Software for Reading businesses
Reading is the commercial centre of the Thames Valley and one of the UK's most important locations for technology businesses. Microsoft's UK headquarters is at Thames Valley Park on the east side of the town, and many other software, IT services and telecoms companies have offices along the M4 corridor. Green Park, south of the town centre, is a large business park with its own railway station, and Thames Water is headquartered in Reading.
The University of Reading, including Henley Business School, brings research in agriculture, meteorology, real estate and business, and supports the Thames Valley Science Park at Shinfield. Reading station is a major rail hub and the western terminus of the Elizabeth line, which, together with fast GWR services to Paddington, makes the town attractive to companies that want London access without London costs. The Oracle shopping centre and riverside anchor a busy retail and hospitality trade.
Reading's business base is technically literate, so software requests tend to be specific:
- Integrations between CRM, ERP, billing and support platforms using their APIs and webhooks
- Internal tools and reporting dashboards that IT teams do not have capacity to build
- Field engineer and asset management apps for utilities and infrastructure contractors
- Client portals for consultancies, property firms and professional services
Larger organisations here often have an internal IT team but a long backlog. We can take on a clearly defined project, such as an integration or an internal web app, and deliver it to your standards: your Git workflow, your SSO, your hosting, with documentation your team can maintain. Smaller firms get the same discipline at a scale that suits them.
Who we build for in Reading
- Software and IT services companies
- Telecoms firms
- Utilities and infrastructure contractors
- Property and real estate consultancies
- Professional services firms
- Corporate IT and operations teams
- Agri-tech and research start-ups
- Retail and hospitality businesses
How we work with Reading 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.
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.
Scoping
We map the processes, systems and data involved, agree what is in and out, and write it down so there are no surprises.
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.
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.
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 Reading
Nearby
- Brighton
- Oxford
- Southampton
- Portsmouth
- Milton Keynes
- Canterbury
- Slough
- Guildford
- Woking
- Crawley
- Maidstone
- Basingstoke
- High Wycombe
- Aylesbury
Frequently asked questions
Can you work with our Reading team remotely?
Yes. dijitul works remotely from Mansfield. We fit around your tools, whether that is Teams, Slack, Jira or GitHub, and give you a staging environment for testing. Reading clients with internal IT teams often like having direct access to our repository from the start.
Do you cover Wokingham, Bracknell, Newbury and Henley?
Yes. We work across the Thames Valley, including Wokingham, Bracknell, Newbury, Henley-on-Thames, Theale, Maidenhead and Basingstoke. The process is identical wherever you are: a free chat, a scoping stage and a fixed-price quote.
Can you work with our in-house developers?
Yes. We can follow your coding standards, branch strategy and review process, deliver a self-contained module or integration, and hand it over with documentation and tests. Your developers stay in control of the wider codebase.
Tell us what you need to build
Free chat, clear scope, fixed-price quote. You own everything we build.