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If your company is growing, you’ve probably felt that pressure: the IT department can’t keep up with demands, costs rise every month, and hiring qualified professionals has become nearly impossible. You’re not alone. According to Brasscom, the Brazilian market faces a shortage of 530,000 qualified technology professionals.
However, outsourcing IT is no longer just a way to cut costs. Today, it’s a strategy to gain agility, access specialized talent, and focus on what really matters for your business. The IT outsourcing market is expected to reach $806.53 billion by 2029 (Mordor Intelligence), growing 5.48% annually.
Let’s look at eight practical reasons for you to consider this practice in your company.
8 reasons to hire IT staff augmentation
1. Reduced operational costs
Hiring a developer under permanent employment isn’t cheap. Beyond the salary, you have labor charges, benefits, transportation allowance, infrastructure, equipment, software licenses, and recruitment and training expenses. Add it all up and the monthly cost can easily double compared to the base salary.
With staff augmentation, you pay a predictable monthly amount that already includes qualified labor and all operational costs. No budget surprises, no growing list of charges. According to consulting firm Trivor, IT outsourcing can represent a reduction of up to 30% in operational costs (Flow TI).
And there’s another point: you’re not stuck with fixed costs when demand drops. If a project ends or needs to slow down, you can adjust the contract. With an in-house team, you’re left with idle employees or face the costs of a termination.
2. Access to specialized talent on demand
Finding a good Python developer or a cloud computing specialist is increasingly difficult. And when you finally find one, the competition offers salaries your company might not be able to match.
Outsourcing solves this problem. Specialized companies already have a base of validated professionals, ready to jump into action. Need someone with experience in microservices? API integration? Information security? You have immediate access, without spending months sifting through resumes and conducting interviews.
This is where NextAge differentiates itself. With the NextAge’s Staff Augmentation methodology, all professionals are pre-validated, ensuring you receive capable people with the right seniority level from day one.
3. Focus on core business
Every company has a central purpose. If you have a fintech, your business is innovating in financial solutions. If it’s a manufacturing company, your focus needs to be on production, logistics, and sales.
When you outsource IT, you free your internal team to concentrate on what truly generates value. Managers stop spending time on technical problems and return to thinking strategically. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that 45% of companies reallocated internal resources to essential business functions after outsourcing IT operations in 2024, improving productivity.
While the outsourced team handles the technical part, you have time and energy to focus on growth, customer relationships, and new product development.
4. Scalability and flexibility
One of the biggest advantages of outsourcing is being able to adjust the team according to need. Landed a big project? Scale the team in a few weeks. Project finished? Resize without headaches.
This flexibility is especially important in volatile markets. Qualified talent and agility have joined cost reduction as main drivers for outsourcing. Companies need to adapt quickly, and flexible outsourcing contracts allow this.
NextAge understands this point well. With flexible contracts, you can increase or decrease the team without bureaucracy, adapting to market fluctuations or your project phases.
5. Reduced onboarding time
When you hire someone internally, onboarding usually takes weeks, sometimes months. You need to introduce the company, explain processes, provide system access, train the person on specific tools. Meanwhile, the project sits idle.
With outsourced professionals, the process is much faster. They already come with experience, already know market best practices, and can start delivering value almost immediately.
NextAge takes this even further with its accelerated onboarding. Additionally, each project has dedicated tech leads who ensure the team is aligned from the start, further reducing the time to first delivery.
6. Access to specific technologies, tools, and programming languages
Sometimes, your internal team simply doesn’t have expertise in a particular technology the project requires. It could be Kotlin for mobile development, Go for backend services, or experience in modern frameworks like Next.js or Flutter.
Hiring someone just for a specific project doesn’t make financial sense. Training the existing team takes time and money. And meanwhile, the market doesn’t wait.
Staff Augmentation companies constantly invest in technological updates. They need to stay at the forefront to serve clients from different sectors. When you outsource, you gain access to this technological arsenal without having to invest directly.
NextAge goes beyond. With NextFlow AI, the company uses artificial intelligence to enhance development, making the process more efficient and modern.
7. Risk mitigation
IT projects have risks. Security issues, architecture failures, wrong technology choices, scalability problems. When everything is centralized internally and something goes wrong, the impact is significant.
With outsourcing, you share responsibilities with a specialized company. These professionals have already dealt with complex challenges in other projects, have already made mistakes, have already learned. They bring this accumulated knowledge to the table.
Furthermore, having experienced tech leads monitoring the project, as NextAge offers, means there’s someone with strategic vision ensuring technical decisions are aligned with business objectives. This drastically reduces the risk of rework or choices that compromise the project in the future.
8. Agility in project delivery
Specialized outsourced teams deliver faster. They’ve been through similar situations, already know the common pitfalls, already have well-defined processes.
While an internal team might take weeks to structure a project from scratch, an outsourced team arrives with ready playbooks, configured tools, and tested methodologies.
This agility translates into shorter delivery time. You launch products faster, test hypotheses with agility, and respond to market demands before the competition. In technology, speed matters.
Meet NextAge’s Staff Augmentation services
If you still think of staff augmentation as that old model, bureaucratic, slow, with disengaged professionals, it’s time to update your reference. The market has evolved.
NextAge created its own staff augmentation methodology precisely to eliminate the problems of the traditional model. Flexible contracts that adapt to your reality, accelerated onboarding that gets the team producing quickly, dedicated tech leads who closely monitor each project, and validated professionals who arrive ready to deliver.
Add to this NextFlow AI, which uses artificial intelligence to make development more efficient, and you have a partnership that goes beyond simple labor allocation.
If you want to reduce costs without losing quality, access talent without spending months recruiting, and have the agility to scale your business, IT outsourcing is the way. And NextAge is ready to be your partner on this journey.
