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Top 25 Marketing recruitment firms based in London, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 2,465 marketing recruitment firms headquartered in London, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 56,958 professional contacts across them, including 9,328 with verified work emails. Across the United Kingdom, London is the largest hub for this category.
This list covers marketing 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 5, 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 marketing recruitment 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Harvey Nash, and we build amazing technology and digital teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 568 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 30 years, GCS has been at the forefront of digital transformation, building vast global communities of innovators and placing them in businesses shaping tomorrow's world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gravitas are serious about impacting the recruitment industry - positively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Search jobs or partner with us by visiting We are Aspire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hiring in fashion, retail, beauty or FMCG?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the leading retained search and recruitment specialists for private markets professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We help marketing leaders in the Publishing, Events and Business Intelligence sector hire exceptional Marketing Talent Looking for a new role?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1991, with offices in Amsterdam, Bath, Dubai and London our award-winning employee-owned company has consistently ranked as one of the UK's leading independent digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Havas People we shape meaningful brands for the changing worlds of work and study.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sphere Digital Recruitment is a multi award-winning agency specialising in recruiting marketing, sales, analytics, product & creative talent on a permanent and contract basis in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Explore Group has been helping companies recruit top talent in the ever-evolving world of technology since 2005.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Metia is a global marketing agency with offices in London, Seattle, Austin and Singapore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Career Legal is a multi-disciplined recruitment firm offering clients and candidates an unrivaled service across all areas of the modern-day law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skilliantech Ltd, trading as “SkillRecruit”, is a specialist IT and Engineering recruitment agency delivering comprehensive coverage of recruitment services across all industries…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Retail, commercial and hospitality recruitment specialist.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Annapurna, we are focused on becoming a trusted responsible search partner for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re LMA, part of Empresaria Group plc, a professional recruitment agency that’s powered by curiosity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Temporary Sales Consultants in Luxury Retail, Events & Hospitality Staffing Chimera Recruitment is an agency specialising in luxury retail counter support, promotions, perm…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Spring Group plc (FTSE: SRG) is a leader in recruitment and resourcing, with an annual turnover in excess of £500 million.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 25 years in the technology recruitment sector, Square One is an award-winning specialist recruitment agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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: marketing 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 marketing recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of marketing recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name marketing 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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Marketing recruitment firms based in London, United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 5, 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 2,465 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 marketing 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 “marketing 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 marketing 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 marketing 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, 9,328 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 5, 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.
Marketing recruitment firms by metro in the United Kingdom
- Marketing recruitment firms in Manchester308
- Marketing recruitment firms in Birmingham183
- Marketing recruitment firms in Leeds166
- Marketing recruitment firms in Bristol128
- Marketing recruitment firms in Glasgow88
- Marketing recruitment firms in Liverpool62
- Marketing recruitment firms in Milton Keynes58
- Marketing recruitment firms in Edinburgh57
- Marketing recruitment firms in Nottingham56
- Marketing recruitment firms in Sheffield55
- Marketing recruitment firms in Reading54
- Marketing recruitment firms in Newcastle Upon Tyne48
- Marketing recruitment firms in Brighton46
- Marketing recruitment firms in Leicester40
- Marketing recruitment firms in Southampton40
- Marketing recruitment firms in Belfast38
- Marketing recruitment firms in Norwich38
- Marketing recruitment firms in Cardiff36
- Marketing recruitment firms in Cambridge35
- Marketing recruitment firms in Northampton34
- Marketing recruitment firms in Exeter30
- Marketing recruitment firms in Derby29
- Marketing recruitment firms in Bournemouth27
- Marketing recruitment firms in Cheltenham26
- Marketing recruitment firms in Warrington26
- Marketing recruitment firms in Peterborough25
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 marketing 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 marketing recruitment firms are there based in London, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 2,465 marketing 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?
HAYS, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United Kingdom has the most marketing recruitment firms?
London leads the United Kingdom with 2,465 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (308) and Birmingham (183).
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 9,328 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,465 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 5, 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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