IT Contingency Benchmark · 2024

Know what the market charges.
Before your next client call.

Median fee %, time-to-fill, and 90-day fall-off rates across 8 IT sub-niches and 5 US regions — benchmarked from 2,053 real placements.

2,053+ Placements tracked
8 IT sub-niches
5 US regions
3 Metrics per cell

Sample benchmark data

A slice of what's in the database. The full explorer lets you cut by any niche × region combination.

Sub-Niche Region Median Fee Time to Fill Fall-Off Sample
IT Leadership West Coast 29.0% 55 days 19.0% n=44
Cybersecurity Northeast 25.5% 57 days 9.7% n=182
QA / Test Engineering Midwest 18.5% 42 days 11.5% n=27

Stop leaving money on the table

The three numbers every contingency desk should know — and how they stack up in your market.

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Calibrate your fee

See exactly where your contingency fee sits vs. peers placing the same role type in your region. One conversation armed with data beats three months of wondering.

Benchmark your pipeline

Is your 55-day average-time-to-fill normal for DevOps in the Midwest, or are you bleeding client confidence? The data tells you fast.

Own the fall-off conversation

Fall-off rates clients quote are often fiction. Show them where your number sits in context — and what "normal" actually looks like for the role category.

Data aggregated from
IQN Agency Ops Survey 2024 NAPS Member Survey 2024 Split-Fee Network Aggregated Data 2024

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