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We take on paid job board website development London businesses need when advertising roles becomes a product in its own right. That covers boards selling to the City's finance and legal firms, tech hiring around Shoreditch and King's Cross, and hospitality across the West End. Codeeo builds the paid side: sponsored and featured listings, agency seats, contract and day rate vacancies, employer branding pages, invoice accounts and commission on placements, with candidate search fast enough to keep London's job seekers coming back.
London buyers compare boards quickly and leave when pricing is vague. Our team of 80+, based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, works with London clients remotely, and every discovery session and design review runs by video call.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What a London board needs to sell
London is crowded with boards, aggregators and agencies, so a paid board survives by selling something employers cannot get for free: a specialist audience, better placement in results, or direct access to people who rarely apply elsewhere. The contract market is large here, salaries and day rates vary sharply by sector and postcode, and candidates often weigh the commute as heavily as the pay. Our paid job board website design London clients commission is shaped around those facts. The modules below are the ones London boards ask for most. We pick the right mix in discovery and leave out anything that would not earn its place in the first release. A London board can always add products later on the same billing foundation.
Employers pay to pin a vacancy to the top of relevant searches, highlight it in the results or include it in the daily alert email for a set period. Slots are limited per category so the upgrade keeps its value, and each employer sees impressions, clicks and applications for what they bought.
A clear upsell with numbers that prove it worked.
A London agency with several desks buys one account with a seat for each consultant. Managers set posting allowances per seat, move credits between desks and see which consultant's adverts produce applications, while the board invoices the agency once rather than chasing individual cards.
Bigger accounts that are simple to manage.
Contract roles carry a day rate, a duration and a working pattern, plus an optional field showing whether the hirer has assessed the role as inside or outside the off-payroll working rules. Contractors filter by rate and status, which matters in a market where permanent and interim hiring sit side by side.
Contractors find suitable roles without opening every advert.
Employers can be required to show a salary or rate range before an advert publishes, and any role paying at least the London Living Wage, the voluntary rate set by the Living Wage Foundation, can carry a badge. You decide which rules are mandatory and which earn a better placement.
Adverts candidates trust enough to click.
Candidates search by Tube, Overground, Elizabeth line or rail station and set how far they will travel, rather than typing a postcode and guessing. Hybrid and office day patterns are shown on every listing, so a role three days a week in Canary Wharf is not confused with a fully remote one.
Better matched applications for each paying employer.
Larger employers buy a company profile with photos, video, benefits and all their open roles in one place. Profiles are sold on an annual basis and renew automatically with a reminder beforehand, and you control the layout so every profile still looks like part of your board.
A recurring product beyond individual adverts.
Employers post a brief, approved freelance recruiters and boutique agencies submit candidates, and the platform takes a commission when a placement is confirmed. We connect payouts through the provider's connected accounts, which run their own identity checks, and record every submission so ownership disputes can be settled from the log.
Revenue from placements as well as postings.
Banks, law firms and public bodies rarely pay by card. They get an invoice account with purchase order references, monthly statements and agreed payment terms, while every order still produces a VAT invoice. Overdue accounts can pause new postings automatically until the balance is cleared.
Enterprise buyers can say yes without changing their process.
Job alerts are a service the candidate asked for. Marketing emails about sponsored roles or partner offers are different, and under PECR they need consent or a valid soft opt-in. We keep the two separate in the signup flow, store each consent with a timestamp and make unsubscribing a single click.
A mailing list you can actually use.
New London employers are matched against Companies House, their email domain is compared with the company website, and first adverts wait in a review queue. Adverts that ask candidates to pay for training, uniforms or visas, or to share bank details early, are held automatically for a moderator to look at.
Job seekers meet real employers, and paying ones keep their reputation.
Who this is for
The strongest paid boards in London do not try to beat the generalist sites on volume. They own a sector, a type of contract or a community of candidates and charge for access to it. These are the four starting points we see most, each with a different first product to sell. Knowing yours shapes the whole build, from the pricing table to the way employers are verified. It also decides which London competitors you are really measured against, and that tells us which features are table stakes and which can wait.
Your candidates are qualified and in demand, and employers in the City and Canary Wharf will pay to reach them. The first products are usually featured listings and an invoice account, followed by paid access to a CV database of candidates who opted in. Verification is strict, because a fake employer on a board like this damages trust quickly and is hard to repair.
Invoice accounts usually come before card checkout.
Tech hiring around Shoreditch, Old Street and King's Cross mixes permanent roles with short contracts. We build day rate fields, contract filters, off-payroll status labels and seat-based accounts for the agencies that place contractors. Job board subscription platform development London tech recruiters will pay for usually starts with monthly plans and a featured slot allowance.
Plans are sized around the number of live roles, not the number of logins.
Restaurants, hotels and venues in the West End and along the South Bank hire constantly and want to post quickly from a phone. Single listings by card or Apple Pay, bulk packs for groups with many sites, and shift pattern fields matter more than employer branding here. Living Wage badges help good employers stand out.
Speed of posting matters more here than design detail.
Your site attracts more candidates than your consultants can place. A paid marketplace lets other employers and approved recruiters reach that audience, with commission on placements made through it. We keep it separate from your own CRM, so your clients and pipeline remain private.
The marketplace runs on its own data, apart from your agency records.
How we work with London clients
We do not have a London office and will not promise visits or meetings in the city. Instead, workshops, design walkthroughs and sprint demos happen by video call, and each one ends with notes, recordings and an updated backlog in a shared workspace. You sign off each phase before the next begins. Legal questions, such as whether a paid product counts as an employment agency service, go to your solicitor, and we build to their advice. Each phase has its own written scope and acceptance checklist, so you know exactly what will be demonstrated at the end of it. After launch, we can keep improving the board with you or hand it over to your own developers with documentation and admin guides.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
London boards often face sharp traffic peaks in January and September. We usually build on Next.js with a Laravel or Node back end, PostgreSQL, a dedicated search index and hosting in a UK region that scales for those peaks without paying for idle capacity the rest of the year.
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Competition, contract work and commuting shape the product more than anywhere else.
London employers already have many places to advertise, so a London board needs a clear specialist audience and paid upgrades that show results. The contract market means day rates, durations and off-payroll status fields. Commuting means station and travel time search rather than a simple radius. Larger employers expect invoice accounts and seat-based billing. A regional board can often launch with single listings by card; a London one usually needs more than that to compete. Candidates in London also tend to arrive from many languages and backgrounds, so plain wording and accessible forms widen the audience employers are paying to reach.
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