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Top 25 Professional services recruiters based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 5,055 professional services recruiters headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 88,700 professional contacts across them, including 19,668 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers professional services recruiters 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.
The 25 largest professional services recruiters based in the 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,071 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Michael Page, Page Personnel, Page Executive and Page Outsourcing are all part of PageGroup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,979 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Antal International is a global executive search organisation with over 130 offices in more than 30 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,927 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avance Consulting is a global organization focused on delivering innovative talent solution services to some of the most renowned companies in the world, across industries that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 75 years, the middle is where we've worked best.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Page Executive is a global leader in executive search & recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TRANSEARCH International is a global executive search and leadership consulting organisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Venn Group, we make recruitment personal - it’s more than just a job.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aldelia is a world leading Human Resources advisory firm, leader in professional recruitment services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Page Outsourcing was created to meet the business transformation needs of our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gravitas are serious about impacting the recruitment industry - positively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trading since 2007 Express Staffing focuses on a variety of clients predominately, but not limited to, commercial property.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Selective Personnel, each and every candidate is interviewed personally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 323 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Approach Major Recruitment offers 34 years of experience within multi-specialist recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 2018 PGC rebranded as Friisberg & Partners International +44 207 062 3603” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SF Recruitment was founded in 1998 on a simple belief: everyone deserves to work in a job they love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 289 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since our establishment in Huntress has been at the forefront of recruitment across a range of specialist sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oscar is an award-winning, global recruitment consultancy that takes an ethical, sustainable and people-first approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1970, IPS are global specialists in recruiting for permanent, temporary and contract insurance, pension and finance jobs for all business functions within the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sheffield Haworth is a global consultancy founded in 1993.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tangent International Integrated Talent and Delivery across Technology and Communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EST are a multi service professional practice offering HR Consultancy, Accountancy & Tax advice and Commercial Finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: professional services recruiters. 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 professional services recruiters.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of professional services recruiters, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name professional services recruiters. 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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Professional services recruiters based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 5,055 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 professional services recruiters, 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 “professional services recruiters”. 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 professional services recruiters), 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 professional services recruiters, 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, 19,668 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.
Professional services recruiters by metro
- Professional services recruiters in London2111
- Professional services recruiters in Manchester186
- Professional services recruiters in Leeds121
- Professional services recruiters in Birmingham95
- Professional services recruiters in Bristol93
- Professional services recruiters in Edinburgh50
- Professional services recruiters in Glasgow50
- Professional services recruiters in Liverpool45
- Professional services recruiters in Newcastle Upon Tyne29
- Professional services recruiters in Reading29
- Professional services recruiters in Sheffield28
- Professional services recruiters in Nottingham27
- Professional services recruiters in Belfast26
- Professional services recruiters in Brighton26
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 professional services recruiters, 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 professional services recruiters are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 5,055 professional services recruiters 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?
HAYS, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most professional services recruiters?
London leads with 2111 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (186) and Leeds (121).
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 19,668 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,055 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.
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