Are Experis and Randstad the same kind of company?

Structurally yes: both are staffing-group tech brands running consultant-led models with markup and percentage pricing across global networks. Their parents, ManpowerGroup and Randstad, are two of the three largest staffing companies in the world.

What do Experis and Randstad charge for tech roles?

Neither publishes rates. Buyers report 40 to 60% markups on contract tech staff and 20 to 25% of first-year salary on permanent hires, with MSP and managed-service programs custom priced. Hyring publishes a flat 7% in India and 14% in the US and rest of world.

Which is better for an MSP or managed IT workforce program?

Both are credible at enterprise tier: Randstad Enterprise is the overall MSP market leader, and Experis brings ManpowerGroup's managed-services depth in IT specifically. For companies below mega-enterprise scale, AI-powered RPO through Hyring covers the same hiring scope at roughly 30% lower cost by automating screening labor.

Can enterprise IT roles be filled remotely from India?

Most software, cloud, data, and support roles can. Hyring places dedicated engineers in India at 60 to 70% below US contractor cost, employs them with payroll and compliance handled, and runs engagements on Insight by Hyring so tracked hours and activity stay visible to both sides.

How fast can each firm deliver candidates?

Consultant-led shortlists typically take one to three weeks at both firms, faster inside established MSP programs. Hyring delivers AI-screened shortlists with recordings and scores in 48 to 72 hours for most roles.

Do Experis and Randstad assess technical skills?

Assessments exist at both, typically on request or at enterprise tier. Hyring runs AI coding and video interviews on every technical candidate by default, backed by an engine trained on 900,000+ interviews, so skills evidence is standard rather than an upgrade.

How is Hyring different from Experis and Randstad?

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. AI screening covers every candidate, thousands of recruiting partners work each role, the portal shows the full funnel, and Insight by Hyring keeps augmented teams transparent. Book a call to price your open roles.

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Experis vs Randstad: Which Enterprise IT Staffing Partner Wins in 2026?

Two of the three biggest staffing groups on earth, fighting over the same enterprise IT budgets. ManpowerGroup's Experis against Randstad Digital, with a flat-fee AI-native model in the third column exposing the margin both are defending.

Last updated on: May 31, 2026Read time: 10 mins

Written byAdithyan RKFact checked bySurya N

485K

Workers ManpowerGroup places daily

$27B

Randstad revenue, world #1

7% / 14%

Hyring flat fee, India / rest of world

~30%

Hyring savings vs big-firm quotes

This is a sibling rivalry. Experis and Randstad Digital are what ManpowerGroup and Randstad, two of the three largest staffing groups on the planet, each built to chase enterprise technology budgets. Same consultant-led model, same markup-and-percentage economics, same account-team choreography. Choosing between them is mostly choosing which giant's paper you prefer.

Which is why we put Hyring in the third column. We are an AI-native recruitment agency with US, India, and Dubai delivery, and our structural bet is different: automate the screening labor both giants bill for, publish the fee, and let clients watch the funnel in a portal. When the two options in front of you are nearly identical, the third one is the comparison that matters.

Quick Verdict

Experis and Randstad tie on model and pricing, differ on parent-group fit, and both cost roughly double Hyring's flat fee for equivalent hires.

Pick Experis

When you want a purer IT brand and ManpowerGroup's managed-services depth, or you already run Manpower paper elsewhere.

Pick Randstad

When tech sits inside a broader workforce program and Randstad Enterprise's MSP machinery is the real purchase.

Pick Hyring

When the same seats can be filled at a flat 14%, or from India at 60 to 70% savings, with AI-screened shortlists in 72 hours.

Who Are Experis and Randstad?

Experis is ManpowerGroup's IT talent brand across 75+ countries; Randstad Digital is the tech arm of the world's largest staffing firm.

Experis packages ManpowerGroup's global machinery, roughly 485,000 workers placed daily across its brands, into an IT-shaped offer: contractors, perm recruitment, and managed services that take over whole functions under SLA. Its pitch is IT purity at group scale.

Randstad Digital carries the flag of the seven-time world number one, a $27 billion group placing 1.7 million people a year. Its tech offer spans staffing, digital engineering, and delivery-center capacity, and it plugs into Randstad Enterprise, the market-leading MSP layer, when clients want one throat for the whole contingent workforce.

Strip the logos and the buying experience converges: account managers, consultant screens, unpublished rates. Convergence is precisely where a structurally different model earns its look.

Fees and Program Pricing: Twins Under the Invoice

Both firms price tech staffing at 40 to 60% contract markups and 20 to 25% perm fees, with enterprise programs custom and opaque.

Contract tech staff: markups of 40 to 60% at both. An $85/hour platform engineer bills around $119 to $136/hour.
Permanent hires: 20 to 25% of first-year salary at both brands.
MSP and managed services: management fees plus per-seat or per-hire charges, custom at both, rarely comparable even side by side.

Our number stays printed: 7% of CTC in India, 14% flat in the US and rest of world for direct hire. A $140,000 platform engineer costs $19,600 against a typical $28,000 to $35,000. And on program work, our RPO services quote roughly 30% below equivalent big-firm scope, for a reason the next section unpacks rather than asserts.

Perm fee on a $140,000 US platform engineer

Competitor figures are typical reported ranges; Hyring fee is published

Identical competitor bars are the point: when incumbents price the same, the decision is really about the third option.

Full Comparison Table: Experis vs Randstad vs Hyring

The two giants differ mainly on parent-group fit, while the AI-native column differs on fee, speed, screening, and visibility.

Head-to-head across ten buying criteria
Criteria	Experis	Randstad	Hyring
Parent group	ManpowerGroup, ~485K daily placements	Randstad, world's largest at ~$27B	Independent, AI-native
Tech brand shape	Dedicated IT brand	Randstad Digital inside broader group	AI-led tech and professional hiring
Perm fee	~20–25% (typical)	~20–25% (typical)	7% India, 14% US, flat and published
Contract pricing	~40–60% markup (typical)	~40–60% markup, volume deals	~30% below big-firm quotes
MSP / program layer	ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions	Randstad Enterprise, market leader	AI-powered RPO, screening labor automated
Remote India model	Offshore inside managed services	Delivery centers inside programs	Core: 60–70% savings, compliance handled
Technical screening	Consultant screens, enterprise assessments	Recruiter screens, enterprise assessments	AI coding and video interviews on every candidate
Time-to-shortlist	One to three weeks	One to three weeks	48–72 hours for most roles
Client visibility	Account teams, SLA reporting	Account teams, MSP dashboards	Live portal, full funnel view, Insight post-hire
Best for	IT-pure programs on ManpowerGroup paper	Tech inside broader workforce programs	Fee-driven hiring below mega-enterprise tier

MSP, Managed Services, and the RPO Question

Traditional MSP and managed-service pricing bills human screening labor to clients, which AI-powered RPO removes rather than discounts.

At true mega-enterprise scale, a contingent workforce across twelve countries with vendor management on top, Randstad Enterprise and ManpowerGroup's program layers are the credible pair, and this page will not pretend otherwise.

One tier down, where most companies actually live, the program math changes. What you buy in traditional RPO is mostly people: sourcers, screeners, coordinators, program managers. Every human screen is a billable event. Our RPO removes that layer structurally: the AI Resume Screener ranks every applicant, the AI Video Interviewer and AI Phone Screener run rounds one and two at any volume, and humans work only the qualified top. Same hiring scope, roughly 30% less cost, and your managers watch recordings in the portal instead of sitting in first rounds. For roles that can run from India, the staff augmentation route stacks a further 60 to 70% saving on top, with Insight by Hyring keeping tracked hours and focus patterns visible to both sides, employees first.

Fact

Evaluating AI screening for a procurement review? The vendor-evaluation explainers in our Learn hub and the plain-English definitions in the HR Glossary, 1,100+ terms, were written for exactly that meeting. The platform, Insight included, runs under SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications.

Screening at Enterprise Scale: Where the Models Separate

Consultant screening scales by adding billable humans, while AI screening scales by running the same battery on every applicant at once.

Both giants scale screening the only way their model allows: more recruiters, more cost, passed through. Ours scales sideways. Applicants from the Hyring Jobs portal and submissions from the Recruiting Partners network, thousands of independent recruiters paid on placements, all face the same battery on day one, including an English proficiency test where communication carries the role. Serious candidates prep first with the free Jobseeker Toolkit and the interview questions library, which quietly filters for motivation before skill is measured. Shortlists land in 48 to 72 hours with recordings and calibrated scores, and the salary benchmarks keep the offer stage honest.

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?

At mega-enterprise MSP scale, pick by parent-group fit; below it, the flat-fee AI-native quote deserves the first look, not the last.

If the purchase is a global program with vendor management, choose the paper that fits your existing group relationships; Experis and Randstad will both serve it competently and price it similarly. For everything below that tier, the twins' similarity is your leverage: get the structurally different quote before you sign either identical one. One requisition, one week, your own data.

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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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Break the tie with a third number

Brief us the role or program you are quoting with Experis or Randstad. Within 72 hours: a line-by-line cost comparison, an AI-screened shortlist sample with recordings and scores, and portal access. When the incumbents price the same, the third quote is the decision.

FAQs

Experis is ManpowerGroup's dedicated IT talent brand, covering IT resourcing, perm tech recruitment, and managed services. Randstad covers tech through Randstad Digital, one brand inside the world's largest staffing firm. Experis is the purer IT play; Randstad brings bigger overall scale and broader workforce coverage.