Activities of employment placement agencies (SIC code 78101)
Recruitment agencies that place permanent staff file here. The code covers contingent recruiters, retained search and executive search. Agencies for film, TV and theatre are 78102. Temp agencies are 78200.
1,835active UK companies list SIC 78101 among their codes on the public recordCompanies House · counts as of August 2026
SIC 78101 in numbers
1,835 companies is 0.04 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register. 78101 is the 4th most used of the 4 codes we track in division 78.
1,176 put 78101 first and 659, 36 per cent, list it in one of their other three slots. First code only gives the tighter list; any position gives more of them.
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN (WHERE THE PAPERWORK SITS, NOT NECESSARILY THE WORK) · COMPANIES HOUSE PUBLIC RECORD, AUGUST 2026
The five busiest post towns hold 42 per cent of them and London alone 36 per cent. Selling nationally, those towns are most of the market. Selling locally outside them, expect a small pool, so cover a county or a region rather than one town.
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This division covers the recruitment industry in all its forms. Permanent placement agencies use 78109.
Related SIC codes
How to read SIC 78101
SIC 78101 reads as division 78 (employment activities), group 781, class 7810, then the full five digits, inside section N, administrative and support service activities. A company picks its own codes, up to four, and Companies House does not check them, so 78101 is the company's own description of what it does, and 1,176 list it first where 1,835 list it anywhere.
Who sells into division 78
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About SIC 78101
Are headhunters filed under SIC 78101?
Yes. Executive search and retained recruitment both file 78101. The SIC makes no split between contingent and retained models.
Do temp agencies use a different SIC code?
Yes, they file 78200. That takes in umbrella companies and payroll-bureau temp providers. The split matters. Temp agencies carry employer-of-record liability that placement agencies do not.
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