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 Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A Golang developer job description should say what the Go code actually does, whether engineers from Java or Python can learn Go on the job, what Kubernetes means in your shop, and the pay band. For mid-level and senior Go roles, that band runs roughly $125,000 to $190,000 base. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a frontend developer in 2026, decide what the seat owns before you pick a framework, budget $95,000 to $170,000 in base salary for mid-level to senior talent, and screen with a pull request review instead of a portfolio. Portfolios and finished take-homes got cheap once … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A generative AI engineer job description covers an engineer who builds product features on foundation models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini, owning retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and inference cost, usually without training a model from scratch. Most postings under that title in 2026 describe somebody else. The template … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 The Java developer job descriptions that fill in 2026 state the JDK version and Spring Boot generation the team runs, say whether the hire builds new services or maintains existing ones, and post a salary range. Most templates ranking for this search skip all three. Two of those … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Good iOS developer job descriptions in 2026 spend their words on the app: its SwiftUI and UIKit split, the oldest iOS version it supports, the Apple frameworks it relies on, and who handles App Review. Swift, Xcode, and “five years of experience” show up on every iOS … Read more
A Splunk Engineer job description has to answer one question before any bullet points get written. Does this person own the platform, or do they just search it? Those are two different jobs with two different salary bands, and most postings blur them into one req, which is why so many Splunk searches stall at … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Hiring a Splunk engineer means picking one of three different jobs first, security engineer, observability engineer, or platform admin, because pay bands swing from roughly $99,000 to $153,000 depending on which one you actually post. That’s before certifications, before SPL fluency, before any of it. Get the … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Contractor headcount planning for 2027 means setting a target contractor-to-employee ratio for your IT org, then building a model that flexes that ratio with project pipeline, budget cycles, and hiring freezes instead of guessing every quarter. Most IT leaders treat that ratio as an accident, whatever mix of approved … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Bring in contract cybersecurity talent when the work is a burst your team cannot absorb or has never done before, and hire full time when someone has to own the outcome permanently. That sounds close to the test you already run on every other technical role. It … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the best product manager staffing agency in 2026 for companies that need a W-2 contractor, a documented PM screening process, and a 17-day average fill time. Insight Global handles multi-role contract programs at enterprise scale. Kforce brings 60+ years of IT staffing and documented PM practice … Read more
