We carefully evaluated over 680 staff augmentation companies, assessing their services, niche, talent pool, and industry standing. Explore our selection process and how we shortlisted the best staff augmentation service providers in the industry, offering the top 1% of professionals across different IT segments to bring your projects to completion and success.
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The Number 1 Staff Augmentation Company as Selected by DesignRush is...
1. BairesDev
- Best for: Overall
- Average hourly rate: $50
- Minimum budget: $50,000 & up
- Founded: 2009
- Size: 1000 & up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Notable clients: Azlo, AP, Abra, Consumer Affairs, Instructure
Trusted by more than 500 companies, BairesDev is an award-winning industry leader in providing scalable staff augmentation services. Its top 1% talent pool gives clients access to over 4,000 timezone-aligned software engineers with experience in more than 100 technologies. BairesDev’s unique approach to augmenting talent is rooted in its well-oiled proprietary matching algorithm, Team Recommendation Engine, enabling it to achieve a client satisfaction rate of 96%.
Azlo, a digital application seeking to revolutionize banking for small business owners and freelancers, needed to fill in six development teams to execute their vision. They called upon BairesDev to help with front-end and back-end development, security, developing and maintaining continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD), and strategic DevOps insights.
BairesDev used its AI-powered algorithm to identify experienced software engineers best suited for the project based on their development skills, background in FinTech security protocols, and design thinking abilities. The collaboration resulted in a secure and automated digital banking app. BairesDev’s design thinking principles ensured an intuitive user experience and user interface (UX/UI) and intuitive features to make app adaptation easier for freelancers and entrepreneurs. Azlo’s app users doubled with the help of the augmented staff’s expertise.
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2. pwrteams
- Best for: Dedicated team augmentation
- Average hourly rate: $35
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2008
- Size: 250 - 499
- Location: Koerich, Luxembourg
- Notable clients: Agidens, Find.me, ETwater, Televic, iQx
With more than a decade of expertise, pwrteams stands out as a provider of top-level nearshore IT and engineering talents. It has built over 200 dedicated teams, with 95% of its experts having over three years of experience. Whether short-term or long-term, pwrteams can tailor fit its staff augmentation service depending on the client’s industry, priority focus, project duration, and budget, with complete management control and no volume requirement. Moreover, it provides necessary training, support, and infrastructure for all augmented teams, ensuring team stability and engagement.
Agidens, a consultation and engineering solutions company, needed more professionals with strong technical profiles, so they connected with pwrteams to build a nearshore team that will enable them to take on as many projects as possible. With a thorough preselection process centering on talents’ expertise, soft skills, and ability to embody the client’s core values, pwrteams assembled a dedicated team of electrical designers, PLC/SCADA engineers, and electrical and instrumentation engineers in a cozy office with ample resources and infrastructure.
The partnership began in 2017 and is ongoing, and it has yielded high investment returns for Agidens, with the added knowledge of recruiting convenience in Poland compared to Belgium. The assembled team is very easy to work with and puts in all their effort without the need for micromanagement, creating an overall positive experience for the client.
3. DOIT Software
- Best for: Remote team augmentation
- Average hourly rate: $35
- Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
- Founded: 2014
- Size: Under 49
- Location: Boston, MA
- Notable clients: Zebra Technologies, VIGO Industries, Ride on Time Tech, HCS, Yrgent
DOIT Software is a staff augmentation company with a pool of top 5% talents carefully evaluated based on their technical knowledge, cultural fit, and communication skills. DOIT Software prides itself on providing clients with relevant experts within 2-4 weeks with zero recruitment costs and free talent replacement. Clients are also free to interview and choose their preferred talent from shortlisted candidates.
A US-based healthcare company asked DOIT Software for help hiring a senior automation quality analyst and a team of senior developers specializing in patient engagement and adherence solutions. The challenge was to revamp the project from a monolithic architecture to microservices, requiring talents with experience addressing similar healthcare-specific needs.
As demonstrated by the long-term partnership, DOIT delivered, maintaining its ongoing satisfaction rate of more than 90% from its clients.
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4. BEON.tech
- Best for: Latin America (LATAM) talent augmentation
- Average hourly rate: $53
- Minimum budget: $25,000 - $50,000
- Founded: 2018
- Size: 100 - 249
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Notable clients: AutoFi, Simple Practice, EviSort, Kin, Acoustic
An award-winning staff augmentation company, BEON.tech thrives on its meticulous selection process of engineering professionals across Latin America (LATAM). Its pool of vetted professionals can be easily accessed through its talent listing, which provides a complete overview of work background, technical and soft skills scores, front-end and back-end knowledge, and tech stack expertise. BEON also offers personalized recommendations through matching specialists who suggest custom-fit candidates with a proven submit-to-hire ratio of 3:1.
AutoFi, a robust eCommerce solutions company catering to the automobile industry, partnered with BEON.tech to recruit elite talents to upgrade its platform. All candidates must undergo the client’s extensive recruitment process, including an offline take-home evaluation. BEON.tech improved hiring efficiency by converting this test into a 90-minute call that assessed the talent’s skills through a coding challenge.
With its Talent Experience Management (TEM) Framework focusing on the talent’s performance, experience, and growth, BEON.tech’s augmented staff remains engaged, leading to a 3X boost in AutoFi’s time-to-hire.
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5. Greelow
- Best for: Skill-based augmentation
- Average hourly rate: $25
- Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
- Founded: 2017
- Size: Under 49
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Notable clients: GEG LifeVantage, Contabilium, Pocketpoint, Ebuilder, Team National
Greelow is a nearshore development company with extensive experience in IT outsourcing and staff augmentation services. It offers access to top-tier talents in Argentina and South America with an unbeatable price-to-quality ratio. Greelow’s commitment to delivering highly skilled teams with English proficiency aligned with the client’s time zone is built on its mission of building long-term partnerships.
Gig Economy Group (GEG) has a vision of connecting digital marketing specialists and sales executives to potential buyers through an app. LifeVantage, a nutrigenomic product company, embraced the idea, leading to the development of the GEG LifeVantage mobile app for iOS and Android. Greelow assembled a dedicated team to work on the project, augmenting GEG with six experienced developers with unique skill sets in mobile app development (Xamarin, NetCore, and quality assurance (QA)).
With the expertise of Greelow’s provided talents, the GEG LifeVantage app was launched successfully, garnering significant adoption from target audiences. Greelow also extended the team’s services through continuous app maintenance and continuous, enriching its relationship with the client.
6. ValueCoders
- Best for: Offshore staff augmentation
- Average hourly rate: $25
- Minimum budget: Under $1,000
- Founded: 2004
- Size: 500 - 999
- Location: Gurgaon, India
- Notable clients: Dubai Police, RiskLogic, Capgemini, Candor, Eatigo
ValueCoders is a reputable IT company based in India with a pool of over 650 professionals. It builds teams from scratch based on skill set, extends staffing for project transitions, and augments IT resources to enhance the efficiency of the client’s development team. It specializes in technologies like Blockchain, AR/VR, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, serverless development, OTT development, and more.
A sports accessories company reached out to ValueCoders for a dedicated team of software developers to create an online eCommerce store, integrate the front end with a SYSPRO ERP process management system in the back end, and perform other tasks to elevate user experience.
ValueCoders’ augmented team developed a multi-modular eCommerce website with a feature-packed marketplace for user engagement. The collaboration garnered significant returns, demonstrating ValueCoders’ expertise in extending top-quality teams for its clientele.
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7. Newxel
- Best for: Rare tech experts
- Average hourly rate: $45
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2016
- Size: 500 - 999
- Location: St. Petersburg, FL
- Notable clients: Feedvisor, Anodot, Nexar, Bob, Firebolt
Operating in more than ten countries, Newxel is a global staff augmentation company that builds sustainable partnerships with its clients. Its expertise extends from staff augmenting services to mounting research and development (R&D) centers, creating distributed development teams, and assembling dedicated teams that embody the company culture of its clients.
Feedvisor, an AI platform for marketing and advertising, partnered with Newxel to source highly skilled data engineers proficient in Scala to work on best-in-class advertising campaign optimization, patented pricing technology, brand and content management, and data-backed intelligence.
Newxel’s people management team developed a strategy of letting clients choose a project lead who will be in charge of hiring the rest of the augmented team. During the partnership, Newxel provided the following services to augment Feedvisor’s team:
- Team hiring and contracting
- Onboarding and adaptation period support
- People management
- Workplace maintenance and management
- IT support and maintenance
- Legal and financial services
- Benefits and facilities services
- Retention
- It assembled highly engaged teams with minimal turnover, leading to mutual success.
8. CXR
- Best for: Support team augmentation
- Average hourly rate: $100
- Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
- Founded: 2009
- Size: 100 - 249
- Location: New York City, NY
- Notable clients: Bauer Media Group, ShearShare, VDI, +Subscribe, HBO Max
CXR is a multi-disciplinary creative agency with a team focusing on talent augmentation services. From team extensions and dedicated teams to elastic engineering, its talent pool is equipped with top-notch skills across different tech stacks like iOS, Android, PHP, React, Node.JS, Unity, React Native, Java, Ruby, Angular, .NET, C#, Go, Python, Flutter, and Vue.JS. CXR also has accessible experts in developing back-end, front-end, and full-stack websites, mobile apps, business analysis, 3D design, project management, and development operations.
Bauer Media Group is an editorial publisher that needed a dedicated team to update, manage, and maintain its three websites, keep up with the latest UI/UX trends, and ensure their advertisements did not interfere with one another. CXR assembled a dedicated team to improve the interface and usability of the app, integrate industry best practices, and maximize ad revenue.
CXR’s team completed the editorial site maintenance with zero downtime, leading to a year-on-year growth of 123% and boosting Bauer’s organic traffic growth by 112%.
9. ProCoders
- Best for: Industry-specific tech experts
- Average hourly rate: Inquire
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2015
- Size: 100 - 249
- Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Notable clients: Avanto Care, Ushahidi, Frontegg, VSimple, Dryft
ProCoders is a web and software development company offering efficient, flexible, and cost-effective staff augmentation services. It has provided more than 150 engineers to clients globally, all professionals with diverse tech expertise, relevant educational backgrounds, and independent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Avanto Care, a Swedish eHealth platform, collaborated with ProCoders to recruit two full-stack developers and one UX/UI designer with top-tier back-end and front-end engineering skills, high perceptiveness, and effective communication skills. The assembled team integrated IoT capabilities, a health tracker, and data visualization for risk management features to improve predictive elderly care.
Augmenting offshore staff to improve the platform saved Avanto Care 3-6 months of hiring time. The team launched an excellent and production-grade software as a service (SaaS) platform, helping Avanto Care reach a broader audience.
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10. Nearsure
- Best for: Hybrid staff augmentation
- Average hourly rate: Inquire
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2018
- Size: 100 - 249
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Notable clients: StayWell, MindGrub, Pixorize, Chexout, Health Catalyst
With a talent pool of over 70,000 vetted developers, Nearsure is a multifaceted agency with a strong focus on staff and team augmentation. Its hybrid talent augmentation model combines remote and in-office interactions, powered by more than ten hubs in Latin America.
Following its acquisition by WebMD, StayWell, a leading health solutions provider, needed to scale up its team with highly experienced candidates to build new features and cater to platform updates. Nearsure integrated 12 dedicated developers into three main teams: lifestyle risk management, clinical, and QA. These augmented staff were distributed across South America to work on the project and were seamlessly integrated into the existing teams, adjusting to StayWell’s work culture with ease.
Nearsure scaled the development teams with ease and speed, ensuring the new developers matched the requirements from a technical and holistic point of view. As a result, StayWell increased its employee retention rate, optimized expenses and productivity, reduced the time and investment needed to develop new features, and increased customer satisfaction.
How We Picked the Best Staff Augmentation Services
In selecting the top staff augmentation services, we assessed client feedback, case studies, type of augmentation expertise, ratings, and industry leadership.
Our agency experts created a scoring system to gauge their overall performance, focusing on these key aspects:
- Client reviews: Feedback that emphasizes work quality, reliability, and client satisfaction
- Portfolio: Concrete examples of past work that has delivered tangible results for clients
- Awards and media coverage: Recognition in the staff augmentation industry
- Team profiles: Team members’ qualifications and expertise
- Key services: Core strengths and service offerings
- Staff augmentation expertise: The ability to assemble the best possible team to meet the clients’ needs
Check the DesignRush Agency Ranking Methodology for more information on how we meticulously select the staff augmentation companies above.
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