How much does TEKsystems charge compared to Randstad?

Neither publishes rates. US buyers report 40 to 60% markups on contractor pay at both firms and 20 to 25% of salary for tech direct hires. Hyring publishes a flat fee instead: 7% of CTC in India and 14% in the US, which on a $150,000 engineer is $21,000 against a typical $30,000 to $37,500.

What is Randstad Digital?

Randstad Digital is Randstad's technology talent brand, covering IT staffing, digital engineering, and delivery-center capacity. It competes with TEKsystems on contract tech roles and with consultancies on project delivery work.

How fast can each firm deliver a shortlist?

Branch-led shortlists from TEKsystems or Randstad typically take one to three weeks. Hyring delivers AI-screened tech shortlists with interview recordings and coding scores in 48 to 72 hours, because screening runs the day candidates apply rather than when a recruiter has capacity.

Do TEKsystems and Randstad screen coding skills?

Both rely mainly on recruiter interviews and resumes, with technical assessments available on request or at enterprise tier. Hyring runs an AI Coding Interviewer on every technical candidate by default, so shortlists arrive with hands-on skill scores attached, not just resume keywords.

Who manages payroll for augmented remote teams?

In a Hyring engagement, Hyring employs the India-based team and handles payroll, statutory compliance, and benefits while you direct the day-to-day work. Insight by Hyring gives both sides the same transparent view of hours and activity, and employees always see their own data first.

How is Hyring different from TEKsystems 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. Every candidate passes AI screening backed by 900,000+ interviews, thousands of recruiting partners work each role, and clients see everything in a live portal with Insight time tracking on augmented teams. Book a call to price your open roles.

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TEKsystems vs Randstad: Which Should Staff Your Tech Team in 2026?

Q: Can I hire remote developers instead of US contractors?

Yes, and the savings are large. A senior developer in India through Hyring's staff augmentation typically costs 60 to 70% less than a US contractor at big-firm bill rates, works US-overlap hours, and passes AI video and coding interviews before you meet them.

The US IT staffing specialist against the world's largest staffing firm. Fees, contract markups, Randstad Digital, and delivery speed compared, with Hyring's flat-fee model alongside so the price gap has a floor.

TEKsystems vs Randstad: Which Should Staff Your Tech Team in 2026?

Last updated on: July 18, 2026Read time: 11 mins

Written byAdithyan RKFact checked bySurya N

40–60%

Typical contractor markup, both firms

$27B

Randstad annual revenue, world #1

7% / 14%

Hyring flat fee, India / rest of world

48–72h

Hyring AI-screened tech shortlist

This matchup is specialist against generalist. TEKsystems does one thing, US technology staffing, through branches that live and breathe local tech markets. Randstad does everything, everywhere, at a scale nobody else touches: roughly $27 billion in revenue and 1.7 million placements a year, with tech carried by its Randstad Digital brand.

We are Hyring, an AI-native recruitment agency with teams in the US and India, and we take the third column in every table here. Our angle is simple and we will argue it openly: for most tech hiring below the mega-enterprise tier, the branch model both firms run is an expensive way to do what AI screening now does faster. The numbers below let you judge that claim yourself.

Quick Verdict

TEKsystems wins US tech contract depth, Randstad wins multi-category workforce scale, and Hyring wins cost per hire and shortlist speed.

Pick TEKsystems

When the requirement is US tech contractors, on-site or hybrid, and you want recruiters who work only technology roles.

Pick Randstad

When tech is one slice of a larger workforce need spanning industrial, admin, and professional roles across regions.

Pick Hyring

When budget and speed decide. Flat 14% US direct hire, remote India engineers at 60 to 70% savings, shortlists in 48 to 72 hours.

Who Are TEKsystems and Randstad?

TEKsystems is Allegis Group's dedicated US IT staffing brand; Randstad is the world's largest staffing firm with tech served through Randstad Digital.

TEKsystems sits inside Allegis Group, the largest US staffing company, and focuses entirely on technology. Developers, cloud engineers, infrastructure teams, project squads. The branch near your office has probably filled your exact role for a competitor within the past year. That specialization is the pitch, and it is a fair one.

Randstad is a different animal. Seven straight years as the largest staffing firm on earth, operations in 39 markets, and a brand ladder that runs from warehouse temps to C-suite search. Randstad Digital is the tech-specific layer, competing for the same contract developers TEKsystems places while also selling delivery-center capacity that looks more like consulting than staffing.

Both charge the traditional way. Markup on contractors, percentage on perm. Neither number appears on their websites, which is exactly why this page exists.

Does Specialist Depth Beat Randstad Digital's Scale?

TEKsystems fields deeper US tech shortlists role for role, while Randstad Digital adds delivery-center and multi-country options TEKsystems lacks.

For a straight contract requisition, a senior Java developer in Atlanta, TEKsystems usually produces the stronger slate, faster, because its recruiters carry live tech pipelines. Randstad Digital shines when the ask is bigger than a role: a squad, a delivery pod, or a program that mixes onshore and offshore capacity.

Here is the gap neither fills well: the mid-market company that needs five strong engineers, does not want a consulting-shaped contract, and cannot justify $100+ per hour bill rates. That segment is where remote-first models grew up, and it is the segment we built our IT staff augmentation practice for.

What Do TEKsystems and Randstad Actually Cost?

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

Contract staffing: a $75/hour developer typically bills at $105 to $120/hour after markup. Over a year, that is roughly $220,000 to $250,000 per contractor.
Direct hire: 20 to 25% of first-year salary. A $150,000 engineer costs $30,000 to $37,500 to place.
Enterprise programs: custom MSP and SOW pricing, negotiable at Randstad scale, opaque everywhere.

Hyring's direct hire fee is published: 7% of CTC in India, 14% flat in the US. The same $150,000 engineer costs $21,000. Before you even brief the role, pressure-test the salary with our free salary benchmarks, because an inflated base inflates every percentage fee downstream of it.

Direct-hire fee on a $150,000 US engineer

Competitor figures are typical reported ranges; Hyring fee is published

Ten engineering hires a year at the midpoint difference returns about $130,000 to your budget. Real money, not rounding.

Full Comparison Table: TEKsystems vs Randstad vs Hyring

The three models split on specialization, scale, fee transparency, and whether screening is human-led or AI-led.

Head-to-head across eleven buying criteria
Criteria	TEKsystems	Randstad	Hyring
Parent / structure	Allegis Group brand	Independent, world's largest staffing firm	Independent, AI-native agency
Tech focus	100% technology	Via Randstad Digital, one brand of many	Tech-led, plus professional roles
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, volume deals	~30% below big-firm quotes
Remote India model	Not a lead offering	Delivery centers inside larger programs	Core: Indian salaries, US hours, dedicated engineers
Sourcing	Local tech branches, national database	Branch network at global scale	AI sourcing, jobs portal pool, thousands of recruiting partners
Technical screening	Recruiter screens, assessments on request	Recruiter screens, enterprise assessments	AI coding and video interviews on every candidate
Time-to-shortlist	Days to weeks, branch dependent	One to three weeks, program dependent	48–72 hours for most tech roles
Client visibility	Account manager updates	Account teams, MSP dashboards at enterprise tier	Live portal with recordings and scores
Post-hire transparency	Timesheets	Timesheets, program reporting	Insight by Hyring activity-level tracking
Best for	US tech contract depth	Multi-category workforce scale	Cost-and-speed-driven tech hiring

The Remote India Alternative Both Firms Underplay

A dedicated senior engineer in India typically costs 60 to 70% less than a US contractor at big-firm bill rates, with US-overlap hours.

Run the annual math on one senior engineer. US contractor through a staffing firm at a $110/hour blended bill rate: about $220,000. US direct hire: $150,000 salary plus loading. A dedicated senior engineer in India through Hyring: typically $45,000 to $65,000 fully loaded, same standups, same repos, US-overlap hours.

The usual objections are quality and visibility, and both have real answers now. Quality: every engineer passes an AI coding interview, an AI video interview, and an English proficiency test before you meet them, scored by an engine trained on 900,000+ interviews for Fortune 500 companies. Visibility: augmented teams run on Insight by Hyring, our AI time tracking product, so you see hours, focus patterns, and can ask its BI bot plain questions about bandwidth. Employees see their own data first. Payroll, statutory compliance, and benefits in India are ours to handle, not yours.

Fact

Not sure whether a role can go remote? The role-design guides in our Learn hub cover which engineering functions travel well and which need a desk in your office, and the free HR Toolkit has a build-vs-augment cost calculator among its 150+ tools. Both free, no sales call attached.

Screening and Speed: Branch Recruiters vs an AI Funnel

Branch recruiters screen six to eight candidates a day, while AI screening processes the full applicant pool the day it arrives.

TEKsystems' recruiters are genuinely good at tech screening. There are just not enough hours in their day, which is why shortlists take one to three weeks. Randstad has the same arithmetic multiplied across more categories.

Our funnel starts working at application. Candidates from the Hyring Jobs portal and the Recruiting Partners network, thousands of independent recruiters paid on placements, are screened the same day by the AI Resume Screener and then the interview battery. Serious candidates prep with the Jobseeker Toolkit and the interview questions library, so the funnel self-selects twice before your hiring manager watches a single recording.

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 pure US tech contract depth, Randstad for multi-category scale, and Hyring when the fee line and the calendar decide.

If your requisition is twenty on-site contractors in a major US metro, TEKsystems earned its default status and will deliver. If tech is one workstream inside a workforce program with industrial and admin volume attached, Randstad's breadth is the point.

For everything in between, and that is most tech hiring, the honest move is a side-by-side. Same role, two quotes, one week. The flat fee and the 72-hour shortlist either hold up against your bar or they do not, and either way you will have your own data instead of a brand assumption.

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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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FAQs

TEKsystems is the deeper US IT specialist, with branch recruiters focused only on tech roles. Randstad is far larger overall and covers tech through Randstad Digital, but IT is one line among many. For pure US tech contract hiring, TEKsystems usually fields stronger shortlists; for mixed workforces, Randstad's breadth wins.