IT Staff Augmentation Services

IT staff augmentation is a widely used team extension approach where companies collaborate with external experts provided by staffing agencies instead of hiring in-house full-time employees. With IT staff augmentation services, clients get full management control over outstaffed professionals who remain officially employed by a staffing provider.

One of the biggest staff augmentation benefits for businesses is significant time and cost savings. For example, typically, businesses spend 6-9 months' worth of the salary received by employees for their replacements. It means whenever a senior developer resigns, the expenses incurred amount to $60,000 - $75,000. Add it to the cost of downtimes caused by the absence of the required expert on a project and employment costs (e.g., trade unions), and you'll get a hefty sum of money to cover.

Meanwhile, when you opt for team augmentation services, a staffing provider handles recruitment processes, offers legal support for experts' employment, and provides necessary facilities and devices. It means you save a lot of costs.

It depends on where your business is located. Choosing an offshore IT staff augmentation company is smart if it's based on highly competitive markets with high standard rates for IT project roles, such as the US or Western Europe.

By finding a staffing partner in regions with lower rates and excellent tech expertise, like Central and Eastern Europe, you will save money without compromising on quality. For example, average developer rates in countries like Ukraine, Poland, and Romania are 2-4 times lower than in the US and Western Europe.

The cost of IT staff augmentation services depends on many factors, including the number of experts you want to hire and their seniority levels, the duration of your project, and the geolocation of your staffing provider.

The most cost-effective option is to find a staffing agency in Central and Eastern Europe since you get a high quality of work but at lower prices. That's because average hourly rates charged by developers in this region are much more affordable than, for example, in the US or Western Europe ($30-65/hour compared to $65-250/hour).

According to the Insight Success report, the IT staff augmentation market was estimated at $32.50 billion in 2021 and is anticipated to grow by more than 10 billion (up to $43.68 billion) by 2027.

Some sources state that every third company has used this team management strategy at some point.

We offer a one-month probation period for all our IT staff augmentation services. During this time, you can evaluate our competencies and see if this cooperation model satisfies your needs.

If something doesn't work for you, we can stop our cooperation — no financial risks on your side and no hard feelings on ours.

We offer the following five types of IT staff augmentation services:

• Dedicated development team — if you need to build up an entire team from scratch;
• Long- & short-term IT staff augmentation — if you need to hire only individual tech experts;
• Staff augmentation consulting — if you need professional advice before going for team extension;
• Management of distributed teams — if you want us to take care of a distributed team you have built;
• Vendor transition — if you need professional tech support when switching from one vendor to another.