What does a permanent senior hire actually cost in year one?
An order-of-magnitude comparison between a permanent hire and a CoderCo deployment. Move the sliders to match your role and your fee structure. The numbers update live.
Permanent senior hire vs. CoderCo deployment.
An order-of-magnitude comparison between a fully-loaded permanent senior hire and a CoderCo deployment over the same first year. Move the sliders to match the role, the agency fee structure, your expected ramp time and the deployment length. Numbers update live as you drag.
- Recruiter fee
- £16,000
- Salary, productive months
- £60,000
- Salary, ramp months
- £20,000
- Employer overhead (18%)
- £14,400
- Day rate × 20 days × months billed
- £144,000
Going CoderCo costs more at current inputs. Drop the day rate or extend the deployment to compare like-for-like. Numbers are order-of-magnitude only. The model excludes pass-through costs like equipment, employer NI and benefits variance, so the real delta on a signed engagement will move from this baseline.
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What goes into the comparison.
The permanent number is recruiter fee plus salary across the full year, split between ramp time and productive time, plus employer overhead at 18% (NI, pension, equipment, benefits variance). The CoderCo number is day rate multiplied by 20 billable days per month, capped at 12 months for the first-year view.
Numbers are deliberately order-of-magnitude. Real engagements vary on bench risk, conversion-to-perm fees and pass-through costs. Use the comparison as a starting point, not a quotation.
Recruiter fee
Typical 15 to 25% of base salary. Default of 20% reflects the UK senior engineering market.
Ramp time
Months before the new hire is productive. Most senior cloud engineers ramp in 1 to 3 months at a familiar stack, 3 to 6 at an unfamiliar one.
Deployment length
How long the CoderCo engineer is deployed against your engagement. First-year view caps at 12 months.
Employer overhead
Fixed at 18% in this model: employer NI, pension contribution, equipment, software seats, benefits.
Drop it into your internal business case.
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The calculator is the starting point. Send us the role and your constraints and we will reply with a shortlist and commercials within one business day.