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Top 25 Recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 15,350 recruiting agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of August 2026 and tracks 186,420 professional contacts across them, including 42,451 with verified work emails and 12,872 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers recruiting agencies 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 August 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 recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,828 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reed is the largest family-run recruitment business in the world and we’ve been improving lives through work since 1960.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,262 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Harvey Nash, and we build amazing technology and digital teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 954 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Randstad is your partner for talent, finding, nurturing, and connecting specialized talent with businesses to cultivate rewarding careers and build high-performing teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 905 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With a unique 50-year heritage of innovative recruitment, Morson Talent is a business with unrivalled sector knowledge, trusted relationships, highly skilled expertise and a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 560 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re THE RECRUITMENT Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 393 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Page Outsourcing was created to meet the business transformation needs of our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SRG delivers next-generation talent solutions that power discovery and shape the future of Life Sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Selective Personnel, each and every candidate is interviewed personally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Your Service is the UK’s leading supplier of professional hospitality staff with over 30 years of experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Frank Recruitment Group delivers the very best specialist IT professionals to vendor channel partners, SMEs and Enterprises across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kingdom People are an independent specialist recruitment division that successfully looks to provide our clients with the best talent and most flexible working provisions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 18 years we have been placing thousands of candidates within the education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Total Catering Solutions (TCS) Recruitment is a one stop shop specialising in staffing and recruitment solutions within the hospitality, catering and food production industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One of the UK's leading recruitment providers, the Sugarman Group specialises in placing Physotherapists, Doctors, OT's, Phlebotomists, Healthcare Assistants, Nurses, Social…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SERVICE > COMPLIANCE > ADDED VALUE The UK's 13th fastest growing recruiter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Resource Solutions is a leading provider of recruitment and consultancy solutions, managing a recruitment budget of over £2 billion on behalf of our clients since 1997, as part of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pathway is an international recruitment consultancy providing precision staffing solutions to the IT, Finance, Engineering, Legal and HR markets in the UK, Middle East, Mainland…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Staff 86, we specialise in providing top-tier temporary and permanent staffing solutions across the hospitality, events, marketing, and sales industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kripson Staffing is offering full range of staffing options for, IT, Healthcare (travel), local contract, and direct hire in UK, Europe and US.Our experienced recruiting and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WMS Recruitment specialise in supplying labour to the food and agriculture industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Direct Staff UK is a leading recruitment agency established in 2007, specialising in the supply of industrial and hospitality staff across the whole of the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2017 by Shelby Hateley and Demi Cooper.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2001 we have developed a reputation for supplying the best temporary and permanent staff to hotels and restaurants throughout central London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arvy hospitality is the leading specialist in recruitment and workforce solutions providing company all over the United Kingdom over the years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 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: recruiting agencies. 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 recruiting agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of recruiting agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name recruiting agencies. 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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Recruiting agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Aug 29, 2026Companies by employee count
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 recruiting agencies, 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 “recruiting agencies”. 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 recruiting agencies), 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 recruiting agencies, 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, 42,451 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 August 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.
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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 recruiting agencies, 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 recruiting agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 15,350 recruiting agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of August 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?
REED, headquartered in Swansea, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most recruiting agencies?
London leads with 5265 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (613) and Leeds (359).
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 42,451 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 15,350 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on August 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.