Contract staffing agency
Contract staffing agency for migrations, upgrades and surges
A contract staffing agency places a vetted engineer in your team for a defined term, billed hourly against an approved SOW, while Conntal carries the engagement. It fits work with an end date: a Kafka or RabbitMQ upgrade, a Cloudera migration, a Kubernetes rebuild, or a backlog your team cannot clear alone. Every contractor passes a practitioner screen first.
- RabbitMQ
- Apache Kafka
IBM MQ- ActiveMQ
- Solace
- Cloudera CDP
- Apache Pulsar
- Apache Spark
- Apache Flink
- Elasticsearch
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Java
- Apache Tomcat
- Kong
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Apache NiFi
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- ServiceNow ITOM
- Apache Airflow
- Greenplum
- OpenShift
- Prometheus
Screened by practitioners
Ace8 and AceMQ engineers, not recruiters
130+
AceMQ enterprise clients across 26+ countries
Contract, C2H or direct
onshore, nearshore or offshore
Typical engagements
The work contract engineers are brought in for.
Platform upgrades
RabbitMQ 3.13 to 4.x off classic mirrored queues, Kafka onto KRaft, Kubernetes past the cgroup v1 cut-off — work with a clear finish line.
Migrations
Cloudera CDP version moves, IBM MQ modernisation, Ingress NGINX to Gateway API, Mule 4.6 to the 4.9 line.
Capacity surges
A backlog or a launch your permanent team cannot absorb without dropping on-call or roadmap work.
Rare specialisms
Skills a team needs once every few years — ServiceNow Discovery patterns, Solace topic design, BookKeeper tuning.
Bridging a vacancy
Cover while a permanent search runs, so the platform is not left with a single point of failure.
When not to use contract
If the role becomes permanent ownership, contract-to-hire or direct hire avoids paying for a handover later.
Roles we staff
Every role has a published screen.
The scenario each candidate is put through is on the role page, so you can judge the bar before you brief us.
FAQ
Contract staffing: what buyers ask
Something not covered here? Send the requirement and a practitioner answers it, not a sales queue.
What is contract IT staffing?
Contract IT staffing is engaging a technology professional through a staffing firm for a defined term. The engineer works in your team under your direction, and the staffing firm carries the engagement and bills hourly against an agreed SOW.
How long are contract engagements?
As long as the work needs. Terms are set in the SOW and can be extended; most platform engagements are scoped around a migration, upgrade or backlog with a clear finish.
How are contract engineers billed?
Hourly, monthly in arrears against approved timesheets, to your PO and accounts-payable process. Rates depend on seniority, technology scarcity and location model.
What is the difference between contract and contract-to-hire?
A contract engagement ends at the end of its term. Contract-to-hire adds a pre-agreed option to convert the engineer to your permanent employee at the end of the window.
Can a contractor join our on-call rotation?
Yes, if the SOW covers it. Contract engineers commonly join on-call for the platform they are working on; we agree the expectation at scoping so it is reflected in the rate and the screen.
How fast can a contract engineer start?
Scoping usually happens within one business day of your brief. Start dates then depend on the candidate's notice period and your onboarding; nearshore is typically fastest for us.
Tell us the role. A practitioner scopes it, not a recruiter.
Send the requirement — or the job description you are not happy with — and an engineer who runs this technology will tell you what is missing before we source anyone.