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.
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Arlo of London Ltd sources Hospitality specialists with a focus on Hotel Housekeeping, Food & Beverages, Front of House and Kitchen Staff. Their history started in 2008 as a Domestic Cleaning Company and they expanded to provide recruitment services in 2019. Since then they have worked for establishments such as Edwardian Hotels London, Radisson Blu, Imperial London Hotels and The May Fair Hotel. They are headquartered in Upper Holloway.
2nd Floor 14 Windermere road Upper Holloway, Upper Holloway, London, N19 5SG
Innoven Global has a wealth of experience catering to the Smart and Renewable Energy markets since its foundation in 2018. These include Digital Transformation, Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage, Internet of Things, Smart Grid, and Smart Metering. The talent firm operates across the UK and internationally, commonly hiring for contract, freelance, and permanent placements at all levels.
WeWork Moor Place 1 Fore Street Avenue, City of London, London, EC2Y 9DT
Christopher Keats Media Limited, situated in Shoreditch, helps fulfil recruitment requirements in Media, Creative and Entertainment as well as Marketing, Advertising, Digital, Technology, Music and Film & TV. Their story commenced in 1987 and they were able to partner with a variety of institutions such as Dazed & Confused Magazine, McDonald's and Universal Music Group. Some vacancies they cover are HR Officer and Digital Marketing Executive.
Unit 4.07 The Tea Building 56 Shoreditch High Street, Aldgate, London, E1 6JJ
Black Dot Consulting is a niche Design recruitment company with an international reach handling fields like Industrial Design, Design Engineering, Transportation Design, UI/UX and Project & Product Management. Incorporated in 2015, they assist enterprises in Automotive, Smart Home, Consumer Electronics, Industry & Manufacturing and more. Their candidate database includes Client Engagement Managers, Senior UI/UX Designers and Visual Designers.
1 More London Place, Bermondsey, London, SE1 2AF
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International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, Clerkenwell, London, EC1A 2BN
QLM Search, headquartered in London, supplies staffing solutions to clients in the Food, Beverage, and FMCG sectors across the UK and globally. Their services also include executive assessment & succession planning, market mapping, and organisational design. The company attracts professionals to a plethora of vacancies at all levels, such as Food Safety & Quality Director, Plant Director, Procurement Leader, and Vice President of Manufacturing.
86-90 Paul Street, 3rd Floor, City of London, London, EC2A 4NE
Score Associates is a recruitment agency that specialises in the real estate and facilities management sectors, operating across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
10 York Road, Bermondsey, London, SE1 7ND
ASEND, a national provider of employment opportunities, deals exclusively with the Child Care and Education sectors. They are Cyber Essentials Certified and have been placing candidates for various positions since its foundation in 2011, such as Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, and Specialist Teachers. The company also delivers consultancy and training services to clients in local authorities.
49 The Mall, Southgate, London, N14 6LR
Lofthouse Group focuses on delivering specialised hiring solutions to a diverse range of Architecture and Interior Design providers. Headquartered in London, the agency places various candidates to various appointments, including Associate Heritage Consultants, BIM Managers, Heads of Sustainability, Planning Architects, and Senior Architects. They also work with commercial offices, hospitality, hotels, and residential clients.
124 City Road, Finsbury, London, EC1V 2NX
Campbell Brown, an independent Bloomsbury firm, exclusively delivers executive search solutions to the Marketing Services, Entertainment and Media sectors. They were launched in 2010 by a Qualified Chartered Accountant, following his 13 years of recruitment experience. Performing search & selection and assessment, they have forged long-term partnerships with both applicants and businesses, some of which have been going strong for over 10 years.
1 Alfred Place, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7EB
Clarence George matches Actuarial, Investment and Risk candidates with Insurance and Investment companies across Life Insurance, Asset Management, Private Equity and more. Founded in 2019, they are mainly on the lookout for individuals who have qualifications such as Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, Chartered Financial Analyst, and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, Financial Risk Manager. They are located in the City of London.
77 Coleman Street, City of London, London, EC2R 5BJ
Metallum Partners aids in meeting the staffing requirements of clients in the Energy & Renewables, Mining, Oil & Gas, and Physical & Soft Commodities sectors. They operate across the UK and internationally, filling interim and permanent vacancies at all levels. Since its foundation in 2005, the agency has been dealing with private equity organisations and the following disciplines: Finance, Risk and IT, Investment Banking, and M&A.
Berkeley Suite, 35 Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, W1J 5BF
With 17 years of experience, Red Hat Recruitment is an agency that provides contract, temporary, and permanent staffing solutions. The agency is a Financial recruiter for the Media sector, and sources Accounting and Commercial talent for the Creative industry. Some job roles the agency recruits for include Qualified Accountant, Finance Director, and Commercial Director.
S73 New Wing Somerset House, The Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
Maceo Search Limited has a wealth of experience providing talent acquisition solutions to the Financial Services market and various functions. For over 26 years, the company has been delivering employment opportunities to a wide variety of job seekers nationwide and across APAC and North America. They also cover Asset Management, Banking, Funds, and Investment Management disciplines, and offer consultancy services from its London branch.
147 Station Road, Chingford, London, E4 6AG
Cross Border Search (CBS) Partners is a London-based specialist recruiter for the Financial industry in the UK and internationally. They deliver Financial roles at all levels to local and overseas clients.
50 Broadway, The Strand, London, SW1H 0BL
Robert Giles Agencies is a national talent firm that delivers personnel for both permanent and temporary positions in a broad range of disciplines within the Engineering industry. Since its establishment in 1974, the agency has been placing staff for fields such as Building, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, and Rail. Robert Giles agencies is an accredited London-based member of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals.
6 Bray Place, Chelsea, London, SW3 3LP
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
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
Pros2Work is a digital tech recruitment agency that specialises in connecting companies with top-tier tech talent. With expertise in technology, sales, recruitment, and psychology, they take a personalised approach to understanding your needs. Pros2Work focuses on finding high-calibre candidates for roles within the rapidly evolving tech industry, working closely with clients to ensure the best possible match.
207 Lavender Hill, Battersea, London, SW11 5SD
Prospectus is a company that offers a wide range of recruitment services including advertising, board, executive search, global, managed campaigns, interim, and more to the Not for Profit sector. They are accredited by B-Corp, Clear Company, and Living Wage. They have placed Philanthropy Managers, Partnerships Managers, and Fundraising Managers, to name a few examples, and they also provide a Kickstart scheme to provide young people with employability training.
20-22 Stukeley Street, Holborn, London, WC2B 5LR
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
ACL Partners performs executive search in Financial and Professional Services, working across markets like Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Risk Management and Compliance. With a location in Bloomsbury, they place talent both domestically and globally. Their experience since 2018 includes partnering with corporate finance advisory firms, and business and banking consultancies.
59-60 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 4HP
Ad Hoc Minds is a specialist IT recruitment company based in Kennington. They accommodate assignments from junior to senior levels, in addition to offering executive search and recruitment process outsourcing services. Hiring the likes of Consultants, Developers, Engineers, Architects and Chief Technology Officers, they support businesses during the entire recruitment process and applicants even during their first few months in their posts.
Edinburgh House, 170 Kennington Ln, Kennington, London, SE11 5JH
Andersen Steinberg predominantly performs executive search recruitment worldwide, having offices in the City of London, Hong Kong and two in the US. Using retained and contingent approaches, they forge partnerships with ventures in Strategy, Operations, Technology, Risk and Security, supplying personnel candidates like Data Loss Prevention Architect and Chief Information Security Officer. They were formed in 2001, following their founder's 15 years of experience.
86-90 Paul Street, City of London, London, EC2A 4NE
Anderson Hoare has over 25 years of recruitment experience. They are based in Central London and caters to clients looking to fill full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary support staff vacancies. They also offer reference checks, background checks, HR consultancy, and payroll services.
25 Eccleston Place, Chelsea, London, SW1W 9NF
Future Work administers Digital and Marketing recruitment, dealing with permanent and freelance jobs. Their firm was born in 2021 after a merger of organisations that have a combined experience of over 25 years. Example vacancies managed by their Clerkenwell team are Data Engineer, Category & Commercial Solutions Manager, Marketing Executive and Client Director. Besides recruitment, they also do career support and job seeker guidance.
18 St. Cross Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1N 8UN
Cavendish Professionals is a London-based specialist agency that started business in 2009. Focusing mainly on the Construction, Engineering and Technology industries, they also cover Architecture, Healthcare and Finance. They cater to clients nationwide and internationally by providing blue and white collar solutions for infrastructure projects, and placing candidates into organisations across the UK, DACH, Nordics and ME regions.
1 Royal Exchange, City of London, London, EC3V 3DG
Arista Global Consulting, based in Mayfair, exclusively deals with Legal recruitment, aiding ventures in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and beyond. They have consultants composed of former lawyers who now support talent acquisition for fields like Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Funds and Risk. They opened their doors in 2015 and have served customers including international law firms and Legal 500 practitioners.
43 Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, W1J 5AP
Arthur Recruitment specialises in Finance and Insurance recruitment, assisting sectors like Actuarial, Compliance, Data & Analytics, Payments & FinTech and Risk Management. With over 20 years of experience under their belt, they have served over 100 companies - which include Ascot, Markel International and Willis Towers Watson. Situated in the City of London, they open permanent and contract jobs as Risk Analyst, Property Claims Adjuster and more.
80 Leadenhall Street, City of London, London, EC3A 3DH
Auxo Solutions focuses on recruitment in Digital, Software and Technology. Their speciality is in assisting ventures situated in the US. Disciplines they cover are Software Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and eCommerce. Formed in 2022 by experienced recruiters, they source individuals such as Software Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, Program Managers and Functional Consultants up to Heads and Vice Presidents.
27 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3AX
Augmentti's specialism is in Quant Finance and Technology, conducting recruitment globally since 2018 as they utilise their team's combined experience of over 20 years. Led by founders who come from Technology, Finance and FinTech Recruitment backgrounds, they connect with Software Developers, Engineers, Quant Researchers and Traders and more. They are based in the City of London and have helped names like Google Deepmind, JP Morgan and Yelp.
51 Eastcheap, City of London, London, EC3M 1DT
becollektiv, established in 2019, extends employment opportunities in Creative, Advertising and Design. Led by their founder who has 15 years of experience in recruitment and talent acquisition, they complete permanent, temp to perm, contract and freelance mandates in Creative, Account Handling, Project Management and Production like Creative Producer, Editor, Integrated Project Manager and Junior Versioning Producer. They are situated in Bow.
401 Clement Attlee House 61 Cardigan Road, Bow, London, E3 5GH
Big 5 Search Ltd is a recruitment company specialising in the Consumer, Services, Impact, Industrial, Investment, and Technology industries. The agency recruits for different vacancies in areas such as Retail, E-Commerce, Banking, Microfinance, Health, Education, Agribusiness, Infrastructure, Credit, Family Offices, Fintech, Software, and more. Big 5 Search Ltd's are based in The Strand, London.
4 -12 Regent Street, Rex House, The Strand, London, SW1Y 4PE
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.