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As of 4 November 2026, 12,526 recruitment staffing hr companies are based in Germany; 1,368 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 12,526
- Hiring now
- 1,368 · 426 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Generalist recruitment agencies · 5,159
- Top city
- Berlin · 711
- Parent market
- Business & finance services · 263,748
Recruitment staffing HR in Germany, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Generalist recruitment agencies | 5,159 | 41% |
| Temporary staffing labour hire | 3,051 | 24% |
| Executive search firms | 2,100 | 17% |
| Other recruitment staffing HR | 1,714 | 14% |
| Healthcare staffing agencies | 1,512 | 12% |
| International labour recruitment | 1,412 | 11% |
| HR outsourcing & consulting | 970 | 8% |
| It & tech recruitment | 605 | 5% |
| Hr & people consulting | 447 | 4% |
| Engineering & technical recruitment | 431 | 3% |
| Interim management providers | 430 | 3% |
| Finance & legal recruitment | 290 | 2% |
| Commercial & sales recruitment | 248 | 2% |
| Nanny au pair & domestic staff agencies | 97 | 1% |
| Employer of record peo providers | 94 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 4,376 · 138 |
| 2-10 employees | 5,359 · 618 |
| 11-50 employees | 1,591 · 298 |
| 51-200 employees | 831 · 201 |
| 201-500 employees | 208 · 67 |
| 501-1000 employees | 87 · 24 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 50 · 14 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 18 · 7 |
| 10,001+ employees | 6 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 711 | 6% |
| Hamburg | 679 | 5% |
| München | 593 | 5% |
| Düsseldorf | 447 | 4% |
| Frankfurt am Main | 368 | 3% |
| Köln | 330 | 3% |
| Stuttgart | 147 | 1% |
| Nürnberg | 114 | 1% |
| Hannover | 107 | 1% |
| Dresden | 93 | 1% |
| Bremen | 87 | 1% |
| Bielefeld | 81 | 1% |
The biggest recruitment staffing hr companies in Germany
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The stack of recruitment staffing hr in Germany
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Other segments of business & finance services in Germany
Business & finance services in Germany, the whole market →
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12,526 recruitment staffing hr companies are based in Germany; 1,368 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/business_finance_services/germany/recruitment_staffing_hr)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Recruitment staffing HR in Germany: questions
How many recruitment staffing hr companies are there in Germany?
12,526 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Business & finance services → Recruitment staffing HR → leaf niches such as generalist recruitment agencies, temporary staffing labour hire, executive search firms. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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