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Senior engineers, without the hiring

Our AI-native development team takes on the work your roadmap can't absorb: LLM integration, migrations, headless builds and full products. Published day rates, month-to-month terms and no recruitment fees.
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Senior day rate
£600
Recruitment fees
£0
Response time
24h
Rolling terms
Monthly

What we take on

Work that needs senior hands

Technology-agnostic: we work in your stack — React, Node.js, Python, Go and the rest — or recommend the right one for the job.

Who we work with

  • Mid-market and enterprise
  • Government agencies
  • Online retail and D2C
  • Marketplaces
  • Publishers and streaming
  • Production studios

  • AI and machine learning

    LLM features, retrieval over your own data, agentic workflows and ML pipelines that earn their keep.

  • Migrations

    Off legacy hosting or a hyperscaler, with a plan for DNS, data and cut-over — and no downtime.

  • Content platforms

    Headless CMS builds with preview, localisation and the editorial workflow your team actually uses.

  • Cloud-native architecture

    Services, queues and distributed systems designed to run near your users, not in one region.

  • DevOps and infrastructure

    CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability and the runbooks that go with them.

  • Data-driven products

    Turn raw data into dashboards, recommendations and features people use.

Why Edge

Productive from the first day

You get a team that has already shipped systems serving millions of users — without the months it takes to hire one.

  • No ramp-up

    Experienced teams slot into your workflow — your repo, your tickets, your Slack or Teams — from day one.

  • End-to-end delivery

    Architecture, build, deployment and ongoing maintenance. You keep the decisions; we carry the complexity.

  • Published pricing

    The day rate is on this page. You see the estimate before we start, and there are no surprise invoices.

  • UK, US and EU teams

    Senior developers in your time zone, working to the data-protection rules you're bound by.

  • Scale up or down

    Add capacity for a launch, step back after it. Month-to-month terms, cancel any time.

  • AI-native by default

    The same team that builds Edge's agent tooling brings those habits to your project.

The true cost of hiring

An £80k salary costs far more than £80k

Employer overhead averages 42% on top of base pay. A recruiter takes 15–25% of salary. And a new senior hire needs three to six months to reach full speed. Move the numbers to match your market.

The day rate covers a senior developer plus project direction and design input.

£80,000
£50k£150k
Recruitment fee
Time to full productivity
  • Base salary£80,000
  • Employer overhead (42%)NI, pension, benefits, equipment, space£33,600
  • Recruitment fee (20%)£16,000
  • Ramp-up (4.5 months at half pace)−41 days
In-house, year one£129,600for ~179 productive days

In-house, per productive day

£725

Edge senior engineer

£600

In-house£129,600
Edge, same days£107,250

About 17% less per productive day — with PM and design input included.

Indicative. Assumes 220 working days a year and half productivity during ramp-up; excludes turnover and management time.

Engagement models

Three ways to work together

All at the same published day rate, with volume discounts for longer commitments.

Project-based

10 daysminimum

Fixed scope, fixed timeline. For well-defined work with clear deliverables.

  • Scoped estimate before we start
  • Milestones and demos
  • Handover and documentation
Scope a project

Retainer

Most flexible

5 daysa month, minimum

Reserved capacity for ongoing work, with priority scheduling and volume discounts.

  • Priority scheduling
  • Volume discounts
  • Roll work between months as priorities change
Set up a retainer

Dedicated team

3 monthsminimum

One or more full-time engineers embedded with your team, working only on your projects.

  • 1+ full-time equivalent developers
  • Project management included
  • Direct channel to your team
Build a team

What the day rate covers

One rate. Everything a project needs.

No separate line for project management, reviews or design input. Book a free consultation and you'll leave with a plan, whether or not you hire us.
  • Senior development resource
  • Project management and coordination
  • UI/UX design input
  • Code review and quality assurance
  • Technical architecture guidance
  • Regular progress reporting
  • Direct Slack or Teams channel
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FAQ

Before you book

Want frontier R&D rather than delivery capacity? Meet Edge Labs.
What does the day rate include?
A senior developer plus project management, UI/UX input, code review, architecture guidance and regular reporting. There are no extra lines for any of those.
What's the minimum engagement?
Ten days for a fixed-scope project, five days a month for a retainer, or three months for a dedicated team. Retainers and dedicated teams are month to month after that.
Where are your engineers based?
Our teams are in the UK, US and EU, so you work with senior developers in or near your time zone.
Which technologies do you work with?
Most modern web, mobile, data and AI stacks — React, Node.js, Python and Go among them. We'll work in yours, or recommend what fits.
What happens in the free consultation?
Our solution architects review your systems and goals, then send a technical assessment, a high-level architecture, a team recommendation, a roadmap and a cost estimate. No commitment.

Tell us what you need built

Book a free consultation with our solution architects. You'll get expert advice on your technical challenge — and a clear estimate if you want us to deliver it.

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