The full list, published in this Sunday’s edition of The Sunday Times, is restricted to firms with between 50 and 249 employees, and is compiled for The Sunday Times by work-engagement specialist Best Companies.

Recruiters by ranking – the number in brackets is position in overall list – are:

• LMA Recruitment (2)
• Orion Electrotech (4)
• Barrington James (5)
• Educ8 Group (6)
• RedRock Consulting (11)
• Charlton Morris (15)
• Deverell Smith (17)
• Roc Search (18)
• Oscar (22)
• Macildowie (23)
• Whitehall Resources (24)
• Harnham Group (26)
• La Fosse Associates (29)
• Mploy Staffing Solutions (30)
• Austin Fraser (32)
• Heat Recruitment (37)
• Quanta Consultancy Services (40)
• Oakleaf Partnership (45)
• Tradewind Recruitment & SANZA Teaching Agency (47)
• Resourcing Group (50)
• Eden Brown (56)
• Square One Resources (66)
• Empiric (70)
• Premier Group Recruitment (71)
• Xcede (72)
• BPS World (76)
• Thorn Baker (90)
• Prime People (93)

Recruitment software provider networx ranked 75th.

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