A staffing agency built for Jacksonville’s First Coast economy.
IT, engineering, accounting, and finance talent placed across Riverside, Southside, Mayport, and the I-95 corridor — for the fintech HQs, naval commands, and hospital systems that anchor Northeast Florida.
KORE1 is a Jacksonville staffing agency placing IT, engineering, accounting, and finance professionals across Northeast Florida — with a 17-day average fill across our local searches and a 92% 12-month retention rate.
Last updated: May 19, 2026
Jacksonville is not one labor market. It is four, sitting on a river.
A fintech and banking core anchored by ICE Mortgage Technology (formerly Black Knight), FIS, Fidelity National Financial, Vystar, and a dense Deutsche Bank back-office footprint. A defense and maritime cluster running NAS Jacksonville, Naval Station Mayport, Blue Angel headquarters at Pensacola’s sister command, and BAE Systems’ shipyard. A hospital and life-sciences anchor built around Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Baptist Health, and UF Health on Eighth Street. And a logistics and port economy moved by JAXPORT, CSX’s headquarters, Crowley Maritime, and Landstar System.
Each of those economies hires differently. Our Jacksonville recruiters have placed mortgage tech engineers at ICE and FIS, Epic analysts during Mayo and Baptist go-lives, cleared maintenance technicians at Mayport command shops, controllers at insurance carriers, and FP&A managers at the logistics HQs. Different sourcing channels, different comp math, different close cycles — and one account manager who maps it all.
That is why a national playbook does not work on the First Coast. KORE1’s Jacksonville practice is staffed by recruiters who know which Riverside fintech is actually hiring versus just posting, which comp bands close offers in Mandarin versus the Beaches, and which cleared maintainers are genuinely in motion versus counteroffer-shopping a base contract. BLS occupational employment data for the Jacksonville-St. Augustine MSA backs the picture: tech, healthcare, and finance employment all grew faster than the national average last cycle, and the comp gap between Jacksonville and Atlanta has narrowed to under 8% for senior software roles.
Three practices, tuned to the Jacksonville stack.
IT and software for the First Coast.
We staff cloud engineers, cybersecurity analysts, DevOps, data engineers, SREs, full-stack developers, and Epic, ServiceNow, and Salesforce platform specialists. Our IT staffing practice works across contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire, with particular depth in mortgage tech and payments for the Riverside fintech cluster, healthcare IT for Mayo and Baptist, and enterprise IT for the corporate HQs lining Deerwood Park.
Cleared, maritime, and commercial engineering.
Aviation and ship maintenance engineers serving Mayport and Cecil Field. Manufacturing and process engineers across the Westside industrial belt. Logistics and supply-chain engineers at CSX, Crowley, and Landstar. Our engineering staffing agency handles Secret and Top Secret clearance candidates plus sponsor-to-clear searches for defense contractors willing to invest. Biomedical engineering is a quiet but real Jacksonville sub-specialty tied to the hospital systems.
Accounting, finance, and fractional leadership.
Insurance-heavy Jacksonville runs deep on controllers, treasury analysts, claims accountants, and FP&A managers who understand multi-entity, multi-state corporate finance. Our accounting and finance practice covers staff accountants, AR/AP leads, internal audit, and interim fractional CFO engagements for growth-stage health-tech and mortgage-tech firms emerging from the Riverside and Brooklyn neighborhoods. We round out coverage with HR staffing and digital and creative searches.
Four numbers that describe our Jacksonville practice.
How we run a Jacksonville search.
Consultation
60-minute intake with the hiring manager. Role scope, comp math, must-haves versus nice-to-haves, clearance requirements, and a realistic fill velocity for the specific submarket.
Targeted sourcing
We pull from pre-vetted Jacksonville pools and run fresh Boolean searches tuned for the role. Mortgage-tech engineers do not live where general SaaS engineers live. No spray-and-pray.
Rigorous screening
Technical and cultural screens, reference verification, compensation fit. You see a short, calibrated slate of finalists, not a deck of resumes pasted into a tracker.
Placement & follow-through
Offer negotiation, start-date coordination, 30/60/90-day check-ins, and a written retention guarantee. We stay involved after signature, not before it.
Six economies that move Jacksonville’s labor market.
Fintech, mortgage tech & banking
ICE Mortgage Technology, FIS, Fidelity National Financial, Vystar Credit Union, EverBank, and the Deutsche Bank back-office footprint. Mortgage-tech engineers, payments developers, fraud analysts, and platform SREs are our densest IT pipeline here.
Healthcare & life sciences
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Baptist Health, UF Health Jacksonville, Brooks Rehabilitation, and Nemours Children’s. Epic and Cerner analysts, HL7 integrators, RCM specialists, clinical informaticists, and biomedical engineers across the southbank and Eighth Street campuses.
Defense, navy & maritime
NAS Jacksonville, Naval Station Mayport, Naval Hospital Jacksonville, and BAE Systems’ shipyard. Cleared maintainers, systems engineers, logisticians, and program managers. The candidate pool here barely overlaps with commercial IT.
Logistics, port & rail
JAXPORT, CSX Transportation (headquartered downtown), Crowley Maritime, Landstar System, and the trucking ecosystem moving freight along I-95 and I-10. Supply-chain analysts, operations managers, and logistics engineers.
Insurance & financial services
Florida Blue is headquartered in Deerwood South. Citizens Property Insurance carries a major Jacksonville presence. Plus the credit-union ecosystem and the legal-financial firms ringing downtown. Controllers, treasury, claims operations, and underwriting analytics.
Professional services & corporate HQ
Law firms in the Bank of America Tower, regional accounting practices, and the corporate shared-services hubs that pull staff from Mandarin and Orange Park. HR business partners, compensation analysts, and back-office operations leads.
Three ways to hire through KORE1 Jacksonville.
Contract & temporary
W-2 contractors on our payroll, with full benefits and insurance. Best for project-based work, seasonal volume in insurance and healthcare, and covering parental or medical leaves. See contract staffing and project staffing.
Contract-to-hire
A try-before-you-hire arrangement. The conversion math is transparent up front, and we walk you through the break-even point before a contractor converts. There are no surprises in month four.
Direct hire
For executive, cleared, and high-leverage individual-contributor roles. Typically 18–25% of first-year comp, with a written retention guarantee. See direct hire staffing.
Where our Jacksonville team actively recruits.
Downtown & Southbank
CSX Transportation headquarters, legal, professional services, and the riverfront corporate towers. Strong corporate finance, legal-tech, and HR business-partner density.
Riverside & Avondale
The fintech and creative spillover ring. Smaller-headcount engineering teams, design studios, and the growing early-stage tech pocket north of I-95.
San Marco & Brooklyn
Boutique professional services, private wealth offices, and a small but real founder community. Our most active fractional CFO and finance-leadership submarket.
Southside & Deerwood
Florida Blue HQ, FIS, the corporate office parks along Butler Boulevard, and the I-95 / J. Turner Butler interchange. Densest enterprise IT and FP&A pipeline in the metro.
Mandarin & Julington Creek
Suburban professional and managerial candidate pool that commutes north to Southside or Downtown. Strong mid-career finance, accounting, and HR talent.
Jacksonville Beach & Atlantic Beach
Tech and design talent that prefers a beaches lifestyle and accepts the commute. A meaningful share of our remote-friendly engineering and product placements live here.
Ponte Vedra & Nocatee
Executive, partner-track, and high-leverage finance roles. PGA Tour headquarters and the upper-end Northeast Florida corporate footprint live in this corridor.
Mayport, Westside & Orange Park
Naval Station Mayport, Cecil Field, the Westside industrial belt, and the cross-river commuter base. Cleared, maritime, manufacturing, and trades-adjacent talent.
Jacksonville sits inside a broader KORE1 footprint.
Clients hiring across multiple Southeast metros work with one KORE1 account manager across every city below, not a different agency in each city.
Orlando
Aerospace and simulation, theme-park corporate, healthcare IT, and Lake Nona life sciences across Central Florida.
Tampa
Financial services, healthcare, logistics, and corporate HQ staffing across the Tampa Bay metro.
Miami
LatAm-headquartered tech, financial services, hospitality corporate, and healthcare staffing across Miami-Dade and Broward.
Atlanta
Fintech, enterprise IT, supply chain, and corporate HQ staffing across metro Atlanta and the I-85 corridor.
Charlotte
Banking and fintech, energy, healthcare, and corporate HQ staffing across the Carolinas’ financial center.
Raleigh
Research Triangle IT, biotech, fintech, and engineering staffing across Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.
Ask our Jacksonville practice.
What does a staffing agency in Jacksonville typically cost?
For contract and temporary placements, you pay a bill rate that bundles the worker’s pay, payroll taxes, benefits, insurance, and our margin. Direct hire fees generally run 18–25% of first-year salary depending on seniority and search complexity. We quote transparent pricing up front, including the break-even conversion math for contract-to-hire engagements, so there are no surprises in month four. Cleared defense roles run a slightly different model because the candidate pool is narrower. We walk you through the math before an SOW is signed.
How fast can you actually fill a role in Jacksonville?
Standard IT, finance, and admin roles often fill in 3–5 business days from pre-vetted local pools. Specialized searches like mortgage-tech platform engineers, Epic analysts during a hospital go-live, or cleared maintenance leads typically run 2–4 weeks. Our overall average across Jacksonville searches last year was 17 days. We would rather move fast on the searches where speed is possible and be honest about the ones where it is not.
Do you handle cleared candidates for NAS Jax, Mayport, and Cecil Field?
Yes, and it is a meaningful share of our Jacksonville volume. NAS Jacksonville, Naval Station Mayport, Cecil Field, and the contractor community supporting them pull almost exclusively from cleared and clearable candidate pools. The overlap with the general commercial tech market is small. We work active clearance and interim clearance candidates plus the sponsor-to-clear side for primes and subs willing to invest in the pipeline. Different sourcing channels than fintech. Different compensation math too.
Can you staff both Riverside fintech and Mayo Clinic IT in the same engagement?
Absolutely. Roughly a third of our Jacksonville engagements cross verticals because the parent companies and the candidate paths do. Fintech engineers move into health-tech and back. Insurance controllers move into hospital RCM leadership. One account manager, one sourcing workflow, consistent quality. Our retention guarantee covers every placement regardless of vertical.
What makes KORE1 different from a national staffing firm in Jacksonville?
National firms run playbooks built for averages. We run playbooks built for this specific market. We know which Jacksonville companies are actually hiring versus just posting, which comp bands close offers in Southside versus the Beaches, which cleared maintainers at Mayport are genuinely in motion versus counteroffer-shopping a base contract, and which mortgage-tech engineers are looking to leave Riverside for remote. Ground-level intelligence beats a national database search every time.
Do you work with startups and growth-stage companies in Jacksonville?
Regularly. The startup scene here is smaller than Atlanta or Raleigh, but it is real and it is concentrated, particularly around the Brooklyn and Riverside neighborhoods, the JaxUSA Partnership ecosystem, and a handful of mortgage-tech and health-tech spinouts. We understand startup comp, equity conversations, and the kind of candidates who thrive in early-stage environments versus enterprise. We also know when a growth-stage candidate is the wrong fit for a stable corporate role, which is a harder conversation to have but saves everyone time.
Ready to build your Jacksonville team?
Whether you need one cleared maintainer for Mayport, an Epic analyst for a Baptist go-live, a controller for an insurance carrier, or an entire engineering function stood up, KORE1’s Jacksonville practice is ready to scope the search with you. Hiring south too? Our Orlando IT staffing and IT consulting team runs the same playbook for the Lake Nona, Lake Mary, and Central Florida Research Park corridors.