London recruitment agencies connect employers and job-seekers across every sector, from finance and healthcare to creative and tech. With more than 2,000 London agencies listed, this page helps employers find trusted hiring partners and candidates discover new career opportunities.
AgencyCentral lists 69 popular industries and categorise recruitment agencies based on what they cover, so you can easily and quickly find the ones which are most helpful to you.
Lunaria Partners is a Legal-focused agency that hires for both law firms and in-house departments across the UK. From its London office, they recruit on a contract, permanent, and temporary basis. These include Document Review, Newly Qualified, Paralegal, and Risk & Compliance.
20-22 Wenlock Road, Islington, London, N1 7GU
FJWilson Talent Services leverages its expertise in the executive search industry by sourcing and selecting professionals for contract/interim and permanent placements. The firm is a member of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies and has Cyber Essentials certification. They have been dealing with various employers nationwide for over 14 years. FJWilson Talent Services also delivers consultancy and talent development services.
Unit Ec2 Charing Cross Road, Soho, London, WC2H 0NE
Hedge + Impact Headhunting conducts multi-disciplinary hiring solutions that meet client requirements nationwide and overseas. With teams based in London and New York, they mainly cover the Hedge Fund sector and assign professionals for a plethora of appointments at all levels. Their operations also reach FMCG, Front Office, Investment Analysis, Nutrition, Private Debts/Equity Banks, and Public & Private Sector divisions.
1 Mayfair Place, Mayfair, London, W1J 8AJ
CHS Group provides Construction recruitment solutions with a focus on the Mechanical and Electrical industries. Specifically making permanent placements, they cover assignments from graduate up to director levels, using their experience of over 10 years. They support the hiring of Commercial professionals, like Quantity Surveyors and Estimating Managers; and Operational experts, like Engineers, Project Managers and Operations Directors. Their office is in Soho.
71-75 Shelton Street, Soho, London, WC2H 9JQ
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Upload your CV andCrawford-Brown completes mandates in Cyber Security and Technology. Additionally, they fill executive roles. Situated in Holborn, their focus markets are the UK and US where they not only do recruitment, but also offer services on industry insights, market intelligence and advisory partnership, as well as work with private equity and venture capital firms. They were founded in 2021.
7 Bell Yard, Holborn, London, WC2A 2JR
Indigo Talent operates across the global content industry, assisting scripted and non-scripted houses, production companies, entertainment conglomerates and related institutions worldwide. Founded in 2006 in Marylebone, they take pride in collaborating with industry giants such as Sony Pictures Television, Netflix, BBC Worldwide, Disney+ and Fremantle Media. They accommodate recruitment requirements for on-screen and off-screen talent.
1 Warwick Street, Soho, London, W1B 5LR
JEJ IT Recruitment International specialises in assigning IT professionals to a wide variety of sectors nationwide and globally. These include Artificial Intelligence, Digital Media, Education, Engineering, Financial Services, Insurance, Legal, Marketing, Media, Property, Real Estate, Sports, and Telecommunications. They fill an array of contract and permanent vacancies and provide consultancy solutions from its London and New York offices.
Central Point, 45 Beech Street, City of London, London, EC2Y 8AD
KDH Associates is a talent acquisition and recruitment consultancy that assigns candidates to an array of vacancies. With a team based in London, their specialism extends across Architecture & Design, Environment, Planning, and Surveying markets nationwide. The agency has dealt with various fields for over 12 years, such as Asset Management, Infrastructure, Landscape, Strategic Promotion, Sustainability, Transport, and Urban Design.
34 South Molton Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 5RG
Lumino is a hiring solutions partner that operates in the Legal Cannabis market and offers HR Technology, Talent Intelligence, and Talent Strategy services. Serving various clients across the UK and globally, they source for a plethora of vacancies, such as Cultivation Managers, Pharmacy Technicians, and Quality Assurance Managers. Lumino also works with AgTech, Cosmetics, FMCG, Horticulture, Life Sciences & Biotech, and Pharmaceuticals sectors.
First Floor, 85 Great Portland St, Westminster, London, W1W 7LT
PKG Partners sources talent for the niche industry of global packaging. Covering disciplines such as corrugated packaging, carton packaging and automation, they administer executive search and recruitment process outsourcing. They are led by their director, who has over 15 years of experience in global packaging.
71-75 Shelton Street, Soho, London, WC2H 9JQ
Revilo specialises in technology talent acquisition, with a focus on headhunting developers across global markets, including London, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Singapore.
1 Saint Katharine's Way, Stepney, London, E1W 1LP
Ridgeback Recruitment provides headhunting and recruitment solutions for the financial services sector. Operating across the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, and Africa, they deliver permanent and contract placements.
87 Smithfields Close, Wimbledon, London, SW19 6JH
Imperium Search, a Soho-based recruitment solutions partner, carries out executive search services for the Alternative Lending, Finance, Infrastructure, Private Equity, and Real Estate industries. Serving clients across the UK and Europe, the firm assigns professionals to a wide variety of assignments. These include Business Development Managers, Fund Managers, Loan Underwriters, Portfolio Managers, Quantitative Modellers, and Research Analysts.
42-44 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London, W1D 7NB
Oxley & Partners puts forward executive search solutions in private banking and wealth management. Headquartered in Islington, they fill finance, operations and senior level front office roles, in addition to administering board search, talent mapping and psychometric assessment. They have been in the industry since 2017 and have served clients like Waverton Investment Management, Timothy James and Partners, Hampden & Co, and Hamish Leng & Co.
20-22 Wenlock Road, Islington, London, N1 7GU
PER-People hires professionals for the Venture Capital & Private Equity industry. With offices worldwide, they have openings internationally for junior and senior positions. Founded in 1998, they have helped companies with varying types of investments, like real estate and fund investment, for multi-level roles from entry-level analysts to investment directors to CFOs.
Kinnaird House, 1 Pall Mall East London, The Strand, London, SW1Y 5AU
Sanza Teaching Agency recruits Teaching professionals across the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada to teach in schools, nurseries, and colleges throughout the UK. They cover a broad spectrum of roles, school curriculum subjects, and settings. Their recruitment process involves one of their consultants holding a 60-minute meeting with a candidate to ensure the right fit for their client. They are also an REC Audited Education agency.
3rd Floor 110 High Holborn Rd, Bloomsbury, London, WC1V 6JS
AC Financial Recruitment was founded in 1996 and provides tailored services to many different companies and job seekers at all levels. They specialise in different areas including Banking & Financial Services, Investment Funds, Risk & Governance, and Accounting. The agency recruits for a variety of roles like Transfer Agency Administrator, Product Management Associate, and Risk Manager.
70 Gracechurch Street, City of London, London, EC3V 0HR
Marcilly Recruitment helps satisfy Administrative Support and Operational resource requirements for Businesses and Private Households. Utilising their team's experience of over five years in the Administration, Office Management and Executive Assistance spaces, they match prospective Office Assistants, Receptionists and more with the likes of financial services companies and family offices. They work from Wandsworth, delivering services nationall
167-169 Great Portland Street, London, Greater London, W1W 5PF
Creativehood leverages its more than 20 years of combined experience in connecting clients and candidates in an array of sectors. Operating across the UK, their expertise extends to the Design & Creative, Production, and Project Management industries. They are a London-based recruitment company that hires for contract, freelance, and permanent assignments. These include Digital Campaign Managers, Project Managers, and Senior Account Managers.
3rd Floor 86-90 Paul Street, City of London, London, EC2A 4NE
CVL:LDN, formed in 2011, satisfies the staffing needs of an extensive range of employers nationwide. The company has offices based in Birmingham and London that selects qualified job seekers and assigns them to a plethora of vacancies across all levels. They focus on the Utilities & Infrastructure verticals and cater to the following disciplines: Civil Engineering, Gas, Highways, Multi-utility, Power, Streetworks, Water, and Telecommunications.
86-90 Paul Street, City of London, London, EC2A 4NE
Hunter Bond is a global staffing agency founded in 2014 that provides permanent & contract opportunities to jobseekers, and talent solutions to companies, within the Finance, Transformation, and Technology space. They operate in London, Hong Kong, New York, Palo Alto, and Zurich. Hunter Bond offers account management, candidate testing, and managed service solutions to their clients.
65 London Wall, City of London, London, EC2M 5TU
PER is an agency that helps companies secure professional personnel in the Private Equity, Venture Capital and Asset Investors space. They cover both senior and junior roles, and some of their placements include Director, Associate, Financial Controller, VP, and Analyst. They have placed candidates across the world including in Mexico, Germany, the Middle East, Hong Kong, and the UK.
Kinnaird House, 1 Pall Mall East, The Strand, London, SW1Y 5AU
FOUND Careers matches supplies staff to the Built Environment sector. They handle roles such as Sustainability Consultant, Software Developer, Building Information Modeling (BIM) Coordinator, Project Architect, Environmental Design Specialist, Computational Designer, and more. They have worked with established companies like Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Mace Group, Zaha Hadid Architects, and HawkinsBrown.
Senna Building, Gorsuch Place, Bethnal Green, London, E2 8JF
Based in London, Place Careers specialise in the global placement of Architects, Developers and Interior Designers across a range of workplace settings.
42 Berners Street, Finsbury, London, W1T 3NG
Formed in 2005, Folio Recruitment is a specialist recruitment agency dedicated to serving the Editorial, Content Creation, Digital, and Print fields. From Editorial Assistant to Director, or Social Media Manager to Content Planner, Folio Recruitment specialises in placing freelance and permanent talents in the Media industry across the UK. They work with ad agencies, content marketing agencies, global news publishers, PR agencies, and more.
Unit 2, 27 Ackmar Road, Fulham, London, SW6 4UR
Marketing Talent specialises in delivering Marketing professionals to various permanent and contract assignments across the UK. For over nine years, they have been catering to clients in a broad range of verticals, such as Content Marketing, Direct Marketing, Digital/Online Marketing, Marketing Data, and Social Media Marketing.
3rd Floor, News Building, Bermondsey, London, SE1 9SG
Thurn Partners Ltd specialises in the niche sector of Alternative Investment Management, recruiting for roles in Investment, Research and Technology. Disciplines they handle are Capital Introduction, Capital & Money Markets and Fintech, hiring Chief Information Officers, Engineers and more since 2017. They have a footprint across North America and Europe, through teams in the City of London and New York in the US.
10 Devonshire Square, City of London, London, EC2M 4YP
A talent acquisition company, Olive Delta deals with Commodity Trading, Financial Services, and Information Technology verticals across the UK, Asia, and Europe. Headquartered in London, they have been making permanent and contract appointments at all levels. These include Asset Managers, Business Analysts, Development Managers, and Software Engineers/Programmers. Olive Delta also supports Oil & Gas and Risk divisions.
Kemp House, 160 City Road, Finsbury, London, EC1V 2NX
Proco Global is an international executive search company that provides opportunities for candidates and workforce solutions to clients within the Supply Chain industry. The company has completed searches in over 50 countries and they also have more than seven global office locations including in Hong Kong, Mexico City, New York, and Vancouver. They offer client services such as contingent search, retained search, and interim recruitment.
71 Broadwick Street, Brighton, East Sussex, W1F 9QY
Established in 2003, FH Executive Search recruits for non-executive, executive, and senior management appointments only. Their main focus is the Consumer sector and all its areas. They also offer headhunting, market mapping, reference taking, and psychometric assessment services. The company has offices in London and Leeds.
50 Liverpool Street, City of London, London, EC2M 7PY
Vembo is a specialist IT and Engineering recruitment agency based in London that supplies contract and permanent staff across the UK for a range of roles.
Kemp House, 152 City Road, Finsbury, London, EC1V 2NX
An established recruitment specialist, GM Recruitment works exclusively for the Construction, Engineering, and Technical industries nationwide. From their offices in London, they hire skilled candidates for a range of contract, temporary, and permanent positions. GM Recruitment was founded in 2004 and is an accredited member of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation.
100-104 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London, SW15 2SP
Harrison Pursey is a Soho-based specialist that supplies permanent, temporary, and contract personnel for Creative and Media jobs. They have 20 years of industry experience and are long-term members of REC and D&AD.
Henry Wood House, 2 Riding House Street, Westminster, London, W1W 7FA
Hatty Blue is a firm that supplies professional labour Marketing, Business Support, and HR. Hatty Blue was established by Joanna Donelan and Siobhan Rourke in 2008. The firm is a member of REC and offers a career coaching programme.
74 Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 5QA
Westminster Medical exclusively recruits in the Medical and Healthcare sectors. They place Nurses, Doctors, Carers and a range of Medical personnel all over the UK.
Unit 123, Dolphin Square, Westminster, London, SW1V 3LX
Established in 1998, C&M Travel Recruitment works within the Travel and Leisure sectors. They offer UK wide staffing solutions for temporary, permanent and control roles from their Manchester, Surrey and London offices.
Becket House, 36 Old Jewry, Marylebone, London, EC2R 8DD
A trusted recruitment consultancy company, Timberseed specialises in delivering professionals in various senior-level positions, including director and c-level roles. They also provide staff in the SaaS Sales sector nationwide. Headquartered in London, the agency supplies headhunting services for a broad range of contract and permanent assignments, and covers graduate roles, such as Graduate Sales Executive and Graduate Researcher.
42-46 Princelet St, Aldgate, London, E1 5LP
Holland Park Staffing is a provider of workforce solutions for Office and Domestic jobs. Founded in 2009 by their Director, Bianca Tonkin, they recruit for a range of roles, including PA, Admin, Housekeeper, Executive Assistant, and Junior PA. They also offer a Household Management Consultancy service.
83 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, SW1H 0HW
Harper May is a multi-sector agency that provides recruitment solutions in the Financial Services, Retail, Leisure & Hospitality, Online, FMCG, Technology, and Healthcare industries in Greater London. The agency was started by Alex Hathiramani and Daniel MacKenzie in 2011.
63-66 Hatton Garden, City of London, London, EC1N 8LE
AA Recruitment is based in London, and supplies general and specialist Nursing and Care Workers to NHS and private hospitals, nursing homes, and residential homes. They also recruit for roles such as Traffic Marshals, Cleaners, Commissionaires, Concierge Services, Fire Wardens, and Event Stewards in London and the South East.
Ground Floor, Conduit Business Centre, Conduit Mews, Woolwich, London, SE18 7AP
London salaries often sit well above the UK average, reflecting both competition and living costs. Many professional roles start near £30,000, while mid-level staff may earn £45,000 to £60,000. Senior positions, particularly in banking or consultancy, can exceed £90,000. Employers face recruitment fees that range between 15% and 25% of annual salary for permanent placements, with daily contractor rates varying widely by trade and skill level.
The capital attracts candidates with a broad range of qualifications. Employers seeking office staff often look for degrees or professional certificates from bodies like the CIPD, ACCA, or CIM. For industrial and service work, agencies may prioritise safety cards, food hygiene certificates, or plant operation licences.
Inner London commands higher pay than outer boroughs, and recruitment demand remains strongest in areas with dense commercial activity such as the City, Canary Wharf, and Shoreditch. South and East London often see higher temporary and service-sector hiring through agencies, while North and West London maintain steady professional recruitment markets.
Employers in London face talent shortages in healthcare, construction, education, and IT. Competition for qualified candidates is fierce, and agency partners often play a major role in sourcing and screening applicants quickly. Housing costs and commuting pressures add to retention challenges, making employer reputation and flexible working key factors in successful hiring.
Recruitment agencies in London handle everything from temporary warehouse placements to executive search for board-level staff. Common placements include office administrators, project managers, nurses, software developers, chefs, and marketing executives. Many candidates begin with short-term contracts before progressing to permanent roles through agency introductions.
London’s recruitment market is driven by finance, professional services, media, technology, education, hospitality, and healthcare. Major employers range from global banks and law firms to NHS Trusts, universities, and hospitality groups. The city’s ongoing growth in fintech and creative industries continues to attract specialist agencies with niche expertise.
Talent shortages are evident across health and social care, software engineering, and skilled trades. Conversely, entry-level roles in retail and administration can attract high application volumes, making candidate screening vital. Recruitment agencies often balance this by using pre-vetted databases and targeted outreach.
Technology, renewable energy, and healthcare remain growth areas for London recruitment. Demand for cybersecurity analysts, care professionals, and data specialists continues to expand, while the creative and digital sectors sustain high volumes of freelance and project-based hiring.