Data Staffing Agencies

A large national IT staffing firm with offices in every major US metro, filling roles from help desk to enterprise architect. Most of its volume is contract work at large enterprise clients — banks, healthcare systems, and retailers. A practical option if you want steady contract work at recognisable employers.

Insight Global started in IT staffing and has grown into a large national staffing firm. Known for high-volume contract placements and a recruiter model that emphasises relationship-building over transactional matching. Their tech division covers software development, data engineering, and IT infrastructure. Particularly accessible for engineers earlier in their career — Insight Global's volume means more entry points than boutique firms.

A tech-specialist boutique that focuses exclusively on software engineering, data, and infrastructure roles. Unlike generalist staffing firms, every recruiter at Motion has a technical background or deep discipline specialisation — which means more relevant submissions and less time explaining your stack to someone who does not know what TypeScript is. Their client relationships in major tech hubs are deep rather than broad.

Kforce specialises in technology and finance staffing with particularly deep relationships at financial services firms, healthcare systems, and government contractors. Their tech practice covers software development, data, and infrastructure. If you want to work in a regulated industry — financial services, healthcare, defence — Kforce's client relationships in those verticals are difficult for general IT staffing firms to match.

A specialist data and analytics recruitment firm operating in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston. Harnham focuses exclusively on data roles — data science, analytics engineering, ML engineering, and BI — which means their recruiters speak the language and understand the difference between a junior analyst and a staff ML engineer. Particularly strong for data roles at consumer tech, e-commerce, and financial services companies.

Temp staffing, contingency search and executive search firm headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District since 2006. Runs separate divisions for technology (Scion Technical) and creative (Scion Creative) alongside finance, accounting and marketing desks. Covers SF, Oakland, San Jose and the Peninsula.

Executive search firm that only places technical leadership: product management, software engineering, IT, AI/ML/data, security and design. Says it has operated 'since 2001'; San Francisco is first on its office list. Also runs Paragon, a team-build practice for hiring technical teams at scale.

Women-owned recruiting firm founded in 1981, with its San Francisco office at 345 California Street. Its Syndicatebleu division places creative, marketing, engineering and product talent. A separate desk covers accounting and finance, from staff accountants to CFOs. Works on direct-hire, temp-to-hire and temporary terms.

Northern California staffing firm founded by Gary D. Nelson in 1970, headquartered in Petaluma, with branches in San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo and Pleasanton. Its finance and accounting team is made up of former accountants and controllers, and places people in full-time, temporary and consulting roles. A technology desk covers software, cloud, data science and BI roles.

IT staffing and technology consulting firm established in 2002. Headquartered in Campbell in the South Bay, with a San Francisco office at 2 Mint Plaza. Places contract and permanent staff in cloud engineering/DevOps, application development, database, big data analytics and systems administration roles.

Specialty staffing and executive search firm headquartered at 260 Madison Avenue. Runs separate divisions for Technology, Accounting & Finance, and Creative & Marketing, among others. Technology desk lists software engineering, DevOps, cloud, data science and BI as core competencies.

Staffing firm whose headquarters and flagship office is at 250 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan. Recruits across finance and accounting, IT, and creative and marketing, with published lists of positions filled per desk. Offers temp, temp-to-hire and direct-hire roles.

Staffing firm focused on IT/tech, digital marketing and creative roles, with an NYC office at 102 Madison Avenue. Tech desk covers software development, DevOps, data science and machine learning. Places talent on freelance, contract, contract-to-hire and full-time terms.

Technical recruiting agency at 365 Fifth Avenue focused on the New York City market. Three desks: software engineering, data science and data engineering, and DevOps and security engineering. Handles direct hire, contract staffing and executive search.

Midtown Manhattan firm (144 East 44th Street) that has recruited only in data and analytics since 1980. Fills permanent and contract roles that need strong quantitative, analytical or technical skills. Places from entry-level up to C-suite.

NYC-based search firm founded by Matt Stabile that recruits only quant finance, AI/ML and data science talent. Places quant researchers, traders and developers, ML researchers and data scientists at hedge funds, trading firms and AI labs. Free to candidates, with confidential representation.

Executive recruiting firm for digital and tech companies, anchored at 1216 Broadway since 1997. Function desks include product management, marketing, design and UX/UI, and data analytics. Focuses on mid-level to executive searches.

Executive search firm placing leaders in product management, software engineering, AI/ML/data, security, IT and design. Lists New York City as one of five offices. Works for PE-backed, VC-backed and public tech companies.

Woman-owned NYC staffing firm at 370 Lexington Avenue, founded by Gail Tessler and Norma Menkin. Runs finance and accounting, media and marketing, creative, and digital and technology desks. Offers temporary/freelance, temp-to-hire and direct-hire placements.

Austin-rooted staffing, executive search and management consulting firm with a second office in Beaumont, TX. Technical staffing covers DevOps, SDET, software development, database management and big data; separate practices handle finance and accounting and sales and marketing. It fills temp, temp-to-hire, contract and direct-hire roles, and places interim and fractional executives.

Austin technical staffing firm that recruits for software, infrastructure, data management, ERP, CRM, support and information security. Its role list includes front-end, back-end and full-stack developers, DevOps engineers, data engineers, BI engineers, business analysts and product managers. The sister practice Accounting Navigators, on the same site, places accounting and finance staff from entry level to CFO.

Austin-based technical recruiting firm founded in 2003, with two practices: SaaS/product/cloud/IT and semiconductor/industrial. The software side covers backend, full-stack, cloud, DevOps, data engineering, analytics, AI/ML and product management, plus technical leadership searches. It works on direct hire, contract, contract-to-hire and retained searches.

Nonprofit staffing agency with its corporate office in Austin. It places professionals in temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire roles, mainly at public agencies and government organizations. Its IT practice places business analysts, developers, data analysts and project managers, and its finance practice places accountants, auditors and financial analysts. It gives hiring preference to qualified applicants with disabilities but considers all candidates.

Employee-owned Texas staffing and recruiting firm established in 1974, headquartered in Houston, with an Austin office on River Place Blvd. Its Austin IT practice lists AI, cloud, DevOps, full-stack, data science, machine learning and UX/UI roles. The Austin accounting practice covers controllers, FP&A managers and financial analysts, and a marketing and creative division also operates. It offers temporary, contract, temp-to-hire and direct-hire placement.

Seattle-based, woman-owned recruiting firm founded in 2013 by Shauna Swerland. Places engineering, design/UX research, product, marketing, finance and C-suite roles. Offers contract, contract-to-hire, direct hire and executive search; says it averages 18 days to offer.

Seattle technology recruiting firm started in 2005 by CEO Darren Hogben. Recruiters specialize in technology and sales staffing and place on contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire terms. Live job board shows DevOps, ML, data science, backend and product manager roles across Seattle, Bellevue and remote.

Woman-owned technology staffing firm run from a Bellevue office, staffing Eastside teams since 1995. Places developers, TPMs, program managers, business analysts, marketing managers, AI/ML engineers and QA on contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire terms. Lists Microsoft, T-Mobile, Costco and the City of Seattle as client references.

Bellevue staffing and recruiting agency, 100% woman-owned and WBENC-certified, placing contract and full-time talent for about 20 years. Roles cover AI/ML, data science, cloud, product and program management, analytics/BI, finance and operations, and digital/marketing/creative. Current listings are largely senior engineering roles at Redmond-area tech clients.

Technical recruiting firm on Mercer Island serving greater Seattle employers. Places IT professionals on permanent, contract and contract-to-hire terms across software development, mobile, QA, cloud, big data/BI, technical project management and UX/creative. Recruiters have software development backgrounds.

Bellevue-headquartered digital engineering services firm with a Talent on Demand staffing practice. Supplies consultants to enterprise clients and MSPs, citing 1500+ U.S.-based consultants. Project work spans data/ML platforms, cloud, DevOps/SRE and QA.

Tech staffing division of San Francisco-based Scion Staffing, with a Seattle office in Pioneer Square. Provides IT and engineering contract staffing, direct-hire recruiting and executive search. Seattle page emphasizes cloud, DevOps, enterprise software, IT engineering and data roles.

Chicago staffing and search firm running contract staffing and direct hire search through dedicated specialty teams. The technology team splits into Product & Engineering, Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure & Cloud. Marketing and accounting & finance each have their own recruiting desks.

Chicago-headquartered recruiting firm that started as a few tech recruiters and now covers search, interim/embedded recruiting and RPO. It has function-specific practices for software engineering, product management, data & AI, creative/UX, marketing, and finance & accounting. Its site says it has been at it since 2001.

Women-owned staffing firm founded in Chicago in 2010, now based in Deerfield. It began in IT recruiting and expanded into accounting & finance, marketing, sales and operations. It screens candidates for skills match and for cultural and team fit, and fills direct-hire, long-term contract and contract-to-hire roles.

Evanston-based data, analytics and technology staffing firm with 15 years of analytics recruiting. It places data scientists, data engineers, ML/MLOps engineers and product and program managers on contract, as direct hires, or as fractional experts. Contractors are Burtch Works W2 employees with benefits, and 1099 is available.

IT staffing firm in Needham, on Boston's Route 128 corridor, launched in 2001 by Diana Crowell and Marty Goober. Places consultants and full-time hires in generative AI, cybersecurity, cloud, software development and data/business analytics. Its Massachusetts page names Cambridge, Waltham, Burlington and Woburn among the areas it serves.

Technology, business-advisory and life-sciences consulting and staffing firm, founded in 1989 and headquartered in Reading, MA, north of Boston. Its careers board lists contract, contract-to-hire, consulting and permanent openings in development, DevOps, data, product management and business analysis. Today it presents itself mainly as a solutions firm, but it still recruits consultants directly.

Irvine-headquartered staffing and recruiting firm in business since 2005. Recruiters specialize by industry across technology, accounting and finance, creative and marketing, engineering and healthcare IT. Places on direct hire, contract and project-based engagements, with a dedicated Los Angeles desk.

IT staffing and placement firm headquartered in El Segundo. Serves Los Angeles and Southern California, plus Denver and Phoenix. Places tech talent on contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire, from help desk up to technology leadership.

Staffing and executive search firm operating since 2006, with a downtown Los Angeles office at 515 South Flower St. Its divisions cover technology (Scion Technology), creative and marketing, professional and finance roles. Offers temporary staffing, direct hire and executive search.

Burbank-based healthcare and IT staffing agency placing IT professionals since 1993. Places application developers, network engineers, help desk and IT managers up to the C-suite across Southern California. Candidates can choose temporary, temp-to-hire or permanent work.