Software Development in Peterborough

Software for Peterborough businesses

Peterborough grew rapidly after being designated a new town in 1967, and it has kept growing ever since. Its position on the A1 and the East Coast Main Line, under an hour by train from London King's Cross, has made it a major distribution hub. Large warehouses for national retailers and online sellers line the city's edges, and logistics is one of its biggest employers.

Engineering is a long-standing strength. Perkins Engines, part of Caterpillar, has designed and built diesel engines in Peterborough since 1932, and Baker Perkins, which makes food and printing machinery, also has deep roots here. Those firms support a network of machining, fabrication and engineering service companies. Peterborough is also an important centre for magazine and media publishing, and has a growing environmental and clean technology sector.

Higher education arrived properly in 2022 with the opening of ARU Peterborough, a university campus focused on courses linked to local employers, alongside Peterborough College. Peterborough City Hospital and the city council are major employers, and the Queensgate shopping centre anchors the city centre.

Software projects that suit Peterborough firms include:

• Warehouse, transport and returns systems that connect WMS, carriers and retailer platforms
• Field service and aftermarket portals for engineering manufacturers, tracking serial numbers, warranties and parts
• Subscription, content and audience tools for publishers, integrated with payments
• Data and reporting tools for environmental and energy businesses
• Workflow automation that cuts manual admin in growing service companies

Many of these involve connecting several existing platforms, so a lot of our work here is API integration done carefully: OAuth tokens refreshed reliably, rate limits respected and every failed call logged and retried.

Who we build for in Peterborough

• Distribution and logistics companies
• Engine and machinery manufacturers
• Engineering service firms
• Magazine and media publishers
• Environmental and clean technology firms
• Online retailers
• Food producers
• Professional services firms

How we work with Peterborough clients

We work remotely from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, using video calls, shared staging sites you can click around in and short build stages you can see. Every project gets a fixed-price quote after a free initial chat and a short scoping stage. You own the code and the data. We have been building software and integrations for UK businesses since 2006.

1. Free chat

   Tell us the problem in plain English: what you do now, what goes wrong and what "better" looks like. No charge, no obligation.

2. Scoping

   We map the processes, systems and data involved, agree what is in and out, and write it down so there are no surprises.

3. Fixed-price quote

   You get a fixed price for the agreed scope, or a phased plan for bigger builds, so you can start small and prove it works.

4. Build and test

   We build in short stages you can see and try, test against real data, then go live carefully with a rollback plan.

5. Hand over and look after

   You own the code and the data. We can host it, support it and keep improving it, or hand it to your own team.

What we build in Peterborough

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