Emerging technology trends shaping the IT job market — from AI and cloud computing to edge computing, quantum readiness, and the evolving skills employers need to stay competitive in a rapidly changing tech landscape.
No, AI is not replacing cybersecurity jobs. It is reshaping the work and creating new roles faster than it retires old ones, because every AI system a company ships becomes one more thing a skilled human has to defend. This week gave us the cleanest proof of that argument anyone could ask for. On July … Read more
What’s Changing in Insurtech Hiring in 2026? Insurtech hiring in 2026 is moving money and headcount away from traditional insurance roles and toward data, AI, software, and cybersecurity talent, as automated underwriting and claims tools absorb work people used to do by hand. The carriers and startups winning this year are not adding more of … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 A data scientist finds what your data can tell you. An ML engineer makes that finding run in production at scale. One hands back insight and a prototype model, the other ships a system that stays accurate under real traffic. Both write Python. Same language, sure. Only … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 Nearshoring places your tech team in a nearby country on a similar clock; offshoring sends the work to a distant region for the lowest hourly rate. Nearshore wins when requirements change every week. Offshore wins for work you can define once and hand off clean. And for … Read more
Agentic AI Engineering Hiring Survey 2026: What the Market Is Actually Doing Agentic AI engineering hiring in 2026 is a seller’s market, where demand for engineers who can ship reliable AI agents has outrun a thin talent pool and pushed typical base pay to roughly $185K to $320K. Those bands hold. The fuller picture is … Read more
The top emerging tech hubs in 2026 are Raleigh-Durham, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, Tampa, Columbus, and Huntsville. Each is adding tech jobs faster than the coastal giants, at a lower cost. Austin used to be on this kind of list. In 2015 it was the scrappy upstart everybody whispered about. … Read more
Brent crude fell below $82 a barrel in June 2026 as Middle East tension eased, and for Southern California’s aerospace, defense, and energy employers, cheaper fuel plus less uncertainty is the strongest hiring-confidence signal we’ve seen this year. Lower input costs and a calmer outlook tend to unlock the headcount and capital budgets that volatility … Read more
An AI engineer builds products on top of foundation models someone else trained, using APIs, retrieval, and agents. An ML engineer builds, trains, and operates the models themselves. Same Python on the resume, same “AI” in the title, almost no overlap in the actual work. Hire the wrong one and you usually find out about … Read more
Palantir Layoffs 2026: Defense AI Engineering Map Palantir is not running mass layoffs in 2026. Revenue grew 85 percent last quarter and the company is still hiring. The talent movement that actually matters is the bidding war over its Forward Deployed Engineers, now getting pulled toward Anduril, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a wave of cleared defense … Read more
In 2026 the software engineer job market split in two, with a glut of senior generalists facing long searches on one side and a drought of AI infrastructure specialists still commanding around $250K on the other. Both conditions live under the same job title, often inside the same company, which is why “the SWE market” … Read more
