Contract engineering
Individual specialists embedded in your team on a defined term, reporting into your delivery structure.
Capability
Tech Talent
Capacity when the roadmap will not wait for a hiring cycle.
Vetted engineers on contract, contract-to-hire or managed pods — deployed in weeks.
The brief
The cost of a vacancy is rarely on the hiring spreadsheet
A funded project waiting ninety days for a cloud engineer costs far more than the salary being saved. But hiring permanently for a nine-month workload is its own mistake — and one you have to unwind later. We supply engineers who are already vetted and already working in the technologies you need, on the commercial shape that fits the work: a single specialist, a contract-to-hire trial, or a managed pod with delivery accountability sitting on our side.
Signals you may recognise
- A project has budget and approval but no one to build it.
- Roles have been open for months and the shortlists never quite land.
- You need a skill for two quarters and cannot justify a permanent seat.
What we deliver
Tech Talent services in detail
Each item below is scoped, priced and delivered on its own — take one, or take the set.
Contract to hire
A working trial period before conversion, so both sides decide on evidence rather than an interview impression.
Managed delivery pods
A complete squad with a lead, where the outcome and the day-to-day management stay our responsibility.
Permanent search
Focused recruitment for senior and hard-to-fill technical roles, with a replacement guarantee period.
Volume ramp-up
Multiple aligned profiles onboarded together for a programme, a GCC build-out or a new delivery centre.
Payroll & compliance
Employment, statutory compliance, insurance and equipment handled for deployed staff — one invoice, no exposure.
Skills assessment
Independent technical evaluation of candidates or an existing team, with a written capability picture.
Learning & certification
Structured upskilling and certification pathways for your permanent engineers, funded and tracked.
What it produces
Outcomes we hold ourselves to
To first shortlist
Screened, technically assessed profiles from a bench that is already vetted.
A shortlist worth reading
We put forward three genuine candidates, not thirty CVs to filter yourself.
Time to productive
Environment access, context handover and pairing arranged before day one.
Deployments that stick
Placements still in seat at twelve months — the number that actually matters.
How the work runs
Brief, screen, prove, keep
The quality of a placement is set in the briefing conversation. We spend real time there before searching.
Brief
Understand the seat
Not just the tech stack — the team’s working style, what good looks like in six months, and what would make this a bad fit.
Screen
Assess properly
Technical evaluation by an engineer in that discipline, plus reference and background verification, before you see anyone.
Prove
Land and ramp
A structured first fortnight with access sorted, context transferred and a clear early deliverable to confirm the fit.
Keep
Stay accountable
Regular check-ins with both sides, a replacement commitment, and a career conversation that keeps good people from drifting.
Deliverables
What lands on your side
- Written role brief agreed before search begins
- Assessed shortlist with technical evaluation notes
- Verified background and reference checks
- Structured onboarding and thirty-day ramp plan
- Monthly deployment review and replacement cover
Platforms and tooling
What this is built on
Cloud & DevOpsNetwork & SecurityData EngineeringFull-stack DevelopmentERP FunctionalService DeskQA & AutomationProject Management
When clients call us
Situations this work is built for
A programme starting next month
Engineers in seat before the kickoff date instead of a quarter after it.
A niche skill, briefly
A specialist for one migration or integration, without carrying the role permanently afterwards.
Standing up a GCC
Building an offshore capability team from a standing start, with compliance and payroll carried by us.
The difference
Where we differ from a staffing agency
We are an engineering firm that also places engineers — the difference shows in screening.
Engineers screen engineers
Technical assessment is done by someone who works in that stack daily, which is why our shortlists are short.
We say no to bad fits
If we do not have the right person, we will tell you rather than send an approximation and hope. It costs us placements and keeps the relationship.
Deployed people are supported
Our placements have a manager, a learning budget and a career path with us. Supported engineers stay, and stability is what you are actually buying.
Questions
Answered before you ask
Shortlists typically within ten working days. Start dates depend on notice periods — bench-available candidates can begin within two weeks, others run to thirty or sixty days.
Tell us early. We replace at our cost inside the agreed guarantee period, and we would far rather have that conversation in week three than in month four.
Yes, and we structure for it. Conversion terms are agreed upfront so there is no renegotiation at the moment you have decided you want to keep someone.
We do. Payroll, statutory compliance, insurance and equipment sit with us, and you receive a single invoice with no employment liability.
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Talk to us
Send us the role you cannot fill
A job description and a start date are enough. We will tell you honestly whether the market supports it and what it will realistically cost.