How much does a website cost in the UK?

UK agency rates for a small business website typically run £3,000–£10,000, with London agencies quoting £10,000–£30,000 and freelancers £1,000–£4,000. Posteroids builds the equivalent from about £470 for a portfolio site, £940–£2,700 for a company site, and £2,300 upward for a web application — the difference is cost base, not scope.

Is it safe to hire a web developer in Pakistan?

The risk is real and it is manageable: it is concentrated almost entirely in paying before you have seen anything. Posteroids removes that specific risk by building a real page of your site and sending you the live link before any invoice exists. Beyond that, insist on owning the repository and domain from day one, and on a conventional stack another developer could take over. Those two conditions make the arrangement about as safe as hiring locally.

What are your working hours compared to the UK?

Lahore is UTC+5, four or five hours ahead of the UK depending on daylight saving. The entire British working day is covered — a message sent at 9am in London arrives at 1 or 2pm in Lahore, and replies come the same day.

Can you invoice in GBP?

Yes. Projects are quoted in USD for consistency and invoiced in GBP or USD, whichever you prefer, paid by bank transfer or the usual international rails.

Will the site comply with GDPR?

Yes, where you tell us it needs to. Cookie consent where tracking is present, a privacy policy, minimal data collection by default, and UK or EU hosting regions if you need data resident there. Flag it in the brief and it is built in rather than retrofitted.

Do you have UK clients already?

Posteroids launched in 2025 and its published case studies are Pakistani businesses, two of which sell to overseas buyers. Rather than ask you to take a claim on trust, the offer is the same as everywhere else: a free working page of your own site, on a live link, before you commit anything. Judge the studio on that.

United Kingdom

Web development for UK businesses

A Lahore studio working UK hours, for British businesses who want a designer-developer they can actually talk to — at a fraction of what a London agency charges for the same site.

Posteroids builds websites and web applications for UK businesses from a studio in Lahore, Pakistan. Websites start at about £470 and web applications at about £2,300 — typically 60–80% below what a comparable UK agency charges, because the cost base is different, not because the work is thinner. Lahore is UTC+5, which overlaps the entire UK working day. Every project starts with a free demo page delivered before any invoice exists.

Let us deal with the obvious question first

You are considering hiring a web developer in another country, and you have heard the horror stories: the developer who vanished, the site that arrived broken, the three-hour reply delay, the code nobody else could read. Those stories are real. Here is how each one is actually addressed rather than waved away.

The worry	The honest answer
"They will disappear with my deposit"	You pay nothing to see the work. The free demo — a real page of your actual site, on a live link — comes before any invoice exists. The first money changes hands after you have seen something real.
"The time difference will kill it"	Lahore is UTC+5 — four or five hours ahead of the UK depending on the season. The whole British working day is covered, and messages sent at 9am London arrive mid-afternoon here. This is the easy direction; it is US West Coast that is hard, not you.
"I will be talking to an account manager"	You will not. Posteroids is a small studio: the person who takes your brief is the person who designs and builds it. There is nobody in between to lose the detail.
"The code will be unmaintainable"	You own the repository and the accounts from day one, and the stack is deliberately conventional — modern JavaScript and TypeScript, managed Postgres, hosted auth. Any competent UK developer can pick it up without a handover project.
"How do I even pay them?"	Bank transfer or the usual international rails, invoiced in GBP or USD, whichever you prefer.
"What about GDPR?"	Standard practice: cookie consent where tracking is used, a privacy policy, data minimisation by default, and EU or UK hosting regions where you need the data resident there. Say so in the brief and it is built that way.

What it costs in GBP

Posteroids project ranges in GBP. Approximate — quoted in USD, and the rate moves.
What you are building	GBP	USD	Timeline
Portfolio site	£470 – £1,200	$600 – $1,500	1–2 wks
B2B company site	£900 – £2,700	$1,200 – $3,500	2–3 wks
B2C storefront	£1,200 – £3,100	$1,500 – $4,000	2–4 wks
Web app / MVP	£2,300 – £9,400	$3,000 – $12,000	4–8 wks
Redesign & rescue	£390 – £1,600	$500 – $2,000	1–2 wks
Care & feeding	£120/mo	$150/mo	Ongoing

Approximate: projects are quoted in USD and invoiced in GBP or USD as you prefer. For comparison, a UK agency building the same B2B site typically quotes £6,000–£20,000, and a London agency more.

Where a UK agency is the better call

Not every job should come to Lahore, and you should hear that from the person asking for the work.

You need someone in the room — a workshop, a stakeholder session, a board that will not sign off remotely.
You are procuring under a framework that requires a UK-registered supplier, or contractually needs UK legal jurisdiction.
You need a team that survives one person being ill for a fortnight. A small studio does not have that depth; a thirty-person agency does.
The work is genuinely enormous — a multi-year platform with several parallel workstreams.

If none of those apply — and for most small and mid-sized British businesses none do — you are paying a large premium for geography.

How a project runs

01
Brief
You describe what you are building. Fifteen minutes, no deck required.
02
Free demo
We build one real page of your actual site and send you the link. Not a mockup, not a Figma file — a working page you can open on your phone. You keep it whether or not you continue.
03
Build
Design and build happen in the open on a live URL. You see progress daily and change your mind while changing it is still cheap.
04
Launch
Fast, indexed, responsive, on your own domain. Analytics wired, forms tested, nothing left dangling.
05
Aftercare
Edits, fixes and new sections on request. We do not disappear after the invoice clears.

Questions UK clients ask

How much does a website cost in the UK?: UK agency rates for a small business website typically run £3,000–£10,000, with London agencies quoting £10,000–£30,000 and freelancers £1,000–£4,000. Posteroids builds the equivalent from about £470 for a portfolio site, £940–£2,700 for a company site, and £2,300 upward for a web application — the difference is cost base, not scope.
Is it safe to hire a web developer in Pakistan?: The risk is real and it is manageable: it is concentrated almost entirely in paying before you have seen anything. Posteroids removes that specific risk by building a real page of your site and sending you the live link before any invoice exists. Beyond that, insist on owning the repository and domain from day one, and on a conventional stack another developer could take over. Those two conditions make the arrangement about as safe as hiring locally.
What are your working hours compared to the UK?: Lahore is UTC+5, four or five hours ahead of the UK depending on daylight saving. The entire British working day is covered — a message sent at 9am in London arrives at 1 or 2pm in Lahore, and replies come the same day.
Can you invoice in GBP?: Yes. Projects are quoted in USD for consistency and invoiced in GBP or USD, whichever you prefer, paid by bank transfer or the usual international rails.
Will the site comply with GDPR?: Yes, where you tell us it needs to. Cookie consent where tracking is present, a privacy policy, minimal data collection by default, and UK or EU hosting regions if you need data resident there. Flag it in the brief and it is built in rather than retrofitted.
Do you have UK clients already?: Posteroids launched in 2025 and its published case studies are Pakistani businesses, two of which sell to overseas buyers. Rather than ask you to take a claim on trust, the offer is the same as everywhere else: a free working page of your own site, on a live link, before you commit anything. Judge the studio on that.

Everything Posteroids builds

Portfolio Site$600 – $1,500 · 1–2 wks
B2B Company Site$1,200 – $3,500 · 2–3 wks
B2C / Storefront$1,500 – $4,000 · 2–4 wks
Web App / MVP$3,000 – $12,000 · 4–8 wks
Redesign & Rescue$500 – $2,000 · 1–2 wks
Care & Feeding$150/mo · Ongoing

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Last reviewed 2026-08-03 · Posteroids, Lahore, Pakistan · posteroids.official@gmail.com

Let us deal with the obvious question first

What it costs in GBP

Where a UK agency is the better call

How a project runs

Brief

Free demo

Build

Launch

Aftercare

Questions UK clients ask

Everything Posteroids builds