Embedded teams · Engineering
Software developers in Egypt. In your sprints, on your repositories.
GrowAxis puts dedicated software developers and engineering pods in Cairo into your product team. They work in your repositories, tools and sprints and take direction from your lead, while GrowAxis employs, equips and manages them. Backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, QA, DevOps and data roles, with the 2026 cost of each below.
01Estimate
What a development team in Egypt costs
GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in rate is filled in for each role and level. Change the levels, add roles, and see the monthly cost per developer in your currency.
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 backend developer | 2 | USD 2,720 |
| Mid-level frontend developer | 1 | USD 2,050 |
| Mid-level QA engineer | 1 | USD 2,100 |
- A month, 4 people
- USD 9,590
- A year
- USD 115,080
- People
- 4
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…
…need more engineering capacity than you can find locally
…want developers in your sprints, not a vendor’s backlog
…want one developer now and a pod later
03What’s included
What a development team in Egypt includes
- 01
Developers by role
Backend, frontend, full-stack and mobile developers in the stack you use.
- 02
QA and DevOps
Testers and DevOps and cloud engineers for releases, pipelines and infrastructure.
- 03
Your way of working
Your repositories, tickets, code review and sprint rituals. Your lead directs the work.
- 04
Your accounts
Access through your accounts, so code and documents stay with you from the first commit.
- 05
Employment and equipment
GrowAxis employs the developers in Egypt and provides laptops, licences and IT support.
- 06
Reviews and reporting
Performance reviews with you, time tracking, and weekly and monthly reports.
Freelancers
- Who directs the work
- You, task by task
- Who employs them
- Nobody
- Continuity
- Depends on each person
- Where the code lives
- Varies
- Best for
- Short tasks
Software house
- Who directs the work
- The software house
- Who employs them
- The software house
- Continuity
- Set by the contract
- Where the code lives
- Often their systems first
- Best for
- A defined project
GrowAxis embedded developers
- Who directs the work
- You, every day
- Who employs them
- GrowAxis
- Continuity
- Dedicated people, reviewed monthly
- Where the code lives
- Your repositories
- Best for
- An ongoing product
| Aspect | Freelancers | Software house | GrowAxis embedded developers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who directs the work | You, task by task | The software house | You, every day |
| Who employs them | Nobody | The software house | GrowAxis |
| Continuity | Depends on each person | Set by the contract | Dedicated people, reviewed monthly |
| Where the code lives | Varies | Often their systems first | Your repositories |
| Best for | Short tasks | A defined project | An ongoing product |
04Rules
Software developers in Egypt: the 2026 numbers
- Developer pay in Egypt
- Levels.fyi’s median total pay for software engineers in Egypt was about EGP 554,000 a year on 4 November 2026, from 427 reported salaries; the 25th percentile was about EGP 345,000 and the 75th about EGP 893,000.
- People in the industry
- About 195,300 people worked in Egypt’s exporting outsourcing and tech companies in June 2026, and exports reached $5.2 billion in FY 2025/26.
- Export targets
- ITIDA targets $6.4 billion of exports in FY 2026/27 and over $8 billion by FY 2027/28.
- Delivery centres
- 252 companies run 282 global delivery centres in Egypt’s offshoring sector.
- Graduates
- Over 760,000 university graduates a year, including 50,000 ICT graduates.
- Universities
- Egypt had 129 universities and higher-education institutions in 2026, up from 56 in 2013. They include 28 government, 36 private and 32 national (non-profit) universities, 14 technological universities and 9 international branch campuses.
- 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.
- 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.
Sources: Levels.fyi: software engineer salary in Egypt (updated 4 November 2026); ITIDA: CEO on Egypt’s outsourcing growth (22 September 2026); ITIDA: Egypt offshoring exports hit $5.2B (26 August 2026); ITIDA: summer training programme for 10,000 students (12 June 2025); Ministry of Higher Education: progress 2013 to 2026 (29 June 2026); EF EPI 2025: Egypt fact sheet; TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map: Egypt (checked 4 November 2026). 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
Developers in Cairo. Directed by your lead.
You agree the roles, the stack and the goals with us. GrowAxis finds the developers with you, you interview them, and they join your stand-ups, repositories and sprints. GrowAxis stays the employer in Egypt, handles payroll, social insurance, equipment and performance reviews, and reports every week and month.
- Discovery call
- Roles and stack agreed
- You interview the developers
- Onboarded into your repositories
- Reviewed every month
Measured by
- Delivery against sprint goals
- Time to first merged change
- Code quality in review
- Retention
Related
- Embedded teams: experts in your team, managed by GrowAxis
- Outsourcing to Egypt
- Staff augmentation in Egypt
- IT outsourcing in Egypt
- Nearshoring to Egypt
- Odoo developers in Egypt
- SAP outsourcing from Egypt
- Offshore teams in Egypt for the US and Canada
- Egypt salary and employer cost calculator
- Employer of record (EOR) in Egypt
- Software development pod
- SNOOD: case study
- URCA: case study
- Read: What it costs to hire a software developer in Egypt in 2026
- Read: Software outsourcing companies in Egypt: 5 kinds, how to choose
- Read: Software developers in Egypt: an embedded team or an outsourcing agency?
- Read: Onboarding an offshore developer: the first two weeks
07FAQ
Software development teams in Egypt: what founders ask first.
At GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, a mid-level software engineer costs about $2,500 a month, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management. A junior costs from $1,500 and a senior at the level of top companies about $6,940.
Backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, QA, DevOps and cloud, data and UI/UX roles. We search for the stack you use and you interview every candidate before they join.
Cairo is one hour ahead of Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels and two hours ahead of London for most of the year, seven hours ahead of New York, and one hour behind Riyadh in winter (the same time in summer). Egypt uses summer time from the last Friday of April to the last Thursday of October. Most of the working day overlaps with Europe and the Gulf.
The developers work in your repositories and accounts, so the code stays with you. Ownership of the work is set out in the contract with GrowAxis.
It is a managed form of it. The developers work in your team under your direction, as with staff augmentation, and GrowAxis also employs, equips and manages 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.
Egypt’s offshoring industry exported $5.2 billion of services in FY 2025/26, and about 195,300 people work in its exporting companies (ITIDA). Universities graduate about 50,000 ICT students a year. Cairo is one hour ahead of Central Europe for most of the year.
Levels.fyi’s median was about EGP 554,000 a year in total pay (base, stock and bonus), from 427 salaries reported to it. GrowAxis plans for a mid-level engineer to take home EGP 23,500 to 54,500 a month in 2026.
About 195,300 people worked in Egypt’s exporting outsourcing and tech companies in June 2026, according to ITIDA, across 282 delivery centres run by 252 companies.
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