TurnKey’s Quarterly Offshore Hiring Report (Q3 2025)
Here is what TurnKey’s proprietary data shows about offshore tech hiring trends in Eastern Europe and Latin America.
🌎 Regional Hotspots
- Latin America: Faster momentum, led by Brazil and Colombia.
- Eastern Europe: Stable activity, with Romania (strong AI talent pool) seeing the most hiring.
TurnKey Takeaway: LatAm’s time-zone alignment continues to make it a top choice for many U.S.-based companies, while Eastern Europe remains strong for highly technical AI/ML roles.
👨💻 Roles in Demand
- Demand for Front and Backend engineers continues to increase – AI tools make them more autonomous.
- DevOps and Product Management hiring is steady, since AI allows clients to support more developers with the same number of people in these roles.
- SG&A positions (finance, legal, etc.) almost doubled versus historical averages.
TurnKey Takeaway: AI is still leading the pack in terms of overall demand (duh), but interestingly slower growth may mean that companies have over-hired for these roles in previous quarters.
📈 Seniority Mix
- Senior hires: up 8% QoQ, suggesting the need for more tech leaders and architects to oversee AI implementations.
- Mid-level hires: up 10% QoQ — all hands on (the AI) deck!
- Junior hires: down 15% QoQ. AI making these less relevant?
TurnKey Takeaway: Teams are leaning on experienced offshore talent to accelerate roadmap delivery without the risk of “training up” junior devs.
🛠 Popular Technologies
- SQL– remains a foundational requirement for most backend and data roles.
- Python – +25% growth in demand, reflecting AI/ML projects.
- React– still dominant on the frontend, though demand has flattened.
- Typescript – demand for TypeScript is steadily rising (one of the few frameworks that can be Full Stack).
TurnKey Takeaway: JavaScript Frameworks dominate both front-end and back-end development (Node, Angular, React, Typescript), suggesting there is a strong demand for core programming that is syntactically similar and easier to master.
💸 Compensation Benchmarks
- Backend, Full Stack, and AI/Data engineering continue to command the highest salaries.
- Engineering leadership, though top of the wage chart, still offers disproportionate value vs. onshore.
TurnKey Takeaway: Compensation inflation continues, but largely in lockstep with wage growth domestically.
🔮 Crystal Ball
Market trends that may impact offshore hiring in the next quarter or two:
- VC funding acceleration in AI/infra will continue to drive heavy demand for AI engineers, so Eastern Europe hiring will likely be up.
- Tariffs and uncertainty will continue to put pressure on cost structures, which could spur more offshore hiring (especially for PE-backed firms).
- Expected regulatory/tax changes in Argentina will make the country even more competitive from a talent perspective (though political turmoil could still stifle it).
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