Recruitment Companies Using SiteGround in the UK: 256 Active Firms (2026)

Updated June 2026

Recruitment businesses running managed web hosting place permanent, temporary and contract workers for employers across the UK.

Managed hosting matters in recruitment when the website is doing more than publishing vacancies. The stack carries job-search pages, candidate registration, CV upload, consultant contact routes and client enquiry forms, so adopting it usually points to a business with a direct digital acquisition channel rather than a purely relationship-led sales model. Companies running this managed-hosting stack tend to have enough marketing or operations resource to maintain conversion paths, content, tracking and form security, but not necessarily an in-house infrastructure team. For specialist agencies, it can be a low-friction way to keep the public site close to commercial workflows while leaving server maintenance outside the core staffing operation.

Across the UK, 256 recruitment and staffing businesses are actively trading while running this managed-hosting stack. Reported employment covers 3,934 staff, with all 123 firms that disclose headcount reporting staff. Within recruitment and staffing, the stack sits first in the detected-hosting ranking, at 28.3% of a category denominator of 906. Adoption is tilted towards London at 28.9%, then South East at 11.7%, East of England at 10.5%, Yorkshire and The Humber at 9.8%, and West Midlands at 7.8%. The pattern fits a web-led agency market in which candidate intake and employer enquiries are handled through relatively standard marketing infrastructure.

Recruitment sites running hosted form journeys sit within employment-agency conduct rules as soon as they collect candidate details for work-finding activity. GOV.UK rules say agencies and employment businesses must not charge work-seekers for work-finding services, withhold pay that is due, or start looking for work before providing key information and written terms. Temporary-worker suppliers also carry payment obligations for all hours worked, even where the hirer has not paid or approved a timesheet. The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 remain the core framework; rights enforcement has moved from the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate to the Fair Work Agency. Labour supply into agriculture, horticulture, shellfish and associated processing can also trigger licensing under the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004.

Migration pressure appears tied to recruitment sites becoming more transactional. Agencies that depend on direct candidate acquisition tend to want faster vacancy publishing, cleaner registration forms, clearer consent capture and easier hand-off into CRM or applicant-tracking systems. That favours hosting set-ups that are simple for marketing teams to administer while still giving technical partners room to manage uptime, redirects and security hygiene. Smaller specialist agencies may stay with familiar hosted website builds for longer, while larger staffing groups are more likely to fold hosting decisions into wider website, analytics and compliance procurement. Consolidation is therefore more likely to show up through agency redesign cycles than through a sudden platform switch.

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Website

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Companies House no.

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Turnover (£)

Employees

Headcount growth (YoY)

Financial-health score

Sales-readiness score

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Adoption by company size

Adoption of SiteGround rises with company size across the trading UK recruitment companies in this cohort. 0.6% of the 23,684 companies with under 10 employees run SiteGround (150 detected). 4.1% of the 2,136 companies with 10–50 employees run SiteGround (87 detected). 2.5% of the 648 companies with over 50 employees run SiteGround (16 detected). That is a 1.9% gap between the over 50 employees and under 10 employees bands.

256

Active firms

2026

28.3%

Of detected Hosting share

UK recruitment

Median headcount

Filed accounts

488

Verified contacts

Across this cohort

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