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SAP outsourcing from Egypt. ABAP and S/4HANA people inside your SAP team.

GrowAxis employs SAP ABAP developers and S/4HANA consultants in Cairo who join your SAP team for support (AMS), custom development and migrations. A senior developer costs about $6,940 a month, all in, at GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, where a German SAP contractor receives about €875 a day for ABAP work. With mainstream maintenance of SAP ECC ending in 2027, the work arrives as the people get scarce.

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01Estimate

What an SAP developer in Egypt costs

Public SAP pay data for Egypt is thin, so the calculator prices SAP developers at GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in rate for backend developers. Change the level or the number of people.

Role 1
Role 2

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.

GrowAxis all-in monthly rate per role
RolePeopleAll-in rate a person, a month
Senior backend developer1USD 6,940
Mid-level backend developer1USD 2,720
A month, 2 people
USD 9,660
A year
USD 115,920
People
2
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…

  • …run SAP and need ABAP or functional capacity your partner can’t staff

  • …are planning a move from ECC to S/4HANA before 2027 or 2030

  • …are an SAP partner short of developers for signed projects

03What’s included

What a GrowAxis SAP team covers

  1. 01

    SAP AMS

    Application support for your SAP: tickets, fixes, small changes and month-end cover, in your service tools.

  2. 02

    ABAP development

    Reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms (RICEF), and clean-core extensions for S/4HANA.

  3. 03

    S/4HANA migration work

    Custom code analysis and remediation, data migration and testing for conversion projects.

  4. 04

    Functional support

    FI/CO and MM/SD consultants for configuration and user support, alongside your leads.

  5. 05

    Staff augmentation

    Named people who join your SAP team or your partner’s, for a project or for as long as you need them.

  6. 06

    Employment and HR

    GrowAxis employs the team in Egypt and handles payroll, equipment and reviews. You direct the work.

A contractor in Europe

Cost basis
A day rate, about €875 for ABAP in Germany
Who directs the work
You
Continuity
Until the contract ends

An offshore SAP vendor

Cost basis
Hourly rates plus the vendor’s margin
Who directs the work
The vendor
Continuity
The vendor’s staffing

A GrowAxis SAP team

Cost basis
Egyptian pay, employed by GrowAxis, per person per month
Who directs the work
You
Continuity
Named people, employed and covered by GrowAxis

04Facts

SAP in 2026: the dates and the rates

ECC maintenance
Mainstream maintenance for SAP ECC runs until the end of 2027, with optional extended maintenance until the end of 2030 at two points more; S/4HANA is maintained until the end of 2040.
Transition option
SAP ERP, private edition, transition option is usable from 2031 to 2033, and since 13 October 2026 its subscriptions may run until 31 December 2035, with further prerequisites.
German day rates
SAP contractors in Germany receive about €875 a day for ABAP or Basis and €900 for FI/CO, S/4 Finance or MM/SD, at the midpoint (Eursap 2026/27).
Netherlands and UK
About €817.50 a day for ABAP in the Netherlands and €637.50 (£540) in the UK outside IR35, at the midpoint.
Pay in Egypt
PayScale: SAP consultant median EGP 118,000 a year in base pay (41 profiles, September 2026); senior SAP consultant EGP 420,000 (12 profiles). Small samples, so treat them as a guide.
Cost basis
GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in rates for backend developers: senior about $6,940 a month, mid about $2,720; pay, social insurance, equipment and management included.
ECC on older enhancement packages
Mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 without an enhancement package, or on packages 1 to 5, ended on 31 December 2025. The end of 2027 applies only to the latest three packages.
After 2027 with no decision
Customers who neither buy extended maintenance nor move to SAP S/4HANA are moved automatically to SAP’s customer-specific maintenance model.
Who still runs ECC
In DSAG’s 2026 survey of 198 SAP user companies, mostly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 54% still use SAP ECC or the older Business Suite (68% in 2024), and 56% use S/4HANA on-premise.
Migration plans
Of the DSAG respondents still planning to invest in ECC, 37% want to switch to S/4HANA by the end of 2027 and almost half by the end of 2030.
AMS priced per ticket
BearingPoint publishes SAP AMS from €79 a ticket for incidents and service requests, 9:00 to 17:00 CET on weekdays, and from €159 a ticket with problem and change management and small projects included.
SAP work in Cairo
IBM’s Client Innovation Centers in Cairo and Giza are expanding their SAP Service Line, with S/4HANA Finance and Logistics, ABAP, Basis and Security, Transportation Management and warehouse management work.

Sources: SAP News: SAP S/4HANA maintenance until 2040 (February 2020); SAP News: transition option updates (August 2025, updated October 2026); Eursap: SAP rate guide, Germany 2026/27; Eursap: SAP rate guide, Netherlands 2026/27; Eursap: SAP rate guide, United Kingdom 2026/27; PayScale: SAP consultant salary in Egypt; Andersen Egypt: Labour Law No. 14 of 2025; ASUG: end of mainstream maintenance or end of life support (November 2023); DSAG: Investment Report 2026 (26 February 2026); BearingPoint: SAP platform services pricing; IBM Careers: SAP careers at IBM Egypt. 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

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.

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06How it’s installed

In your SAP landscape, employed by GrowAxis.

You agree the scope and the profiles with us: AMS cover, a migration workstream, or developers for your backlog. We put forward the people, your SAP leads interview them, and they join your systems, tickets and transports under your rules. GrowAxis employs them, reviews their work with you and reports every month.

  1. Discovery call
  2. Scope and profiles agreed
  3. Your leads interview
  4. Onboarded into your landscape
  5. Reviewed every month

Measured by

  • Tickets resolved within SLA
  • Changes delivered
  • Custom code remediated
  • Cost per developer

Related

07FAQ

SAP outsourcing from Egypt: what founders ask first.

  • Mainstream maintenance ends at the end of 2027; optional extended maintenance runs to the end of 2030 at two points more. The SAP ERP, private edition, transition option is usable from 2031 to 2033, and since October 2026 its subscriptions may run to the end of 2035.

  • At GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, about $6,940 a month for a senior developer and $2,720 for a mid-level one, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management. A German SAP contractor receives about €875 a day for ABAP work.

  • Yes: application support with tickets, fixes, small changes and month-end cover, run in your service tools under your SLA.

  • Yes. Partners add GrowAxis developers to their delivery team for a project or for as long as they need them, while GrowAxis employs them in Egypt.

  • No. GrowAxis is the employer in Egypt, so you don’t need an entity, a local bank account or a payroll provider there.

  • The developers work in your repositories, servers and accounts, with the access you give them. For personal data from the EU the contract adds a GDPR transfer basis, such as the standard contractual clauses. In Egypt, Law 151 of 2020 applies, and since 1 November 2026 companies there that handle personal data need a licence.

  • With outsourcing, a vendor runs the work and directs its own people. With staff augmentation, named people join your SAP team and you direct them. GrowAxis works the second way and employs the people in Egypt.

  • Without extended maintenance or a move to S/4HANA, SAP moves you automatically to customer-specific maintenance. Extended maintenance runs to the end of 2030 at two points more. Systems without an enhancement package, or on packages 1 to 5, left mainstream maintenance at the end of 2025.

  • Providers price it per ticket, per hour or per month; BearingPoint, for example, publishes a starting price of €79 a ticket in CET office hours. With GrowAxis you pay per person per month: about $6,940 a month, all in, for a senior developer and $2,720 for a mid-level one.

  • Yes. Large firms run SAP delivery from Cairo: IBM’s centres in Cairo and Giza are expanding SAP work in S/4HANA, ABAP, and Basis and Security. Your SAP leads interview every person GrowAxis puts forward.

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