Industry view · 10 countries

Recruitment agencies by country

20,916 recruitment agencies across 10 countries publish an email address on their own website. United States holds 53% of them, and the UK ranks 2nd with 5,042.

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Country ranking

Where recruitment agencies are in our database

Companies with a published email address in each of the ten countries we measure for this directory, counted on September 29, 2026.

Recruitment agencies with a published email by country (companies)
United States	11,063 (53%)
United Kingdom	5,042 (24%)
Netherlands	1,173 (6%)
Australia	1,161 (6%)
Germany	962 (5%)
Canada	782 (4%)
France	242 (1%)
Spain	211 (1%)
Ireland	200 (under 1%)
Italy	80 (under 1%)

Detailed views

Recruitment agencies in the UK, city by city

Each view breaks the segment down by place, contact route, founding year and the tools their websites run, and ends with an outreach playbook.

Before you email them

What works with recruitment agencies

Recruiters run on outbound themselves, so they judge your email as a peer. Keep it short and numbers-first: placements, time to fill, or candidate response rates. Anything that sounds like a course gets ignored.

Managing director or owner at independent agencies, usually the buyer for anything under a few thousand a year.
Head of resourcing or operations at multi-desk firms, who owns the CRM and outreach tools.
Team leads of a specific desk (tech, finance, industrial), who can trial something on their own number.

The full playbook, with objections and a sample first email, is on each detailed view, starting with recruitment agencies in the UK.

Questions

Recruitment agencies: common questions

Which country has the most recruitment agencies with a published email?

Of the ten countries measured, United States has the most, with 11,063, followed by United Kingdom with 5,042. Counted on September 29, 2026 from Warmerly's lead database. Coverage follows where we have crawled most deeply, so it tells you where our data is richest as much as where the industry is biggest.

What counts as one of the recruitment agencies here?

Recruitment, staffing, executive search and talent acquisition firms, plus sites that declare themselves an employment agency. A company is only counted when its own website publishes an email address and it has not asked to be removed.

How many recruitment agencies are there in the UK?

5,042 with a published email address as of September 29, 2026. 457 of them name London on their website.

Can I search recruitment agencies in other countries?

Yes. The lead finder covers every country in the database, not only the 10 listed here, 20,916 of these recruitment agencies between them. Searching and counting are free; exporting uses your plan's monthly lead allowance.

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Where recruitment agencies are in our database

Companies with a published email address in each of the ten countries we measure for this directory, counted on September 29, 2026.

Recruitment agencies with a published email by country (companies)
United States	11,063 (53%)
United Kingdom	5,042 (24%)
Netherlands	1,173 (6%)
Australia	1,161 (6%)
Germany	962 (5%)
Canada	782 (4%)
France	242 (1%)
Spain	211 (1%)
Ireland	200 (under 1%)
Italy	80 (under 1%)

What works with recruitment agencies

Managing director or owner at independent agencies, usually the buyer for anything under a few thousand a year.
Head of resourcing or operations at multi-desk firms, who owns the CRM and outreach tools.
Team leads of a specific desk (tech, finance, industrial), who can trial something on their own number.

The full playbook, with objections and a sample first email, is on each detailed view, starting with recruitment agencies in the UK.

Recruitment agencies: common questions

Which country has the most recruitment agencies with a published email?

What counts as one of the recruitment agencies here?

How many recruitment agencies are there in the UK?

5,042 with a published email address as of September 29, 2026. 457 of them name London on their website.