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HireKompass · Issue #4 · Apr 27, 2026
Austin + Bay Area · Dice + Indeed
Two metros, 4,633 IT postings, week of April 20 to 26. Hiring cooled across both metros (around 16% week over week), but contract share actually climbed to 44%. The biggest move: Lockheed Martin's Austin presence quadrupled overnight. New this week: trending companies, new movers, and an MSP/VMS flag that lets you separate visible demand from demand you can actually win.
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4,633
IT postings, 7 days
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2,044
Contract / C2H
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442
Agency postings
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16.5%
MSP / VMS managed
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New this week · Trending Up
Companies scaling fastest, week over week
Companies posting more IT roles this week than last. Sorted by absolute increase. The top of this list is where new revenue is currently appearing.
| Company |
Last wk |
This wk |
Δ |
Metros |
| Lockheed Martin | 8 | 33 | +25 | Both |
| Calance | 13 | 34 | +21 | Both |
| SES | 22 | 34 | +12 | Both |
| CVS Health | 26 | 36 | +10 | Both |
| Charles Schwab | 18 | 28 | +10 | Austin |
| Palo Alto Networks | 14 | 24 | +10 | Both |
| Tekfortune | 1 | 11 | +10 | Both |
| Adobe | 20 | 28 | +8 | Both |
Top of the list
Lockheed Martin Corporation went from 8 IT postings last week to 33 this week, a 312% jump. Heavy on cybersecurity, cleared roles, and DevOps. If you have cleared candidates or staff with security backgrounds, this is the call to make Monday morning.
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Metro 01
Austin · 2,197 postings
1,769 from Dice, 428 from Indeed. 850 flagged contract or C2H. 327 routed through MSP/VMS programs.
Struggling to fill signal
JABIL CIRCUIT reposted "DevOps CI/CD Engineer" 11 times in seven days. Same title, same requisition. Jabil also added 17 other infrastructure and data center roles this week, signaling a broader build-out. The DevOps role is stuck. Worth a direct call.
| Top 10 Austin companies to call this week |
| Company |
Postings |
Top role |
| Visa Inc. | 57 | Sr. SW Engineer ↻4 |
| Citi | 53 | Senior Python Developer, VP |
| EPAM Systems | 50 | Senior Java Developer |
| UnitedHealth Group | 43 | Senior AI/ML Engineer Remote ↻5 |
| Accenture LLP | 40 | AI/ML Computational Science Mgr |
| Charles Schwab | 28 | .NET Software Developer ↑+10 |
| AMD | 27 | AI Fleet Management Solutions |
| General Dynamics | 23 | Network Engineer |
| CVS Health | 21 | Senior Data Engineer |
| Lockheed Martin | 18 | Software Engineer ↑↑+312% |
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Metro 02
Bay Area · 2,436 postings
1,966 from Dice, 470 from Indeed. 1,194 flagged contract or C2H. 439 routed through MSP/VMS programs.
Struggling to fill signal · MSP-managed
DGN Technologies reposted four different IT roles five times each (Database Engineer, IT Facilities PM, Ivalua Consultant, ServiceNow HRSD BSA). All 27 of their postings flag as MSP/VMS managed. This is real demand, but it's locked behind a vendor program. Different play than a direct client call: you need to be on their preferred supplier list to win the work.
| Top 10 Bay Area companies to call this week |
| Company |
Postings |
Top role |
| Marvell Semiconductor | 76 | Hardware & Silicon Validation Sr Staff |
| Uber | 65 | Data Engineer, Growth Platform |
| Citi | 51 | Python Software Engineer, VP |
| EPAM Systems | 43 | AWS Partnership CTO |
| Salesforce | 36 | Senior Voice Engineer |
| Roblox | 34 | Senior SWE, Core Services |
| Visa Inc. | 34 | Staff SWE, GenAI |
| General Dynamics | 30 | Network Engineer Senior |
| DGN Technologies | 27 | ServiceNow HRSD BSA ↻5 MSP |
| Adobe Systems | 27 | Sr. Data Engineer ↑+8 |
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New this week · New Movers
Companies that posted zero IT roles last week
Fresh logos to chase. These companies were silent last week and showed up this week with at least 5 postings each. Smaller firms, but unclaimed territory if you move first.
| Company |
Postings |
Sample role |
| Speechify | 8 | Tech Lead, Web Core Product (Austin) |
| Netserv Applications | 8 | Sr Java developer, AI |
| Fervorly | 8 | Cybersecurity Engineer w/ data/cloud |
| ProCorp Systems | 7 | ServiceNow SPM Architect |
| ISite Technologies | 7 | AWS Cloud Migration |
| Argano | 6 | Oracle Cloud Financials Architect |
| USG, Inc. | 6 | Java Lead Developer |
| Rose IT Corp | 6 | Python / Java / ML Intern roles |
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Contract Watch
Where the contract volume actually lives. The big names in the Top 10 are running FTE requisitions. The real contract demand is coming from mid-market firms most BDs have never called.
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Austin
Calance 11
Accion Labs 8
System Soft Technologies 8
Dignify Solutions 7
Data Wave Technologies 7
DataEdge Consulting 6
Advent Global Solutions 6
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Bay Area
DGN Technologies 27 MSP
Enexus Global 17
Calance 12
Software Guidance & Assistance 9
Accion Labs 8
Pyramid Technology Solutions 8
AgreeYa Solutions 7
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Competitor Watch
Staffing firms with the most public IT postings this week. If they're posting publicly, they're either backfilling bench or actively marketing a requisition. The (C) shows how many are contract.
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Austin
Motion Recruitment 39 (17 C)
Kforce Technology 35 (33 C)
Robert Half 35 (24 C)
Eliassen Group 15 (14 C)
TEKsystems 14
Apex Systems 12
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Bay Area
Motion Recruitment 32 (12 C)
Kforce Technology 27 (26 C)
Robert Half 23 (16 C)
TEKsystems 18
Apex Systems 14
Eliassen Group 14 (13 C)
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C = contract or C2H postings
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Help us build this for you
Four issues in. What's working, what's missing?
HireKompass is built around what staffing BDs actually need to make calls Monday morning. Every reply shapes the next issue. Specifically wondering:
· Are the new Trending Up and New Movers sections useful, or noise?
· Is the MSP/VMS flag the right way to mark roles you can't easily win directly?
· Which metro should we add next: Dallas, Seattle, Raleigh, NYC, or somewhere else?
· What signal would actually change which company you call first on Monday?
A reader pointed out last week that posting volume shows visible demand but not which accounts are actually accessible. That's a fair critique and the MSP/VMS flag is the first step in addressing it. If you have a view on what else would close that gap, hit reply.
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Data pulled from Dice and Indeed, April 20 to 26, 2026. Counts reflect active IT postings per company, deduplicated within each source. Trending Up compares this week against last week's raw posting file. New Movers shows companies with zero postings last week and at least five this week. MSP/VMS detection flags postings whose title or employment type references Beeline, Fieldglass, IQNavigator, VMS, MSP, or third-party language. 4,633 postings analyzed across 942 companies.
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