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Staff augmentation from Egypt. In your team, employed by us.

Staff augmentation adds skilled people to your team for as long as you need them: they work under your direction and in your tools, while a provider employs them. GrowAxis adds developers, QA, DevOps, data and design specialists in Cairo, and also equips them, reviews their work with you and reports on it. A mid-level developer costs about $2,500 a month in 2026, all in; the calculator shows your roles.

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01Estimate

What the people you add would cost

GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in rate is filled in for each role and level. Change the levels, add roles, and see the monthly cost of each person in your currency.

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
Mid-level software engineer1USD 2,500
Mid-level DevOps and cloud engineer1USD 2,720
A month, 2 people
USD 5,220
A year
USD 62,640
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…

  • …have a team and a lead, and need more hands with specific skills

  • …need people for months, not for one fixed project

  • …want to add capacity without employing anyone abroad

03What’s included

What staff augmentation with GrowAxis includes

  1. 01

    People by skill

    Developers in your stack, QA, DevOps and cloud, data and UI/UX specialists, one at a time or several.

  2. 02

    You choose them

    GrowAxis shortlists candidates against your profile; you interview them and decide.

  3. 03

    Your way of working

    They join your stand-ups, tickets, repositories and channels, and take direction from your lead.

  4. 04

    Employment in Egypt

    GrowAxis employs them: contracts, payroll, social insurance, tax, laptops and licences.

  5. 05

    Reviews and reporting

    Performance reviews with you, time tracking, and weekly and monthly reports.

  6. 06

    Room to grow

    Add people as the work grows, from one specialist to a dedicated team.

Outsourcing a project

Who directs the work
The vendor
Who finds the people
The vendor
Who employs them
The vendor
Equipment and reviews
The vendor
Best for
A defined project

Freelancers

Who directs the work
You
Who finds the people
You
Who employs them
Nobody
Equipment and reviews
The freelancer
Best for
Short tasks

Employer of record

Who directs the work
You
Who finds the people
You
Who employs them
The EOR
Equipment and reviews
Usually you
Best for
One person you already found

GrowAxis staff augmentation

Who directs the work
You
Who finds the people
GrowAxis, and you choose
Who employs them
GrowAxis
Equipment and reviews
GrowAxis, with you
Best for
Ongoing work in your team

04Costs

What each role costs from Egypt, 2026

Software engineer, mid-level
About $2,500 a month, all in: $30,000 a year.
Backend or DevOps engineer, mid-level
About $2,720 a month, all in: $32,640 a year.
Frontend developer, mid-level
About $2,050 a month, all in: $24,600 a year.
QA engineer or UI/UX designer, mid-level
About $2,100 a month, all in: $25,200 a year.
Data analyst or scientist, mid-level
About $2,340 a month, all in: $28,080 a year.
Senior software engineer, top-company level
About $6,940 a month, all in: $83,280 a year.
How it is worked out
GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in monthly rate per person: pay, social insurance, equipment and management, from $1,500. The free growth assessment sets the scope; the proposal after it confirms the price.
Agency rates
Egypt providers listed for staff augmentation on Clutch show hourly rates from under $25 to $50 to $99, and minimum projects from $1,000 to $250,000 or more.
Probation
Up to three months, and only once with the same employer (Labour Law 14 of 2025, Article 90).
Notice
Either side gives at least three months’ written notice to end an open-ended contract, and it cannot be shortened (Articles 156 and 161).
Remote work
The law recognises remote, part-time and flexible work as work models (Article 96).
Talent supply
About 750,000 university graduates join Egypt’s labour market each year.

Sources: Clutch: staff augmentation services in Egypt (ratings updated 3 November 2026); Andersen Egypt: English translation of Labour Law No. 14 of 2025; ITIDA: Egypt offshoring exports hit $5.2B (26 August 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

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.

Download the full guide

06How it’s installed

People in your team. Employed and managed in Cairo.

You tell us the skills, the stack and the work. GrowAxis shortlists candidates with you, you interview them and choose, and they join your stand-ups, tools and sprints like any colleague. GrowAxis stays the employer in Egypt, handles payroll, social insurance and equipment, reviews performance with you and reports every week and month.

  1. Discovery call
  2. Skills and stack agreed
  3. You interview the candidates
  4. Onboarded into your tools
  5. Reviewed every month

Measured by

  • Delivery against your goals
  • Time to productivity
  • Work quality in review
  • Retention

Related

07FAQ

Staff augmentation in Egypt: what founders ask first.

  • Adding people from a provider to your own team for a period, to work under your direction on your tasks. The provider employs them; you manage the work. In outsourcing, by contrast, a vendor takes over a project and runs it its own way.

  • At GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, a mid-level software engineer costs about $2,500 a month, a mid-level QA engineer about $2,100 and a DevOps engineer about $2,720, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management. When you compare providers, check what each price includes: many add their fee on top of the salary.

  • Yes. GrowAxis shortlists people against your profile, and you interview them and choose. Nobody joins your team without your agreement.

  • No. With an employer of record, you find the person and the EOR only employs them. With staff augmentation from GrowAxis, GrowAxis also finds candidates with you, equips the people and reviews their performance with you.

  • 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.

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

  • Agencies listed on Clutch quote from under $25 to $99 an hour. GrowAxis prices per person per month: a mid-level software engineer costs from about $2,500 a month, all in.

  • Egyptian law allows probation of up to three months, once with the same employer. You also interview and choose every candidate before they join.

  • Employees on open-ended contracts in Egypt are owed three months’ written notice, which cannot be shortened. Agree the notice terms for each person in your contract with the provider.

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