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Top 25 Employment recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom

Name: Employment recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 2, 2026 8,891 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 8,891 employment recruiting agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 125,345 professional contacts across them, including 26,556 with verified work emails and 8,182 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers employment recruiting 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 2, 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.

How to read this list RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 2, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

8,891Companies

125,345Contacts tracked

26,556Verified emails

8,182Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest employment recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 8,891 employment recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 2, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to employment recruiting agencies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	REED	Indirect evidence	Swansea, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	5,828 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Reed is the largest family-run recruitment business in the world and we’ve been improving lives through work since 1960.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
2	Staffline Recruitment Limited	Indirect evidence	Nottingham, United Kingdom	501-1,000	1,863 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Staffline, we make recruitment simple, strategic and effective.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
3	Search	Indirect evidence	United Kingdom	501-1,000	1,425 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Search is one of the UK’s leading multi-discipline recruitment agencies, covering more than 14 different specialisms and operating from 13 offices nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
4	Harvey Nash	Indirect evidence	Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom	5,001-10,000	1,262 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re Harvey Nash, and we build amazing technology and digital teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
5	Brook Street	Indirect evidence	Uxbridge, United Kingdom	501-1,000	1,211 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For 75 years, the middle is where we've worked best.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
6	Randstad UK	Indirect evidence	Luton, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	954 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Randstad is your partner for talent, finding, nurturing, and connecting specialized talent with businesses to cultivate rewarding careers and build high-performing teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
7	Morson Talent	Indirect evidence	Manchester, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	905 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “With a unique 50-year heritage of innovative recruitment, Morson Talent is a business with unrivalled sector knowledge, trusted relationships, highly skilled expertise and a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
8	The Recruitment CO	Indirect evidence	Northampton, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	560 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re THE RECRUITMENT Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
9	Page Outsourcing	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	5,001-10,000	393 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Page Outsourcing was created to meet the business transformation needs of our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
10	Selective Personnel	Indirect evidence	Glasgow City, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	326 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Selective Personnel, each and every candidate is interviewed personally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
11	At Your Service Event Staffing	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	212 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Your Service is the UK’s leading supplier of professional hospitality staff with over 30 years of experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
12	Kingdom People	Indirect evidence	St Helens, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	142 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Kingdom People are an independent specialist recruitment division that successfully looks to provide our clients with the best talent and most flexible working provisions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
13	Sugarman Education	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	126 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For over 18 years we have been placing thousands of candidates within the education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
14	TCS Recruitment UK	Indirect evidence	Telford, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	110 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Total Catering Solutions (TCS) Recruitment is a one stop shop specialising in staffing and recruitment solutions within the hospitality, catering and food production industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
15	Industria Personnel	Indirect evidence	Leicester, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	101 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SERVICE > COMPLIANCE > ADDED VALUE The UK's 13th fastest growing recruiter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
16	Team Spirits	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	501-1,000	99 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Team Spirits, we bring together great people who share a genuine passion for delivering outstanding service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
17	Resource Solutions	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	71 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Resource Solutions is a leading provider of recruitment and consultancy solutions, managing a recruitment budget of over £2 billion on behalf of our clients since 1997, as part of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
18	G2v Recruitment Group	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	501-1,000	65 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “G2V Group is an award-winning group of recruitment specialists comprising Vivid Resourcing, G2 Recruitment Solutions, and Lumicity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
19	Pathway Resourcing	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	49 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pathway is an international recruitment consultancy providing precision staffing solutions to the IT, Finance, Engineering, Legal and HR markets in the UK, Middle East, Mainland…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
20	Human ONE Global	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	501-1,000	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Global reach, local insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
21	Staff 86	Indirect evidence	Chester, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	35 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Staff 86, we specialise in providing top-tier temporary and permanent staffing solutions across the hospitality, events, marketing, and sales industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
22	The Esprit Group	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	501-1,000	35 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Esprit Group was founded in 1992 and since then we have specialised in the provision of staff to the hospitality and events industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
23	Search Recruitment Group	Indirect evidence	Glasgow, United Kingdom	501-1,000	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Search Recruitment Group are a global leader in providing multi-disciplinary recruitment solutions and career opportunities at a local, regional, and global scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
24	AGS Recruitment	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	501-1,000	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “AGS Recruitment is a specialist agency where many different services and products are available.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
25	Kripson Staffing	Partial evidence	London, United Kingdom	n/a	30 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Kripson Staffing is offering full range of staffing options for, IT, Healthcare (travel), local contract, and direct hire in UK, Europe and US.Our experienced recruiting and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026

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: employment recruiting 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 employment recruiting agencies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of employment recruiting agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name employment recruiting 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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Employment recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 2, 2026

21.2%Verified-email coverage

6.5%Mobile-number coverage

14.1Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

27.8%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 2, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

5,921

11-50

2,150

51-200

499

201-500

121

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

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 employment recruiting 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 “employment recruiting 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 employment recruiting 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 employment recruiting 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, 26,556 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 2, 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 employment recruiting 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 employment recruiting agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 8,891 employment recruiting 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?

REED, headquartered in Swansea, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most employment recruiting agencies?

London leads with 2470 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (343) and Birmingham (205).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 2, 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.