IT Services Rate Card (EUR/day)
ROMANIA
| Seniority | Engineering & Development | Quality Assurance & Testing | Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure |
| Junior | 160-200 | 135-180 | - |
| Middle | 200-280 | 180-250 | 230-300 |
| Advanced | 280-360 | 250-320 | 300-400 |
| Expert | 360-520 | 320-400 | 400-550 |
KENYA
| Seniority | Engineering & Development | Quality Assurance & Testing | Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure |
| Junior | 80-120 | 60-100 | - |
| Middle | 120-140 | 100-120 | 130-150 |
| Advanced | 140-180 | 120-150 | 150-180 |
| Expert | 180-220 | 150-200 | 180-220 |
We’re at the beginning of 2026, so this article reflects costs we observed during 2025. The numbers above and the conclusions below are based on a cumulative dataset we aggregated from our supplier network across Romania, Kenya, Bulgaria, and Portugal.
As 112Hub, sitting at the center of these interactions (rate cards, proposals, staffing requests, delivered team structures), we were able to consolidate and normalize inputs into a generalist benchmark.
Romania: what the “average daily cost” means in practice
An “average daily cost” is not the cost of a single developer. In real outsourcing setups, pricing is a blended outcome driven by:
- Seniority mix (how much of the team is Junior/Middle/Advanced/Expert)
- Engagement model (staff augmentation vs managed team)
- Technology scarcity (certain stacks and niche experience price higher)
- Delivery overhead (coordination, continuity, and risk buffers)
That’s why the rate-card is most useful as a budgeting and benchmarking reference: you map the intended team composition to the relevant bands instead of searching for one fixed “Romania rate.”
How teams typically map to the rate-card (2025 patterns)
Across 2025, the most common patterns we saw in Romania were:
- Engineering & Development: teams anchored mainly in Middle–Advanced, with Expert used selectively for architecture, complex integrations, high-ownership areas, or critical phases.
- Quality Assurance: usually priced below Engineering at the same seniority, with variance largely explained by automation depth, domain complexity, and tooling maturity.
- Cloud/DevOps: often at a premium, especially when scope includes production ownership, security constraints, incident response, and operational responsibility.
What typically sits behind the day rate
In 2025, outsourcing day rates consistently reflected more than “the person.” Common components included:
- Delivery-ready capacity: onboarding, retention, and continuity (keeping a stable delivery team)
- Operating overhead: workspace, tooling, admin, and delivery operations
- Delivery support and risk: coordination, recruiting/replacement, hardware, knowledge transfer, ramp-up and handover buffers
- Supplier margin: varying by supplier maturity, utilization, specialization, and commercial model
Red flag: rates that are unusually low
If a quote lands materially below the lower end of the typical band for the required role and seniority (e.g., consistently below a realistic Junior/Middle market level for that profile), treat it as a due-diligence trigger. Review contract fundamentals (including IP ownership and source code rights), delivery stability, continuity commitments, and exit/handover terms.
City differences across Romania (observed in 2025)
Costs vary meaningfully by city. In 2025, we observed:
- Bucharest as the premium market (highest competition and senior-heavy staffing more common)
- Cluj-Napoca typically slightly above national averages for comparable profiles
- Timisoara & Iasi frequently closer to national average bands
City is a factor, but pricing is often influenced more by stack scarcity, seniority mix, engagement model, and scaling speed than by geography alone.
Romania vs Bulgaria and Portugal (high-level positioning)
From the 2025 inputs we aggregated:
- Bulgaria is generally slightly cheaper than Romania for comparable roles and delivery setups.
- Portugal is typically in the same pricing range as Romania, once normalized for seniority mix and delivery overhead.
How to use this benchmark
Use the rate-card as a baseline to:
- estimate budgets based on the roles and seniority mix you need,
- compare delivery options across locations,
- sanity-check proposals against typical 2025 market bands.
Actual pricing will vary by specialization, scope ownership, team composition, and delivery expectations, but the framework above is designed to keep comparisons consistent and decision-making practical.
