The United Kingdom is the oldest staffing market in Europe and the largest market in terms of size (by sales). It is highly fragmented with some 15,000 firms. Many of the most recognisable UK-based providers such as Hays, Michael Page and Robert Walters have now spread around the world.
Temporary agency work is treated as a service sector in its own right and, in the UK, was one of the least regulated markets in Europe. However, in recent years the implementation of the European Agency Work Directive has increased the degree of control. There are two principal associations representing the interests of the staffing industry: the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).
The UK, a leading trading power and financial centre, is the third-largest economy in Europe after Germany and France, and the seventh-largest in the world. In addition to a flexible labour market, the country is pro-business and open to foreign investment. The population is over 60 million and the nation is placed seventh in the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking.
This list will help you understand the structure and size of the UK marketplace.
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The 50 largest companies by UK staffing revenue produced £19.7...
dominated activity within commercial staffing, representing 20 (87%) of the 23 deals within the segment.
Europe’s staffing M&A activity was heavily concentrated within the UK and the Netherlands
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countries, including Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, UK and the US, already have transparency legislation or policies in place. Other federal, national and local governments ... Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, UK and the US, already have tr...
This report provides information on the landscape of the industrial staffing market in the UK.
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In this inaugural Largest Industrial Staffing Firms in the UK report, we identified 17 firms with at least £25 million in industrial staffing revenue...
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... increased by 3.5 million. Over half of this (2 million) was due to net migration. Now ten million England and Wales residents, or one in six of the population, were bor...
, with $10.4 billion. In total, the ten largest firms by market cap account for 79% of the capitalisation in this report.
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. Several firms had not yet announced their results for the period at the time of publication of this report.
UK – The report includes 12 UK-based staffing companies. The UK companies reported a year ... work dating back into the 1940’s, and (after UK)...
This report provides a snapshot of the global market size for IT staffing. Market sizes are segmented by region and country. We also segment the US and UK IT staffing markets by subregions ... % of the market. Canada was the next largest source of revenue with $1.8 billion (5%).
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