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Outsourcing directory

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

The state of the outsourcing industry

2,198 firms are tracked across the Hub. This is the public read-out of their hiring, workforce and executives.

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2,198Firms trackedevery BPO, EOR & PEO we can verify
3,229,668People employedpeople (LinkedIn)
44,572Executives indexednamed, role-mapped decision makers
39,299Live job adsread nightly from career pages
22service lines
17buyer verticals
28industry archetypes
215market squares
199firms measured
40,787exec career histories
669alumni networks

OA Intelligence Hub · Reference index: 12 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 Concentrix United States · 10001+ Strong
  4. 4 Wipro India · 10001+ Strong
  5. 5 Capgemini France · 10001+ Strong
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How the industry distributes

Capability tier across tracked firms · Index of July 2026

  • Elite1
  • Strong11
  • Developing31
  • Emerging511
  • Early538
  • Nascent592
  • Minimal514
  • Unscored0

12 of 2,198 tracked firms are in Strong or Elite.

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Cognizant Elite — rank 1 of 2,198

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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 2,198 firms become the handful worth a call.

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Firm type

BPO2,155
EOR35
PEO6
Adjacent2

Founded

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750 founded in the 2010s of 1,853 with a known year

Ownership

Publicly listed44
Private2,134
Named in a cluster2,182

Where they are

Headquarters country

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CountryFirmsShare
  1. 1United States85539%
  2. 2India29013%
  3. 3Philippines2029%
  4. 4United Kingdom1306%
  5. 5Australia784%
  6. 6Canada442%
  7. 7South Africa402%
  8. 8Vietnam311%
  9. 9Pakistan271%
  10. 10Singapore251%

What they sell

Declared service lines

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Service lineFirmsShare
  1. 1Voice - Inbound78036%
  2. 2Finance & Accounting60828%
  3. 3HR & Recruitment56726%
  4. 4IT Development53024%
  5. 5Digital Marketing47522%
  6. 6AI & Automation Services46521%
  7. 7Voice - Outbound40919%
  8. 8Healthcare Services36016%
  9. 9Sales & Lead Generation36016%
  10. 10Technical Support31815%

Who they serve

Buyer verticals in client work

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VerticalFirmsShare
  1. 1Technology & SaaS1,34961%
  2. 2Media & Entertainment51423%
  3. 3Automotive44620%
  4. 4Healthcare & Life Sciences41719%
  5. 5Financial Services & Banking38718%
  6. 6Telecommunications35316%
  7. 7E-commerce & Retail33215%
  8. 8Legal31214%
  9. 9Education23811%
  10. 10Real Estate22810%

India and the Philippines hold 22.4% of tracked firms between them; the United States is the largest single hub, with 855 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

40 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. 40 squares, 892 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
No data
Digital Marketing
No data No data
AI & Automation Services
No data
Voice - Outbound
No data
Sales & Lead Generation
No data
2556average 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. 34 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 2026-10-12

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39,299live ads indexed
34firms hiring aggressively
27.3%strategic hiring share
Aggressive 34High 21Medium 34Low 53Minimal 57

Aggressive hirers are the strongest forward signal of new vendor budget. 34 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 2026-10-12

Philippines336
United States283
Pasig, National Capital Region, Philippines169
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India168
New York, NY159
Latin America156
Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines141
Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines118
Hyderabad, Telangana, India115
Taguig, National Capital Region, Philippines113

Client tooling named in those ads

Java 124SAP 83.NET 68Python 57Salesforce 53AWS 40React 39Azure 38Angular 27NetSuite 25Oracle 24ServiceNow 22Node.js 17SQL 17Snowflake 17

What the ads actually say

Job-ad content across live postings · Updated 2026-10-12

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Languages demanded

German 102Spanish 77French 55Italian 28Dutch 18Japanese 18Mandarin 16Danish 14Arabic 10Polish 10

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 2026-10-12

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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

41 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

102 firms

IT & Software Development SMBs

Services: IT Development, Digital Marketing, Voice - Inbound. HQ: United States, India. Delivery: North America, Asia-Pacific. 102 tracked firms.

IT DevelopmentDigital MarketingVoice - Inbound

Featured firms: Indra, Neo BPO, DXC Technology, Riseup Labs

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People

44,572 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 2026-10-12

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44,572executives indexed
40,787with full career history
669firms with an alumni network
5,938executives 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 Firstsource6 firms
Executive 5now at SupportNinja6 firms
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What 3.23M people actually do

Workforce

Skills, functions and locations across the tracked workforce of 3,229,668 people (LinkedIn).

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Inside the 3.23M-person workforce

Top reported functions, skills and locations across 1,987 firms · Updated 2026-10-01

Workforce explorer

Top functions

Information Technology602k
Engineering540k
Customer Success and Support472k
Operations278k
Business Development205k
Sales135k
Consulting110k

Top skills

Communication480k
Microsoft Office434k
Microsoft Excel408k
SQL344k
Customer Service305k
Java255k
Project Management220k

Top locations

India1,603k
Philippines299k
Tamil Nadu, India269k
Karnataka, India255k
Maharashtra, India249k
Greater Bengaluru Area238k
Telangana, India237k

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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 · 12 Oct 2026

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