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Top 25 Talent acquisition firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 12,558 talent acquisition firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 225,677 professional contacts across them, including 53,238 with verified work emails and 15,941 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers talent acquisition 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 6, 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 talent acquisition firms 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,837 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 Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,423 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to the Page Personnel company profile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Arrow is the UK’s Best-Known Staffing Agency, placing tens of thousands of candidates into temporary and permanent jobs for employers in the transport, logistics, call…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,071 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Michael Page, Page Personnel, Page Executive and Page Outsourcing are all part of PageGroup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,927 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Staffline, we make recruitment simple, strategic and effective.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,429 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Search is one of the UK’s leading multi-discipline recruitment agencies, covering more than 14 different specialisms and operating from 13 offices nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 40 years now, we’ve been helping you to find the right path to a happy and successful future whether you’re a jobseeker or an employer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Harvey Nash, and we build amazing technology and digital teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,235 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Protocol Education is a specialist provider of recruitment services to the education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 75 years, the middle is where we've worked best.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 956 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Randstad is your partner for talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 909 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 897 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From Investment Banking, Risk Management, Quantitative Trading, and Insurance, to Investment Management, Sales & Trading, Technology, and Wealth Management, Selby Jennings…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 870 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Oliver James, we deliver flexible hiring solutions tailored to your business needs across financial services, professional services, commerce & industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 17 years of experience, we are a trusted nationwide recruitment agency specialising in providing high-quality temporary staff in an array of roles to a wide range of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 813 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For hospitality recruitment with a difference, choose Host.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 754 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Matchtech, we do more than recruit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 731 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spencer Ogden | Powering Progress Spencer Ogden partners with the organisations shaping the future of Critical Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Sustainability, and Finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 682 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re the recognized global leaders in Microsoft recruitment; it’s all we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 627 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “25 years of tech recruitment!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 6, 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: talent acquisition 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 talent acquisition firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of talent acquisition firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name talent acquisition 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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Talent acquisition firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 6, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
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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 talent acquisition 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 “talent acquisition 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 talent acquisition 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 talent acquisition 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, 53,238 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 6, 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.
Talent acquisition firms by metro
- Talent acquisition firms in London4922
- Talent acquisition firms in Manchester483
- Talent acquisition firms in Leeds311
- Talent acquisition firms in Birmingham273
- Talent acquisition firms in Bristol185
- Talent acquisition firms in Glasgow118
- Talent acquisition firms in Liverpool103
- Talent acquisition firms in Edinburgh100
- Talent acquisition firms in Milton Keynes84
- Talent acquisition firms in Reading76
- Talent acquisition firms in Southampton73
- Talent acquisition firms in Brighton70
- Talent acquisition firms in Sheffield68
- Talent acquisition firms in Nottingham66
- Talent acquisition firms in Belfast63
- Talent acquisition firms in Newcastle Upon Tyne59
- Talent acquisition firms in Leicester55
- Talent acquisition firms in Cambridge54
- Talent acquisition firms in Portsmouth51
- Talent acquisition firms in Northampton49
- Talent acquisition firms in Cardiff45
- Talent acquisition firms in Coventry45
- Talent acquisition firms in Norwich44
- Talent acquisition firms in Warrington41
- Talent acquisition firms in Aberdeen36
- Talent acquisition firms in Cheltenham35
- Talent acquisition firms in Chelmsford34
- Talent acquisition firms in Derby34
- Talent acquisition firms in St Albans34
- Talent acquisition firms in Swindon34
- Talent acquisition firms in Bournemouth33
- Talent acquisition firms in Chester32
- Talent acquisition firms in Harrogate32
- Talent acquisition firms in Oxford31
- Talent acquisition firms in Ipswich30
- Talent acquisition firms in Preston30
- Talent acquisition firms in Watford30
- Talent acquisition firms in Hove29
- Talent acquisition firms in Maidenhead29
- Talent acquisition firms in Peterborough29
- Talent acquisition firms in Fareham28
- Talent acquisition firms in Stockport28
- Talent acquisition firms in Wolverhampton27
- Talent acquisition firms in Worcester27
- Talent acquisition firms in Exeter25
- Talent acquisition firms in Guildford25
- Talent acquisition firms in York25
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 talent acquisition 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 talent acquisition firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 12,558 talent acquisition 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?
HAYS, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most talent acquisition firms?
London leads with 4922 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (483) and Leeds (311).
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 53,238 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 12,558 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 6, 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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