IT hiring strategies, technology talent acquisition guides, and practical advice for employers recruiting software engineers, cloud architects, DevOps engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity analysts, and other in-demand IT professionals.
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Whether to buy staff augmentation or managed services comes down to one test. Has the work stopped changing? Managed services prices a settled function. Staff augmentation prices an unsettled one. Get that backwards and it is the contract that fails, not the people you put under it. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an Oracle EBS consultant in 2026 runs $65 to $150 an hour on contract, or $115,000 to $175,000 base for a direct hire. Scope by module before you scope by title, because Financials, Supply Chain, HRMS, and the technical stack behave like four separate talent markets … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 AWS solutions architects average $145,725 to $176,595 in 2026 depending on which aggregator you trust, while architects employed by AWS itself clear a $262,000 median in total compensation. Both figures are accurate. They describe two different jobs wearing the same title. Last spring I had two AWS … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The generative AI engineer career path runs from associate to staff in roughly six to ten years, but the level you hold is set by what you can prove works, not by years served. Base pay spans $105,000 at entry to $330,000 and up at principal. The … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 To hire an Epicor consultant, scope the product and the version before the title, because Kinetic, Prophet 21, Eclipse, BisTrack, and CMS are separate talent pools billing $85 to $165 an hour on contract in 2026. Direct-hire base for an experienced Epicor functional consultant runs roughly $110,000 … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire a Boomi developer by scoping three things before the req posts: which runtime they inherit, whether EDI and agent governance are in scope, and the band. Base pay runs $102,000 to $167,000 in 2026, contract pay rates sit near $48 to $64 an hour, and a … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A Salesforce administrator job description should name the org’s size, the automation the admin will own, whether the seat is solo or on a team, the current credential names, and a 2026 base band of $85,000 to $135,000. Most of the templates you will find for this … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 ERP projects fail because the seats that matter go unfilled, not because the software is wrong. Six staffing gaps cause most of it, and every one of them is visible before kickoff if you know where to look. Somebody usually invites me to the post-mortem. The slide … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor at KORE1 IT staffing revenue in the United States reaches $37.7 billion in 2026, up 1% after three straight years of decline, according to Staffing Industry Analysts. That is the first top-line growth the segment has posted since 2022. It is also roughly one-tenth the size of what … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire an SAP FICO consultant by naming which side, FI or CO, actually carries your project before you write the req. Direct-hire leads run $135,000 to $195,000 base in 2026, contract rates span $95 to $180 an hour, and a properly scoped search closes in three to … Read more
