Remote Web Developer for UK Businesses, Working from Nepal

Yes. I work with UK companies as an independent contractor from Itahari, Nepal. You get a fixed quote in USD, a written contract, payment by bank transfer, Wise or PayPal, and an NDA if you want one. The code and intellectual property transfer to your company on payment.

You still deal directly with the person writing your code, as you would with a UK freelancer. The differences are that you pay one fixed project price instead of a day rate, we share 3 h 15 min of live working time each winter morning and 4 h 15 min in summer, and the contract and invoices run in USD.

Nepal is 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of the UK in winter (GMT) and 4 hours 45 minutes ahead during British Summer Time, because Nepal never changes its clocks. So 9:00 in London is 14:45 in Nepal in winter and 13:45 in summer.

Your morning sits inside my working day: 9:00 to 12:15 UK time in winter and 9:00 to 13:15 in summer. Calls later in your afternoon fall in my evening, which I book by appointment, so in practice your whole working day is reachable.

I build it to support compliance: consent before non-essential cookies, a privacy notice that matches what you collect, short forms, secure hosting and a list of the processors you use. Compliance also depends on how your business handles data after launch, so your solicitor or data protection adviser has the final say.

Usually, yes. The 2025 Act lets some low-risk cookies, such as basic analytics, run without consent where people are told and can object, but advertising and most tracking cookies still need consent first. I check what your site actually sets and build the banner to match.

In US dollars, like all my clients outside Nepal. The price is fixed in the contract, and you can pay by bank transfer, Wise or PayPal; Wise and PayPal both show the sterling amount before you send, so the invoice holds no surprises.

Yes. I research keywords on UK search data, write in UK English, build a genuinely different page for each town or region you serve and set up your Google Business Profile. If you also sell abroad, hreflang tags tell Google which version suits UK searchers.

Use .co.uk or .uk if most customers are in the UK, because it signals a UK audience to people and to Google. Use .com if you sell internationally, with your UK pages marked en-GB. Either can rank; content and links matter more than the ending.

I share my calendar at the start. Dashain and Tihar, Nepal’s main festivals, usually fall between late September and November, so I plan milestones around them and around UK bank holidays. You never find out about a holiday when a deadline is due.