Job advertising contracts
UK public sector · 78 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 78
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £49k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £10.6m
- 77 of 77 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 66
- Suppliers
- 18
22 job advertising contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most job advertising contracts took 81% of them (63 of 78).
- The median contract, £49k, is 31% below the median across recruitment & hr contracts (£70k).
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency awarded 4% of the job advertising contracts (3 of 78).
Who buys job advertising
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency3 contracts£103k
- 2Department for Work and Pensions2 contracts£1.2m
- 3UK Health Security Agency2 contracts£394k
- 4Platform Housing Group2 contracts£176k
- 5Infected Blood Compensation Authority2 contracts£113k
- 6Ofsted2 contracts£107k
- 7University Of Worcester2 contracts£102k
- 8Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government2 contracts£88k
- 9West Northamptonshire Council2 contracts£88k
- 10UK Parliament2 contracts£20k
Top job advertising contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1LinkedIn51 contracts£8.7m
- 2Indeed UK Operations Limited5 contracts£125k
- 3Guardian News & Media3 contracts£31k
- 4Webrecruit2 contracts£197k
- 5University of Warwick2 contracts£180k
- 6We Are Sunday2 contracts£24k
- 7ETEACH UK LIMITED1 contract£600k
- 8INSTINCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES LTD1 contract£175k
- 9T4 COMMUNICATIONS UK LIMITED1 contract£135k
- 10Online Media Experts Ltd1 contract£63k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Ofsted to LinkedIn Unlimited · Awarded 23 September 2026
Stonewater to Indeed UK Operations Limited · Awarded 16 September 2026
Isle of Wight Council to MA Education & Music · Awarded 14 September 2026
Trinity House to LinkedIn · Awarded 14 September 2026
UK Health Security Agency to LinkedIn · Awarded 10 September 2026
Valuation Office Agency to We Are Sunday · Awarded 8 September 2026
Platform Housing Group to LinkedIn · Awarded 3 September 2026
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to Onefix Recruitment Limited · Awarded 3 September 2026
Department for Work and Pensions to We Are Sunday · Awarded 21 August 2026
University Of Worcester to University of Warwick · Awarded 19 August 2026
Largest
Department for Work and Pensions to LinkedIn · Awarded 26 May 2026
Ministry of Defence to LinkedIn · Awarded 5 December 2025
Crown Prosecution Service to LinkedIn · Awarded 4 June 2026
Bristol City Council to ETEACH UK LIMITED · Awarded 26 February 2026
Highways England to LinkedIn · Awarded 15 December 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 69 · Wales 5 · Scotland 4
What is included
Buying job advert space, credits, subscriptions or job slots directly from job boards, LinkedIn, social media and specialist publications.
- Newspaper and sector job board subscriptions
- LinkedIn job slots, career pages and recruitment memberships
- Social media job advertising credits
- Sponsored job adverts
- Job adverts in medical and scientific journals
What is not included
- Agency-planned campaigns -> rec.attract.recruitment-advertising-agency
- Careers websites, ATS and multiposting software -> it.ent.recruitment-applicant-tracking, it.dev.websites-and-cms
- Recruitment agency sourcing -> rec.search.permanent-recruitment