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Top 25 Executive headhunter firms based in Manchester, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 289 executive headhunter firms headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,485 professional contacts across them, including 873 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers executive headhunter firms headquartered in Manchester, 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 Manchester, United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oscar is an award-winning, global recruitment consultancy that takes an ethical, sustainable and people-first approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eleven connects dynamic people and businesses where bold ideas will help shape the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Humankind Global Recruitment, a specialist recruitment consultancy connecting the global ambitions of our clients with the personal ambitions of exceptional individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in Manchester, Glasgow & Newcastle with presence in Cardiff and London, we can provide our clients and candidates with the perfect combination of sector specialism, matching…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Douglas Scott Recruitment act for legal professionals at all levels, across practically every conceivable practice area – whilst supporting the HR professionals, Practice…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bringing together ambitious talent and compelling opportunity is our focus and our passion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help ambitious, high-impact deeptech firms hire the people they need to scale, from engineers and data scientists to software developers, operators and leadership teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Forward Role we're award-winning, industry leading specialists in marketing, digital and technology recruitment, we work with many of the fastest growing brands in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ASP Group was established in 2006 with the objective of creating a specialist professional recruitment consultancy offering an unrivalled service across a range of industry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MERJE is a widely trusted specialist talent solutions provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Better Placed is undoubtedly one of the UK’s leading, Employee Owned Recruitment specialists!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With well over 100 years of combined experience in the market, we take the time to fully understand the people and businesses we work with.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recruiting across seven sectors bringing deep understanding and practical experience to each.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At White Label Recruitment, we are specialists in providing high-quality recruitment services within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Technical Sales, and Supply Chain sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help companies build teams with people you won’t find on the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Finegreen is a specialist recruitment consultancy connecting talented people with organisations across the public and private sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clayton Legal are leading legal recruitment specialists, with a sole purpose to help all legal professionals and hiring managers and Partners source both life changing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nixor helps businesses secure the best Technology & Transformation Talent in less than 3 weeks for Permanent hires & 5 days for Interim / Contract.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than 45 years combined experience in the recruitment sector, Fintelligent utilise technology and expert knowledge to connect growing businesses with the passive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our ethos is simply this- For our clients, we offer unparalleled access to top talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “There's a few things that you should take as read when working with a recruitment business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Neo International Partners specialise in Construction executive search across Infrastructure, Clean Energy & Mission Critical.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Smarter processes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IRG is an international executive search firm, specialising in both locating, and securing top level talent on a global basis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an experienced team of recruiters, many of us with over 10 years in the industry, and are adept at delivering assignments across the UK, US, and EU.” 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 Manchester, 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 Manchester, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Manchester, over 289 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 Manchester, 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 Manchester 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, 873 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 Manchester, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 289 executive headhunter firms headquartered in Manchester, 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?
OSCAR, headquartered in Manchester, 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 873 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 289 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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