Apply to join the dxw Friends network

dxw Friends is our network of trusted contractors and partner organisations. The community isn’t exclusive, and we will only sign a contract if we have a specific project for you to work on.

If you are interested in working with us, fill out this form and we’ll get back to you. We won’t share the information you provide with anyone outside of dxw, and you can ask us to remove it at any time.

This form is for individuals. If you represent an agency or recruitment organisation, please email us at contact@dxw.com rather than filling out this form.

About you

Name

Company name (if applicable)

Legal name (if different from name above)

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Email address

Location

Working pattern (if not full time)

Accessibility needs (optional)

IR35 and rates

IR35 preference

Typical day rate – inside IR35 (£)

Typical day rate – outside IR35 (£)

Disciplines

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Delivery Management Product Management Account Management Software Engineering Technical Architecture Platform Engineering Data Engineering Business Analysis Performance Analysis Data Analysis Interaction Design Service Design Content Design Research Other

Skills

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Software Engineering Accessibility / WCAG CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, etc.) C# / .NET CRM & marketing platforms (HubSpot, Salesforce, CiviCRM, etc.) Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB, NoSQL etc.) Django Drupal Ecommerce (Shopify, WooCommerce etc.) Express.js Frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) GOV.UK Design System GOV.UK Prototyping Kit Java / Kotlin JavaScript / TypeScript Laravel Machine learning / AI / LLMs Mobile development (Swift, Obj-C, Xamarin, MAUI etc.) Nest.js Next.js No-code / Low-code (Zapier, Airtable, Glide, Softr etc.) Performance & usability testing PHP Python React Ruby / Rails SEO (AHrefs / ScreamingFrog etc.) Tech leading Vue.js Wagtail WordPress

Technical Architecture API design & REST / GraphQL APIs CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, etc.) Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB, NoSQL etc.) Data engineering & pipelines (Databricks, Dagster, Spark etc.) Data governance & strategy Event-driven / microservices architecture

Platform Engineering AWS Azure CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, etc.) Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB, NoSQL etc.) Docker & containers GCP / Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes Observability & monitoring Other Infrastructure as code (Ansible / Puppet / Chef/ Pulumi etc.) Terraform

Data Engineering CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, etc.) Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB, NoSQL etc.) Data engineering & pipelines (Databricks, Dagster, Spark etc.) Data governance & strategy Machine learning / AI / LLMs

Performance Analysis Data analysis & visualisation (Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio etc.) Web analytics (Google Analytics, Hotjar, Optimizely etc.)

Data Analysis Data analysis & visualisation (Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio etc.) Web analytics (Google Analytics, Hotjar, Optimizely etc.)

Interaction Design Accessibility / WCAG Axure / Balsamiq / InVision / Protopie Figma GOV.UK Design System GOV.UK Prototyping Kit No-code / Low-code (Zapier, Airtable, Glide, Softr etc.) Performance & usability testing

Other skills Agile / Scrum / Kanban / Lean methodologies Coaching, mentoring & leadership Facilitation GOV.UK & GDS Standards / Service Assessments Stakeholder management

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