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
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
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
IT jobs projected among fastest-growing occupation groups over 10-year period
1 October 2019
IT staffing firms doing business in the US stand to benefit from an encouraging long-term growth outlook for IT-related employment, based on recently published projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The intersection of IT staffing and the human cloud
4 September 2019
SIA’s European Employment Barometer includes data published by the Oxford Internet Institute’s Online Labour Index. The global index is the first economic indicator that provides an online gig economy equivalent of conventional labor market statistics.
The Gig Economy and Human Cloud Landscape: 2019 Update
3 September 2019
- Human cloud reached a scale of $126.3 billion in global spend in 2018
- Human cloud is a subsegment of the gig economy including firms that match workers to work through an online/digital platform
- This comprehensive report (70 pages) covers this rapidly evolving marketplace
- Included are market... More
Record number of US IT staffing suppliers join the nine-figure club
29 July 2019
The volume of US IT staffing firms represented in SIA’s annual Largest Staffing Firms in the United States report continued to swell in 2018.
Continued expansion forecasted for global IT temporary staffing market
9 July 2019
Staffing Industry Analysts recently published its Global Staffing Industry Market Estimates and Forecast biannual update.
Nearly a quarter of IT staffing firms report rising trend in new orders
4 June 2019
In a newly published report, 23% of surveyed IT staffing firms reported a rising trend in new orders.
US IT temporary staffing growth outlook gets upward revision
30 April 2019
The US IT staffing sector is projected to reach a record $35.5 billion in 2019, according to Staffing Industry Analysts’ recently published “US Staffing Industry Forecast: April 2019 Update.”