Brian Wallins
Research Director
Brian Wallins is Research Director at SIA and responsible for leading global research of talent acquisition technology. Brian brings six years of experience in equity research of technology companies covering the enterprise software sector for Gleacher & Company (FKA Broadpoint AmTech). He has also held various finance and strategy roles at Getaround, Hire On-Demand and Calypso Technology.
Brian holds an MBA from Bentley University and passed Level I of the CFA exam.
Recent Articles
IT segment shines across temporary staffing and talent platforms
29 September 2020
SIA’s latest US Staffing Industry Forecast: September 2020 Update details stabilizing trends in IT temporary staffing and sustained outperformance relative to most other staffing segments during the pandemic. Similarly, IT is proving to be among the most resilient sectors across talent platforms, or... More
The Gig Economy and Talent Platform Landscape
4 September 2020
- Talent platforms or the “human cloud” are an emerging group of technology companies that connect workers to work (typically contingent) through a website or some other digital platform.
- In 2019, firms processed $178.5 billion in global human cloud spend. Human cloud platforms that primarily... More
New themes emerge in annual state of IT staffing report
30 June 2020
Staffing Industry Analysts recently published its IT Staffing Growth Assessment: 2020 Update. As readers will see, immense changes have spread across a broad range of subjects within the IT staffing segment since our previous update.
IT Staffing Growth Assessment: 2020 Update
24 June 2020
- The worldwide market for temporary IT staffing reached a scale of $70 billion in revenue in 2019.
- Despite challenges arising from the health crisis there is evidence of stabilization in current trends and IT staffing is proving to be among the most resilient of staffing segments.
- This comprehensive... More
Merger & Acquisition Trends: Europe
3 March 2020
- SIA tracked 79 publicly announced M&A transactions of staffing firms headquartered in Europe in 2019
- This report includes an analysis of M&A trends in Europe by staffing segment, buyer type (e.g. private strategic, public, and private equity) and country of target headquarters.... More
Software developers: Here’s a $10.2 billion US staffing market with an attractive growth outlook
6 February 2020
Secular tailwinds abound in today’s technology, ranging from cloud computing to data analytics to mobility to groundbreaking capabilities and use cases in artificial intelligence. These forces are bringing technology into traditionally non-tech sectors like never before. In turn, these trends are driving... More
The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding the Ecosystem
22 January 2020
- Understanding the platform economy has been held back in part by a lack of definitional clarity. A new white paper by the World Economic Forum, The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding the Ecosystem, maps the different categories of digital work/service platform and the business-model-specific... More
A gauge of acquisition interest in IT staffing and solutions
3 December 2019
A forward-looking gauge of buyer interest in the sector can be found in Staffing Industry Analysts’ recently released Staffing Firm Market Share Landscape and Book of Lists 2019 – The Americas (commonly referred to simply as the Book of Lists). This popular tool is an Excel-based compilation of the... More
Largest IT Staffing Firms in the UK 2019
6 November 2019
- Ranks the largest firms in terms of UK IT staffing revenue in calendar year 2018
- Thirty-nine firms made the list with a cutoff at £20 million
- Each listed company's respective market share of the UK IT staffing market is presented
- Provides split of UK IT staffing revenue by temporary staffing... More
Signs of consolidation in US IT staffing
4 November 2019
SIA’s recent Largest IT Staffing Firms in the US – 2019 Update report illustrates just how fragmented the market is, with the 50 largest firms combining to represent only about two-thirds of the sector in aggregate. However, there are indications a trend of consolidation may be beginning to... More