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Top 25 Contract recruiting companies based in London, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 2,670 contract recruiting companies headquartered in London, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 75,801 professional contacts across them, including 13,052 with verified work emails. Across the United Kingdom, London is the largest hub for this category.
This list covers contract recruiting companies headquartered in London, 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 29, 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 contract recruiting companies based in London, United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22,731 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Hays, we believe that the right job can transform a person's life - and the right person can transform a business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Arrow is the UK’s Best-Known Staffing Agency, placing tens of thousands of candidates into temporary and permanent jobs for employers in the transport, logistics, call…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,071 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Michael Page, Page Personnel, Page Executive and Page Outsourcing are all part of PageGroup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,927 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avance Consulting is a global organization focused on delivering innovative talent solution services to some of the most renowned companies in the world, across industries that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 40 years now, we’ve been helping you to find the right path to a happy and successful future whether you’re a jobseeker or an employer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Harvey Nash, and we build amazing technology and digital teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,235 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Protocol Education is a specialist provider of recruitment services to the education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 912 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Casual Staffing | Permanent Recruitment | Temp to Perm | Training | Consultancy Off to Work offers more than just recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 568 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 30 years, GCS has been at the forefront of digital transformation, building vast global communities of innovators and placing them in businesses shaping tomorrow's world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 537 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Multilingual recruitment specialists in Europe since 1990.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Page Executive is a global leader in executive search & recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 396 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fosse: Empowering people and businesses to thrive in a tech-driven world We are La Fosse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Page Outsourcing was created to meet the business transformation needs of our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gravitas are serious about impacting the recruitment industry - positively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vivid Resourcing, a leading international talent solutions partner, connects you with in-demand technical professionals you need to flourish in the Tech, Engineering, Life…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PSD is a leading international executive recruitment consultancy, specialising in executive, management and board level recruitment with over 35 years of experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Search jobs or partner with us by visiting We are Aspire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Evolve Hospitality we specialise in supplying staffing solutions to the Hospitality and Catering industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Pracyva, we specialize in building future-ready teams for clients worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 289 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since our establishment in Huntress has been at the forefront of recruitment across a range of specialist sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We recruit for Nursing and Care roles across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Berkeley Scott | Recruitment Experts in Hospitality With over 30 years of experience, Berkeley Scott is the UK’s leading specialist in recruitment for the Hotel, Hospitality and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stanley David And Associates (SDNA Global) is a recruitment specialist in the area of IT and Engineering, we stay firmly in our area of expertise, doing what we love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: contract recruiting companies. 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 contract recruiting companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of contract recruiting companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name contract recruiting companies. 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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Contract recruiting companies based in London, United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United Kingdom list rather than for London, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for London, over 2,670 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 contract recruiting companies, 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 London, United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “contract recruiting companies”. 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 contract recruiting companies), 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 contract recruiting companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside London 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, 13,052 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 29, 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.
Contract recruiting companies by metro in the United Kingdom
- Contract recruiting companies in Manchester384
- Contract recruiting companies in Birmingham205
- Contract recruiting companies in Leeds193
- Contract recruiting companies in Bristol139
- Contract recruiting companies in Glasgow94
- Contract recruiting companies in Liverpool80
- Contract recruiting companies in Milton Keynes73
- Contract recruiting companies in Reading67
- Contract recruiting companies in Edinburgh66
- Contract recruiting companies in Nottingham66
- Contract recruiting companies in Sheffield63
- Contract recruiting companies in Southampton61
- Contract recruiting companies in Belfast56
- Contract recruiting companies in Leicester56
- Contract recruiting companies in Northampton49
- Contract recruiting companies in Portsmouth48
- Contract recruiting companies in Newcastle Upon Tyne44
- Contract recruiting companies in Warrington42
- Contract recruiting companies in Wolverhampton42
- Contract recruiting companies in Coventry39
- Contract recruiting companies in Norwich38
- Contract recruiting companies in Swindon38
- Contract recruiting companies in Aberdeen37
- Contract recruiting companies in Derby36
- Contract recruiting companies in Cardiff34
- Contract recruiting companies in Bournemouth32
- Contract recruiting companies in Brighton32
- Contract recruiting companies in Cambridge31
- Contract recruiting companies in Chelmsford31
- Contract recruiting companies in Ipswich31
- Contract recruiting companies in Watford31
- Contract recruiting companies in Preston30
- Contract recruiting companies in Hemel Hempstead29
- Contract recruiting companies in Peterborough29
- Contract recruiting companies in Doncaster28
- Contract recruiting companies in Bedford27
- Contract recruiting companies in Luton27
- Contract recruiting companies in St Albans27
- Contract recruiting companies in Hull26
- Contract recruiting companies in Oxford25
- Contract recruiting companies in Worcester25
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 contract recruiting companies, 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 contract recruiting companies are there based in London, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 2,670 contract recruiting companies headquartered in London, 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?
HAYS, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United Kingdom has the most contract recruiting companies?
London leads the United Kingdom with 2,670 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (384) and Birmingham (205).
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 13,052 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,670 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 29, 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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