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Top 25 Higher education recruitment firms based in London, United Kingdom

Name: Higher education recruitment firms based in London, United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 102 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 102 higher education recruitment firms headquartered in London, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 3,102 professional contacts across them, including 145 with verified work emails. Across the United Kingdom, London is the largest hub for this category.

This list covers higher education recruitment 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 28, 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 HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest higher education recruitment firms based in London, United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 102 higher education recruitment firms based in London, United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to higher education recruitment firms: 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	The Education Group London	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	81 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Education Group London is a recruitment partner as well as providing on-campus teaching and full-service consultancy to the tertiary education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Clarus Education	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	40 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Clarus Education is the go to Education Recruitment Consultancy in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	Chase Global	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The CHASE GLOBAL group of Executive Search firms each focus on sourcing outstanding talent within a range of STEM industries for pioneering companies worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	Hourglass Education	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Hourglass specialise in the Permanent education recruitment market, working with schools, trusts, teachers and leaders alike to create the perfect match.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Resource Professionals	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Resource Professionals are a firm of search consultants specialising in the recruitment to recruitment market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Illapa Search	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Illapa Search is a Legal Executive Search firm, specialising in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	Radiant Search	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We help executive search firms hire outstanding talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8	Cloudstone Education Services	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Strong evidence “CloudStone Education Services was created to respond to the unique and individual recruitment needs of clients focusing solely on their non-teaching roles within schools and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	Teach Plus UK Limited	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Teach Plus is an independently owned education recruitment agency founded in 2022 with over 17 years of expertise within the education industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Hatton Search Limited	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	Madlinhanna Consulting	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a search company that connects businesses with senior people who gain them influence, protect their reputation and tell their financial story.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	LSC Education	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “LSC Education supports schools and education organisations world-wide, to recruit exceptional leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Imperium Consultancy Global LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Imperium Consultancy Global Ltd is a registered students recruiting company, based in London, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Smart Adventures Limited	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Smart Adventures we provide customized solutions that enable universities worldwide to effectively recruit and enroll international students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Leighton Taylor Consulting Specialist Marketing & BD Recruitment	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Leighton Taylor is a specialist executive recruitment firm, working within the professional services sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Professional Talent Recruitment	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Professional Talent Recruitment is an Executive Search & Rec2Rec that specialises in the Education, Life Sciences and Healthcare sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Melton Legal Search	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We have firmly established ourselves at the forefront of legal recruitment, having been responsible for many of the market's highest profile moves, from individual partners and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Tucker Stone	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Tucker Stone is a boutique HR Search Firm with a phenomenal collection of HR relationships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	VIT Legal International LTD	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “VIT LEGAL INTERNATIONAL LTD International Legal Headhunters Retained and Contingency Recruitment International Partner and Associate Recruitment” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Storm6	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Storm6 are specialists in US EdTech recruitment, connecting organisations with the talent to drive their mission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Talentedu	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “TalentEdu is an executive search and recruitment advisory organisation designed for Higher Education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	The London School Alliance	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “With over 12 years of industry expertise, The London School Alliance are newly established and we want to shake things up within education recruitment across London!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	MPL Search	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We specialise in working with Graduate Trainee to Director level placements within Legal Headhunting and Recruitment firms in London- Career advice, Salary checker, commission…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	TMO Recruitment	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “TMO Recruitment focuses on placing Graduates, Trainees, Sales professionals and Experienced recruiters into leading Recruitment Consultancy, Executive Search and Sales roles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Fair Recruitment Limited	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We provide top graduates and junior recruiters to London's best recruitment businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: higher education recruitment 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 higher education recruitment firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of higher education recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name higher education recruitment 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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Higher education recruitment firms based in London, United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

4.7%Verified-email coverage

30.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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51-200

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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 102 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 higher education recruitment 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 “higher education recruitment 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 higher education recruitment 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 higher education recruitment 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, 145 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 28, 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.

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 higher education recruitment 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 higher education recruitment firms are there based in London, United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 102 higher education recruitment 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?

The Education Group London, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United Kingdom has the most higher education recruitment firms?

London leads the United Kingdom with 102 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (13) and Cambridge (4).

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 145 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 102 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 28, 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.