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Top 25 Recruitment advertising agencies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 2,534 recruitment advertising agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 31,929 professional contacts across them, including 5,405 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers recruitment advertising 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 September 21, 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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2,534Companies
31,929Contacts tracked
5,405Verified emails
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The 25 largest recruitment advertising agencies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 2,534 recruitment advertising agencies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to recruitment advertising agencies: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0004,423 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Partial evidenceBromsgrove, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a3,407 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Agricultural and Farming Jobs are an established niche Agricultural Recruitment Agency based in our highly professional offices in rural Worcestershire.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a333 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Search jobs or partner with us by visiting We are Aspire.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Indirect evidenceOrpington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a333 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 21, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a285 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hiring in fashion, retail, beauty or FMCG?”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200225 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in 2005 by Rethink Group, we deliver recruitment strategies for the curious: those who want to surpass their competition by attracting, engaging and hiring the best…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a217 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Eleven connects dynamic people and businesses where bold ideas will help shape the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200203 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 21, 2026
9Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000203 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Indirect evidenceBrechin, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500200 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Join Talent is a ‘talent acquisition as a service’ (TAaaS) business - dedicated to driving business scale up growth performance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500196 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Totaljobs is part of StepStone, one of the world’s leading next-generation recruitment solution providers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a191 contacts →

Indirect 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 21, 2026
13Indirect evidenceFarnham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-50149 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our business is finding the best people.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Partial evidenceStoke, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200144 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are one of the fastest growing recruitment businesses in the UK, providing professional search services and flexible workforce solutions to some of the world’s largest brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Partial evidencePreston, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200125 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Formed in 2017, we’re an energetic, ambitious and award winning recruitment agency operating across 11 specialisms in the public and private sector: • Accountancy & Finance •…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Indirect evidenceRomford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200123 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Premier Work Support specialises in not only matching skills to vacancies, but people to companies, as we believe that successful temporary and permanent placements require both…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200123 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Retail, commercial and hospitality recruitment specialist.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 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 21, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500116 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The battle for the best talent is exactly that.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20Partial evidenceGloucester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200116 contacts →

Partial evidence

“In operation since 1977, our reputation for excellence has come from providing Companies and Individuals with an outstanding recruitment service to suit their every need.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-50101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“VMA Group delivers talent solutions that shape and elevate teams globally.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22Partial evidenceSale, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20096 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We're your recruitment partner - providing the day-to-day consultancy that you can rely on.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50095 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Broadbean is the global leader in providing sophisticated, yet easy-to-use candidate sourcing tools that help recruiters improve efficiency and increase return on investment.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24Partial evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20092 contacts →

Partial 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 21, 2026
25Partial evidenceCastle Donington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5091 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At The Recruitment Group, we’re redefining recruitment by putting people back at the heart of the process.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Recruitment advertising agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
16.9%Verified-email coverage
12.6Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
33.7%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
1,820
11-50
584
51-200
95
201-500
20
501-1,000
5
1,001-5,000
6
10001+
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 2,534 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 recruitment advertising 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 “recruitment advertising 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 recruitment advertising 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 recruitment advertising 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, 5,405 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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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 recruitment advertising 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 recruitment advertising agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 2,534 recruitment advertising agencies 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?

Robert Walters, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most recruitment advertising agencies?

London leads with 853 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (90) and Birmingham (60).

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 5,405 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,534 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 21, 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.