Recruitment agencies in Manchester 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 . All 28 companies that qualified are shown.
- Companies qualified
- 28 of 1,770
- Ranked first
- THE ORCHARD AGENCY LIMITED
- Top headcount increase
- +26 employees
- Data as of
Summary
Of the 1,770 recruitment agencies in Manchester that we checked, 28 met the rules for this list by growing their average employees between their latest two annual accounts. THE ORCHARD AGENCY LIMITED (opens in a new tab) leads after its average employees moved from 53 to 79 (+49.1%), ahead of STANDGUIDE LIMITED and AH SHARED SERVICES LIMITED.
- Incorporated before 2010: 5 companies
- Median company age: 9 years
- Combined average employees: 894 in the earlier year, 1,064 in the latest
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 THE ORCHARD AGENCY LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 53 (2023) to 79 (2024) +49.1%
- Rank 2 STANDGUIDE LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 306 (2023) to 327 (2024) +6.9%
- Rank 3 AH SHARED SERVICES LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 85 (2023) to 105 (2024) +23.5%
- Rank 4 RAINBOW LIVING CARE LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 86 (2024) to 104 (2025) +20.9%
- Rank 5 UK GSR TECHNOLOGY LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 5 (2023) to 15 (2024) +200.0%
- Rank 6 THE UDDER GROUP LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 7 (2023) to 17 (2024) +142.9%
- Rank 7 HUB-SCALE LTD (opens in a new tab) 6 (2024) to 14 (2025) +133.3%
- Rank 8 VIVID CARE SERVICES LTD (opens in a new tab) 30 (2023) to 38 (2024) +26.7%
- Rank 9 FOOTPRINT SOCIAL ENTERPRISE LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 10 (2024) to 17 (2025) +70.0%
- Rank 10 1ST CALL BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 22 (2023) to 29 (2024) +31.8%
The ranking
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28 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 Manchester.
- 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 Manchester1,770Not active−466Dormant−96Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−724Figure missing for one of the two years−201Starting figure below the minimum−187No increase−67Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−1Qualified for this list28