Recruitment Used by UK Recruitment Companies: Market Share (2026)
Detected recruitment-system market share across 390 UK recruitment companies, with Volcanic leading at 22.1% (86 companies).
Around 26,468 UK recruitment companies are actively trading, but only 390 have a detectable Recruitment system. Across that detected cohort, 18 systems appear, with Volcanic on 22.1% (86), WP Job Openings on 20.8% (81), and Firefish on 15.4% (60).
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The mid-market tilts towards Volcanic: it leads the 10–50 employees band with 32.4% of 139 companies. WP Job Openings is more visible at the edges, leading both Under 10 employees with 18.4% of 217 companies and Over 50 employees with 38.2% of 34 companies.
The long tail is material but fragmented. After Volcanic, WP Job Openings, Firefish, JobAdder, Workable, Teamtailor, Zoho Recruit, and Recruitee, another 10 systems cover 34 companies between them.
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390
recruitment with detected Recruitment
Of 26,468 UK recruitment
1.5%
Detection rate
2026
18
Systems detected
In this category
22.1%
Leader share
Volcanic
UK Recruitment Recruitment market share
Share of the 390 UK Recruitment with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
Recruitment compared
Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.
Market leader by size
The leading Recruitment system shifts with company size: among UK Recruitment with under 10 employees, WP Job Openings leads at 18.4% of the 217 with a detectable system; among UK Recruitment with 10–50 employees, Volcanic leads at 32.4% of the 139 with a detectable system; and among UK Recruitment with over 50 employees, WP Job Openings leads at 38.2% of the 34 with a detectable system.
Under 10 employees
18.4% of band
Smaller recruitment firms make up 217 detected companies, with WP Job Openings ahead on 18.4%. Competition is spread across agency website and applicant-workflow tools rather than one dominant system.
10–50 employees
32.4% of band
The 10–50 employees band contains 139 detected companies and is the clearest Volcanic segment, with a 32.4% share. Firefish and other recruitment-specific systems sit alongside broader hiring platforms in this band.
Over 50 employees
38.2% of band
Larger recruitment companies are a smaller detected group, at 34 companies, and WP Job Openings leads with 38.2%. The band is narrow enough that a few deployments can move share noticeably.
How Recruitment usage is detected
Company data
Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.
Detection
Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.
Freshness
Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.
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