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Outsourcing to Romania: Research Revels Reals Costs
Research from consulting company pintilie.RO, analyzes the rates per hour charged by Romanian companies involved in the IT offshore outsourcing industry. The rates are across 16 technologies and 14 technical professions.
With its specialised human resources skills, its unique position at the gates of Europe, and a political and economic climate favorable to outsourcing and business development, Romania is competing with Czech Republic and Bulgaria in outsourcing IT development to Eastern Europe. Whether an onshore contractor that outsources the development of a project, the direct beneficiary of an outsourcing project, or a disappointed client from an outsourcing project gone bad, Pintilie.RO recently conducted research to establish a factual basis for those making outsourcing decisions.
How much will it cost to outsource the development of an IT project? What are the specific Romanian factors that can impact these costs? How can these costs change in the following months? Research from consulting company pintilie.RO, approach these questions directly analyzing the rates charged by Romanian outsourcing companies across 16 technologies and 14 technical professions.
Findings shows that a Junior or a Senior developer ranges from a min of EUR 11 per hour and a max of EUR 26 depending on their technical skills. The study contains all the statistical data: average, min, max, deviation and median and can be used to estimate the costs of a project. It concludes with a forecast on how these prices will change in the following months under Romania’s economical environment specific factors such as GDP, inflation, exchange rates, demand/supply of human work-force.
The study has officially been made available at OutsourceWorld Exhibition in New York, 18th - 19th October 2005.
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