- Onboard your own candidate or choose from a pool of 40,000+ tech professionals.
- A fully legal setup for your next sprint or long-term hire in Portugal.
- No stress over contracts, payroll, taxes, or benefits — with automated reports and deductions.
Start working with your tech team fast and fully legal. Leasing delivers a full setup in 7 days, with no need to open a local office.
If you already have a developer or want to bring one on for a project, we make it official. GEOR becomes the legal employer — we handle contracts, registration, taxes, and benefits under Portuguese law.
Portugal combines a developer-friendly culture with strong legal structure and skilled English-speaking engineers in various fields. Portuguese employment laws are clear and enforceable, and the system supports stability, without slowing down remote teams or global companies. That makes Portugal an ideal base for expanding tech operations across Europe.
The tech market here spans AI, clean tech, product design, SaaS, and many more. Lisbon is the hub for scaleups and remote engineering. Porto blends traditional industries with strong backend and infrastructure teams. Braga and Coimbra offer close ties to universities and R&D, while Faro is emerging as a cost-effective destination for nearshore teams. Compared to other Western EU markets, developer salaries in Portugal remain lower, while access to skilled talent stays high.
Salaries below reflect approximate gross yearly earnings for common tech roles in key Portuguese cities.
City | Base | Top |
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Lisbon | €25k | €55k |
Porto | €23k | €52k |
Braga | €21k | €48k |
Coimbra | €20k | €45k |
Faro | €19k | €43k |
Note: Figures represent gross annual salary ranges for most software engineering roles in 2025. Senior AI, DevOps, or security positions may exceed this range. Social contributions and benefits are paid on top. Actual pay may vary depending on role complexity, sector, and employment type.
For companies new to Portugal, direct hiring can become costly, slow, and risky, especially without legal partners familiar with tech-specific employment.
Before you can make an offer, you need a Portuguese entity and full employer registration.
Employers must apply local rules for allowances, extra salaries, and monthly filings.
Skilled people often stay out of reach when recruiters focus only on Lisbon and Porto.
Portuguese contracts must reflect real benefits and match national labor law.
You need to manage vacation, sick days, and holidays by the local rules.
Fixed contracts and notice periods make it hard to grow and shift.
Employee leasing removes extra complexity from hiring in Portugal and opens access to regions often overlooked by global recruiters. Here is how it’s structured:
Aspect | Employee leasing | Direct recruitment |
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Hiring registration | Handled by GEOR | Local office needed |
Pay and monthly contributions | Paid and filed by GEOR | Managed internally |
Benefits and coverage | Included in leasing model | Managed internally |
Worker setup speed | 1 week | 6–12 weeks |
Adding people | Flexible and fast | Can be slow, with strict contract terms |
We will do it for you.
Employee leasing helps you hire faster and stay flexible, whether you’re scaling or just entering Portugal. It works well for teams of any size.
Our employee leasing model offers local support and takes the stress out of tech hiring in Portugal. We cover the full scope of employment needs, keeping everything aligned with Portuguese law.
Lease tech talent for projects or long-term roles across the mainland and islands through GEOR. Talk to us to see how this model fits your goals.
You don’t need to relocate or open a company to be part of Portugal’s innovative tech landscape. Work at your own pace while syncing with Portuguese balance, infrastructure, and growing EU digital economy. With leased talent across any tech role and region, you can build with confidence while we keep your team supported and thriving.
No more setup struggles.
Employee leasing is a hiring model where GEOR becomes the legal employer and HR provider in Portugal. We set up each hire and handle payroll, tax, and benefits. You lead the work and manage the team day to day.
Yes, with an employee leasing partner, you don’t need a local company. GEOR hires the worker and takes care of the legal side of employment, as the official employer on the ground.
For each hire, we follow standard Portuguese practices on contracts, taxes, and working conditions.
You define the role. We suggest tech candidates from Portugal. Once you choose someone, we hire them and support everything around their employment.
Startups, tech teams, and international companies entering Portugal, especially those that need fast hires or flexible contracts.
Employee leasing supports remote and hybrid setups, as long as everything follows Portuguese labor and tax rules.
With employee leasing, most are ready within 7 business days, depending on role and document readiness.
Yes, you can extend, offboard, or convert them to permanent employment at the end of the leasing term.
We register the worker, calculate social contributions, manage pensions, and send monthly payslips in line with Portuguese law.
Yes, through our employee leasing model, we cover paid leave, pensions, and offer optional perks like wellness budgets and private health insurance.
It usually adds 8–15% to the gross salary. This includes our fee, social contributions, and benefits. Check rates in our cost calculator or ask us for an estimate.
If you want to move fast and stay flexible without building HR infrastructure, leasing is often the better option.
Staffing agencies introduce candidates. Employee leasing through GEOR means we become the employer, taking care of contracts, benefits, payroll, and legal compliance.
Fill out the contact form, or book a call. We’ll scope the role, match talent, and get your team working in about a week.
Employee leasing isn’t the only way we support hiring in Portugal. Explore other models that may suit your company.
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