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.
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 ERP hiring in 2026 has split into three separate labor markets, and only one of them is getting cheaper. Migration work is peaking into SAP’s 2027 deadline. Steady-state administration has flattened. Integration talent is repricing upward faster than most hiring budgets have kept pace, and all three … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Start with the work you would hand a smart intern on day one. High volume, clearly defined, easy to check, cheap to get wrong. Invoice coding. Meeting notes. Support ticket triage. Not strategy, not forecasting, and not anything where a confident wrong answer costs you a customer. AI is … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia NetSuite shows real-time inventory the moment you finish configuring item records with reorder points, lead times, and per-location stock levels. Most companies never finish that part, so they run a live system on last Tuesday’s numbers. The data is already in there. Nobody wired it to a decision. A … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia NetSuite optimization is the ongoing work of closing configuration gaps, retiring manual workarounds, and switching on modules and automation you already license but never deployed at go-live. It is not a second implementation. It is the cheaper half that nobody schedules. A CFO turned a laptop around to show … Read more
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
