May 2026: What the IT Staffing Market Is Actually Telling Us
The IT Staffing Market Is Bifurcating. Which Side Are You On?
That’s the clearest signal from our May Executive Roundtables — a candid, off-the-record exchange among senior leaders across the IT and engineering staffing industry.
Five structural shifts stood out:
- Profitability over volume
- AI is splitting the industry in two
- MSP/VMS economics are deteriorating
- Candidate quality is the new competitive moat
- Legacy technology is at an inflection point