Information technology industry news, IT infrastructure trends, digital transformation insights, and technology workforce analysis — covering cloud computing, DevOps, AI/ML, data engineering, and enterprise software development.
The strongest machine learning engineer interview questions in 2026 test ML system design, applied math intuition, MLOps fluency, and production debugging under failure, not leetcode speed and not definitions of gradient descent. Good ML candidates can build a model in a notebook. Great ones can ship it, watch it drift, and roll it back at … Read more
Hiring a Swift iOS developer in the U.S. in 2026 runs $110K to $140K mid-level and $145K to $200K senior, or $95 to $160 an hour on contract, with most searches closing in 3 to 6 weeks. Aggregators mash “Swift developer” and “iOS developer” into one blended number and it drags the band down by … Read more
Hiring an AWS cloud engineer in the U.S. in 2026 runs $135K to $165K for mid-level and $195K to $270K for senior, with most searches closing in 4 to 7 weeks once the stack is named specifically. Aggregator averages hide a bimodal market. The number that actually matters is the one keyed to your workload. … Read more
Salesforce cut under 1,000 roles in February 2026 across marketing, product, data analytics, Agentforce, and Heroku, after trimming ~4,000 support roles the prior year. Yet headcount hit a record 83,334. This is a reshape, not a shrink. Gregg Flecke here, one of the recruiters on KORE1’s IT and Salesforce staffing practice. We’ve had two dozen … Read more
A CIO job description defines a senior executive accountable for enterprise technology strategy, digital transformation, AI governance, cybersecurity oversight, and the technology budget, reporting to the CEO and partnering with the CFO, CISO, and chief data officer. Most CIO job descriptions I read are three years out of date. They describe the person who kept … Read more
Cisco’s 2026 layoffs are a reshuffle, not a retreat. Legacy switching, Talos, and Splunk cuts free payroll for AI networking, silicon, and cloud security. Short hiring window for displaced CCIEs and Talos alumni.
Full Stack Developer Salary Guide 2026 Six salary aggregators will hand you six different averages for “full stack developer.” Indeed reports $135,893. Salary.com lands at $69,455. Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey puts the US median at $138,000. Built In comes in highest at $162,772. PayScale’s broad query sits near $90,000 and its role-specific cut lands … Read more
Remote Work Statistics 2026: What Employers Need to Know Thirty-three percent. That’s how much hybrid work drops the quit rate versus fully in-office, per the peer-reviewed Nature study from Bloom, Han, and Liang. No productivity hit. That one number does more real work than the next fifty statistics in any 2026 remote-work listicle you will … Read more
Data Center Jobs 2026: Roles, Skills & Salary Ranges Data center jobs are the operations, engineering, security, and facilities roles that keep hyperscale and colocation sites running twenty-four hours a day. The category spans hands-on technicians who rack and cable gear, critical environment engineers who own power and cooling, network and security staff who keep … Read more
IT Staffing Trends 2026: What Hiring Managers Need to Know Five shifts are actually reshaping IT staffing in 2026. The AI skills shortage is biting hardest in the middle of the stack, not the research tier. Contract-to-hire is overtaking direct hire as the default model for senior roles. Cybersecurity demand is outpacing every other vertical, … Read more
