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Hire AI native software engineers from RG INSYS, an India-based outsourced B2B software service provider, from £2,800/month per dedicated engineer with a 2-week trial, UK GDPR-compliant DPA, and IR35 firmly out of scope. Cost roughly 60% less than a fully loaded UK in-house hire, with senior architecture review on every account.

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RG INSYS LLP serves UK SMEs and scale-ups that need to add engineering capacity quickly without the cost, risk and recruitment cycle of a UK in-house hire. We are not a recruitment agency, body shop or staffing firm: we are an outsourced B2B software service provider with our own engineers, our own employment contracts, our own equipment, and our own delivery management. Engagements run on a UK MSA under English law with a UK GDPR-compliant DPA including the IDTA. IR35 does not apply.

Pricing
£2,800/month per dedicated mid-to-senior engineer (≈£33,600/year). Hourly from £24/hr for short engagements. All in pounds sterling.
UK senior dev (loaded)
£75,000-£95,000/year once you add NI, pension, holiday, equipment, recruitment fees, and onboarding.
Trial
2-week trial. If you do not continue, you pay nothing and you keep the IP. No contract trap, no recruitment fee.
Time to start
5-10 working days from signed agreement for most stacks.
IR35
Not applicable. RG INSYS is an outsourced B2B service provider, not an umbrella, agency or employment business.

Pricing comparison: UK in-house vs RG INSYS dedicated engineer

The honest cost of a "£70,000 UK developer" is rarely £70,000. Once you add the employer obligations and recruitment overheads, you are usually 25-35% above the headline salary. Below is a like-for-like annual comparison for a UK senior developer in London versus a dedicated mid-to-senior engineer with us.

Cost line itemUK senior dev (loaded)RG INSYS dedicated
Base salary / retainer£75,000-£95,000£33,600 (£2,800/month)
Employer NI (13.8% over £9,100)£9,100-£11,860Included
Pension auto-enrolment (3% min)£2,250-£2,850Included
Holiday and bank holidays (28 days)Already in salaryCovered by replacement
Equipment, office, remote stipend£1,500-£3,000Included
Recruitment agency fee (15-25% of base)£11,250-£23,750 one-off£0
Onboarding time (4-6 weeks)~£8,000-£10,000 lost productivity5-10 working days
Replacement risk if they leave2-3 month recruitment + repeatReplacement engineer at no cost
Year-1 total cost£107,100-£146,460£33,600

That is roughly a 60-70% Year-1 saving, and the gap stays open in Year 2 because the recruitment fee, onboarding cost and replacement risk continue to apply on the UK side. All quotes are written, fixed, and broken down by deliverable. No hidden fees.

IR35 and why it does not apply to us

Since the April 2021 reform, UK medium and large businesses are responsible for determining whether each off-payroll worker they engage is "inside" or "outside" IR35. Many UK SMEs have become understandably cautious about anything that looks like a contractor relationship. The good news is that engaging RG INSYS is not a contractor relationship at all: it is a B2B service contract between two limited entities, your UK company and our Indian LLP.

Under HMRC's CEST tool and the well-established Supervision, Direction and Control (SDC) test, the IR35 status check looks at three things. Personal service: the engineer who works for you is our employee under an Indian employment contract; we have an unfettered right of substitution and exercise it (we have replaced engineers at client request without breaking continuity). Mutuality of obligation: we deliver against an SoW or a monthly retainer; you do not pay us for downtime and we do not owe you continuous service the way an employer does. Control: we set the engineer's working hours, equipment, line management, training, and code review process; you specify outcomes, not how the work is done. All three legs of the IR35 test point firmly outside scope. Your accountant or solicitor can confirm this against your specific facts; we will sign whatever written confirmation they need.

How the 2-week trial actually works

The 2-week trial exists because the only honest way to know whether an offshore engineer fits your team is to have them in your standups, in your codebase, opening real PRs against your trunk. CV walls and culture interviews do not predict it; live work does.

Day 0 to 3: You book a free 30-minute consultation. We agree the role, stack, seniority, and primary outcome you want from the first sprint. We send a written SoW for the trial covering scope, working hours, communication channels (Slack, Teams or WhatsApp), code repository access, and the success criteria you will use to make the continue / not-continue decision at the end of the two weeks.

Day 4 to 14: The engineer starts on the following Monday. They join your daily standup, get repository access, and pick up real work, typically a small bug or a contained feature in week one, then a meaningful slice of the agreed first sprint outcome in week two. Senior architecture review is in place from day one. You see PRs land in your repo every day.

End of week two: You decide. If you continue, the trial converts into the monthly retainer (£2,800/month) and the trial fee is credited against your first invoice. If you do not continue, you pay nothing and you keep all code, documentation and IP produced during the trial. There is no contract trap, no minimum commitment beyond the two weeks, no recruitment fee, and no exit penalty.

UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and contracting framework

UK GDPR EU GDPR Data Protection Act 2018 UK IDTA + SCC Addendum PECR (cookies + e-marketing) Article 28 GDPR DPA Mutual NDA English-law MSA SOC 2 Type 1 in progress

Every UK engagement starts with a UK MSA governed by the law of England and Wales. Inside it sits an Article 28 GDPR-compliant Data Processing Addendum, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) and the UK Addendum to the EU SCCs for any data flow to India, an unconditional IP assignment in favour of your UK company, a sub-processor disclosure list (AWS, GitHub, Sentry, etc.) with the right to object to new sub-processors before they are added, and a security schedule covering AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, role-based access control, and immutable audit logging. Mutual NDA is signed before any technical discussion.

Where engineering access from India to UK production data is required, it is gated through a UK-resident bastion (eu-west-2 by default) with IAM-scoped, time-bounded credentials and full audit logging. Where any personal data is transferred to India for support, a documented Transfer Impact Assessment covers the Indian government access landscape. Honest disclosure on certifications. RG INSYS LLP itself is not currently SOC 2 Type 2 audited; SOC 2 Type 1 is in progress with a target completion in late 2026. We deliver compliance-ready architecture, the controls and evidence that an auditor will accept against your certification, not ours.

Recent UK SME and scale-up work

Our typical UK client is a 10-200 person company that needs senior engineering capacity faster than they can recruit it in London or Manchester. Most start with a single dedicated engineer on a 2-week trial, then grow to 3-6 engineers as the working relationship beds in. The case study below is a representative example.

Legacy Redevelopment · Recruitment Tech UK workforce solutions firm · 8 weeks · 3 engineers

UK recruitment portal: PHP/Laravel rebuilt on Node.js + React in 8 weeks

A UK workforce solutions company had received quotes from London agencies of £80,000-£120,000 over 16-24 weeks for a full rebuild of their PHP/Laravel contractor management portal. They engaged RG INSYS instead, starting with a single dedicated engineer on a 2-week trial that converted into a 3-engineer team. We rebuilt the platform on Node.js, React, PostgreSQL and Redis with parallel-run migration so the old system stayed live as a safety net. Phase 1 shipped in 8 weeks, including 5 job board API integrations and a UK GDPR-compliant document module covering right-to-work, DBS and contractor agreements.

<1sPage load (was 10-15s)
8 wksPhase 1 delivery
5Job board integrations
60%Cost vs UK agency quote

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FAQ

UK hiring questions

Once you select an engineer, they start work on your codebase the following Monday. Two weeks later you decide whether to continue. If you continue, the trial converts into the monthly retainer and the trial fee is credited against your first invoice. If you do not, you pay nothing and you keep all code, documentation and IP produced during the trial. There is no contract trap, no minimum commitment beyond the two weeks, and no recruitment fee. We do this because the only way to know whether an engineer fits your team is to have them in your standups, in your codebase, opening real PRs.
No. RG INSYS LLP is a fully outsourced B2B software services provider, not an employment business or umbrella company. We invoice your UK company for delivered work or for a fixed monthly retainer, supply our own equipment, manage our own engineers in India under our own employment contracts, set their working conditions, and carry our own professional indemnity. Under HMRC's IR35 / off-payroll working rules and the SDC (Supervision, Direction, Control) test, we sit firmly outside scope: the engineer is our employee, not yours, and the contract is for services between two limited entities, not for personal service. Your accountant or solicitor can confirm this against your specific facts.
A UK senior developer in London costs £75,000-£95,000/year fully loaded once you add 13.8% employer NI, 3-5% pension auto-enrolment, 28 days holiday, equipment, office or remote stipend, recruitment agency fee (typically 15-25% of base), onboarding time, and ongoing line management. A dedicated mid-to-senior engineer with us is £2,800/month, ≈£33,600/year. That is a 60-65% saving with no recruitment cycle, no NI, no pension liability, no notice-period risk, and a guaranteed replacement if anyone leaves.
Three things. First, the 2-week trial: you see real work on your codebase before any commitment. Second, every engineer is AI native, working with Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot as standard, which lifts their effective output well above what a non-AI-tooled developer at the same level would deliver. Third, every project ships with senior architecture review (one of our principals is on every account), automated test coverage at 80%+ from day one, and a written delivery SLA with response times in your MSA. If you do not like what the engineer is producing, you tell us, and we replace them at no cost.
46 roles across AI/ML (Generative AI, LLM Engineer, Machine Learning, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Computer Vision, Data Engineer, Data Scientist), Web and Backend (Node.js, React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, MERN, Python, Java/Spring Boot, Golang, .NET/C#, Laravel, C), Mobile (Android, iOS, React Native, Flutter), VoIP and Telecoms (FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, Kamailio, OpenSIPs, WebRTC, VoIP), Cloud and DevOps (AWS Certified, AWS Migration, Azure, GCP, DevOps), and QA and Support (QA Engineer, Support Engineer, L2/L3). All AI tooled.
5-10 working days from signed agreement. Most stacks have engineers ready immediately because we maintain a bench of pre-vetted engineers across our 46 supported roles. For very specialised stacks (deep VoIP, embedded C, niche LLM frameworks) we may need an extra week to confirm the right fit. We tell you up front in the consultation call which is which.
Yes, completely. All source code, infrastructure credentials, models, datasets, prompts, and documentation produced by the engineer belong to your UK company from the moment they are written. The MSA includes an unconditional, irrevocable IP assignment for all work product. There is no licence-back, no shared ownership, no vendor lock-in. If the engagement ends, you keep everything and we keep nothing.
2-week trial · No recruitment fee

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