TEKsystems vs Experis: Which IT Staffing Partner Fits Your Team in 2026?

Quick Verdict

Who Are TEKsystems and Experis?

TEKsystems grew out of Aerotek's technology practice and became the default IT staffing call for a large share of Fortune 500 IT departments. Tens of thousands of consultants on billing at any time. Local offices across most major US metros. Their sweet spot is contract and contract-to-hire placement of developers, infrastructure engineers, and full project teams.

Experis is the tech arm of ManpowerGroup, which places roughly 485,000 workers per day across its brands. Experis sells three things: IT resourcing (contractors), permanent recruitment, and managed services where they take over a whole function. Their pitch is global consistency. One master agreement, many countries.

Both are excellent at what they built. Both are also expensive in ways that are hard to see from the outside, which brings us to fees.

How Do Their IT Staff Augmentation Models Differ?

Here is the practical difference. TEKsystems assigns your account to a branch, and recruiters work their local network plus national databases. Strong for on-site and hybrid roles in US metros. Experis will more readily propose a blended model: some US contractors, some nearshore, wrapped in an SLA.

Neither firm defaults to the model we think most mid-market US companies should at least price out: remote IT staff augmentation from India, at Indian salary levels, with US-hours overlap. A senior React developer who costs a client $130,000 to $160,000 a year through a US contractor model can cost $40,000 to $60,000 fully loaded as a dedicated remote engineer. Same standup, same Jira board. That arbitrage is the single biggest lever in IT staffing right now, and the big brands have little incentive to lead with it because it shrinks their billing base.

What Do TEKsystems and Experis Actually Cost?

• Contract staffing markup: typically 40 to 60% over the contractor's pay rate. A developer earning $70/hour bills to you at roughly $100 to $112/hour.
• Direct hire fee: typically 20 to 25% of first-year salary. On a $140,000 engineer, that is $28,000 to $35,000 for one placement.
• RPO and managed services: custom pricing, usually a management fee plus per-hire or per-seat charges.

Neither TEKsystems nor Experis publishes rates, so treat these as the industry-standard ranges that US buyers report:

Now the third column. Hyring charges a flat 7% of CTC for direct hires in India and a flat 14% for the US and rest of world. That same $140,000 engineer costs $19,600. For RPO services and staff augmentation we do not publish a single number because scope varies, but engagements consistently land around 30% below what the large firms quote for equivalent scope.

Sounds almost too cheap, right? The gap is structural, not a discount. AI screening does the work that armies of recruiters do at the big firms. Our AI Video Interviewer and AI Coding Interviewer have run 900,000+ interviews for Fortune 500 companies, and that same engine screens every agency candidate before a human ever books a call.

Full Comparison Table: TEKsystems vs Experis vs Hyring

Where Does Speed Come From?

TEKsystems wins on bench: someone similar was probably placed by that branch last quarter. Experis wins on breadth: a hard-to-find skill can be sourced from another country. The bottleneck for both is human screening. A recruiter can properly screen maybe six to eight candidates a day.

We attacked that bottleneck from two sides. First, AI interviews screen every applicant the same day they apply: video interviews for communication and depth, an AI coding interview for hands-on skill, an AI phone screener for high-volume roles, and an English proficiency test where client-facing communication matters. No scheduling ping-pong.

Second, distribution. Instead of one branch's recruiters, the Hyring Recruiting Partners network puts thousands of independent recruiters on our open roles through a marketplace, paid on results. We think it is the first network of its kind operating at this scale in agency recruiting: a branch has dozens of recruiters, a marketplace has thousands, and every submission still passes the same AI screen before you see it. The combination is why a shortlist that takes a branch two weeks usually takes us two or three days.

Service-by-Service Coverage

One structural note that surprises most buyers: with the big firms, RPO and staffing sit in different legal entities with different account teams. Allegis routes RPO through sister brands, ManpowerGroup routes it through Talent Solutions. With an integrated model, the same portal, the same AI screening, and the same team handle your contract staff, your global staffing, and your permanent hires. Fewer handoffs, one throat to choke.

What About Transparency Once People Start Working?

This is the part most comparisons skip, and honestly it decides more renewals than price does. With a traditional firm, your window into the engagement is an account manager and a monthly invoice. Did the offshore team actually work 160 hours? You are trusting a PDF.

Every Hyring engagement runs through client portals: open roles, candidate pipelines, AI interview recordings, offer status. For staff augmentation we go a step further. Insight by Hyring, our AI time tracking product, gives clients activity-level context on remote engineers: hours, focus patterns, and plain-language answers from a BI bot ("who has bandwidth next sprint?"). Employees see their own data first, which keeps the whole thing humane rather than surveillance-flavored. For a US company staffing a remote India team, that visibility is what makes the 60% cost saving feel safe instead of risky.

Which One Should You Pick?

I would frame it as three honest scenarios. If you are a US enterprise filling 50 contract seats with on-site requirements, TEKsystems has earned its position and will deliver. If you are consolidating IT staffing across eight countries into one master agreement, Experis is built for exactly that.

If you are a mid-market company or a scaling team where every hire's cost hits your runway, run one requisition through a flat-fee model and compare the invoice. A 14% flat fee against a 25% fee, or an India-based engineer against a US contractor markup, tends to end the debate quickly. Before you talk to anyone, sanity-check compensation with our free salary benchmarks and pull real interview questions for the role. Both are free, both come from the same data that powers our screening.

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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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