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Outsourcing directory

The world's most complete directory of global Business Process Outsourcing firms.

The state of the outsourcing industry

2,230 firms are tracked across the Hub. This is the public read-out of their hiring, workforce and executives.

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2,230Firms trackedevery BPO, EOR & PEO we can verify
3,187,786People employedpeople (LinkedIn)
45,721Executives indexednamed, role-mapped decision makers
37,840Live job adsread nightly from career pages
22service lines
17buyer verticals
28industry archetypes
217market squares
199firms measured
42,157exec career histories
693alumni networks

OA Intelligence Hub · Reference index: 9 Oct 2026

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Ranking

Capability bands bring scale, operating capability, buyer readiness, brand influence and talent into one view.

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OA Capability Index

A public capability band for each indexed firm · Index of July 2026

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  1. 1 Cognizant United States · 10001+ Elite
  2. 2 Tata Consultancy Services India · 10001+ Strong
  3. 3 Wipro India · 10001+ Strong
  4. 4 Capgemini France · 10001+ Strong
  5. 5 Conduent United States · 10001+ Strong
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How the industry distributes

Capability tier across tracked firms · Index of July 2026

  • Elite1
  • Strong10
  • Developing31
  • Emerging544
  • Early538
  • Nascent592
  • Minimal514
  • Unscored0

11 of 2,230 tracked firms are in Strong or Elite.

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Cognizant Elite — rank 1 of 2,230

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  • Brand & Influence
  • Talent Ecosystem
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The whole market, three ways Coverage

Country, service line, buyer vertical — the three questions every deal starts with. Cross any two and 2,230 firms become the handful worth a call.

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Firm type

BPO2,186
EOR35
PEO7
Adjacent2

Founded

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758 founded in the 2010s of 1,883 with a known year

Ownership

Publicly listed51
Private2,159
Named in a cluster2,214

Where they are

Headquarters country

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CountryFirmsShare
  1. 1United States87439%
  2. 2India29113%
  3. 3Philippines2029%
  4. 4United Kingdom1326%
  5. 5Australia784%
  6. 6Canada442%
  7. 7South Africa412%
  8. 8Vietnam321%
  9. 9Pakistan271%
  10. 10Singapore251%

What they sell

Declared service lines

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Service lineFirmsShare
  1. 1Voice - Inbound79236%
  2. 2Finance & Accounting62128%
  3. 3HR & Recruitment57526%
  4. 4IT Development53924%
  5. 5Digital Marketing48122%
  6. 6AI & Automation Services47621%
  7. 7Voice - Outbound41619%
  8. 8Healthcare Services37017%
  9. 9Sales & Lead Generation36516%
  10. 10Technical Support32315%

Who they serve

Buyer verticals in client work

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VerticalFirmsShare
  1. 1Technology & SaaS1,37562%
  2. 2Media & Entertainment52424%
  3. 3Automotive45721%
  4. 4Healthcare & Life Sciences42719%
  5. 5Financial Services & Banking39318%
  6. 6Telecommunications35616%
  7. 7E-commerce & Retail34115%
  8. 8Legal31514%
  9. 9Education24011%
  10. 10Real Estate22910%

India and the Philippines hold 22.1% of tracked firms between them; the United States is the largest single hub, with 874 firms. Cross any two of these three columns and the pattern turns into a shortlist.

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Where the money is. And is not.

Market structure

42 segments, scored on the strength of the firms inside them. Some have real depth. Some have three providers and a website.

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Market heatmap —
service line × revenue band

Cell value is the average ABM score. Revenue bands include estimated figures · Index of July 2026. 42 squares, 933 firms.

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<$25M
$25M–$100M
$100M–$500M
$500M–$1B
$1B–$10B
$10B+
Voice - Inbound
No data
Finance & Accounting
HR & Recruitment
No data
IT Development
Digital Marketing
No data
AI & Automation Services
No data
Voice - Outbound
No data
Healthcare Services
No data
2656average ABM score

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Market segment

Index of July 2026.

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Hiring moves before budget does

Live signal

A firm opening two hundred roles is about to buy seats, software and services. 33 are in that mode this week — weeks before any press release says so.

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Who is actually staffing up

Hiring velocity read nightly across 199 firms · Updated 2026-10-09

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37,840live ads indexed
33firms hiring aggressively
26.9%strategic hiring share
Aggressive 33High 21Medium 39Low 51Minimal 55

Aggressive hirers are the strongest forward signal of new vendor budget. 33 firms are in that mode this week — and every one of them is named in the directory.

Where the roles are

Delivery locations named in live ads · Updated 2026-10-09

Philippines334
United States289
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India171
Pasig, National Capital Region, Philippines164
New York, NY163
Latin America148
Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines132
Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines118
Hyderabad, Telangana, India113
Taguig, National Capital Region, Philippines105

Client tooling named in those ads

Java 127SAP 80.NET 66Python 43AWS 40Azure 40Salesforce 38React 29NetSuite 25Angular 24Oracle 24ServiceNow 21Google Cloud 15PHP 14SQL 14

What the ads actually say

Job-ad content across live postings · Updated 2026-10-09

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Languages demanded

Spanish 86French 67German 61Dutch 28Italian 23Mandarin 19Japanese 18Danish 11Vietnamese 9Arabic 8

Not one industry. Twenty-eight.

Segmentation

Firms group differently by service, delivery location and workforce. Explore the archetypes that describe those patterns.

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The 28 archetypes inside the industry

Firms clustered by what they sell, where they deliver and who they hire · Updated 2026-10-09

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58 firms

AI & Automation SMBs

A cohort of 58 mostly private firms built around AI & Automation Services and IT Development, concentrated in Technology & SaaS. Anchored by Tech Mahindra, Intetics and Squiz, the group delivers primarily from North America.

AI & Automation ServicesIT DevelopmentHR & Recruitment

Featured firms: Tech Mahindra, Intetics, Squiz, Alchemy

51 firms

Finance & Accounting SMBs

A cohort of 51 mostly private firms built around Finance & Accounting and Voice - Inbound, concentrated in Technology & SaaS. Anchored by Rate, iBridge and QUALCO, the group delivers primarily from North America.

Finance & AccountingVoice - InboundBack Office - Data Entry

Featured firms: Rate, iBridge, QUALCO, One Contact by Grupo Migesa

42 firms

Global Remote EOR & PEO Platforms

Services: HR & Recruitment, Finance & Accounting. HQ: United States, United Kingdom, Germany. Delivery: Remote/Distributed, San Francisco, United States, New York, United States.

Finance & AccountingHR & Recruitment

Featured firms: Paychex PEO, Deel, Remote, TriNet

55 firms

HR & Recruitment SMBs

A cohort of 55 mostly private firms built around HR & Recruitment and IT Development, concentrated in Technology & SaaS. Anchored by Scalo, Delegate CX and Globaldev Group, the group delivers primarily from North America.

HR & RecruitmentIT DevelopmentVirtual Assistant

Featured firms: Scalo, Delegate CX, Globaldev Group, Relay Human Cloud

103 firms

IT & Software Development SMBs

Services: IT Development, Digital Marketing, Voice - Inbound. HQ: United States, India. Delivery: North America, Asia-Pacific. 103 tracked firms.

IT DevelopmentDigital MarketingVoice - Inbound

Featured firms: Indra, NTT DATA GROUP, Neo BPO, DXC Technology

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People

45,721 executives are indexed across tracked firms. Explore the career histories and alumni connections behind the firms in the directory.

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The people layer

Every tracked firm also has its executives, their seniority, their influence and where they worked before · Updated 2026-10-09

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45,721executives indexed
42,157with full career history
693firms with an alumni network
6,260executives across several firms

Highest average executive influence

Widest careers in the industry

Executive 1now at TransPerfect7 firms
Executive 2now at Quintessence7 firms
Executive 3now at Sourcefit6 firms
Executive 4now at Omega Healthcare6 firms
Executive 5now at Firstsource6 firms
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What 3.19M people actually do

Workforce

Skills, functions and locations across the tracked workforce of 3,187,786 people (LinkedIn).

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Inside the 3.19M-person workforce

Top reported functions, skills and locations across 2,019 firms · Updated 2026-10-01

Workforce explorer

Top functions

Information Technology604k
Engineering563k
Customer Success and Support408k
Operations264k
Business Development211k
Sales132k
Consulting115k

Top skills

Communication449k
Microsoft Office419k
Microsoft Excel394k
SQL356k
Java264k
Customer Service256k
Project Management233k

Top locations

India1,598k
Tamil Nadu, India281k
Philippines260k
Maharashtra, India256k
Karnataka, India251k
Telangana, India242k
United States235k

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Every entity is graded on six dimensions

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Capability Index

Single 0–100 composite — the basis of the next-generation OA500.

Account score

How actionable an account is right now: scale, growth, media, reach.

Headcount growth

Twelve-month staff delta, read from verified employee records.

Media presence

How loud a firm is across news, awards and industry coverage.

Executive influence

How networked and credible a named executive is.

Vendor budget

Modelled discretionary technology spend — a TAM proxy per firm.

Everything above is the public cut

The Hub shows the industry in aggregate. An account shows it firm by firm — which is where a shortlist actually comes from.

Reference index · 9 Oct 2026

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