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Top 25 Executive headhunter firms based in London, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 3,465 executive headhunter firms headquartered in London, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 74,731 professional contacts across them, including 17,295 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers executive headhunter firms 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 24, 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 executive headhunter firms 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 24, 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,071 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Michael Page, Page Personnel, Page Executive and Page Outsourcing are all part of PageGroup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,979 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Antal International is a global executive search organisation with over 130 offices in more than 30 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 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 24, 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 24, 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Page Executive is a global leader in executive search & recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TRANSEARCH International is a global executive search and leadership consulting organisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The GRS Group is an international executive search consultancy whose services include retained search, contingency search, advertised selection and interim solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gravitas are serious about impacting the recruitment industry - positively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a global recruitment consultancy and part of The IN Group (TIG), connecting people and organisations worldwide since 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 342 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Search jobs or partner with us by visiting We are Aspire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elevate Talent supports ambitious companies in optimizing organizational performance and sourcing exceptional leaders from across sports, entertainment, media, lifestyle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sheffield Haworth is a global consultancy founded in 1993.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the leading retained search and recruitment specialists for private markets professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since its formation in 1993, EM Group through its divisions EM Finance, EM Consulting, EM Legal and EM Financial Services has delivered executive search solutions to companies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EMA Partners is a global executive search firm, with more than 40 offices, located on five continents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Heritage Founded by Lady Virginia Tate in 1985, Tate Recruitment emerged with a firm vision: to be the best everywhere, all the time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Green Park is a specialist executive search and advisory firm trusted by organisations seeking stronger, more future-ready leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 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: executive headhunter firms. 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 executive headhunter firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of executive headhunter firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name executive headhunter firms. 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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Executive headhunter firms based in London, United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 24, 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 3,465 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 executive headhunter firms, 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 “executive headhunter firms”. 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 executive headhunter firms), 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 executive headhunter firms, 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, 17,295 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 24, 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.
Executive headhunter firms by metro in the United Kingdom
- Executive headhunter firms in London3465
- Executive headhunter firms in Manchester289
- Executive headhunter firms in Leeds217
- Executive headhunter firms in Birmingham175
- Executive headhunter firms in Bristol127
- Executive headhunter firms in Glasgow65
- Executive headhunter firms in Edinburgh60
- Executive headhunter firms in Liverpool57
- Executive headhunter firms in Brighton55
- Executive headhunter firms in Milton Keynes53
- Executive headhunter firms in Belfast51
- Executive headhunter firms in Reading44
- Executive headhunter firms in Southampton42
- Executive headhunter firms in Nottingham39
- Executive headhunter firms in Sheffield38
- Executive headhunter firms in Newcastle Upon Tyne36
- Executive headhunter firms in Cambridge34
- Executive headhunter firms in Leicester32
- Executive headhunter firms in Cardiff30
- Executive headhunter firms in Oxford27
- Executive headhunter firms in Northampton26
- Executive headhunter firms in St Albans25
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 executive headhunter firms, 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 executive headhunter firms are there based in London, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 3,465 executive headhunter firms 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 has the most executive headhunter firms?
London leads with 3465 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (289) and Leeds (217).
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 17,295 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,465 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 24, 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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