Looking to Hire in the UK?
- More than a transaction - we listen and add value
- Access to a UK candidate community of 550k+ niche professionals
- Trusted quality of service and compliance, recognised by 50+ industry awards
Specialist solutions that fuel your team​
Contract
Secure the right skilled contractor, at the right rate, quickly.
Permanent
Build your team with the right long-term fit for your culture and business.
Statement of Work (SoW)
Outcome-based project delivery, with clear milestones, deliverables, and a fixed price. Work with our Gravitas Services team.
Trusted Partnerships That Grow With You
Gravitas has been recruiting across the UK since 2010, with offices in London, Manchester, and Leeds. Where we're based shapes what we know best:
London - our technology, insurance, and banking specialists work across software development, infrastructure, data, actuarial, underwriting, and wealth management roles, largely serving City and financial services clients.
Manchester & Leeds - our teams focus on public sector, private sector, and third sector hiring, with particular depth in transport, housing, and higher education. We regularly recruit for the specific systems these sectors run on - including SITS in higher education, and NEC and TechnologyOne in local government and social housing.
Adding value across all hiring solutions
Hiring For An Individual Role
Our consultants not only focus on one niche, skills area within a sector, but are dedicated to either contract or permanent hiring needs; enabling us to deliver compliant hiring solutions which balance specialist knowledge, with your business priorities – speed vs. long term growth.
How? Our contract specialists deliver fast, flexible solutions - scaling your team up or down as demand shifts or filling a short-term skills gap the moment it appears. While our permanent teams focus on culture, strategy, and long-term fit, finding hires who drive sustainable growth against your long-term business plans.
We don’t work in silos; our teams often collaborate within their niche kill areas, you may find you need our contract teams to fill an immediate gap, while our permanent teams builds toward your long-term hiring solution, so a change in staffing never means your business objectives fall behind.
Hiring For A Team
Team hiring brings its own layer of complexity, and our consultants are trained to handle it properly. Whether you're building a team from scratch, looking to hire a full team placement (with previously built working relationships also they can focus on faster delivery) or building a team around a manager, we’ve helped you hire. We manage the compliance and coordination that comes with hiring at scale, with a holistic view not just the individual placements.
And because our specialists work across both contract and permanent hiring, a team can be built with the right mix of both, fast delivery where you need momentum, long-term fits where you need stability, without having to manage multiple processes yourself.
Delivering a Statement of Work
Some projects are built around outcome delivery, not just roles filled. Our Statement of Work offering provides a solution built specifically around project delivery and the skills required to enable that delivery.
Every engagement is scoped as a fixed-price project, built around clear outcomes, milestones, and deliverables agreed upfront, not an open-ended day rate. A dedicated SOW Manager and Project Manager oversees delivery from start to close, so you have one team accountable for the result, not a collection of individually managed hires. Progress is governed through defined "gates," each one signed off before the project moves to its next stage, keeping delivery on track without you having to chase it. And because our operations team handles the admin behind the scenes, your involvement stays light-touch, while you retain full oversight of how the project is progressing.
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Net Promoter Score
Our high NPS measures the loyalty of our customer base, scoring their satisfaction and likelihood to recommend us. Anything above 50 is considered exceptional in the recruitment industry, according to ClearlyRated.
Industry awards
Our 50+ global awards and accreditations span every part of the business - back-office services, staff training, culture, freelancer support, and financial performance.
Candidate network
We have an international community of 900k+ professionals, 550k+ in the UK alone. Through regular networking events, career advice, and insights, we are trusted and recommended within our specialisms.
