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Top 25 Direct hire staffing agencies based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 2,262 direct hire staffing agencies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 21,179 professional contacts across them, including 5,215 with verified work emails and 388 with mobile numbers. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers direct hire staffing agencies headquartered in Germany, 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 direct hire staffing agencies based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,213 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die DIS AG gehört zu den größten Personaldienstleistern im deutschsprachigen Raum.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 943 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Amadeus Fire - Verstehen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 894 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “persona service ist der Personaldienstleister, der Menschen mit Unternehmen zusammenbringt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TIMEPARTNER gehört zu den Top 3 Personaldienstleistern in Deutschland und ist Teil der internationalen House of HR Group mit Hauptsitz in Belgien.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 427 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir, die I.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 415 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als Teil der japanischen Unternehmensgruppe BREXA Holdings Inc, eine Bain Capital Portfolio Company, bieten wir als End-to-End Servicedienstleister Personaldienstleistungen über…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Einfach gutes Personal." Besser und auch kürzer kann man die unternehmerischen Leitlinien von ARWA Personaldienstleistungen nicht beschreiben.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 314 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GULP is a leading recruitment service provider in the areas of IT, engineering and finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir bringen Menschen und Unternehmen zusammen!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Everything started with the idea to establish a profitable cooperation between companies, students and young professionals with one great goal: achieve best possible results by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die ACTIEF Personalmanagement GmbH wurde 1989 gegründet und steht seither für eine professionelle Personalberatung und zielgerichtete Personalbesetzung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the leading technology-based recruitment platforms specialising in placing highly qualified experts from the IT and engineering sectors in a variety of contractual…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Manning Global was founded in and are award-winning specialists in temporary and permanent staffing, RPO, and Managed Services in IT, ICT, Big Data, AI, Engineering, Software…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind die Spezialisten für Personalbesetzung und Rekrutierung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ratbacher GmbH – Your IT Recruitment Firm We connect qualified IT professionals with top companies in a way that’s perfectly tailored to their needs: quickly, efficiently, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Herzlich willkommen bei Bankpower.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The agency group WESTPRESS, located in Hamm (North Rine-Westphalia, Germany), is one of the leading full-service providers in personnel / HR marketing, recruiting, and employer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Über Uns Wir sind erfahrene Personalberater, die mit Spaß und Freude für leidenschaftliches und verantwortungsvolles Recruitment stehen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FOURTEENONE Group – Regionaler Personalvermittler mit Leidenschaft Zuhören, beraten, unterstützen - Unsere Erfahrung hat gezeigt, worauf es ankommt, um gemeinsam EIN ZIEL zu…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Von werteorientierter Zeitarbeit über Personalvermittlung bis Beschäftigtentransfer: Die START NRW GmbH ist landesweit seit Ihrer Gründung 1995 ein wichtiger Impulsgeber für den…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1982 als modernes Beratungsunternehmen mit Schwerpunkt Personalmanagement in Nürnberg gegründet, kann unsere Unternehmensgruppe als eigenfinanzierter Familienbetrieb unter der…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Akzent Personaldienstleistungen GmbH is a staffing and recruiting company based out of Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “avitea ist Anbieter von erstklassigen Personaldienstleistungen wie Arbeitnehmerüberlassung oder Recruiting und bietet damit Zugang zu ausgezeichneten Unternehmen und dem…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Well-fitting employees are the most powerful asset of your company - we at d.vinci support you with attracting, searching, finding and selecting the best talents among your target…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HIRE VALUES - We are recruiting specialists for your permanent positions as well as for temporary projects.” 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: direct hire 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 direct hire staffing agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of direct hire staffing agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name direct hire 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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Direct hire staffing agencies based in Germany at a glance
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Median 92.0dHow 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 direct hire 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 Germany whose own description of what they do matches “direct hire 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 direct hire 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 direct hire staffing agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany 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, 5,215 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.
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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 direct hire 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 direct hire staffing agencies are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 2,262 direct hire staffing agencies headquartered in Germany 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?
DIS AG, headquartered in Dusseldorf, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most direct hire staffing agencies?
Berlin leads with 209 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (151) and Munich (142).
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 5,215 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,262 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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