IT Staff Augmentation

IT staff augmentation is a practice of temporarily adding outside specialists to internal teams to ensure on-time project delivery. Instead of hiring in-house employees with specialized skill sets, companies cooperate with IT staffing services providers to access and recruit top talent on-demand. Such a practice grants additional development capacity and lets you quickly fill the positions requiring rare expertise and skills, and remove administrative bottlenecks of the software development project.

Technical staff augmentation involves specific steps to yield the best results:

• Preparation. An IT staffing firm collaborates closely with the client to take into account each detail of their request.
• Screening of candidates. Technical recruiters shortlist potentially suitable candidates from their vast pool.
• Interviewing. The task is to ensure the candidates are qualified enough to join your team.
• Hiring. Upon the client’s approval, the most suitable candidate gets a job offer.
• A thorough understanding of the business logic of the developed product
• Integration of the new employee with the client’s team.
• Ongoing support and nurturing.

IT staff augmentation provides only engineering resources to extend the development capacity of a company. The clients delegate this task to a trusted IT staff augmentation service provider while maintaining direct control over the team.
With outsourcing, the clients can hand over the entire project to third-party resources of another software development company. Thus, the client and the vendor create a partnership, sharing the burden of associated project risks and issues.

It is becoming increasingly important for companies to opt for IT staffing services to fill the resource gap of their internal teams and scale effortlessly. First, it lets you expand your software development capabilities for a limited time without spending extra time sourcing and recruiting the best talent. Second, you remove the challenge of retaining skilled IT resources as their demand remains high as ever. Next, you don’t have to worry about overheads and other employee issues as you can delegate administrative tasks to one of the chosen IT staffing agencies.

There is no universal rate calculator for IT augmentation services. But you can estimate the approximate per-specialist hourly rate based on the following factors:

• Job specification
• Seniority and skills
• Availability of specialists on the market.

Depending on that, average hourly rates range from $25 to $60 in our company.Take into account the required number of specialists, project peculiarities, and its duration.
Mind that we don’t charge any recruiting and administrative costs associated with hiring in-house employees in your company.