Is Akkodis part of Adecco?

Yes. Akkodis is the Adecco Group's tech and engineering talent brand, created by combining AKKA Technologies with Modis, with particular depth in European engineering markets.

What do Experis and Akkodis charge?

Neither publishes rates. Buyers report 40 to 60% markups on contract tech staff and 20 to 25% of salary on permanent tech hires, with engineering R&D work priced as custom statements of work. Hyring publishes a flat 7% fee in India and 14% in the US and rest of world.

Which is better for embedded and engineering roles?

Akkodis has the deeper engineering R&D bench, especially in automotive, aerospace, and industrial software across Europe. Experis is stronger in enterprise IT resourcing. For remote-capable software and data roles, AI-screened flat-fee hiring through Hyring is usually the cheapest path.

Can engineering roles be staffed remotely from India?

Many can. Software-defined engineering, embedded software, data engineering, and QA travel well; lab-bound hardware roles do not. Hyring screens every engineer with AI coding and video interviews and runs augmented teams on Insight by Hyring, so remote delivery stays transparent.

How fast can I get a shortlist from each?

Consultant-led shortlists from Experis or Akkodis typically take one to three weeks depending on market and specialism. Hyring delivers AI-screened shortlists with recordings and skill scores in 48 to 72 hours for most software and data roles.

Do these firms verify English and communication skills?

Usually through consultant judgment during interviews. Hyring runs a standardized English proficiency test alongside AI video interviews on client-facing and distributed-team roles, so communication ability arrives as a score, not an impression.

How is Hyring different from Experis and Akkodis?

Hyring is an AI-native recruitment agency with flat, published fees: 7% of CTC in India and 14% in the US and rest of world. Every candidate passes AI screening backed by 900,000+ interviews, thousands of recruiting partners work each role, and clients get a live portal with Insight time tracking on augmented teams. Book a call to price your open roles.

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Experis vs Akkodis: Which Tech Talent Partner Fits Your Roles in 2026?

ManpowerGroup's IT brand against the Adecco Group's engineering powerhouse. IT resourcing versus R&D depth, fees versus flat fees, and where an AI-native third option undercuts both.

Last updated on: July 7, 2026Read time: 10 mins

Written byAdithyan RKFact checked bySurya N

75+

Countries in the Experis network

20–25%

Typical perm fee, tech roles

7% / 14%

Hyring flat fee, India / rest of world

900K+

AI interviews behind Hyring screening

Experis and Akkodis are what happens when the two biggest staffing groups on the planet each build a tech brand. Experis carries ManpowerGroup's flag: IT resourcing, permanent tech recruitment, and managed services across 75+ countries. Akkodis carries the Adecco Group's, built by fusing AKKA Technologies with Modis into an engineering and digital firm with deep roots in European R&D.

Hyring takes the third column on this page. We are an AI-native recruitment agency with delivery teams in the US and India, we publish our fees, and we think the corporate tech-brand model leaves a lot of margin on the table that should be yours. The comparison below is our case, with both incumbents given their honest due.

Quick Verdict

Experis leads enterprise IT resourcing, Akkodis leads engineering R&D depth, and Hyring leads on cost, speed, and screening rigor for software roles.

Pick Experis

When you need enterprise IT contractors or a managed service across multiple countries under one ManpowerGroup agreement.

Pick Akkodis

When the work is engineering R&D: automotive, aerospace, embedded systems, or industrial software, especially in Europe.

Pick Hyring

When the role is software, data, or QA and the budget matters. Flat 14% US perm fee, remote India engineers at 60 to 70% savings.

Who Are Experis and Akkodis?

Experis is ManpowerGroup's global IT talent brand; Akkodis is the Adecco Group's engineering and digital brand formed from AKKA and Modis.

Experis inherits ManpowerGroup's machinery, a group that places roughly 485,000 workers per day across its brands. Its tech business splits into IT resourcing (contractors), Experis Academy talent pipelines, and managed services where it runs whole functions under SLA. The sell is consistency at scale: one vendor, many countries, familiar paper.

Akkodis is younger as a brand and older as a business. AKKA Technologies brought decades of European engineering consulting, Modis brought Adecco's IT staffing, and the 2022 merger produced a firm that is as comfortable staffing an automotive software program in Stuttgart as filling a cloud role in Chicago. Engineering R&D is the differentiator; nobody else in this comparison has it at that depth.

Both firms price the traditional way, and neither prints a number. Hold that thought.

IT Resourcing vs Engineering R&D: Different Jobs, Same Invoice Shape

Experis staffs and manages IT functions, Akkodis engineers products, and both bill through markups, percentages, and custom SOWs.

The practical split: if the deliverable is capacity, keeping systems built and running with skilled people, Experis is shaped for it. If the deliverable is a product or a system under development, embedded software, ADAS, industrial platforms, Akkodis brings consultants who have shipped that class of work before.

The overlap zone is ordinary software hiring: backend engineers, data engineers, cloud, QA. Both firms compete there, both staff it with the same consultant-screened model, and neither has a structural cost advantage over the other. That zone is where an AI-native model changes the price, which is exactly where our IT staff augmentation and direct hire practices live.

What Do Experis and Akkodis Cost?

Buyers report 40 to 60% contract markups and 20 to 25% permanent fees for tech roles at both firms, with R&D work priced as custom SOWs.

Contract tech staff: markups of 40 to 60% over pay rate at both brands, with enterprise volume discounts negotiable.
Permanent tech hires: typically 20 to 25% of first-year salary.
Engineering R&D projects: custom statements of work at Akkodis, effectively consulting rates.

Hyring's number is on the site: 7% of CTC in India, 14% flat in the US and rest of world. A $135,000 data engineer costs $18,900 to place instead of $27,000 to $33,750. Check the salary itself against our free salary benchmarks first; a right-sized base saves you twice.

Perm fee on a $135,000 US data engineer

Competitor figures are typical reported ranges; Hyring fee is published

In India, the same seniority at ₹28 lakh CTC carries a 7% fee, just under ₹2 lakh. One agreement covers both markets.

Full Comparison Table: Experis vs Akkodis vs Hyring

The firms split on IT versus engineering focus, geography, fee transparency, and how technical screening actually happens.

Head-to-head across eleven buying criteria
Criteria	Experis	Akkodis	Hyring
Parent group	ManpowerGroup	Adecco Group	Independent, AI-native
Core focus	IT resourcing and managed services	Engineering R&D plus IT staffing	Software, data, and professional hiring, AI-led
Geographic strength	75+ countries, enterprise reach	Europe-led engineering, global IT	US, India, UAE hubs, remote-first delivery
Perm fee	~20–25% (typical)	~20–25% (typical)	7% India, 14% US, flat and published
Contract pricing	~40–60% markup (typical)	~40–60% markup, SOW for R&D	~30% below big-firm quotes
Remote India model	Offshore inside managed services	Delivery centers for some programs	Core: Indian salaries, US hours, dedicated engineers
Technical screening	Consultant screens, assessments on request	Consultant screens, domain vetting for R&D	AI coding, video, and English screening on every candidate
Time-to-shortlist	One to three weeks	One to three weeks, specialism dependent	48–72 hours for most software roles
Client visibility	Account teams, MSP reporting	Program management reporting	Live portal with recordings and scores
Post-hire transparency	Timesheets, SLA reports	Timesheets, project reporting	Insight by Hyring activity-level tracking
Best for	Enterprise IT capacity across countries	Engineering R&D programs, Europe-led	Cost-driven software and data hiring, US and India

Remote Engineering From India: What Travels, What Does Not

Software, data, embedded software, and QA roles staff well remotely from India at 60 to 70% cost savings; lab-bound hardware roles do not.

An honest boundary first. If the job needs a hardware lab, a test rig, or a plant floor, Akkodis-style local engineering is the right shape and no remote model replaces it. Most of what companies call engineering hiring today is not that. It is software: embedded code, data pipelines, platform work, QA automation. All of it travels.

For those roles, a dedicated engineer in India through Hyring typically lands 60 to 70% below US contractor cost, on US-overlap hours, employed by us with payroll and statutory compliance handled. Every engineer is screened before you meet them: AI coding interview for hands-on skill, AI video interview for depth, and an English proficiency test because distributed teams live on communication. Once the team starts, Insight by Hyring keeps the engagement transparent: hours, focus patterns, and a BI bot your managers can ask about bandwidth in plain language, with employees always seeing their own data first.

Fact

Deciding which roles to keep onshore and which to augment remotely is a design question before it is a vendor question. The distributed-team guides in our Learn hub walk through it function by function, and the free HR Toolkit includes a build-vs-augment calculator among its 150+ tools.

Screening and Communication: Judgment vs Instrumentation

Consultant screening rests on individual judgment, while AI screening turns coding skill and communication into calibrated, comparable scores.

A good Experis or Akkodis consultant develops real judgment about candidates. The trouble is that judgment does not scale, does not transfer between consultants, and reaches maybe eight candidates a day. Everyone else in the funnel is a resume.

We instrumented the funnel instead. Applicants from the Hyring Jobs portal and submissions from the Recruiting Partners network, thousands of independent recruiters paid on placements, all pass the same battery the day they arrive, ranked first by the AI Resume Screener. Candidates who reach your shortlist have usually prepped with the free Jobseeker Toolkit and the interview questions library, which is one reason offer-acceptance rates run high: by the time you meet them, they have invested in the process twice.

STEP 1

Brief the role

Send your JD or adapt one from 900+ templates in the JD library. Intake call within 24 hours.

STEP 2

AI screens the pool

Portal applicants and partner submissions pass coding, video, and English screening automatically.

STEP 3

Review in the portal

Watch recordings, compare calibrated scores, shortlist in 48 to 72 hours.

STEP 4

Hire flat-fee

14% US, 7% India. Augmented teams run on Insight for transparent tracking.

Which One Should You Pick?

Pick Experis for multi-country IT capacity, Akkodis for genuine engineering R&D, and Hyring for software and data roles where cost and speed decide.

If the program is enterprise IT capacity across a dozen countries under one agreement, Experis is built for it. If the work is product engineering, the kind with test benches and certification cycles, Akkodis has the rare bench for it, particularly in Europe.

For the software and data hiring that fills most requisition lists, run the third quote. A 14% flat fee, a 72-hour shortlist with coding scores attached, and a portal you can audit is either better than what the corporate brands offer you or it is not. One requisition tells you, and it costs nothing to find out.

Written by

Adithyan RK

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CEO & Co-founder, Hyring

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Adithyan RK is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyring, an AI-native recruitment platform that has run over 900,000 AI interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. He has spent 18 years building technology businesses, starting with a digital consultancy in 2008 and a staff augmentation firm in 2017, before founding Hyring in 2022 to rebuild hiring around evidence instead of guesswork. Read more

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CTO & Co-founder, Hyring

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Surya N is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hyring, where he architected the AI interviewing engine that has now conducted over 900,000 interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. A mechanical engineer who moved into artificial intelligence, he spent 6 years building AI applications inside a technology consultancy before co-founding Hyring, and wrote the first version of its AI interviewer from scratch. Read more

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Experis is ManpowerGroup's IT talent brand, focused on IT resourcing, permanent tech recruitment, and managed services. Akkodis is the Adecco Group's engineering and digital brand, formed from AKKA Technologies and Modis, leaning toward engineering R&D, automotive, aerospace, and embedded software alongside IT.