5.9.7.4Vertical

Skilled Trades & Craft Staffing

Staffing firms placing journeymen electricians, welders, and machinists.

Market snapshot

These figures describe Industrial Staffing & Workforce (5.9.7), the segment that Skilled Trades & Craft Staffing sits within — not Skilled Trades & Craft Staffing on its own.

FragmentationFragmentedEstimate

Industrial staffing is a subset of temporary-help services (NAICS 561320), which is broad and profiled under business services; the industrial niche is not separately disclosed and so is not separately sized here.

Business model & economics

Revenue model

Markup on temporary and contract industrial labor

Key economics

Recurring revenue
Moderate–High

recurring staffing relationships

EBITDA margin
Thin staffing spreads; volume-driven
Capex intensity
Low

Characteristics

  • Flexible light-industrial labor for plants and DCs.
  • Driven by labor tightness and skilled-trades shortages.
  • Reshoring adding new industrial-labor demand.

M&A deal context

Deal activityModerate

Who’s acquiring

  • Staffing strategics
  • PE-backed industrial-staffing platforms
  • Regional consolidators

What’s driving deals

  • Consolidation of specialized industrial staffing.
  • Labor-shortage and flexibility demand.
  • Reshoring-driven workforce needs.

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