Recruitment agencies in London ranked by employee growth
Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . Showing the top 50 of 248 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 248 of 18,594
- Ranked first
- CROWD MASTER LTD
- Top headcount increase
- +114 employees
- Data as of
Summary
Of the 18,594 recruitment agencies in London that we checked, 248 met the rules for this list by growing their average employees between their latest two annual accounts. CROWD MASTER LTD (opens in a new tab) leads after its average employees moved from 65 to 179 (+175.4%), ahead of LINNK GROUP LIMITED and A1JOBS LIMITED.
- Median company age: 6 years
- Companies that at least doubled their average employees: 27
- Incorporated before 2010: 4 companies
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 CROWD MASTER LTD (opens in a new tab) 65 (2023) to 179 (2024) +175.4%
- Rank 2 LINNK GROUP LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 359 (2023) to 472 (2024) +31.5%
- Rank 3 A1JOBS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 26 (2023) to 112 (2024) +330.8%
- Rank 4 BOUNDLESS PAYROLL UK LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 167 (2023) to 246 (2024) +47.3%
- Rank 5 PROSPERO GROUP LTD (opens in a new tab) 268 (2023) to 345 (2024) +28.7%
- Rank 6 APEX CARE SOLUTIONS LTD (opens in a new tab) 58 (2023) to 125 (2024) +115.5%
- Rank 7 MEDICAL RESOURCE PARTNERS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 98 (2023) to 165 (2024) +68.4%
- Rank 8 JLC (UK) SG LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 35 (2023) to 88 (2024) +151.4%
- Rank 9 DOMESTIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 8 (2024) to 50 (2025) +525.0%
- Rank 10 SCOBIC LTD (opens in a new tab) 126 (2023) to 168 (2024) +33.3%
The ranking
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50 rows, the same as the table. “–” means the figure was not filed.
How this list was made
- Industry
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Companies with any of these SIC codes on their Companies House record:
- 78100 – Activities of employment placement agencies
- 78109 – Other activities of employment placement agencies
- 78200 – Temporary employment agency activities
- 78300 – Human resources provision and management of human resources functions
- Location
- The post town of the registered office address is London.
- Periods compared
- Each company's latest annual accounts against its accounts for the year before. Companies whose two latest accounts are not for consecutive years are left out.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the increase in average employees between the latest two consecutive annual accounts, then by percentage increase. Companies must have started with at least 5 average employees.
- Exclusions
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Companies that are dissolved, in liquidation, in administration or proposed to be struck off; dormant companies; and companies whose latest accounts end more than 21 months before the newest accounts in the data (or are dated after it).
Figures that cannot be right, which are most likely filing errors, are also left out:
- headcount more than 10 times the year before
- an employee number identical to the net assets figure, or above 100,000
- more employees than the company's accounts category allows (micro: 50, small: 250, with a margin)
- less than £5,000 of turnover per employee, or a round number of thousands with no turnover to check it against
- Companies checked
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Companies with a matching SIC code in London18,594Not active−3,534Dormant−1,320Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−8,544Figure missing for one of the two years−2,115Starting figure below the minimum−2,312No increase−509Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−12Qualified for this list248