Employment Services in the United Kingdom

Introduction

Employment Services in the United Kingdom industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2010-14, and forecast to 2019). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United Kingdom employment services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

*For the purposes of this profile, the employment services market consists of two kinds of service - temporary staffing and search and placement. Temporary staffing is where agencies supply workers to clients on a temporary basis, the workers remaining employees of the agency. Search and placement is where agencies recruit workers on behalf of clients, with these workers going on to become employees of the client. The market value is the total turnover of agencies from provision of these services. Services such as employee leasing and independent contracting are not included.

*The UK employment services market is expected to generate total revenues of $44.3bn in 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.7% between 2010 and 2014.

*Market volume is forecast to increase with a CAGR of 7.3% between 2010 and 2014, to reach a total of 1,165.5 thousand FTEs in 2014.

*The performance of the market is forecast to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 2.8% for the five-year period 2014 - 2019, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $51.0bn by the end of 2019.

Features

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Leading company profiles reveal details of key employment services market players’ global operations and financial performance

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the United Kingdom economy

Key Questions Answered

What was the size of the United Kingdom employment services market by value in 2014?

What will be the size of the United Kingdom employment services market in 2019?

What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the United Kingdom employment services market?

How has the market performed over the last five years?

Table Of Contents

Employment Services in the United Kingdom
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary 2
Market value 2
Market value forecast 2
Market volume 2
Market volume forecast 2
Category segmentation 2
Geography segmentation 2
Market rivalry 2
Market Overview 7
Market definition 7
Market analysis 7
Market Data 8
Market value 8
Market volume 9
Market Segmentation 10
Category segmentation 10
Geography segmentation 11
Market Outlook 12
Market value forecast 12
Market volume forecast 13
Five Forces Analysis 14
Summary 14
Buyer power 15
Supplier power 16
New entrants 17
Threat of substitutes 18
Degree of rivalry 19
Leading Companies 20
Adecco SA 20
Hays plc 24
ManpowerGroup, Inc. 27
Randstad Holding 30
Macroeconomic Indicators 33
Country Data 33
Appendix 35
Methodology 35
Industry associations 36
Related MarketLine research 36

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: United Kingdom employment services market value: $ billion, 2010-14(e) 8
Table 2: United Kingdom employment services market volume: thousand FTEs, 2010-14(e) 9
Table 3: United Kingdom employment services market category segmentation: $ billion, 2014(e) 10
Table 4: United Kingdom employment services market geography segmentation: $ billion, 2014(e) 11
Table 5: United Kingdom employment services market value forecast: $ billion, 2014-19 12
Table 6: United Kingdom employment services market volume forecast: thousand FTEs, 2014-19 13
Table 7: Adecco SA: key facts 20
Table 8: Adecco SA: key financials ($) 21
Table 9: Adecco SA: key financials (€) 21
Table 10: Adecco SA: key financial ratios 22
Table 11: Hays plc: key facts 24
Table 12: Hays plc: key financials ($) 24
Table 13: Hays plc: key financials (£) 25
Table 14: Hays plc: key financial ratios 25
Table 15: ManpowerGroup, Inc.: key facts 27
Table 16: ManpowerGroup, Inc.: key financials ($) 28
Table 17: ManpowerGroup, Inc.: key financial ratios 28
Table 18: Randstad Holding: key facts 30
Table 19: Randstad Holding: key financials ($) 31
Table 20: Randstad Holding: key financials (€) 31
Table 21: Randstad Holding: key financial ratios 31
Table 22: United Kingdom size of population (million), 2010-14 33
Table 23: United Kingdom gdp (constant 2005 prices, $ billion), 2010-14 33
Table 24: United Kingdom gdp (current prices, $ billion), 2010-14 33
Table 25: United Kingdom inflation, 2010-14 34
Table 26: United Kingdom consumer price index (absolute), 2010-14 34
Table 27: United Kingdom exchange rate, 2010-14 34

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: United Kingdom employment services market value: $ billion, 2010-14(e) 8
Figure 2: United Kingdom employment services market volume: thousand FTEs, 2010-14(e) 9
Figure 3: United Kingdom employment services market category segmentation: % share, by value, 2014(e) 10
Figure 4: United Kingdom employment services market geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2014(e) 11
Figure 5: United Kingdom employment services market value forecast: $ billion, 2014-19 12
Figure 6: United Kingdom employment services market volume forecast: thousand FTEs, 2014-19 13
Figure 7: Forces driving competition in the employment services market in the United Kingdom, 2014 14
Figure 8: Drivers of buyer power in the employment services market in the United Kingdom, 2014 15
Figure 9: Drivers of supplier power in the employment services market in the United Kingdom, 2014 16
Figure 10: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the employment services market in the United Kingdom, 2014 17
Figure 11: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the employment services market in the United Kingdom, 2014 18
Figure 12: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the employment services market in the United Kingdom, 2014 19
Figure 13: Adecco SA: revenues and profitability 22
Figure 14: Adecco SA: assets and liabilities 23
Figure 15: Hays plc: revenues and profitability 25
Figure 16: Hays plc: assets and liabilities 26
Figure 17: ManpowerGroup, Inc.: revenues and profitability 29
Figure 18: ManpowerGroup, Inc.: assets and liabilities 29
Figure 19: Randstad Holding: revenues and profitability 32
Figure 20: Randstad Holding: assets and liabilities 32