The Displacement IndexSector × Quarter. One screen.
Which executive roles are being displaced, consolidated, or created — mapped across seven sectors and four quarters of 2026. Each cell is a sector-wide reading; corridor-level detail (APAC, EMEA, GCC) is treated inside the linked editions.
7
Sectors
28
Sector-quarter cells
Q1–Q4 2026
84
Published corridor editions
| Sector | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 | Q4 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Centre | 6/9 | 8/9 | 9/9 | 9/9 |
| AI Engineering | 4/9 | 7/9 | 9/9 | 9/9 |
| Cybersecurity | 5/9 | 7/9 | 8/9 | 8/9 |
| SaaS & Cloud | 5/9 | 8/9 | 9/9 | 9/9 |
| FinTech | 3/9 | 5/9 | 6/9 | 7/9 |
| Tech Consulting | 7/9 | 8/9 | 9/9 | 9/9 |
| Workforce | 4/9 | 6/9 | 7/9 | 8/9 |
Intensity derived from role-level displacement scoring inside each edition. Each cell is a sector-wide reading; corridor-level variance (APAC, EMEA, GCC) is treated inside the linked editions, not on the matrix. Each cell opens a corridor chooser listing the APAC, EMEA and GCC editions for that sector-quarter.
This is not a whitepaper. It is the working file.
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By Harald Agterhuis, Founding Partner
Thirty years in executive search across the AMS-IX / data centre corridor; former in-house TA leadership, sovereign-backed infrastructure group.