Freelance Developer - #2072705

We're hiring - Freelance Developer

**No recruiters or overseas freelancers / companies**

Location: Birmingham City Centre (Hybrid - 1-2 days office) Type: Freelance / Contract 

Rate: Competitive 

Application Deadline: Wednesday 27th May 2026

About The National Energy Hub

The National Energy Hub (TNEH) is an award-winning energy & sustainability consultancy, helping organisations across the UK take control of their energy costs and decarbonise.

We're expanding our digital capability and looking for a freelance developer who can move across projects to completion.

The Role

You'll pick up a rolling set of small-to-medium projects across our digital estate:

• Theme development and prototypes
• Backend systems and API development
• WordPress (GeneratePress), possibly Kirby CMS, possibly Laravel TALL stack

Essential

• Hands-on Claude Code experience (or other AI Assisted Development tooling), you've built and managed skills, set up harnesses, and can talk through your approach.
• Based in the West Midlands, with 1-2 days a week in central Birmingham

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and iterating on WordPress themes (GeneratePress)
• Prototyping new ideas in HTML/JS before they get built
• Developing backend systems and APIs
• Picking up Kirby CMS or Laravel TALL stack work as projects land
• Setting up and managing Claude Code skills and harnesses
• Maintaining a solid GitHub workflow
• Building things securely from the start

What You Get

• A steady stream of varied work across modern and legacy stacks
• Direct access to decision-makers, no account managers, no chains of command
• Autonomy
• Long-term working relationship for the right person

Send your CV and a few links to relevant work (GitHub, skills, repos, live projects) to [email protected] by Wednesday 27th May 2026.