For UK fintech & AI companies · EU contract
Data, ML, backend and DevOps engineers from Europe (your hours) and Vietnam (lower cost), contracted with an EU company. You sign with a company, not with individual contractors.
London · Manchester · Edinburgh · invoices in GBP, USD or EUR
United Kingdom
Engineering trusted by teams at
United Kingdom · 2026
Contractor day rates eat the data roadmap
Senior data and ML contractors cost more every quarter.
Fintech teams scale after every round
Hiring in London takes months; the roadmap doesn't wait.
Managing individual contractors is admin
Status checks, invoices and replacements — one by one.
The numbers
Hiring locally
~£10,000
per month for a senior contractor at £504/day
With Bonsay
~£5,000
per month, senior engineer from Europe at €35/h
UK contractor data June 2026 · 20 days or 168 h a month
What we put in
Typical clients: Fintech · AI · Healthtech · Cybersecurity · SaaS.
Runway calculator
Where would you hire locally?
~A$220K a year loaded
Used to translate savings into months
With Bonsay
Pods come in threes: calculated for 6 engineers.
12 months of engineering
Hiring in Sydney / Melbourne$864,000
With Bonsay$264,000
Runway you keep
+2.4 months
$600,000 stays in the bank — or turns into more roadmap.
At these numbers local hiring is cheaper. We still help when speed is the bottleneck.
Indicative. Defaults from our 2026 market research — replace them with your numbers.
Proof
FAQ
Bonsay Technologies OÜ, an Estonian company. One services contract, NDA and IP assignment from day one, one monthly invoice.
Yes. European engineers work your hours; Vietnam engineers on an EU-aligned shift overlap four to five hours with London.
Next step
Book 30 minutes. Tell us the roles and the hours that matter; leave with a role map, a price and a start date.
You will talk to
Gleb Zamyslovsky
Executive Officer · Warsaw
One reply within a business day: questions, a fixed price, or an honest “not worth it”. No account managers in between.
