Freelance Laravel developerfor UK businesses

The best fit is business-critical Laravel work where the software affects operations, reporting, payments, customer data, internal admin, or the processes your team relies on every day.

That might be a new internal platform, an inherited Laravel app that needs attention, a workflow automation project, an API integration, or a focused tool that replaces spreadsheet and inbox workarounds.

The common signal is that the work needs judgement. If the awkward parts are data quality, permissions, failed jobs, audit trails, supplier dependency, or how people handle exceptions, that is usually where I can help.

Moon Pixels is my company, but the work is led by me: Adam Hainsworth-Potter, a senior independent Laravel contractor.

That is useful when you need experienced ownership without adding a whole agency team. You get the person making the technical decisions close to the code, the business context, and the delivery trade-offs.

It is not the right fit if you need a large blended team from day one. It is a good fit when you need a senior developer who can understand a messy system, make pragmatic decisions, communicate clearly, and leave the work easier to run.

I charge £60 per hour for Laravel development and consultancy. A standard working day is eight hours, so my day rate is £480.

The minimum engagement is one day. A one-day booking can make sense for consultation, a technical review, or a clear fix, but most delivery work needs a larger block to understand the app, make the change properly, and leave useful notes behind.

Before any time is scheduled, we agree what you are booking, what the work is meant to achieve, and what it will cost.

For example project lengths and the contractor comparison, see the pricing page.

No. Laravel is my speciality, but most useful business software is not just one framework.

I often work across the surrounding stack: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue, Blade, Alpine, APIs, queues, databases, hosting, integrations, and the admin or customer-facing screens that sit on top of the Laravel application.

The reason I lead with Laravel is focus. It is the framework I know best, and it is a strong fit for the operational systems, portals, payment workflows, and internal tools I usually build. When another technology is the right supporting piece, I use it.

Yes. A lot of my work starts with an existing Laravel app built by another developer, agency, supplier, or internal team. I do not need the codebase to be neat before I can help, but I do need to understand what the business depends on before making changes.

The first pass is usually practical: code structure, database shape, deployments, queues, scheduled jobs, logs, integrations, permissions, backups, and the areas people are nervous about touching. From there I plan smaller changes that reduce risk while still moving useful work forward.

That was the shape of the Can Studios platform work: keep an inherited Laravel product stable, deliver commercially important changes, and move old infrastructure back onto supported ground.

I try to understand the business job before choosing the technical shape.

For a new build, that means mapping the users, rules, data, permissions, integrations, reporting needs, and manual fallbacks. For an existing app, it means reviewing the code, deployments, logs, queues, schedules, environments, known weak spots, and the workflows people are afraid to break.

The output should be a sensible first slice of work, not a huge speculative plan. I would rather start with a useful release that reduces risk or removes a real bottleneck than spend weeks designing a perfect version nobody has tested against the business.

I treat sensitive data, payments, and compliance-heavy workflows as product risks, not just technical details.

That usually means thinking about access control, audit logs, encryption, retention, data minimisation, validation, error handling, and who needs to see what when something goes wrong. For payment and operational workflows, I also care about reconciliation, traceable calculations, and support screens that explain the answer.

On the City Taxis NHS booking automation, the system needed encryption, audit logging, access control, retention policies, and careful reporting. On Rushpay, payment calculations needed audit trails and reconciliation because upstream data could change.