How to Hire a Remote Game Development Team: Research on Rates and Outsourcing Locations

This article by Qubit Labs shares our research to help you understand game development market salaries and taxes in different locations. We have significant experience hiring game development teams for our clients, including developers (Unity, PHP), Animators, Technical Artists, game designers and balancers, UX/UI designers, and 2D/3D artists. We currently provide over five teams to various clients: City Builder and mobile casual games.

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We provide both services: a full-cycle game development team and scaling your in-house team with 1 or more developers/artists. Contact us and share your request. We have a flexible outsourcing/outstaffing service to help you with game development requests.

What Data We Used for This Research?

Where do we get this information, which will help you hire remote game development team? First, we are researching with open data and analyzing different websites with salaries other companies offer.

Still, the second part of our research is our personal practice and experience communicating with potential candidates. We have a lot of cases for game development customers when we hire and build teams based on their requests, and then we provide HR support to those art and development game teams. That is why we know their salary expectations and market salary expectations in different locations.?

Then, we merge what we see on other websites and what we hear from real candidates and present these figures in our reports. That is why numbers can differ from what you find on scan websites and in our old articles where we base our research on those.

How do you Hire a Remote Game Development Team??

For this report, we chose a list of the most popular positions based on the requests we receive from our potential and current customers. If you have different needs in your team, you can contact us, and we will provide individual research based on your technical stack or the roles you need to hire for scaling your game development team.?

Our it staffing company has been on the market for seven years, and we have great expertise in game development teams. That’s why we can help you with a dedicated game developer, and our recruiting team knows precisely where good expertise is, the best locations, and where we should focus if we want to save budgets.?

Find and Hire 3D Artists (Top Locations and Rates)

The screenshot shows the main two locations, or almost three locations, with many 3D artists in the country. Ukraine is a top country to hire 3d artists, followed by Poland and Romania. So, potentially, if you're looking to hire 3D artists, you should direct your attention to these three locations, and it will be the easiest way to find suitable candidates for your game development team.?

Find and Hire 2D Artists (Top Locations and Rates)

If we speak about 2D artists, the market is very similar. But what stands apart is that Georgia is in third place. We found that data are interesting since you would initially consider hiring 3D and 2D artists in the exact outsourcing location. Still, as you see, you can get a better hiring result if you research different countries.

Okay, so if we speak about how you can hire 3D artists, you should focus on Romania, Ukraine, and Poland as countries to choose from. Regarding hiring 2D artists, you should focus on Georgia, Ukraine, and Poland. So Ukraine and Poland are almost always Top 2 with the creation of expertise, but third and other, a little change, now we see why.?

How to Find and Hire Technical Artist to Complete Your Game Development Team

If you want to hire a technical artist for your game team - Ukraine and Poland are again top locations to hire. If you're looking for specialists like this, you would like to direct your attention to these two outsourcing locations, and that will be an easier way to increase your team.

Also, our team draws your attention to taxes in this research because all game development outsourcing locations we advise have particular tax policies. That's why they are cost-effective locations. So, you can also meet your budget expectations with candidates' salary expectations and taxes.

?Find and Hire Animator Remotely

If you want to hire an Animator, we see Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria as top locations for hiring. Research shows that Moldova or Azerbaijan are not the best outsourcing locations to hire animators.?

Hire PHP Developers for Game Development Team

If we speak about developers, the situation looks like the art team. You can hire a PHP team for game development if you focus on the right location.

In this research, we show several possible PHP developer candidates with game experience. Not those who have PHP experience in general.

If you are considering hiring a game development team to work remotely on your project or have additional questions about your specific roles to complete your team, please feel free to contact us.

We will research individual markets and suggest the best locations to hire a remote game development team. It is free of charge! As a result, you will have individual research based on the provided job descriptions. You can build and adjust game development team budget expectations to it.?

Before you start a new hiring process, you will know exactly which locations will work best in your case and where game developers and artists with salaries and rates work for you.?

We have the option on our site to book a free consultation call.

During this call, I can share more information about how we're doing this research and how we can help you with your team.