I'm going to assume ~$230/hour includes some pounds-to-dollars conversion I'm not going to do the math to check. $230/hr is not crazy expensive. It really isn'

I'm going to assume ~$230/hour includes some pounds-to-dollars conversion I'm not going to do the math to check. $230/hr is not crazy expensive. It really isn't. At my last job we charged $160/hr for things like "standing around while the phone company is there", or setting up a Dell computer, or sitting in meetings. The UK government isn't some ramen startup. Of course, it may be that you can't actually just FTP it to the server. At my current employer, you can't put ANYTHING on any of our web servers without sitting at the console. Which is an hour's drive away from my main office. Security does funny things to productivity. Who knows? (Apparently the UK government doesn't, either)