DASH2 is Utah’s boutique staffing and recruiting firm — headquartered in downtown Salt Lake City and serving the full Silicon Slopes corridor and beyond: Salt Lake City, Provo, Lehi, Park City, Ogden, Logan, St. George, and statewide remote placements. We place contract and direct-hire professionals across technology, legal, engineering, finance, and operations. Fifteen years. Marine Corps discipline applied to recruiting. Veteran-owned.
Start a Search →Utah’s technology sector has grown faster than almost any state in the union over the last decade. Silicon Slopes — the corridor from Salt Lake City through Lehi to Provo — anchors the state’s tech economy, with Adobe, Qualtrics, Domo, Pluralsight, Vivint, Ancestry, Recursion, and Weave among its most visible employers.
Why Utah works for growing tech teams: Deep engineering talent base from BYU, University of Utah, and Utah State plus migration of senior engineers from coastal hubs. Cost advantage over coastal tech hubs — compensation remains 15–25% below Bay Area and Seattle. High quality-of-life retention — engineers who move to Utah rarely leave. Strong startup-to-scale-up pipeline keeping talent in-state.
Why Utah is hard for staffing: Intense competition for senior specialists, compensation bands rising fast, contract work increasingly normalized but some employers default FTE-first, and a local staffing market crowded with generalist agencies that don’t specialize.
We’ve been navigating this market for fifteen years. That’s our moat.
Our downtown SLC headquarters serves Utah’s largest tech employers and fastest-growing SLC-area scale-ups — Fortune 500 financial services, mid-market health tech and fintech, religious and nonprofit organizations, and growth-stage Silicon Slopes SaaS companies.
The heart of Silicon Slopes — Qualtrics, Domo, Pluralsight, Vivint Smart Home, and dozens of growth-stage companies. DASH2 places into Utah County remotely and hybrid daily.
Park City’s growing tech presence — lifestyle-and-tech companies pulling on the same talent pool as SLC. Remote and hybrid placements.
Aerospace and defense (Northrop Grumman, Hill AFB contractors), manufacturing tech, and higher-ed research. DASH2 places across these sectors through our SLC office.
A small but growing tech presence. Most placements are hybrid or remote into scale-ups expanding south.
The majority of our Utah contract placements are fully-remote or hybrid. Utah engineers are placed into companies headquartered here, in Denver, in Seattle, in New York, and nationwide.
Utah contract engineer rates vary by specialization and seniority. Mid-senior backend engineers typically bill $85–$130/hour. Senior data engineers and AI/ML specialists typically bill $110–$180/hour. DevOps and cloud architects fall in the $100–$160/hour range. Rates have risen 15–20% over the last three years and continue to climb. DASH2 quotes all-in bill rates including markup.
DASH2 is headquartered in Utah and places extensively in the Utah market, but we serve national clients from Utah and place Utah-based contractors into companies nationwide. About 40% of our placements are Utah-to-Utah, 50% are Utah-to-national-remote, and 10% are national-to-Utah.
Utah remains 10–15% below Denver compensation and 20–25% below Austin for equivalent senior roles — though the gap is narrowing fast. Utah's talent density in certain domains (fintech backend engineering, health tech data, SaaS product engineering) rivals any market. Utah's retention of senior talent is among the strongest in the country due to quality-of-life pull.
Our Utah client base includes Fortune 500 enterprise employers, mid-market financial services, health tech and fintech scale-ups, religious and nonprofit organizations, higher education, aerospace-adjacent employers, and growth-stage Silicon Slopes SaaS companies. Specific client names are shared only on introductory calls due to confidentiality. We've been placing in Utah for fifteen years — our recruiters know the hiring managers at most mid-market and up companies in the state.
Yes. The majority of our Utah-based contractors work remotely for companies headquartered in Denver, Seattle, New York, California, and nationwide. Utah's time zone and culture align well with national remote-first teams.
Yes. DASH2 is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), eligible for federal set-asides and supplier diversity programs. State of Utah entities and federal agencies operating in Utah (Hill AFB contractors, DoD, VA, etc.) can engage DASH2 directly under SDVOSB sourcing programs.
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