Recruitment agencies in London ranked by number of employees
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 464 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 464 of 18,594
- Ranked first
- MARKETPLACE DIRECT LIMITED
- Average employees of no. 1
- 1,295
- Data as of
Summary
464 recruitment agencies with a registered office in London reported average employees of 10 or more in their latest accounts.
MARKETPLACE DIRECT LIMITED (opens in a new tab) ranks first, with 1,295 average employees, followed by RESPONSE RECRUITMENT LIMITED with 583.
The median listed company was incorporated 12 years ago. The youngest company on the list is DAYGER CONTRACTORS LTD, incorporated in 2023.
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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. The previous year's figure is shown for context and does not affect the ranking.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the average number of employees in the latest filed accounts. Companies with fewer than 10 employees are left out.
- 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:
- 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−8,544Average employees not filed in the latest accounts−1,583Average employees below 10−3,129Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−20Qualified for this list464