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Top 25 Linkedin recruiting firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,170 linkedin recruiting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 10,497 professional contacts across them, including 2,375 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers linkedin recruiting firms 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 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.
The 25 largest linkedin recruiting firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 75 years, the middle is where we've worked best.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eleven connects dynamic people and businesses where bold ideas will help shape the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Totaljobs is part of StepStone, one of the world’s leading next-generation recruitment solution providers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With a unique 'Classroom to Boardroom' business model, Dartmouth is a multi-award-winning recruitment company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Annapurna, we are focused on becoming a trusted responsible search partner for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re LMA, part of Empresaria Group plc, a professional recruitment agency that’s powered by curiosity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe a company can only become great by hiring great people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Timberseed - we're a team of like-minded specialists driven by proven practices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About The Recruitment Crowd Our company is based on the belief that our customers' needs are of the utmost importance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forsyth Barnes is a global talent partner disrupting the recruitment industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acolyte’s mission is simple: To offer employers the insight and recruitment solutions they need for direct, scalable and cost-effective access to the high-quality talent required…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an executive recruitment firm based in the City of London and are specialists in the search and selection of professionals in Technology, Digital & RPA, BPO, Shared…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a global recruitment expert with expertise across specialist markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Balfor Recruitment Group have spent more than 25 years building relationships with great employers and matching them with talented candidates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quest Search & Selection has over 20 years experience in finding the top talent for blue chip and SME businesses both in UK and internationally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TwentyAI is a talent and staffing solutions firm that combines cutting-edge AI technology, deep data insights, and human expertise to connect top talent with outstanding…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “6 Group is a global search and talent intelligence firm focused on the identification, engagement and development of the world’s standout talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, NRG has established a strong presence across the UK and has successfully expanded into key USA markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At DGH Recruitment Ltd we pride ourselves on being an approachable, open, and trusted partner within the Talent Acquisition industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Helping innovative start-ups and fast-growing Tech companies rapidly scale their AI and Machine Learning teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VWA is a London based recruitment consultancy specialising in the search and selection of exceptional talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Meet RecruitingHub: the hybrid AI + human (VMS) recruiting platform that sources from 100M+ profiles, interviews in 120+ languages and fills roles 60% faster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: linkedin recruiting 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 linkedin recruiting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of linkedin recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name linkedin recruiting 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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Linkedin recruiting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,170 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 linkedin recruiting 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “linkedin recruiting 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 linkedin recruiting 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 linkedin recruiting firms, 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, 2,375 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.
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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 linkedin recruiting 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 linkedin recruiting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,170 linkedin recruiting firms 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?
Brook Street, headquartered in Uxbridge, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most linkedin recruiting firms?
London leads with 475 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (56) and Birmingham (26).
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 2,375 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,170 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.
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