London, Ontario · remote from Lucknow, India
Custom software development in London, Ontario, built remotely from India
Codingclave can build the internal tool, customer or supplier portal, or Access and FileMaker replacement your London, Ontario team has outgrown.
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From CAD 30 an hourexcl. GST/HSTSee pricing →
- Hourly work CAD 30–60
- Most builds CAD 6,000–60,000
- London agency rates compared
- Access, FileMaker, Excel take-overs
- ★ 4.9 on Google (92 reviews)Lucknow, India profile
- 200+ projects worldwide since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork, 100% Job Success
Founder-led by Ashish Sharma
What happens after you contact us
Step 1: A reply within 2 hours
Ashish or the team answers on WhatsApp or by email, usually with a few questions about your scope.
Step 2: A call, if you want one
Weekdays between 8am and 12pm Eastern, on a WhatsApp or video call.
Step 3: A free quote within 24 hours
Scope, timeline and either a fixed CAD price or your hourly rate, excluding GST/HST, in writing.
Step 4: You decide, no obligation
If you go ahead, fixed-scope work keeps one price once the scope is agreed, and hourly rates are agreed in writing first. You can pay in CAD or USD by local bank transfer to our Canadian bank account.
Overview
Small jobs are billed at CAD 30–60 an hour. Most scoped builds land between CAD 6,000 and 60,000, and your fixed price is set once the scope is in writing. We work remotely from Lucknow, India. Below, London's published prices and wages sit beside ours, so you can judge the difference yourself.
By Ashish Sharma, founder · Updated 16 October 2026
Quick answer
What is the going rate for custom software development in London, Ontario?
Between about CAD 35 and CAD 426 an hour, depending on who you hire (figures read 16 October 2026). ManagePoint, a London IT and software firm, publishes about $25,000 (currency not stated) for simple automation and $75,000 to $200,000 for a business system. Four of the six London-listed Clutch studios we checked show USD 100–300 an hour (about CAD 142 to 426), and two show USD 25–49 (about CAD 35 to 70). An employed developer in the London region earns a median CAD 46.50 an hour before payroll costs. Codingclave charges CAD 30–60 an hour. Most of our scoped builds land between CAD 6,000 and 60,000. The quote is free.
- ManagePoint, London: from about $25,000, currency not stated
- Clutch, London-listed: USD 25–49 to 200–300 an hour
- Job Bank, London region: CAD 46.50 median wage (SAE 2024)
- Codingclave: CAD 30–60/hr; most builds CAD 6,000–60,000
London, Ontario · built remotely from Lucknow, India
London at a glance
- Developer wage, London region
- CAD 30.32 / 46.50 / 72.72 an hour, low / median / high (Job Bank, NOC 21232, SAE 2024; updated 19 Nov 2025)
- Source: jobbank
.gc .ca - London census metropolitan area
- 543,551 people, up 10.0% from 494,069 in 2016 (2021 Census)
- Source: statcan
.gc .ca - LHSC
- Calls itself London's largest employer; nearly 15,000 physicians, residents and staff (read 16 Oct 2026)
- Source: lhsc
.on .ca - Western University
- 42,978 students, including 5,445 international (Western, updated Sept 2025)
- Source: uwo
.ca - Published London project prices
- ManagePoint: automation from about $25,000; business systems $75,000–200,000; currency not stated (read 16 Oct 2026)
- Source: managepoint
.ca - London-listed agency rates
- USD 25–49 up to USD 200–300 an hour across six London-listed Clutch studios (ratings updated 16 Oct 2026)
- Source: clutch
.co
Areas covered in this guide
- London, Ontario
- London census metropolitan area
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London prices, side by side
An hourly rate, a project price and a wage measure different things, so read across rows with care. Of the four London software firms we checked on 16 October 2026 (STEP Software, CoreSolutions, ManagePoint and Acumen Consulting), only ManagePoint prints project prices. It doesn't name a currency; we've assumed CAD. Clutch rates are generally understood to be US dollars, so we converted them.
| Source | Published figure | About CAD | What the figure is |
|---|---|---|---|
| ManagePoint (London) | From around $25,000 | CAD assumed | Their "simple automation tools" tier |
| ManagePoint | $75,000 to $200,000 | CAD assumed | Their "comprehensive business systems" tier |
| ManagePoint | $50,000 to $300,000 and up | CAD assumed | Their "customer-facing applications and platforms" tier |
| Clutch, four London-listed studios: ENJINE, DigitalStaff, tbk, Next Dimension | USD 100–149 up to USD 200–300 an hour | about CAD 142 to 426 an hour | Hourly rate band on each profile |
| Clutch, two London-listed studios: INFINITY-UP, Digia | USD 25–49 an hour | about CAD 35 to 70 an hour | Hourly rate band on each profile |
| Clutch, the same six studios | USD 1,000+ to 10,000+ | about CAD 1,420 to 14,200 and up | Smallest project each will take |
| Job Bank, London economic region, NOC 21232 (SAE 2024) | CAD 30.32 / 46.50 / 72.72 an hour | Same | Employee wage (low / median / high), before payroll costs |
| Codingclave (remote, Lucknow, India) | CAD 30–60 an hour; most scoped builds CAD 6,000–60,000 | Same | Fixed once scoped; hourly for small jobs |
Two London-listed studios overlap our hourly band, so rate alone won't settle it. The written terms will; the shortlist questions further down cover them.
If your job sits under the minimums above (up to USD 10,000+ at some studios, or ManagePoint's $25,000 starting tier), a narrow tool can still be built by the hour at CAD 30–60.
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What pushes a quote from CAD 6,000 towards 60,000
A 12-screen tool can cost less than a 5-screen one. These five things move the price.
How many roles, and how many approvals
Supervisors who approve, office staff who edit and floor staff who see only their own jobs mean permission rules and tests on every screen. A two-step approval with an audit trail is usually the biggest single line on the quote.
What it has to talk to
QuickBooks Online, with its published API, is the lighter case. Sage 50 runs on a desktop in your office, so syncing it takes more work. A supplier's EDI file needs careful mapping, because one malformed line can stop a whole batch.
Moving data out of the old tool
Ten years of Access or Excel rows hold surprises: one customer entered three ways, dates typed as text, a column someone repurposed in 2019. Cleaning and mapping is priced as its own line, not buried in the build.
A public portal built to AODA level
With 50 or more Ontario employees, plan for WCAG 2.0 AA from the first screen (the rules are below). Building it in adds design and testing time; retrofitting it after launch costs more.
Tablets on a shop floor with patchy Wi-Fi
Bigger buttons and barcode scanning are cheap. Offline sync isn't: if two people edit one job while disconnected, you need a rule for whose change wins, and that rule needs testing.
Before the first call, write three lists: everyone who uses the tool and what they may change, every system it touches, and a row count for each table you would move. Those answers set most of the figure. The screens come last.
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Employ a developer, or pay for one project?
Start with risk, not salary. With one employee, the knowledge of how the system fits together leaves when they do. With a vendor it can too, unless the handover is written into the contract: repository, hosting and credentials in your firm's name, set-up notes, and a bug-fix period after launch.
Then the cost. Job Bank puts software developers and programmers in the London economic region at CAD 30.32 an hour low, 46.50 median and 72.72 high (Small Area Estimation, 2024), with the median CAD 1.58 under Ontario's 48.08. At 2,080 paid hours that median is about CAD 96,700 a year, before CPP, EI, benefits and recruiting. Our page on what employing a developer in Canada costs (CPP, EI, benefits) works through those sums.
Employ once software is a permanent part of what you sell, with years of work ahead and someone senior enough in your firm to review the code and set priorities. For a tool built once and changed now and then, a scoped project fits better. The single-developer risk is covered in more depth in freelancer vs agency.
Planning a project in London?
Send a few lines on WhatsApp, or get a free CAD quote within 24 hours.
Replies within 2 hours; free quote within 24 hours.
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When the workbook, Access file or student-built app stops coping
Most custom-software jobs start with a tool that already runs the business and has stopped coping. Four versions are worth recognizing.
A shared Excel workbook
Two people save at once and one loses their work, or the macros run only on the author's laptop, and nobody can say who changed a price last Tuesday. A small web app with logins, an edit history and an Excel export usually replaces it.
Microsoft Access on a shared drive
If the file locks the moment a second person opens a form, or needs compact and repair every week, it's at its limit, and a corrupted file on a network drive can take years of records with it. We can move the tables to PostgreSQL or SQL Server and rebuild the forms as web screens.
A FileMaker solution
Licence costs climb with every seat, and fewer developers still work in it each year. The real danger is the one consultant who knows the file moving on. Sometimes keeping and maintaining it is the cheaper answer; the quote prices both routes so you can choose.
An app a student built on placement
It works, but the code sits on a former placement student's personal GitHub and the hosting bills an expired card. Securing the accounts and the repository comes first; only then does it make sense to extend or rebuild.
Screenshots, a redacted copy or a short screen recording are enough for a first written quote. A replacement runs beside the old tool until both give the same numbers; our guide to modernizing legacy software sets out that method.
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Software development services London, Ontario teams ask for
The rows below are tools we can build for three parts of the London economy. They are scenarios, not past London projects. We can also build mobile apps and browser-based apps for London firms; see app development costs and web development.
| Sector | Tool we can build | What to check before scoping |
|---|---|---|
| Food processing and agri-food | Lot and batch traceability with a recall log; production scheduling; a supplier specification portal | The traceability records your food-safety auditor and your largest customers expect to see |
| Manufacturing and distribution | Quote-to-order, shop-floor job tickets, QuickBooks or Sage sync, an Access or FileMaker replacement | AODA, if customers or suppliers log in to a public portal; offline use on the floor |
| Private health: physiotherapy, home care, study recruitment. LHSC, which calls itself London's largest employer, has nearly 15,000 physicians, residents and staff | Intake and scheduling for a private physiotherapy or home-care provider; recruitment forms for a life-science study | PHIPA: the clinic stays accountable for every vendor it uses |
None of our past projects is a London factory, food plant or clinic. The closest in shape is the template system that runs websites for 20+ government polytechnics in Uttar Pradesh: one codebase serving many sites, which is the same problem as one tool used by several plants or branches. For health, the nearest is the healthcare portal with online booking for Dr. Akash Dubey in India. For clinic budgets, see clinic software costs.
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Ontario rules that change what your software must do
HST, federal privacy law and hosting basics are in the province table on the Canada overview. The three Ontario rules below each add features to a build. We build them in; your lawyer or compliance lead confirms which apply to you.
| If your tool… | Rule and who it covers | In force | What we build in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is a public portal for customers or suppliers | AODA website rule: businesses and non-profits with 50+ Ontario employees; public web content posted after 1 January 2012 must meet WCAG 2.0 AA, except 1.2.4 (live captions) and 1.2.5 (pre-recorded audio description) | Since 1 January 2021. Separately, organizations with 20+ employees file an accessibility compliance report every three years; the next is due 31 December 2026 | Keyboard navigation, colour contrast, labelled form fields, plain error messages, an accessibility test pass before launch |
| Is a careers page or applicant-tracking tool | ESA job-posting rules (O. Reg. 476/24): employers with 25+ employees across their Ontario locations on the day the posting goes up | Since 1 January 2026 | A required pay field with a range check (no wider than $50,000; not required above $200,000), an AI-screening disclosure field, a field saying whether the vacancy exists |
| Takes bookings or intake for a clinic or home-care agency | PHIPA: the custodian stays accountable for services such as online booking; an electronic service provider that is not the custodian's agent may use health data only to provide the service | In force (IPC overview, May 2021) | Role-based access, access logs, a Canadian hosting region if you need one, a written service agreement |
Any rule that applies goes into the written scope as named features with tests, priced at the start rather than discovered at launch.
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Your morning in London, our evening in Lucknow
8am to noon in London is evening in Lucknow: 5:30 to 9:30pm while Ontario is on daylight time, and 6:30 to 10:30pm after the clocks go back on 1 November. The widget shows the window in your own zone.
Your repository, your accounts
We can set up the code in a GitHub or GitLab organization in your firm's name, so you see every change and nothing depends on our accounts.
Something to click between calls
Work in progress goes on a staging link, so you answer questions by clicking, not describing.
Who you deal with
Codingclave is founder-led: you deal with Ashish Sharma or his team, on WhatsApp, email and video calls.
Where your data is read from
Even with hosting in a Canadian region, our developers reach it from India. If your privacy notice needs to say so, privacy when your developer works from India covers the federal side.
| Where you are | Until 31 Oct 2026, and again from 14 Mar 2027Until 31 Oct | 1 Nov 2026 – 13 Mar 2027From 1 Nov |
|---|---|---|
| St. John's (Newfoundland) | 9:30am– | 9:30am– |
| Halifax (Atlantic) | 9am– | 9am– |
| Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal (Eastern) | 8am– | 8am– |
| Winnipeg (Manitoba) | 7am– | 8am– |
| Regina, Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) | 6am– | 7am– |
| Calgary, Edmonton (Alberta) | 6am– | 7am– |
| Vancouver, Surrey (British Columbia) | 5am– | 6am– |
| Lucknow, India (our team, IST) | 5:30pm– | 6:30pm– |
Planning a project in London?
Send a few lines on WhatsApp, or get a free CAD quote within 24 hours.
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Before you shortlist anyone
Two places list London software firms; neither says which one fits.
- Clutch's London list: about 50 firms with rates and minimums. Clutch notes it may earn a fee for some placements, and the list includes firms in Kitchener, Tillsonburg and St. Thomas.
- London Chamber of Commerce directory: members by business category.
Put these five questions to every firm on the list, in writing.
When does the code become ours?
Look for a contract clause naming the moment ownership passes, and whose account the repository lives in meanwhile.
Is the price fixed, or hourly?
Either can be fair. What matters is that a fixed price comes with a written scope and a list of exclusions.
What happens after launch?
Ask how long bugs are fixed free, how fast an outage gets attention, and how later changes are priced.
Where is our data hosted, and who can reach it?
Hosting region and access location are separate questions. Get both answers.
What if the firm disappears?
With code, hosting, domain and credentials in your name, another developer can pick the work up. Insist on that with anyone.
Our answers, for comparison: code and IP become yours with the final payment, and we can set up the repository in your account from the start. The price is fixed once the scope is in writing; small or open-ended work goes by the hour. Bug fixes are free for six months after launch, emergencies on a live system get a 24/7 response, and later changes are quoted. We can host in a Canadian region if you need it, though our developers reach it from India.
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When a London firm is the better call
Four situations where a firm you can drive to will serve you better.
Someone has to be on your floor for weeks
Rolling software out across a plant, training each shift in person, or wiring scanners and label printers into a line needs someone there. We work only remotely, so nobody from Codingclave will be on your floor.
You want one firm to run your IT too
Some London firms we checked, ManagePoint among them, pair software with managed IT: help desk, networks, phones and cybersecurity. If you want one firm answerable for servers and software, choose a managed-IT provider with people in London, which we are not.
Hospital or health-authority systems
These are bought through public procurement, with vendor requirements a remote supplier in another country rarely meets. This page doesn't cover that work; for health, we can build for private clinics and home-care providers.
An SR&ED claim rides on the work
Work a contractor performs outside Canada generally can't be claimed under SR&ED, which can tip the numbers towards a London firm. The CRA policy is linked from the SR&ED note on work done outside Canada.
Pricing in CAD
CAD prices for London, Ontario projects
In Canadian dollars. A band shows where most projects of that kind land; your fixed price is set in writing once the scope is agreed.
Custom software, portal or SaaS
CAD 6,000 – CAD 60,000
Excl. GST/HSTCustom software, portal or SaaS · Typical timeline: 6–16 weeks
Internal tools, customer or supplier portals, and ERP or accounting add-ons.
Get a quote for this plan
Developer by the hour
Fixes and extensions to a tool that already works, or a job too narrow to scope as a project.
Custom CRM
A pipeline with your stages, your quote template and the QuickBooks or Sage sync, instead of a SaaS CRM's defaults.
Clinic / healthcare software
Intake and booking for a private clinic or home-care agency, with access designed around PHIPA's vendor rules.
Take-over of an Access, FileMaker, Excel or student-built tool
Securing the accounts and code, reading the data, then a written plan to extend or replace it. Quoted once we have seen the tool.
Data migration with a parallel run
Cleaning and moving the old data, then running both systems side by side until the numbers match. Quoted once the scope is agreed.
- Fixed price in CAD once the scope is agreed
- Free quote within 24 hours
- No obligation
Fixed-scope terms: paid 40/40/20 (on signing, at the agreed midpoint, at launch); all code and IP become yours with the last payment; six months of free bug fixes. Full process and price table: custom software development.
Prices are in Canadian dollars (CAD) and exclude GST/HST. Our invoices are issued from India; if your business is GST/HST-registered, ask your accountant how to account for imported services. You can pay in CAD or USD by local bank transfer to our Canadian bank account.
Free CAD quote
Describe the tool and the people who use it
A screenshot and two lines will do: what it does, who uses it, what it connects to. Our questions and a first CAD range come back within 24 hours, and the fixed price follows once the scope is agreed.
Ashish Sharma
Founder, Codingclave
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What happens next
A reply within 2 hours
Ashish or the team answers on WhatsApp or by email, usually with a few questions about your scope.
A call, if you want one
Weekdays between 8am and 12pm Eastern, on a WhatsApp or video call.
A free quote within 24 hours
Scope, timeline and either a fixed CAD price or your hourly rate, excluding GST/HST, in writing.
You decide, no obligation
If you go ahead, fixed-scope work keeps one price once the scope is agreed, and hourly rates are agreed in writing first. You can pay in CAD or USD by local bank transfer to our Canadian bank account.
- ★ 4.9 on Google (92 reviews) · Lucknow, India profile
- 200+ projects worldwide since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork, 100% Job Success
- Founder-led by Ashish Sharma
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WhatsApp AshishShow us what you use now
Screenshots, a redacted copy of the file or a short screen recording, with customer names stripped out.
Walk through the workflow on a call
Who uses it, what goes in and out, what it connects to. We write the scope up afterwards for you to correct.
A price in writing
Fixed for the agreed scope, or an hourly estimate for smaller work, with exclusions listed.
First screens on a staging link
You click through real screens while changes are still cheap.
Run old and new side by side
The old tool stays in use until the new one gives the same totals and reports.
Retire the old tool, hand over the keys
Code, hosting and logins are handed over in your firm's name, and the bug-fix period begins.
FAQ
Common questions about hiring us from Canada
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Founder-led by Ashish Sharma
How much does custom software development cost in London, Ontario in 2026?
Is it cheaper to hire a software developer in London, Ontario than to outsource?
Is custom software worth it over off-the-shelf or SaaS for an Ontario firm?
Can you turn our Microsoft Access or FileMaker database into a web app?
Can a London clinic or home-care agency use booking software built in India?
Who owns the source code when an Indian team builds our software?
Is there anyone in London, Ontario we can meet in person?
Which London, Ontario firms publish their software prices, and how do I shortlist a reputable one?
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About Ashish Sharma and Codingclave
Ashish Sharma
Founder, Codingclave · Updated 16 October 2026
Ashish Sharma founded Codingclave and still leads it. The team works remotely from Lucknow, India, with 200+ projects worldwide since 2017; there is no Canadian office.
How we put this page together
Researched and drafted for Codingclave, then reviewed by Ashish Sharma, the founder, in October 2026. London and Ontario figures were read from the sources below on 16 October 2026; Clutch's bands, which Clutch conventionally gives in US dollars, were multiplied by 1.4196, the Bank of Canada rate for 15 October 2026. Only the CAD rates, bands and terms are ours.
Sources (12)· public sources cited on this page
- Job Bank – Wages for software developers and programmers (NOC 21232), Ontario regions
- Statistics Canada – 2021 Census population counts, census metropolitan areas
- London Health Sciences Centre – Welcome to LHSC
- Western University – Facts and figures
- ManagePoint Technologies – Custom software development
- Clutch – Software developers in London, Ontario
- Bank of Canada – Daily exchange rates
- Government of Ontario – How to make websites accessible
- Government of Ontario – How to complete your accessibility compliance report
- Government of Ontario – Employment Standards Act guide: publicly advertised job postings
- Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario – Digital health under PHIPA: selected overview
- London Chamber of Commerce – Member directory