How much to pay for Wordpress work?

[Newmedia]

Hi,

I've just about got my Wordpress website in the shape I want it.

However, there are a few bit's and pieces still needing done that are too difficult for myself.

I estimate a good website designer could easily do all the amendments I want in a maximum of 6-8 hours. (maybe a lot lot less depending how good he/she is)

But just putting it down to 8 hours, how much should I be expecting to pay.

I am planning on advertising for someone on People Per Hour or similar and could do with some advice on how much I should post for my budget?

I am not going to go for the cheapest quote but would like to get value for money!

Many thanks for any suggestions

 

[Faevilangel]

Price - anywhere from £10 to £80 an hour depending on the type of work and the experience of the developer, as well as location.

There are a few WP developers on here who could help you I can name 4 or 5 off the top of my head

 

[hunny]

Hi,

I would recommend Leanne at www.eudesignstudio.com who is a member on here, very reasonable prices, very efficient & helpful and does a good job

 

[Newmedia]

Well I was thinking around £60 to £80 for the job. If it took 4 hours, that would be ok money in my opinion. If it took 8, which is a longshot, not so good but still ok. £60 \ 8 = £7.5 or £80 \ 8 = £10

I personally think any web designer charging upwards of £40 a hour is ridiculous!! (controversial I know, and I'll probably get a bit of stick now!!)

 

[Faevilangel]

Well I was thinking around £60 to £80 for the job. If it took 4 hours, that would be ok money in my opinion. If it took 8, which is a longshot, not so good but still ok. £60 \ 8 = £7.5 or £80 \ 8 = £10

I personally think any web designer charging upwards of £40 a hour is ridiculous!! (controversial I know, and I'll probably get a bit of stick now!!)

Most freelance WP developers will charge in the region of £25-£50 an hour. It's really only agencies that will charge in excess of £50.

To get an idea on price, I would email 2 or 3 developers and they will be able to give you a quote. You will then have an average price and can go to someone else with a realistic budget.

 

[I Love Spreadsheets]

You get what you pay for. Pay minimum money be ready to accept minimum results.

You will be surprised how much less the £50 per hour professional company will cost you compared to the minimum wage operation.

Where as the amature will take 6-8 the pro will probably take an hour or 2. The chances are the pro will get it right first time - saving you all those time wasting chase up or even having to hire another armature.

 

[Newmedia]

I know it is best not to just to go for the cheapest price and I don't intend to do that.

But if I am hiring from somewhere like people per hour and the bidder is someone that is a good professional but maybe having a slow week (or month!), then £60 to £80 for a few hours or a maximum of a days work I think is pretty good.

I know there has been times in the past when I would have done a days graft for that no problem.

 

[I Love Spreadsheets]

I hear where you are coming from with that idea, but I very much doubt you will find someone who regularly charges £50 per hour offering there services on those sites.

If they are that good that they can charge that much they shouldn't be that short of work. I charge similar rates and if I have an empty day or even a week I use it to work on the company marketing etc. At times when its got really slow I have put together a very limited period sale with 20% off my normal rates for my regular clients.

If i started to offer my services at those ultra low rates on one of my regular clients saw it I would never see them again.

If you did find a pro offering their services for those rates because they were having a quiet day I would be asking lots of questions

 

[WJP]

If i started to offer my services at those ultra low rates on one of my regular clients saw it I would never see them again.

If you did find a pro offering their services for those rates because they were having a quiet day I would be asking lots of questions

I'm with Spreadsheets on this one, people who can charge the higher end of what you've said there don't use sites like that because you risk devaluing yourself massively (and potentially ruining your own business). Sure, you might think fifty quid for half a day's work is alright money if you're quiet but you could lose thousands if any clients picked up on it (and trust me, they would).

 

[elainedon]

Most freelance WP developers will charge in the region of £25-£50 an hour. It's really only agencies that will charge in excess of £50.

My thoughts exactly! I usually hire freelancers for such jobs!

 

[Posilan]

Well I was thinking around £60 to £80 for the job. If it took 4 hours, that would be ok money in my opinion. If it took 8, which is a longshot, not so good but still ok. £60 \ 8 = £7.5 or £80 \ 8 = £10

I personally think any web designer charging upwards of £40 a hour is ridiculous!! (controversial I know, and I'll probably get a bit of stick now!!)

So you want to pay another business £7.50 per hour to do some Wordpress development work? I doubt you would be able to employ someone on a full time contract for that hourly rate, let alone a one off.

Remember, you are not only paying the person, that person also has to cover their own business overheads such as rent, heat, electricity, their own IT infrastructure, other staff (if necessary), insurance and more and considering most won't we working every usable hour of the day, the hourly rate also has to cover times they may be doing other things such as accounts or travelling to clients/prospects etc.

Steve

 

[fisicx]

I estimate a good website designer could easily do all the amendments I want in a maximum of 6-8 hours. (maybe a lot lot less depending how good he/she is)

And there's the rub.

You could pay someone who knows what thay are doing £100 and have the changes live in a couple of hours.

Or you could pay somebody in Taiwan £100 and still be waiting next week for them to finish the job.

Everytime I've wanted to outsource little jobs I get a load of tripe as anything outside bog standard coding causes problems. But I used a chap in the UK last year who charged me £40 and fixed the problem in 5 minutes. Well worth the investment.

 

[ITsoldUK]

Agree entirely with Fisicx

Non agency developers will charge between £40 & £100 ph and will deliver on time and to the spec you require as this 'should' be confirmed and agreed BEFORE work commences.

I have had guys call and say it is only a hours work and you delve in and it turns out to me far more than that...and of course, what may be 6-8 hours in your eyes may well be 3-4 to an experienced developer.

This is why it is important to scope the job out and get info accordingly prior to commitment if you go down a new relationship route.

JMTC

Regards
Daren

 

[ecenica]

Without knowing exactly what you're wanting done it's really impossible to put a figure on it.

A novice developer might charge £10 but take 4 hours to complete a job that an experienced web developer will do in 30 minutes.

High quality code also has many benefits. Performance and ease of updating being just two key benefits.

In my 15+ years in the industry, I have been on both side of the fence and seen some really, really poor code.

Are you able to just list your requirements and request a fixed-price estimate?

Richard

 

[The Web Guy]

Depends what's needed. Many people use the term Web Designer when they actually mean web developer. The two are not the same. Some designers can code front-end, but its rare you'll get a good developer and designer.
Are you in need of graphics or coding newmedia?

 

[Esk247]

If you want something thats simple. has a little bit of content and a few pages then it can probably be done quite quickly. I bet it's not that simple though, it never is, you'll want to move the menu or have some graphics work done, maybe a logo too and your own colour scheme, then you'll want to move the template around a bit and add a few little plug ins here and a few there...in the end the job takes 2 weeks and doesn't look anything like the original draft from the web designer.

 

[TechKing]

I think ,you should pay £20- £25 per hour for this job..

 

[marble_pars]

What exactly are you looking for? Give some more details on what you need doing?