It depends on what stack you work on. There are thousands of these small shops with 1 to 50 devs, that just take on work from companies to do small outsourced IT projects.
From a Google search, these guys do Rust: https://ferrous-systems.com/
These guys do Flutter/Dart: https://flutterbountyhunters.com/
These guys do embedded systems: https://landing.witekio.com/embedded-software-development-se...
These guys do web stuff for corporations: https://pixelplex.io/web-development/