Embedded teams · Europe
Nearshoring to Egypt. One hour from Central Europe.
Nearshoring means building a team in a nearby country that shares your working day. For European companies, Cairo is one hour ahead of Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels and two hours ahead of London for most of the year. GrowAxis employs and manages developers, tech and support specialists there who work inside your team.
01Estimate
What a nearshore team in Egypt costs
GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in rate is filled in for each role and level. Choose euros or pounds and enter today’s rate, or keep dollars, and see the monthly cost of each person.
Rates are set in US dollars; other currencies use the Central Bank of Egypt’s dollar rate on 3 November 2026, the riyal and dirham through their dollar pegs. Change them to today’s.
| Role | People | All-in rate a person, a month |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level full-stack developer | 2 | USD 2,300 |
| Mid-level DevOps and cloud engineer | 1 | USD 2,720 |
- A month, 3 people
- USD 7,320
- A year
- USD 87,840
- People
- 3
What the rate includes
- All in: pay, Egypt’s social insurance and salary tax handling, equipment and management, from $1,500 a month per person.
- Rates differ by role and level; the free 30-minute growth assessment sets the scope, and the proposal after it confirms the price before anything starts.
- Not tax or legal advice.
02Who it’s for
Built for founders who…
…are in Europe and want a team in your working day
…want an alternative to the usual nearshore hubs
…need support in European languages as well as English and Arabic
03What’s included
What a nearshore team in Egypt includes
- 01
A shared working day
Stand-ups, reviews and calls in your hours: one or two hours’ difference from most of Europe.
- 02
Developers and tech roles
Backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, QA, DevOps, data and design.
- 03
Customer support
Specialists in your helpdesk in English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
- 04
Employment in Egypt
GrowAxis employs the people and handles contracts, payroll, social insurance, equipment and licences.
- 05
Data protection
Access through your accounts and the transfer terms agreed in the contract, so personal data leaves the EU on a lawful basis.
- 06
Reviews and reporting
Performance reviews with you, and weekly and monthly reports.
04Rules
Cairo’s working day against yours
- London
- Cairo is two hours ahead for most of the year.
- Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels
- Cairo is one hour ahead for most of the year, and on the same time for a few weeks in spring and autumn.
- Riyadh
- Cairo is one hour behind in winter and on the same time in summer.
- Dubai
- Cairo is two hours behind in winter and one hour behind in summer.
- Summer time
- Egypt moves its clocks forward from the last Friday of April to the last Thursday of October.
- Working week
- The weekend in Egypt is Friday and Saturday. A team that works with Europe can keep a Monday to Friday week, agreed in the contract.
- EU adequacy
- Egypt is not among the countries the European Commission recognises as giving adequate data protection.
- Standard contractual clauses
- The Commission issued modernised standard contractual clauses on 4 June 2021 for transfers from the EU and EEA to companies outside it.
- A European employer in Egypt
- Vodafone’s VOIS has its second-largest global footprint in Egypt: 9,500 specialists, about a third of its workforce.
- European languages
- German was asked for in 23% of call-centre openings at ITIDA’s job fairs from October 2023 to March 2024, French in 14% and Italian in 13%, after English at 49%.
- Remote work
- Labour Law 14 of 2025 recognises remote, part-time and flexible work (Article 96).
- Subsea cables
- 18 submarine cables in service land in Egypt, at Alexandria, Abu Talat and Port Said on the Mediterranean and Suez, Zafarana, Ras Ghareb and Taba on the Red Sea side. Six more are planned.
- English, by job
- EF scores Egyptian test takers in IT at 492, in customer service at 483, in R&D at 497 and in strategy and project management at 490, all above the national 458.
- French speakers
- About 3.2 million people in Egypt speak French, about 3% of the population (OIF estimate for 2022).
- Maadi Technology Park
- Companies in the park get a duty-free zone, simplified customs, tax incentives and, if eligible, rebates on export earnings.
Sources: timeanddate.com: time zone in Cairo; European Commission: adequacy decisions; European Commission: standard contractual clauses; ITIDA: Egypt offshoring exports hit $5.2B (26 August 2026); ITIDA: software development most in demand in Egypt’s ICT job market (17 April 2024); Andersen Egypt: English translation of Labour Law No. 14 of 2025; TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map: Egypt (checked 4 November 2026); EF EPI 2025: Egypt fact sheet; Universite Laval, reproducing the OIF’s 2022 estimate of French speakers; ITIDA: Maadi Technology Park. A summary for planning, not legal advice.
05Egypt at a glance
Egypt at a glance, 2026
The numbers that decide whether Egypt fits, each from its source.
- Offshoring exports, from 282 delivery centres run by 252 companies (ITIDA, August 2026)
- $5.2B
- People in exporting outsourcing and tech companies, June 2026
- 195,300
- University graduates a year
- 750,000
- Subsea cables in service landing in Egypt, with 6 more planned
- 18
- Ahead of Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam for most of the year
- +1 hour
- A month, all in, for a mid-level software engineer at GrowAxis’s 2026 rates
- $2,500
Sources: ITIDA: Egypt offshoring exports hit $5.2B (26 August 2026); TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map: Egypt (checked 4 November 2026); GrowAxis: Cairo time difference in 2026; GrowAxis: Egypt salary calculator, 2026 rates.
Already delivering from Egypt
- Teleperformance (TP)About 26,800 peopleNew Cairo, Giza, Alexandria
- Concentrix24,500 people in 13 centresCairo, Giza, Alexandria
Vodafone _VOIS9,500 specialistsCairo, Alexandria- SutherlandOver 6,000 in AlexandriaAlexandria, New Cairo
- ValeoOver 3,000 engineersSmart Village, Cairo
Dell TechnologiesCenter of ExcellenceCairo- IBMClient Innovation CentersCairo, Giza
- Siemens EDAEngineering R&DCairo
- CapgeminiDelivery and AI centresCairo
- DXC TechnologyOver 600 IT professionalsCairo
- TTECOver 500, more plannedMaadi Technology Park
- DeloitteInnovation Hub, over 350Cairo
- EYTalent hub, 1,000+ jobs plannedEgypt
- HenkelGlobal Business SolutionsCairo
Companies with delivery centres in Egypt, each linked to the public source that states it. They are not GrowAxis clients, and the logos remain their owners’ trademarks.
Outsourcing to Egypt 2026: the destination guide
The industry, talent and languages, costs by role, hours, the rules, who is already there and how to set up a team. PDF, 20 pages, free, no sign-up.
06How it’s installed
Nearshore, inside your team.
You agree the roles and the goals with us. GrowAxis finds the people with you, you meet them, and they join your tools and meetings in your working day. GrowAxis stays the employer in Egypt, handles payroll, social insurance and equipment, reviews performance with you and reports every week and month.
- Discovery call
- Roles and goals agreed
- You meet the people
- Onboarded into your tools
- Reviewed every month
Measured by
- Output against agreed KPIs
- Time to productivity
- Work quality
- Retention
Related
- Embedded teams: experts in your team, managed by GrowAxis
- Outsourcing to Egypt
- Software development teams in Egypt
- Multilingual customer support from Egypt
- Egypt salary and employer cost calculator
- Growth partner in Germany
- Growth partner in France
- SNOOD: case study
- URCA: case study
- Read: Egypt, India, the Philippines, Latin America or Poland: where to outsource in 2026
- Read: Nearshore or offshore: where Egypt fits for European companies
- Read: What it costs to hire a software developer in Egypt in 2026
- Read: Employing people in Egypt in 2026: what a foreign company needs to know
07FAQ
Nearshoring to Egypt: what founders ask first.
Moving work to a nearby country with a similar working day, so the team can work together in real time. For Europe that usually means Eastern or Southern Europe or North Africa; Egypt is one hour ahead of Central Europe.
Eastern European markets are inside the EU and closer. Egypt offers pay that is generally lower, a large outsourcing industry and Arabic for Middle East customers, with a working day one hour ahead of Central Europe. The calculator on this page shows what a team in Egypt costs; compare it with your quotes.
Egypt is outside the EU, so personal data accessed from there needs a transfer basis under the GDPR, such as the EU’s standard contractual clauses, agreed in the contract. Egypt also has its own Personal Data Protection Law (Law 151 of 2020). Keeping access in your own accounts and systems makes it easier to control.
Tech work runs in English. For customer support, GrowAxis offers English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
No. GrowAxis is the employer in Egypt, so you don’t need an entity, a local bank account or a payroll provider there.
Nearshore for most of Europe: Cairo is one hour ahead of Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels and two hours ahead of London for most of the year, so the team shares your working day.
No. Personal data accessed from Egypt needs a transfer basis under the GDPR, such as the EU’s standard contractual clauses, agreed in the contract.
Yes. GrowAxis offers support in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese as well as English and Arabic. At ITIDA’s job fairs from October 2023 to March 2024, German was asked for in 23% of call-centre openings and French in 14%.
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