from our Lahore office for businesses across Pakistan and abroad. Choose your city or market:
Pakistan
International
Other services in the UK
Frequently asked questions
How much does software development cost in the UK?
UK contract developers cost a median £525 a day according to IT Jobs Watch, so even a small in-house or contractor team runs to tens of thousands of pounds a month. Offshore delivery from Lahore lowers that substantially. We price fixed-scope work after a discovery sprint and dedicated engineers at a monthly rate, both quoted in GBP.
Do you work with UK businesses remotely?
Yes. All UK engagements run remotely from Lahore with daily or twice-weekly stand-ups in UK morning hours, sprint demos on video and a shared board. Code sits in your repository and environments in your cloud account, so you always see real progress. For larger programmes, on-site workshops can be arranged.
How soon will I see results?
You see working software at the end of the first two-week sprint after discovery. A focused MVP typically takes two to four months; larger platforms are delivered in phases so that useful features go live early. Timelines depend on how quickly decisions and feedback come back from your side.
Which industries do you work with?
In the UK our strongest areas are freight and logistics, ecommerce operations, property, private healthcare, training providers and B2B wholesale. Across our wider portfolio we build for real estate, education, hospitality, construction and exporters. If your process is unusual, that is usually where custom software adds the most value.