Nearshore engineering
Nearshore Development in Türkiye: Costs and Hourly Rates
Market rates for nearshore engineering sit around €40-60 per hour. Comparable senior profiles in Germany run closer to €120-150. That is a factor of two to three — but the hourly rate is the easiest number to compare and the least informative one in a proposal. What decides the bill is total cost to a shipped result: onboarding time, communication overhead, rework caused by misunderstandings, and the share of work that gets rewritten anyway. A team at €45 that takes twice as long is more expensive than one at €60 that gets it right first time. This page sets out both layers.
The numbers a proposal should contain
- Hourly rate per profile and seniority level, not a blended team rate that hides who is actually staffed.
- Expected onboarding effort in person-days, stated separately rather than buried in the running rates.
- Billing model: fixed price for genuinely bounded scope, time and materials for ongoing development — and which parts are treated which way.
- Post-launch running costs: hosting and monitoring, plus a realistic maintenance share, typically 10-20% of development cost per year.
Where the cost advantage is real, and where it is not
- 01It is real for ongoing product development over several months: onboarding amortises and the rate difference comes through in full.
- 02It is also real when adding capacity alongside an existing in-house team, because architecture and domain knowledge stay in-house while delivery scales externally.
- 03It is not real for short, tightly interlocked tasks with heavy coordination needs — there the communication overhead exceeds the saving.
What we will not promise on cost
- No credible number without scope. Anyone quoting a fixed price before the first conversation is either pricing in a buffer or planning to come back for more.
- The lowest hourly rate rarely wins. If a quote sits well below the market band, the question worth asking is which seniority level is actually being staffed.
- Below roughly four to six weeks of work, nearshoring generally does not pay off.
Cost questions
- Typical market bands run around €20,000-35,000 for an MVP, €40,000-80,000 for an application with a fuller feature set, and from roughly €90,000 for a platform with multiple roles, integrations and scaling requirements. Nearshoring shifts these bands down; it does not remove them.
Nearshore engineering
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