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Top 25 Executive recruitment companies based in Glasgow, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 62 executive recruitment companies headquartered in Glasgow, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 547 professional contacts across them, including 177 with verified work emails. Across the United Kingdom, London is the largest hub for this category (2,985 companies); Glasgow has 62.
This list covers executive recruitment companies headquartered in Glasgow, 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 recruitment companies based in Glasgow, United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “When it comes to recruitment needs, HRC Recruitment is the multi-sector consultancy that delivers high-end service and opportunities at all levels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Scotland and part of the Taranata Group, Change Recruitment is your specialist partner in sourcing exceptional talent across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nine Twenty Recruitment are a recruitment firm based in Glasgow, Scotland operating across the UK & Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Be-IT, we’re specialists in recruiting professionals for IT, Digital, Project Management and Leadership jobs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Anderson Knight is a specialist Independent Recruitment Consultancy with our office based in the heart of Glasgow City Centre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At FPSG, we specialize in providing recruitment services for candidates and companies in the rapidly evolving sectors of Tech & Data, Life Sciences, and Professional Services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aspen People is a leading specialist sector Executive Search organisation, working in partnership with clients to attract and secure exceptional leadership talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mac Recruit Group (MRG) is a global recruitment partner delivering tailored hiring solutions across multiple industries and every level of talent, from entry-level and specialist…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Every company has a story.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We provide elite executive recruitment & headhunting solutions for the Biotech, Biopharma, Life Sciences and related industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rutherford Cross, a part of the Livingston James Group, is a search and selection business focusing exclusively on the attraction and selection of Senior Finance Professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MM Search likes to do things differently – we are people specialists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Livingston James, a part of the Livingston James Group, is an executive search and selection business that exists to match professional expertise to business need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chosen by industry leaders such as Worldpay and the Royal Bank of Scotland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Syme Drummond began as a team of specialist HR recruiters, headed up by Katie Drummond who has been a professional in the recruitment industry for over twenty five years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Red is recognized as one of the leading boutique recruitment and executive search consultancies, offering professional recruitment services to the shore-based Shipping, Marine…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gillespie People Solutions is Scotland's leading Recruitment-to-Recruitment consultancy business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global Jobs Network is a specialist recruitment firm operating in the Finance & Consulting Profession on a Global basis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialist sales recruitment for technical, industrial and commercial businesses across the UK since 2009.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Winner of CV Magazine's Executive Search & Recruitment Awards; • Best Wealth Management Recruitment Agency - UK & Excellence Award in IFA Recruitment – 2017 • Best for Financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VNI are dedicated recruitment professionals that specialise in the legal and finance sectors with over 30 years of combined experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who are we?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Expert Recruitment Solutions for the Social Care, Charity & Nonprofit Sectors Defour Partnership is a trusted recruitment partner for organisations across the Social Care, Charity…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McKellar Consulting is a leading recruitment consultancy serving the communities of professional services across accountancy, tax, private equity and legal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Durham Professional Services is a professional services recruitment company founded by 2 of Scotland's leading recruiters.” 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 recruitment 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 executive recruitment companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of executive recruitment companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name executive recruitment 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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Executive recruitment companies based in Glasgow, 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 Glasgow, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Glasgow, over 62 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 recruitment 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 Glasgow, United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “executive recruitment 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 executive recruitment 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 executive recruitment companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Glasgow 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, 177 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 recruitment companies by metro in the United Kingdom
- Executive recruitment companies in London2985
- Executive recruitment companies in Manchester232
- Executive recruitment companies in Leeds181
- Executive recruitment companies in Birmingham140
- Executive recruitment companies in Bristol101
- Executive recruitment companies in Edinburgh62
- Executive recruitment companies in Liverpool51
- Executive recruitment companies in Belfast45
- Executive recruitment companies in Brighton42
- Executive recruitment companies in Milton Keynes41
- Executive recruitment companies in Nottingham36
- Executive recruitment companies in Reading33
- Executive recruitment companies in Southampton32
- Executive recruitment companies in Newcastle Upon Tyne31
- Executive recruitment companies in Sheffield31
- Executive recruitment companies in Harrogate28
- Executive recruitment companies in Leicester27
- Executive recruitment companies in Cambridge26
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 recruitment 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 executive recruitment companies are there based in Glasgow, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 62 executive recruitment companies headquartered in Glasgow, 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?
HRC Recruitment, headquartered in Glasgow, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United Kingdom has the most executive recruitment companies?
London leads the United Kingdom with 2,985 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (232) and Leeds (181). Glasgow has 62.
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 177 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 62 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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