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Top Recruitment Agencies: Permanent Recruitment in the UK

89 recruitment agencies ranked by rating, review volume and listing quality.

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Between them, the 89 recruitment agencies on this page cover temporary staffing (46), executive search (35), contract recruitment (30) and finance and accounting recruitment (17). They also list work in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds. 89 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.

We list 90 recruitment agencies in the UK listed for permanent recruitment. The order comes from what each firm publishes and what has been verified about it, never from payment — at the top right now: Hanson Regan, 24-7 Staffing Limited and 360 Recruitment.

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  1. Hyper Recruitment Solutions logo

    Hyper Recruitment Solutions

    Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) · Accounting & Finance · Life Sciences Recruitment · Also in Loughton and Oxfordshire

    Hyper Recruitment Solutions, known as HRS, is a specialist recruiter for the life sciences sector.

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  2. Impact Creative Recruitment Ltd logo

    Impact Creative Recruitment Ltd

    Sales and Marketing Recruitment · IT and Tech Recruitment · Temporary Staffing · Also in London

    Impact Creative Recruitment Ltd is a multi-division recruitment agency serving the media and creative industry.

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  3. Industria Personnel Services Ltd logo

    Industria Personnel Services Ltd

    Driving and Logistics Recruitment · Temporary Staffing · Executive Search · Also in Hinckley and Leicester

    Industria Personnel Services Ltd is a recruitment agency based in Leicester that places candidates with employers across the United Kingdom.

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  4. Inspired Recruitment Ltd logo

    Inspired Recruitment Ltd

    Temporary Staffing · Contract Recruitment · Engineering Recruitment

    Inspired Recruitment Ltd is a specialist recruiter for engineering and technical staff. It says it has provided recruitment services for around 25 years.

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  5. Instinct Resourcing logo

    Instinct Resourcing

    Life Sciences Recruitment · Contract Recruitment · Healthcare Recruitment · Also in York and Manchester

    Instinct Resourcing is a recruitment agency based in the UK that focuses on the digital learning and learning-technology sector.

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  6. Intelligent People logo

    Intelligent People

    Sales and Marketing Recruitment · Executive Search · Contract Recruitment · Also in Nice and London

    Intelligent People is a specialist recruitment and executive search agency with more than 24 years of experience.

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  7. ISR Recruitment logo

    ISR Recruitment

    IT and Tech Recruitment · Contract Recruitment · Also in Manchester and London

    ISR Recruitment is a technical recruitment agency headquartered in Manchester, with a second office in London.

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  8. JGA Recruitment Group logo

    JGA Recruitment Group

    Finance and Accounting Recruitment · Executive Search · Contract Recruitment · Also in Luton

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  9. Jo Holdsworth Recruitment Leeds logo

    Jo Holdsworth Recruitment Leeds

    Office and Admin Recruitment · Temporary Staffing · Executive Search · Also in Lisbon and Leeds

    Jo Holdsworth Recruitment Leeds is a commercial recruitment agency based in Leeds and known across Yorkshire, with reach across the UK. It began in 2005.

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  10. Jobwise logo

    Jobwise

    Office and Admin Recruitment · Driving and Logistics Recruitment · Accounting & Finance · Also in Altrincham and Warrington

    Jobwise is a recruitment agency in the North West of England that has operated since 1979.

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  11. Joyce Guiness logo

    Joyce Guiness

    Office and Admin Recruitment · Temporary Staffing · Contract Recruitment · Also in London

    Joyce Guiness is a London recruitment agency specialising in business support and personal assistant roles.

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  12. Jubilee Hospitality Recruitment logo

    Jubilee Hospitality Recruitment

    Temporary Staffing · Hospitality Recruitment · Also in Birmingham and Bristol

    Jubilee Hospitality Recruitment is a recruitment agency for the hospitality trade.

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  13. Juice Personnel logo

    Juice Personnel

    Construction and Property Recruitment · Driving and Logistics Recruitment · Temporary Staffing

    Wakefield recruitment agency supplying temporary and permanent staff in commercial, logistics, industrial and construction roles

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  14. Kintec Recruitment Ltd logo

    Kintec Recruitment Ltd

    Construction and Property Recruitment · Temporary Staffing · Executive Search · Also in New York City and Manchester

    Kintec Recruitment Ltd is an international recruitment company set up in 2001. It specialises in technical and engineering-related hiring, and lists offices on several continents.

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  15. KPI Recruiting Ltd logo

    KPI Recruiting Ltd

    Finance and Accounting Recruitment · Driving and Logistics Recruitment · Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

    KPI Recruiting Ltd is a UK recruitment agency providing professional search and flexible workforce solutions to large brands.

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  16. Language Matters logo

    Language Matters

    Contract Recruitment · Travel · Also in Europe and London

    Specialist recruiter placing bilingual and multilingual staff on temporary, contract and permanent terms in London and Amsterdam

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  17. Lifeline Dental Staff Ltd logo

    Lifeline Dental Staff Ltd

    Healthcare Recruitment · Tax · Booking · Also in Oxfordshire

    Lifeline Dental Staff Ltd is a staffing agency that supplies locum and permanent staff to dental practices in the south of England.

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How is this ranking worked out?

The order comes from what each firm publishes and what has been verified about it, and never from payment:

  • Profile completeness: the details a buyer needs to judge a firm — what it does, who it serves, how it prices, who it has worked for
  • Earned trust: verification, awards and the other checks a firm has actually passed
  • Client reviews, where they exist: the rating is smoothed, so one five-star review cannot outrank a firm with a hundred good ones, and volume counts with diminishing returns

Client reviews are still rare across this catalogue, so on most lists today the order is set by the first two. A firm near the top is the best-documented and best-verified one we hold, which is not the same claim as the best one to hire. Use the list to build a shortlist, then check the firms yourself.

Sponsored listings are labelled and shown apart from this list. How rankings work

Only firms whose profile names the UK are counted here, so a firm that lists a town but no country is not yet included.

Where else can I look?

The same list for the USA: permanent recruitment in the USA (113).

Other specialisms in the UK: temporary staffing (63) · executive search (55).

Every recruitment agency in the UK: the full list.

Every category in the UK: the UK country page.

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