Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping recruiting tech in the United Kingdom. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
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157 of 1,599 tracked companies have open roles.
170 of 1,599 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 300 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 26.9% of disclosed capital, while 89.4% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $71.63M | 95 | 26 |
| 2017 | $44.39M | 97 | 27 |
| 2018 | $53.74M | 83 | 27 |
| 2019 | $99.04M | 114 | 30 |
| 2020 | $59.42M | 126 | 29 |
| 2021 | $191.29M | 98 | 41 |
| 2022 | $282.96M | 82 | 37 |
| 2023 | $145.11M | 100 | 23 |
| 2024 | $80.14M | 77 | 13 |
| 2025 | $70.96M | 19 | 10 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
344 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in recruiting tech company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Renegade Partners and Kindred Capital and others.
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Concept and others.
Backed by River Capital and Syndicate Room and others.
Backed by Dominic McGregor.
Backed by .
Backed by Gresham House Ventures and Samaipata and others.
Backed by Salica Investments.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund.
Backed by BT Group.
Backed by Round2 Capital Partners and Adjuvo and others.
Backed by Google Ventures and Plural and others.
Backed by AXA Venture Partners and SEEK and others.
Backed by Blackbird Ventures and M12 and others.
Backed by Gresham House Ventures and Samaipata and others.
Backed by Perwyn and Praetura Ventures and others.
Backed by Index Ventures.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2024 · annual statements grouped by reported fiscal year; exact entity periods remain on preview rows · 10 reporting entities from 462 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United Kingdom market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
9 of 10 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2024 · 10 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambitions Personnel ↗02684652 | £39.7m | £1.1m | +2.8% | — | — |
| Scantec ↗02450519 | £37.2m | £0.8m | +2.2% | — | — |
| Precise Consultants ↗08517073 | £35.9m | £1.1m | +3.1% | — | — |
| Jubilee Talent ↗04740266 | £13.3m | £0.5m | +4.0% | — | — |
| Hammond Recruitment ↗07445509 | £0.5m | £0.0m | +3.6% | — | — |
| Eaglecliff ↗01895408 | £0.1m | £0.7m | +853.3% | — | — |
| Service Care ↗05381795 | £0.0m | £0.8m | +4867.4% | — | — |
| Genesis ↗03923391 | £0.0m | £1.3m | +31123.9% | — | — |
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Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.
| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
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Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the the United Kingdom companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
42 of the 1,599 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (2.6%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 335,147 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Totaljobstotaljobs.com | 6,143,928 | 63 | 67.4% |
| Reedsyreedsy.com | 4,484,046 | 68 | 45.8% |
| Reedreed.co.uk | 3,639,993 | 66 | 56.4% |
| PeoplePerHourpeopleperhour.com | 2,710,387 | 55 | 50.7% |
| SHLshl.com | 2,614,901 | 53 | 52% |
| Times Higher Educationtimeshighereducation.com | 1,841,491 | 69 | 47.5% |
| MyNewTermmynewterm.com | 1,356,217 | 42 | 79.1% |
| AIApplyaiapply.co | 969,489 | 39 | 55.8% |
| Caterercaterer.com | 966,372 | 45 | 75.2% |
| Twinetwine.net | 877,050 | 41 | 35.6% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
128 of these companies (8%) publish at least one Android app — 191 apps in all, carrying 15.9M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reed.co.uk Job SearchReed | 3.5M | 4.6 | Business |
| Adzuna Job SearchAdzuna | 2.5M | 3.6 | Business |
| Totaljobs - UK Job Search AppTotaljobs | 2.1M | 4.2 | Business |
| SHL Job AssessmentsSHL | 2M | 4.5 | Education |
| CV-Library Job SearchCV-Library | 1.4M | 4.2 | Business |
| JobSwipe - Get a Better Job!Job Swipe | 1.1M | 3.3 | Business |
| Rated People for HomeownersRated People | 605K | — | Lifestyle |
| Florence: healthcare shiftsFlorence | 204.7K | — | Business |
| Caterer Job SearchCaterer | 194.8K | 3.3 | Business |
| ParimPARiM | 193.1K | 4.1 | Business |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hrtech | 191 | 15.9M | Reed.co.uk Job Search 3.5M | |
| Construction Tech | 4 | 895.8K | Rated People for Homeowners 605K | |
| Local Services | 2 | 718.4K | Rated People for Tradespeople 113.4K | |
| Field Force Automation | 20 | 542.3K | Parim 193.1K | |
| Healthcare It | 13 | 284.3K | Florence: healthcare shifts 204.7K | |
| Gig Employer It | 11 | 166K | Rotaready 90.5K | |
| Logistics Tech | 7 | 42.7K | Maxoptra Driver App 26K | |
| Tech For Film & Tv | 4 | 15.9K | Talent Manager: Creative Jobs 7.9K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 146 of 191 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
146 companies hiring · $1.2B disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Konfir has been acquired by Experian and will join its verifications business, expanding data coverage for UK employment and tenancy checks.
Job search platform Adzuna has acquired the jobs businesses of Trovit and Mitula, two market-leading search engines operated by the Lifull Connect group.
Veremark’s acquisition of Agenda Screening Services, a specialist background screening firm.
Grosvenor Power Group (GPG), the UK’s leading Tier 2 HV power transmission and distribution grid integration business, and Aurora Power Consulting Ltd, a leading independent power systems analysis consultancy, have both been acquired by Morson Group in two separate deals.
The Access Group’s acquisition of MaxOptra integrates route optimisation, delivery management and AI-driven fleet planning into its mid-market ERP portfolio.
Education recruitment firm AK Teaching has been acquired by national operator Zen Educate in a deal that will retain its management team.
Carrier Connect Data Solutions Inc. (TSXV: CCDS) (OTCQB: CCDSF) ... has entered into a non-binding letter of intent ... to acquire, through its wholly owned subsidiary, the principal business assets of the data center business owned and operated by Carbon60.
Investcorp, a leading global alternative investment firm, through Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), has agreed to sell its majority stake in the Shine Company, a leading European unicorn and digital platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), to Cegid, a cloud management and AI solutions business majority owned by Silver Lake.
Another Los Angeles startup, Launchpad (launchpad.build), raised $11 million for its robotics platform.
Tempo, a Layer 1 blockchain project, received $500 million in Series A funding from prominent venture capitalists Greenoaks and Thrive Capital.
Top 10 categories among 76 recorded events in the 24-month window.
5 tracked people moves
Appointment Director of ADCAP
Appointment Vice President of Partnerships
Promotion Chief Talent Management Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Revenue Officer
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Product
2 recorded customer wins
Customer: rsm usProfessional Services
Customer: syngentaBiotechnology
1 recorded events
approved for acquisitionACPR
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| experian→Konfir ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-21 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Adzuna→Trovit and Mitula | Announced | 2026-03-24 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Veremark→risk management intelligence | Announced | 2026-02-26 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Veremark→agenda screening services | 2026-02-26 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| Morson Group→Grosvenor Power Group (GPG) | Completed | 2026-02-16 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Morson Group→Aurora Power Consulting Ltd | Completed | 2026-02-16 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
13 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 86-posting snapshot covers 33 employers.
11 tracked postings mention remote work.
28 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 86 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 32 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| AlphaSights ↗ | 494 |
| CV-Library ↗ | 445 |
| Berkeley Scott ↗ | 391 |
| CHASE ↗ | 330 |
| Cappfinity ↗ | 280 |
| WRS ↗ | 208 |
| Service Care ↗ | 196 |
| GQR ↗ | 166 |
636 founders and chief executives across 516 companies.
Ex- Nested, XK Photography, Assembly Contracts, United Utilities, Aon Benfield. Altrincham Grammar School For Boys 2015, Imperial College London 2019
Ex-Nutmeg
Co-Founder Applied Computing. University of the Highlands and Islands - Perth College BASc
Ex-Uber, Osper, Tillster, Tesco, Betfair. University College London
Florence, ex-Glebe Housing Association, ex-Startup Leadership Program, The University of Edinburgh, 2001
Founder Collective iQ, ex-GENPACT, VentureRing, AlphaSights. University of Leeds BA 2008, IESE Business School MBA 2016
Veremark, ex-Smart Pension, ex-Ey Seren, University of the Arts London, 2008
Engage Technology Partners, ex-Ship Shape Resources, ex-O2, University of Canberra, 1995
Ex-H5 Search, IHS, Royce Consultancy. University of Strathclyde MBA 2002
Ex-Informa, Rightmove, LexisNexis UK · University of California, Berkeley BS 1995, The Wharton School MBA 2001
Ex- Co-Founder Bring & Mix, Credit Suisse, Infusion Development, JobServe. University of Essex BSc 2012
Co-Founder & CEO Jack and Jill. University of Oxford
83 profiles with education records.
22 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
Compare demand signals in the United Kingdom’s newsflow with the recruiting tech categories mapped to each signal.
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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| Signal family | Signal percentile | Supply percentile | Relative gap | Gap (points) | Signal share vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source momentum ↗Ecosystem Signal | 0.0 | 0.0 | +0.0 | +18.7% | |
| Cloud & platform build-out ↗Infrastructure Shift | 37.5 | 50.0 | -12.5 | +29.4% | |
| Tech workforce shifts ↗Spending Pressure | 87.5 | 100.0 | -12.5 | +34.6% | |
| Security incidents & breaches ↗Risk Pressure | 87.5 | — | No matching category | — | +52.9% |
| Data & privacy regulation ↗Compliance Pressure | 37.5 | — | No matching category | — | +19.3% |
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All 12 city readings for these demand families in the comparison geography. the United Kingdom is highlighted.
Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage.
Cloud & platform build-out · Security incidents & breaches · Open-source momentum
Open-source momentum · Cloud & platform build-out · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Data & privacy regulation · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Open-source momentum · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts
Open-source momentum can seed the commercial layer around the projects teams adopt.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 57 | 2.57 |
| 2024Q4 | 32 | 1.48 |
| 2025Q1 | 41 | 1.62 |
| 2025Q2 | 41 | 2.03 |
| 2025Q3 | 69 | 2.85 |
| 2025Q4 | 18 | 1.04 |
| 2026Q1 | 54 | 2.72 |
| 2026Q2 | 19 | 2.12 |
Cloud and platform build-out can multiply the pipelines and environments a team must manage.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 74 | 3.34 |
| 2024Q4 | 67 | 3.09 |
| 2025Q1 | 55 | 2.18 |
| 2025Q2 | 55 | 2.72 |
| 2025Q3 | 121 | 5.0 |
| 2025Q4 | 60 | 3.45 |
| 2026Q1 | 41 | 2.07 |
| 2026Q2 | 34 | 3.79 |
Hiring, visa and layoff cycles can resize teams — per-seat budgets tend to follow.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 350 | 15.81 |
| 2024Q4 | 275 | 12.69 |
| 2025Q1 | 449 | 17.76 |
| 2025Q2 | 342 | 16.92 |
| 2025Q3 | 573 | 23.67 |
| 2025Q4 | 298 | 17.14 |
| 2026Q1 | 425 | 21.43 |
| 2026Q2 | 206 | 22.99 |
Breach pressure can push security into every buying decision.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s recruiting tech market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 180 | 8.13 |
| 2024Q4 | 86 | 3.97 |
| 2025Q1 | 120 | 4.75 |
| 2025Q2 | 179 | 8.86 |
| 2025Q3 | 372 | 15.37 |
| 2025Q4 | 129 | 7.42 |
| 2026Q1 | 111 | 5.6 |
| 2026Q2 | 69 | 7.7 |
Privacy rules can land as engineering requirements — consent, data handling and audit tooling follow.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s recruiting tech market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 104 | 4.7 |
| 2024Q4 | 46 | 2.12 |
| 2025Q1 | 154 | 6.09 |
| 2025Q2 | 79 | 3.91 |
| 2025Q3 | 124 | 5.12 |
| 2025Q4 | 82 | 4.72 |
| 2026Q1 | 99 | 4.99 |
| 2026Q2 | 55 | 6.14 |
the United Kingdom recruiting tech coverage
the United Kingdom coverage of this page's demand families
| Keyword | Recent articles | Prior articles | Share change |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai hardware | 48 | 39 | 56.2% |
| ransomware-as-a-service | 118 | 123 | 21.7% |
| cloud infrastructure | 78 | 99 | -0.0% |
Share changes describe coverage in the stated comparison periods, not search demand or market size.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
83.3% across the displayed hubs
72 companies hiring · $971.9M disclosed funding
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5.7% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $6.3M disclosed funding
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2.4% across the displayed hubs
4 companies hiring · $18.5M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Glasgow ↗
2.2% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $770.6K disclosed funding
Explore companies in Birmingham ↗
1.9% across the displayed hubs
5 companies hiring · $475.2K disclosed funding
Explore companies in Leeds ↗
1.7% across the displayed hubs
4 companies hiring · $26.1M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Edinburgh ↗
1.5% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Nottingham ↗
1.3% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $3.8M disclosed funding
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It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 30 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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