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Top 25 Not-for-profit executive search firms based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 1,333 not-for-profit executive search firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 17,685 professional contacts across them, including 6,115 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers not-for-profit executive search 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 29, 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.

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1,333Companies
17,685Contacts tracked
6,115Verified emails
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The 25 largest not-for-profit executive search firms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,333 not-for-profit executive search firms based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to not-for-profit executive search 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.
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1Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 20261,001-5,0001,979 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Antal International is a global executive search organisation with over 130 offices in more than 30 countries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
2Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 20265,001-10,000450 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Page Executive is a global leader in executive search & recruitment.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
3Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 2026501-1,000450 contacts →

Strong evidence

“TRANSEARCH International is a global executive search and leadership consulting organisation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
4Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200425 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The GRS Group is an international executive search consultancy whose services include retained search, contingency search, advertised selection and interim solutions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
5Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200335 contacts →

Partial 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 29, 2026
6Indirect evidenceUk, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 2026n/a320 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In 2018 PGC rebranded as Friisberg & Partners International +44 207 062 3603”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
7Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 2026201-500205 contacts →

Strong evidence

“EMA Partners is a global executive search firm, with more than 40 offices, located on five continents.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200202 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“GatenbySanderson is the UK's leading people intelligence advisory business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
9Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200187 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Green Park is a specialist executive search and advisory firm trusted by organisations seeking stronger, more future-ready leadership.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
10Strong evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 2026201-500165 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Established in May 2005, Mackenzie Stuart was founded to deliver bespoke, sector-specific services & expertise and in doing so, establish a new standard within Executive Search.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
11Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200138 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are an award-winning Executive Search, Interim Management and Business Consulting firm with a strong reputation for building relationships and delivering excellence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
12Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200138 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Global Leaders for Global Challenges Perrett Laver is a leading global executive search firm advising on leadership for educational, research, healthcare, non-profit and cultural…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200120 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Leathwaite, we specialize in placing enterprise leaders who think business first, function second -leaders who don’t just manage their domain but actively push forward…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
14Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200119 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At Annapurna, we are focused on becoming a trusted responsible search partner for our clients.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
15Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200118 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Saxton Bampfylde is an independent, employee-owned executive search and leadership advisory firm, with 40 years of heritag, founded on a mission to change the world by changing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
16Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200118 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 29, 2026
17Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200117 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in 2011, Hunter Healthcare was built on a vision to raise the profile of the recruitment industry and become a global resourcing partner of choice for health and life…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
18Indirect evidenceWimbledon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pacific International has over 25 years of experience partnering with the world’s leading organisations, successfully delivering diverse talent to Fortune 500 and FTSE 100…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200100 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We believe a company can only become great by hiring great people.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
20Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5092 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Timberseed - we're a team of like-minded specialists driven by proven practices.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-20092 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 29, 2026
22Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5091 contacts →

Strong 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 29, 2026
23Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-20090 contacts →

Strong evidence

“TritonExec is Executive Search firm specializing Technology, Digital Transformation Services, and Private Equity-backed growth firms.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
24Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-20089 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are global executive search and leadership development specialists working to build a better future.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
25Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-20086 contacts →

Partial evidence

“As a leading Professional Services firm, we offer five interrelated Talent Acquisition & Advisory Services to help Boards with the challenges they face.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026

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Not-for-profit executive search firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 29, 2026
34.6%Verified-email coverage
13.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
58.4%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
881
11-50
374
51-200
64
201-500
5
501-1,000
2
1,001-5,000
4
5,001-10,000
1

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 1,333 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 not-for-profit executive search 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 “not-for-profit executive search 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 not-for-profit executive search 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 not-for-profit executive search 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, 6,115 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 29, 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 not-for-profit executive search 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 not-for-profit executive search firms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 1,333 not-for-profit executive search 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?

Antal International, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most not-for-profit executive search firms?

London leads with 778 headquartered companies, followed by Leeds (54) and Manchester (30).

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 6,115 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,333 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 29, 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.