Devin Hornick
KORE1 ranks as the best IT staffing agency in Philadelphia for 2026 on recruiter specialization, placement retention, and technology-sector depth. TEKsystems, Insight Global, and The Judge Group round out the top four. Rankings use the Placement Authority Score. Watch: 7 Best IT Staffing Agencies in Philadelphia (2026) Video chapters 0:00 — Philadelphia’s Four IT Hiring … Read more
KORE1 ranks #1 among IT staffing companies in Texas for 2026, based on a 7-factor Placement Authority Score that weighs industry depth, geographic coverage, placement speed, and recruiter reputation. Frontline Source Group leads for Texas-native relationship hiring. TEKsystems is the best option for enterprise-scale IT contractor programs. Rankings are based on publicly verifiable data from … Read more
KORE1 ranks first among contract DBA staffing firms in 2026 for platform-specific bench depth and fill speed, presenting pre-screened candidates within 48–72 hours across Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and cloud DBA roles. IDR Inc. earns second for 12 consecutive ClearlyRated Best of Staffing awards and a high-volume active DBA placement track record. Datavail is the … Read more
KORE1 ranks first among IT contracting companies in 2026 for specialty depth and fill speed, averaging 17 days to place a contract IT hire across cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Insight Global leads for high-volume enterprise programs. TEKsystems integrates most deeply with enterprise VMS infrastructure. Rankings are based on IT specialty depth, recruiter reputation, … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract QA tester or test engineer bills $73 to $94 an hour nationally, median $83, about $43,000 for a three-month release cycle. Junior testers bill $57 to $72 and senior test engineers $94 to $114 (KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4, modeled … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 Engineering reqs usually sit open because the company hasn’t finished deciding, not because candidates are missing: scope keeps changing, approvals stall, and the interview loop has no clear owner. While that decision gets made, a contractor can keep the work moving. KORE1 contractors start a median of 3 … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 Procurement clears a contract req faster when the hiring manager sends one complete packet, covering scope, hours and end date, a benchmarked bill rate range, the supplier’s onboarding status, and worker classification. A mid-level business analyst, for example, bills $71 to $93 an hour nationally (KORE1 Contract Rate … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract business analyst bills $71 to $93 an hour nationally, median $81, about $42,000 for three months, and a business systems analyst bills $75 to $95. Those figures are modeled, from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4. Our own placements run … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract accountant bills $59 to $75 an hour nationally, median $65, and a senior accountant bills $77 to $94, median $87, or about $45,300 for a three-month contract. Those two lines come from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4, and they’re … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 A product designer job description should name the product the hire will own, the metric they share with a product manager, the platforms they ship on, and a base range, about $100,000 to $175,000 for mid to senior in 2026. Everything else on the page is supporting detail. … Read more
