Is TEKsystems only in the US?

TEKsystems is heavily US-centric with some presence in Canada, Europe, and Asia, but its branch density and market power sit in US metros. Akkodis and Hyring both run more internationally distributed models.

What do TEKsystems and Akkodis charge?

Neither publishes rates. Buyers report 40 to 60% markups on contract tech staff and 20 to 25% of first-year salary on direct hires, with Akkodis engineering projects priced as custom statements of work. Hyring publishes a flat 7% in India and 14% in the US and rest of world.

Which is better for software roles versus engineering roles?

For US software contract roles, TEKsystems has the deeper local bench. For engineering R&D, automotive, aerospace, and embedded programs, Akkodis has the specialist depth. For remote-capable software, data, and QA roles, Hyring's flat-fee AI-screened model is usually the cheapest and fastest.

Can I replace US contractors with remote engineers from India?

For most software roles, yes. A senior engineer in India through Hyring typically costs 60 to 70% less than a US contractor at big-firm bill rates, works US-overlap hours, and passes AI coding and video interviews before you meet them. Hyring handles Indian payroll and compliance.

How long does each firm take to deliver candidates?

Branch or consultant-led shortlists from TEKsystems or Akkodis typically take one to three weeks. Hyring delivers AI-screened shortlists with coding scores and interview recordings in 48 to 72 hours for most software roles.

How is quality verified without a local recruiter?

Through instrumentation instead of impressions. Every Hyring candidate passes an AI coding interview, AI video interview, and English proficiency test, scored by an engine trained on 900,000+ interviews. Clients watch the recordings in a live portal before shortlisting anyone.

How is Hyring different from TEKsystems 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. Thousands of recruiting partners work each role, AI screening covers every candidate, and clients get a live portal with Insight by Hyring time tracking on augmented teams. Book a call to price your open roles.

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TEKsystems vs Akkodis: US IT Staffing or Global Engineering Talent?

Allegis Group's branch-powered IT machine against the Adecco Group's engineering and digital brand. Where each wins, what each costs, and the flat-fee third option that reprices the whole decision.

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

Written byAdithyan RKFact checked bySurya N

40–60%

Typical contract markup, both firms

Giant parents: Allegis and Adecco

7% / 14%

Hyring flat fee, India / rest of world

60–70%

Savings, remote India vs US contractor

These two brands answer different phone calls. When a US IT director needs contract developers fast, the reflex call is TEKsystems, the Allegis Group brand whose branches have staffed American tech departments for decades. When a European product company needs fifty engineers for an automotive software program, the call goes to Akkodis, the Adecco Group's engineering and digital firm built from AKKA Technologies and Modis.

We are Hyring, an AI-native recruitment agency with delivery teams in the US and India, and we occupy the third column below. Our claim is narrow and checkable: for remote-capable software, data, and QA roles, which is most modern tech hiring, both incumbents charge a structure the work no longer requires. The tables carry the argument.

Quick Verdict

TEKsystems wins US contract IT depth, Akkodis wins engineering R&D programs, and Hyring wins remote-capable software hiring on cost and speed.

Pick TEKsystems

When you need US-based contract developers, on-site or hybrid, from a branch that knows your metro's talent market.

Pick Akkodis

When the work is product engineering: automotive, aerospace, embedded, or industrial programs, especially with a European center of gravity.

Pick Hyring

When the role is software, data, or QA and can run remotely. Flat 14% US perm, India engineers at 60 to 70% savings, 72-hour shortlists.

Who Are TEKsystems and Akkodis?

TEKsystems is Allegis Group's US IT staffing brand; Akkodis is the Adecco Group's engineering and digital brand with deep European R&D roots.

TEKsystems runs the densest IT staffing branch network in the US. Its recruiters carry live pipelines of developers, cloud engineers, and infrastructure specialists, and its parent Allegis is the largest US staffing group. If the requisition says on-site in a US metro, TEKsystems has probably filled that exact seat nearby within the quarter.

Akkodis is the merger child of AKKA Technologies, a European engineering consultancy, and Modis, Adecco's IT staffing line. The result staffs both worlds: cloud roles in Chicago and certification-bound automotive software in Stuttgart. Its differentiator is the R&D bench; its exposure is that ordinary software hiring, most of the market, does not need that bench and should not pay for it.

What Do TEKsystems and Akkodis Cost?

Buyers report 40 to 60% contract markups and 20 to 25% direct-hire fees at both firms, against Hyring's published flat 7% and 14%.

Contract staffing: markups of 40 to 60% over the contractor's pay rate at both brands. An $80/hour cloud engineer bills at roughly $112 to $128/hour.
Direct hire: typically 20 to 25% of first-year salary at both.
Akkodis R&D programs: custom statements of work, effectively consulting economics.

Hyring's fee is printed: 7% of CTC in India, 14% flat in the US and rest of world for direct hire. On a $155,000 cloud architect, that is $21,700 against a typical $31,000 to $38,750. And for IT staff augmentation, our quotes consistently land around 30% below big-firm equivalents even before the remote India option enters the math.

Direct-hire fee on a $155,000 US cloud architect

Competitor figures are typical reported ranges; Hyring fee is published

Before quoting anyone, check the base itself against our free salary data; an inflated salary inflates every percentage downstream.

Full Comparison Table: TEKsystems vs Akkodis vs Hyring

The three split on geography, IT versus engineering focus, fee transparency, and whether screening is branch-led or AI-led.

Head-to-head across ten buying criteria
Criteria	TEKsystems	Akkodis	Hyring
Parent group	Allegis Group (US)	Adecco Group (Switzerland)	Independent, AI-native
Core focus	US contract IT staffing	Engineering R&D plus global IT	Software, data, and professional hiring, AI-led
Geographic strength	US metros	Europe-led, global reach	US, India, UAE hubs, remote-first
Direct hire 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	Not a lead offering	Delivery centers in some programs	Core: Indian salaries, US hours, compliance handled
Technical screening	Branch recruiter screens	Consultant screens, domain vetting	AI coding, video, and English tests on every candidate
Time-to-shortlist	Days to weeks, branch dependent	One to three weeks	48–72 hours for most software roles
Client visibility	Account manager updates	Program reporting	Live portal, Insight tracking post-hire
Best for	US on-site contract tech	European engineering programs	Remote-capable software hiring at flat fees

Role Fit: Software, Data, or True R&D?

Lab-bound engineering belongs with Akkodis, US on-site contracts with TEKsystems, and remote-capable software with the lowest-cost screened model.

Sort your requisitions into three buckets and this comparison mostly resolves itself. Bucket one: physical engineering, test rigs, certification cycles, plant proximity. Akkodis territory, honestly earned. Bucket two: US on-site or hybrid contract roles with a hard location requirement. TEKsystems territory. Bucket three, usually the biggest: software, data, platform, and QA work that happens in an IDE and a video call.

Bucket three is ours. A dedicated senior engineer in India typically runs $45,000 to $65,000 fully loaded against $220,000+ for a US contractor at big-firm bill rates, on US-overlap hours, employed by Hyring with payroll and statutory compliance handled. Quality is instrumented, not asserted: AI coding interview, AI video interview, and English proficiency test on every candidate. Visibility is continuous: augmented teams run on Insight by Hyring, where your managers ask a BI bot about bandwidth and employees always see their own data first.

Fact

Unsure which bucket a role belongs in? The distributed-engineering guides in our Learn hub break it down function by function, and the build-vs-augment calculator in the free HR Toolkit, one of 150+ free tools, turns the decision into a spreadsheet answer in about three minutes.

Speed and Screening: The Funnel Is the Product

Branch recruiters screen a handful of candidates daily, while AI screening processes the entire applicant pool the day it arrives.

TEKsystems' speed comes from bench overlap; Akkodis' from specialist networks. Both stall at the same point: human screening capacity, six to eight proper screens per recruiter per day, with everyone else judged on paper.

Our funnel screens everyone. Applicants from the Hyring Jobs portal and the Recruiting Partners network, thousands of independent recruiters paid on placements, are ranked by the AI Resume Screener and interviewed by AI the day they apply. Serious candidates prep with the free Jobseeker Toolkit and the interview questions library, so motivation filters itself before skill is even measured. The result reaches you in 48 to 72 hours with recordings and calibrated scores attached.

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 TEKsystems for US on-site contract tech, Akkodis for lab-bound engineering programs, and Hyring for everything that runs in an IDE.

The three-bucket sort is the whole answer. Physical engineering to Akkodis. Hard-location US contracts to TEKsystems. Remote-capable software, the largest bucket on most requisition lists, deserves a flat-fee quote before any percentage agreement gets signed, because the price difference is not marginal. It is a different budget line.

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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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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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TEKsystems is Allegis Group's US-focused IT staffing brand, built around local branches placing contract technology talent. Akkodis is the Adecco Group's global engineering and digital brand, formed from AKKA Technologies and Modis, strongest in engineering R&D and European markets.