Find The Perfect Software Team | How Much To Pay
Dave Hecker concludes his series on finding the perfect offshore development team. With your client and vendor profiles in hand, you can get the best pricing for your software projects.
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Offshore development pricing varies dramatically from region-to-region, vendor-to- vendor, and even from individual vendors sometimes. Prices are frequently adjusted based on the perceived quality of the client, the expected difficulty in working with them, and other factors. A tech-savvy client with an interesting project may pay 30% less than a newbie client with a boring job.
When considering cost, remember that many regions are more or less expensive than others for a variety of reasons. Consider the following examples of regional themes during your selection process:
India tends to be inexpensive, due to the huge labor pool Russia/Ukraine/Belarus tends to be more expensive, due to high education and skill levels.
Vietnam tends to be inexpensive due to very favorable currency exchange, language barriers and a fairly new IT market with a lack of senior developers
South America tends to be expensive, due to similarities in time zone, language, and culture
The information below provides baseline data that has been collected through thousands of vendor contacts and client engagements at SourceSeek, and represents typical cost ranges as of July, 2014. These cost ranges are rough and are provided as informational guides only – many exceptions exist and the offshore development marketplace is con- stantly changing.
Large enterprise vendors
These companies offer a wide range of resources with different prices (i.e. senior, junior, QA, etc). Current hourly rates fall between $20/hr and $30/hr for multiple, long-term resources.
Body shops and mid-level vendors
Expect to currently pay between $18/hr to $23/hr for a body shop, or $25/hr to $35/hr for a quality mid-level vendor.
Premium boutique and expat-run vendors
Expect to currently pay anywhere from $29/hr up to $55/hr. Many great vendors with solid management and language skills who deliver quality code are clustered around the $36/hr to $42/hr range, with wide variation for specialties and regions.
Upstart vendors and freelancers
Small groups that have great skills and management will currently fall between $18/hr and $30/hr. Freelancers have a wider range, with brand-new freelancers trying to develop a clientele by offering rock-bottom rates and more established developers charging up to $70/hr.
Bottom-feeders
At the bottom, we still see rates under $15/hr and even under $10/hr.
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