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Top 25 Academic staffing agencies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,045 academic staffing agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 36,628 professional contacts across them, including 4,910 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers academic staffing agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest academic staffing agencies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,394 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Teaching Personnel is the UK’s leading education recruitment agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,541 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Zen, we’re a certified B Corp transforming how schools and educators connect, because every student deserves consistent access to excellent teaching.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,436 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TeacherActive is recognised as a leading education recruitment specialist, with a culture of success and a commitment to delivering excellent recruitment services to schools and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,235 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Protocol Education is a specialist provider of recruitment services to the education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,085 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision for Education has been recruiting great teachers and support staff for schools since 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 876 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Prospero Teaching is a multi-award-winning recruitment agency, connecting passionate educators with top schools across the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 17 years of experience, we are a trusted nationwide recruitment agency specialising in providing high-quality temporary staff in an array of roles to a wide range of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 795 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Academics is a UK and International market leading teacher recruitment consultancy, specialising in long-term contract, short-term supply and permanent placements for qualified…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 620 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Engage Education, we’re transforming the way education recruitment works.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 514 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CER Education Recruitment specialises in providing a comprehensive range of recruitment solutions and added value services to the education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 480 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aspire People recruit the best teaching, and non-teaching professionals for exciting education jobs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 474 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over two decades, GSL has been working to actively improve the quality of education for young people across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 455 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1988, Coyle Personnel is one of the UK's top privately-owned recruitment agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2010, we have proudly partnered with Primary, Secondary, and SEND Schools to provide high-quality, compliant educational professionals who make a difference in the classroom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 432 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connex Education is a high quality, service-led education supply agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 392 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WE ARE RECRUITING FOR RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS IN OUR MANCHESTER, LEEDS, COVENTRY & SKIPTON justteachers awards and recognition in 2025: One of the 2025 UK’s Best Workplaces™…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “School Staffing with Purpose and Social Impact 🥛 Milk Education is a purpose-driven education recruitment partner, supporting nurseries, primary, secondary and SEND schools across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 387 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Career Teachers, established in 2004, is a well-established and trusted education recruitment specialist, providing temporary and permanent job opportunities to teachers, teaching…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Supply Desk is one of the UK’s leading education recruitment specialists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Simply Education, powered by Tatton Recruitment Group, is an education recruitment specialist providing teaching staff with temporary and permanent work in local schools…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Selective Personnel, each and every candidate is interviewed personally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 323 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Approach Major Recruitment offers 34 years of experience within multi-specialist recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At TimePlan Education we understand that teaching is not just a job, it’s a calling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Choice Teachers are an education specific recruitment organisation focused on delivering staffing solutions to Nurseries, schools and colleges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DRC Locums have established itself as a leading provider of medical staff to both the Public and Private sectors across the UK and we take pride in the quality of our services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: academic staffing agencies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names academic staffing agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic staffing agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic staffing agencies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Academic staffing agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,045 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among academic staffing agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “academic staffing agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names academic staffing agencies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among academic staffing agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,910 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names academic staffing agencies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many academic staffing agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,045 academic staffing agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Teaching Personnel, headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most academic staffing agencies?
London leads with 287 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (34) and Birmingham (29).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,910 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,045 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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