I’m a Shopify-focused CRO and eCommerce specialist helping DTC brands improve performance through data-led optimisation and scalable site builds. I work across theme development, UX improvements, and structured A/B testing to increase conversion rate and AOV. My experience includes building and optimising Shopify storefronts, implementing custom sections in Liquid, and supporting experimentation across PDPs, landing pages, and checkout. Alongside development, I support brands with CRO strategy, identifying key drop-off points, prioritising test roadmaps, and delivering measurable improvements across the funnel. My core stack includes Shopify, GA4, Klaviyo, Hotjar, and testing tools such as Intelligems. I’m comfortable working independently or alongside internal teams and agencies to deliver fast, reliable improvements. Some of the more well known brands I’ve created and implemented CRO strategy for is 47 Skin, Ghost Fragrances and Private White VC to name a few.
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Looking for a Shopify store that doesn't just look great, but actually converts? You're in the right place. I'm Marwane, a Top Rated Shopify Developer and Designer with a 100% Job Success Score on Upwork. I specialise in building conversion-optimised Shopify stores for DTC brands, e-commerce startups, and established businesses ready to scale online. What I bring to the table: - Custom Shopify store design & development (from scratch or theme-based) - High-converting landing pages & product pages (Replo, Shopify 2.0, Liquid) - Shopify theme customisation & redesigns Mobile-first, responsive design that looks flawless on every device - CRO (Conversion Rate Optimisation) strategies baked into every build - SEO-friendly architecture to help your store rank and get found - Shopify Plus experience for scaling brands
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Since 2009, I’ve been walking into companies that seem to be running smoothly… but on the inside, they’re falling apart. Slow processes. Employees stuck on pointless tasks. Broken systems held together with patches. Money quietly slipping away every day. And the worst part is that many companies don’t even realise it. Everyone promises growth. Everyone sells miracle automation solutions. Everyone talks about scalability whilst your business continues to drown in the same problems. I don’t sell smoke and mirrors. I find the fault. The bottleneck. The exact crack that’s holding your company back. And then I build a real solution. No templates. No off-the-shelf systems. No ‘premium solutions’ copied from another company that has nothing to do with you. Every business has its own processes. Its own mistakes. Its own limitations. That’s why I first understand how everything works. How your team works. Where they’re wasting time. Which manual tasks are destroying productivity without anyone questioning it. Because when you eliminate the chaos… you start to regain control. Your employees work better. Sales stop being down to luck. And your business starts to function as a system… not as a constant emergency. No empty promises. No unnecessary complications. One problem. One solution. Now the question is a different one. How much longer are you going to keep losing money over problems that should already have been sorted out? How much more strain can your business take before it breaks down? If you want to grow for real… if you want to stop putting out fires every day… if you want a system that works for you, not the other way round… Then get in touch. Tell me what’s going wrong. Where you’re stuck. What your business needs. And we’ll forge the solution you really need.
Established in 2021, our Shopify Development Agency has worked on 500+ stores globally. We deliver end-to-end solutions — from setup, design, and migration to theme customization and SEO. We don’t just promise results, we make them happen. 🏆
We are a team of 20+ in-house developers and designers with 7+ years of experience in Shopify store development, customizations, and app development. +447585579353 cartmade.com [email protected] Comprehensive assistance throughout all aspects of the Shopify platform
We are Underground has been building Shopify themes since the platform’s early days in 2007. With eight best-selling themes in the Shopify Theme Store, trusted by tens of thousands of merchants, we bring unmatched depth of experience to every Shopify project.
Hi Ecom is a Shopify Plus Partner with 5-star reviews and 500 + successful projects. We specialize in scalable Shopify Plus builds, custom apps, zero data loss migrations, CRO, and enterprise-grade solutions to help lifestyle & wellness brands.
NoirLuxe is a Vancouver based creative digital agency. We build & maintain beautiful, minimal, image driven Shopify sites; alongside providing app & theme customisation, stills production, product photography, SEO & copywriting to start ups & established businesses.
NextOn Solution specializes in store setup, design and redesign, migrations, theme customization, POS setup, B2B solutions, and much more. 🔴Book Free Call https://calendly.com/nextonsolution/30min 📞Call/ SMS / WhatsApp +447477175556 Email [email protected]
Established in 2012 with offices in London, Dubai and New York, Eastside is one of the world’s most trusted and experienced Shopify Plus Partners, creating beautiful, intuitive online stores, results-driven marketing strategies and best-in-class applications.
Do you need a London-based Shopify expert?
London has a deep pool of Shopify talent, so the constraint isn't finding someone, it's filtering. A London merchant searching for a Shopify developer will find dozens, at rates that vary widely for work that looks similar on a proposal. Most of the value in hiring here comes from narrowing well rather than searching harder.
On whether local matters: for most Shopify work it doesn't, and London is the clearest case in the UK. Development, design, SEO, email and consulting are all delivered remotely as standard, and a London merchant working with a Manchester or Bristol studio is entirely normal and often cheaper for equivalent work. The UK is small enough that time zone is never the issue it is in Australia or North America.
Four situations where London-based genuinely helps:
Physical work. Product and lifestyle photography, in-person team training, retail POS setup, and warehouse or studio visits all need someone in the room.
Enterprise Plus builds with heavy stakeholder involvement. On six-figure projects with several internal stakeholders, in-person workshops during discovery meaningfully improve outcomes. Some agencies will travel for this; many London merchants prefer not to depend on it.
Speed of assembling a team. If you need a developer, a designer and an email specialist at the same time and quickly, London's density makes that easier.
Sector-specific experience. London has large clusters of fashion, beauty and food DTC brands. If you want someone who has shipped in your exact category, London is a good place to look.
If none of those apply, widen your search. You'll usually find equivalent quality outside London at lower day rates.
How much does a Shopify expert cost in London?
What you pay depends far more on scope than on postcode. Of the 88 London-based experts on shopexperts, 64 list a starting price: the smallest job they will quote, shown in US dollars. It is not the price of a full build.
Median starting price
$275
Across 64 London profiles
Middle half of starting prices
$90 – $2,000
Hourly and task work to small projects
Agencies that start at $10,000+
5
Full builds and Plus work only
Freelancers sit lower than agencies: the median freelancer starting price is $185, against about $390 for agencies. A starting price in the thousands usually means the agency only takes full builds or retainers. Full builds, Shopify Plus work and retainers are quoted per project, so compare quotes against a written scope.
The practical London-specific advice: get at least one quote from outside London for any standard scope. If the London quote is much higher for the same deliverables and timeline, ask what the difference buys. If it's higher because the team has shipped several stores in your exact category, that's a different calculation. Request a free quote to compare properly.
The London Shopify and DTC scene
London is the centre of the UK's direct-to-consumer scene, from fashion and beauty to food, drink and subscription brands, and a deep agency and freelance market has grown around them. On shopexperts, 67 of the 88 London-based experts are agencies and 21 are freelancers.
The city's specialisms follow its brands. Fashion and beauty DTC is the deepest cluster, which means London designers and developers who have shipped repeatedly in those categories bring pattern knowledge that generalists don't. Food, drink and subscription DTC is the second cluster, and London has real depth in subscription-specific work as a result.
The London-specific technical specialism is post-Brexit selling into the EU. London brands deal with hreflang, VAT on EU orders, IOSS registration, DDP shipping and customs paperwork as routine, and London consultants have worked through it repeatedly since 2021.
London's freelance market is also large enough to be competitive at the senior end. A senior London freelancer can cost less than a mid-tier London agency and deliver better work on a single-discipline project. The directory on this page lets you compare both directly.
What do London Shopify experts do?
London Shopify experts cover the full range of Shopify work, with unusual depth in fashion and beauty DTC and in post-Brexit multi-region setups. The most requested services on shopexperts:
Theme Development and Customisation
Liquid, sections, custom widgets, theme migrations
Shopify Plus and Enterprise Builds
Plus setup, migrations, multi-store, B2B, checkout customisation
Design and Conversion UX
Theme design, brand identity, product page and checkout optimisation
SEO and Content
Technical SEO, UK search strategy, content programmes, AI search
Email and SMS Marketing
Flow builds, segmentation, campaign management, SMS
Post-Brexit EU Multi-Region
Hreflang, IOSS, DDP shipping, dual VAT, EU fulfilment
Frequently asked questions about hiring Shopify experts in London
For most Shopify work, no. Development, design, SEO, email and consulting are delivered remotely as standard, and the UK is small enough that time zone is never a factor. A London merchant working with a Manchester or Bristol studio is normal and often cheaper for equivalent work. London genuinely helps for physical work (photography, in-person training, POS setup), for enterprise Plus builds with heavy stakeholder involvement where in-person discovery workshops improve outcomes, when you need to assemble a multi-discipline team quickly, and when you want someone with deep experience in your specific category.
Of the 88 London-based experts on shopexperts, 64 list a starting price. The median is $275, and the middle half sit between $90 and $2,000 (in US dollars). Those are the smallest jobs each expert will quote: freelancers sit lower (median $185) than agencies (about $390), and five agencies start at $10,000 or more because they only take full builds. Full builds, Shopify Plus work and retainers are quoted per project, so request quotes against a written scope.
It depends what you're buying. For standard scopes, such as theme customisation, a straightforward build or ongoing maintenance, a London premium usually buys you a central London office rather than better work, and a regional studio will deliver the same thing for less. For genuine specialism it's a different calculation: if the London team has shipped several stores in your exact category, or has deep post-Brexit EU selling experience, that pattern knowledge is worth real money. The practical test is to get at least one non-London quote for the same scope and ask what the difference buys.
London's freelance market is deep enough that this is a genuine choice rather than a compromise. Senior London freelancers often cost less than mid-tier London agencies and deliver better work, particularly on single-discipline projects. Agencies earn their premium when you need design, development and project management coordinated, or continuity across a long engagement. Shopify Plus Partners fit enterprise builds and stores with Plus-level complexity. On shopexperts, 21 of the 88 London-based experts are freelancers and 67 are agencies, so compare both in the directory on this page rather than assuming agency means better.
Fashion and beauty DTC first: that's the densest brand cluster in the city and the specialism runs deepest. Food, drink and subscription commerce is the second cluster, which has produced real depth in subscription-specific work. And post-Brexit selling into the EU is the London-specific technical specialism: hreflang, IOSS, DDP shipping, VAT on EU orders and customs documentation are routine work for London consultants in a way they aren't for agencies outside the UK.
Plenty, which is both an advantage and a filtering problem. Plus Partner status confirms enterprise experience but says nothing about fit for your category or scope. Verify claimed tiers in the Shopify Partner directory, ask for three live Plus stores from the last twelve months, and follow up with two of those merchants directly if the project is over £30,000.
Yes, and this is where London experience is most clearly worth paying for. London brands have been solving post-Brexit EU selling since 2021: hreflang setup, IOSS registration for parcels up to €150, DDP shipping so EU customers don't get customs bills at the door, VAT on EU orders, and dual-warehouse strategies for higher-volume EU sellers. Consultants outside the UK generally haven't dealt with the UK-to-EU direction repeatedly.
Three filters do most of the work. Category experience: ask for live stores in your vertical from the last twelve months, not a portfolio spanning five years. Scope match: a studio whose typical project is £8,000 will struggle with a £150,000 Plus build, and vice versa, and both will tell you they can do it. Then price against at least one non-London quote for the same scope. That last one is the fastest way to see what the London number actually contains.