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Top 25 Women owned recruitment firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 460 women owned recruitment firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 4,250 professional contacts across them, including 1,364 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers women owned recruitment 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.
The 25 largest women owned recruitment firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gravitas are serious about impacting the recruitment industry - positively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Outsource UK is one of the country’s largest and most successful independent specialist recruitment agencies, established over 30 years ago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Recruitment and Talent Solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “McGregor Boyall is a women-owned global recruitment consultancy founded in 1987.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nicoll Curtin is an award-winning recruitment company specialising in technology and change verticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 104 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connections Is Now Yoh!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help organisations to close the growing skills gap by widening the talent pool and unlocking the potential that sits within diverse population groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We aim to build exceptional teams in the tech space, focusing on two core engineering specialisms: Advanced Software Engineering and AI, ML, & Data Engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2005, Oakleaf Partnership has been successfully placing people into jobs across every HR discipline, in every sector imaginable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Having worked within the recruitment industry for over fifteen years we have built up a strong reputation with clients and candidates as accomplished recruiters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Career Moves Group is a certified B Corp™ and women-owned boutique recruitment agency with over 15 years of experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Randstad is the world's largest HR services provider and is driven to become the world's most valued 'working life partner', supporting people all over the world to find their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Partnering with organisations to deliver outstanding recruitment solutions in financial services, professional services and commerce and industry since 2005.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Warren Partners is a leading purpose driven, employee-owned search firm, devoted to building and supporting diverse boards and executive leadership teams internationally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Spinks, we connect talent with a growth mindset to industry disruptors and leaders across the technology landscape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recruiting” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Totum is unparalleled at matching the best business services talent with professional services firms across the UK, USA and globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re the talent acquisition partner of choice for some of the world’s biggest companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global Resourcing is an expert provider of innovative recruitment and consulting solutions in support of digital, data and technology transformation, across the public and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Contracts IT is underpinned by conscious leadership, it nurtures a strong diversity ethic championing inclusive best practice in the world of technology recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inventum Group is a talent consultancy providing inclusive people solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Lucy Walker Recruitment’s Company page!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Welcome to Noble Recruiting, an independent, family-owned recruitment agency in Essex established in 2008, delivering temporary and permanent recruitment solutions across Essex…” 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: women owned recruitment 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 women owned recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of women owned recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name women owned recruitment 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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Women owned recruitment firms 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 460 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 women owned recruitment 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 “women owned recruitment 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 women owned recruitment 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 women owned recruitment 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, 1,364 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.
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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 women owned recruitment 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 women owned recruitment firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 460 women owned recruitment 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?
LA Fosse, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most women owned recruitment firms?
London leads with 200 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (21) and Birmingham (12).
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 1,364 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 460 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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