Dedicated Development Team.
Hire a dedicated engineering team that works your hours and your backlog. Vetted developers, one monthly rate, full IP ownership, no recruitment fees.
A dedicated development team is a group of engineers who work only on your product, to your backlog and your hours, billed monthly, without you carrying the recruitment, payroll or management overhead. EqualPixels provides dedicated teams and individual engineers to companies in the UK, Europe, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and North America.
Dedicated team, project, or staff augmentation?
| Model | Best when | Who manages the work |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed-scope project | Requirements are clear and stable | We do, to an agreed scope |
| Dedicated team | Ongoing roadmap, evolving priorities | Shared, with your product owner setting priority |
| Staff augmentation | You have a team and a specific gap | You do, entirely |
Most companies that come to us asking for a fixed-scope project actually want a dedicated team, because their requirements change faster than a fixed scope can absorb.
Staff augmentation suits teams with a strong engineering lead and one missing skill. A dedicated team suits companies that want the whole delivery, including code review, releases and on-call, handled by people who stay on the product.
What do you get with a dedicated development team?
- Engineers who work only on your product
- , not split across three clients
- Your tools and process
- your repositories, your board, your standups, your definition of done
- Agreed overlap hours
- with your time zone, set at kickoff and kept
- Direct communication
- with the engineers, not through an account manager
- One monthly rate
- covering salary, equipment, benefits and management
- Replacement cover
- if someone is unavailable, with handover, not a silent swap
- A notice period, not a contract lock-in
Which roles can you hire?
Full-stack engineers (React, Next.js, Node, Laravel, Python), mobile engineers (Flutter, React Native, Swift, Kotlin), AI and machine learning engineers, DevOps and cloud engineers, QA engineers, UI/UX designers, and technical product managers.
Can you hire AI engineers through a dedicated team?
Yes. You can hire AI engineers who have shipped LLM features in production, on the same monthly model as any other role. They work on the AI parts of your roadmap and pair with your existing developers on the rest:
- AI agents and tool calling with the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs and agent SDKs
- Retrieval (RAG) over your documents, with embeddings in pgvector or a vector database
- Evaluation sets, guardrails and monitoring, so model changes do not silently break features
- Workflow automation in n8n, Make and code
- MCP servers that let ChatGPT and Claude use your internal tools
Our engineers built the AI features in our own products, such as Prozilio and Quevix.
How much does a dedicated development team cost?
A full-time dedicated engineer typically starts at $3,500 a month, with no recruitment fee. Senior engineers, AI specialists and DevOps roles cost more, and a team is priced as the sum of its roles.
What moves the price:
- Seniority and specialism of each role
- The number of engineers, and whether you need QA, design or a product manager alongside them
- The overlap hours you need with your own time zone
- How long the engagement runs
How do you measure a dedicated team’s performance?
With the same delivery metrics you would use for an in-house team. We report the four DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore service) alongside the sprint goals you set, so you can see throughput and stability, not just hours.
How does onboarding work?
- Requirements callStack, seniority, time zone overlap, start date.
- Shortlist in about a weekProfiles with real project history, not padded CVs.
- You interviewTechnically, however you normally would. You decide.
- Two-week trialReal tickets. If it is not working, you are not committed.
- EmbeddedYour board, your reviews, your release process.
Frequently asked questions
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How much does a dedicated developer cost?
A full-time dedicated engineer typically starts at $3,500 a month. Rates rise with seniority and specialism such as AI or DevOps. Offshore rates are materially below UK, EU and Gulf local market rates, which is usually why companies look. We quote per role after the requirements call, with no recruitment fee.
Is it safe to outsource software development to Pakistan?
It is as safe as the contract and the controls you put around it. What matters is IP assignment in writing, code in your repositories, access through your own accounts, NDAs with named individuals, and a trial period before you commit. Ask any vendor for those. We provide them as standard.
What time zones do you cover?
We work standard overlap with the UK, Europe and the Gulf, and partial overlap with North American mornings. Overlap hours are agreed in writing at kickoff rather than left informal.
Who owns the code and the IP?
You do, from the first commit. Code lives in your repositories, infrastructure in your cloud accounts, and IP assignment is written into the contract.
What if the engineer is not a good fit?
Tell us in the trial period and there is no charge for the replacement. After that we replace with handover at no additional fee. We would rather change the person than lose the relationship.
Can we start with one engineer?
Yes. Most of our dedicated team engagements started as a single developer and grew once the working relationship was proven.
What is the difference between staff augmentation and a dedicated team?
With staff augmentation you add individual engineers to your own team and manage them entirely. With a dedicated team, the engineers still work only on your product and your backlog, but we handle hiring, replacement, code review standards and delivery management with your product owner setting priorities.
Let’s build what’s next.
Tell us about your Dedicated Development Team project. We’ll reply within 24 hours with a clear plan and estimate.