State of the Market 2025: UK Recruitment Trends

Join our 2025 UK State of the Market webinar, where we’ll delve into key insights, critical shifts, and golden opportunities for recruitment agencies across the United Kingdom.

Wednesday February 26, 11am GMT

Key highlights

-3.4%

Job creation per agency is down across the UK

Compared to this time last year

60%

Of roles placed were temporary roles

+42%

Increase on applications

Compared to this time last year

-13.3%

Placements made by recruiters in the UK

Compared to this time last year

Recruit with confidence in 2025

Our most popular report is back and it’s bigger than ever! Now issued annually, the State of Recruitment Report provides a comprehensive view of key market movements and recruitment performance insights. Don’t miss your opportunity to hear directly from the experts as they unpack the latest data and what this means for your agency heading into 2025, including:

Job growth and volume
Temp vs. perm – which is winning?
Candidate volumes and applications per job
Recruiter productivity

Join us on Wednesday February 26, 11am GMT

Contributors

Hung Lee

Editor

Recruiting Brainfood

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Hung Lee is the Editor of leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood

He is an industry professional with over 20 years experience as an agency recruiter, Recruitment manager, Internal Head of Talent, recruitment trainer, award winning recruitment tech founder and, and now Editor and Community builder at Recruiting Brainfood – the best weekly newsletter in recruitment.

Hung lives and works in London.

David Mercer

Head of Sales EMEA

Daxtra

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Matt Gallivan

Head of Sales EMEA

JobAdder

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Matt is a seasoned sales professional with over 20 years of experience, including a decade in recruitment, working with top firms like Manpower, Adecco, and Michael Page.

Now leading JobAdder’s sales for EMEA and North America, he brings expertise in scaling businesses and launching new tech. A father of four, he loves the outdoors, staying active, and anything with an engine.