Recruitment Agency Website Design Prices
Fixed prices for recruitment websites, with or without a jobs board. A custom-designed recruitment agency website starts from £2,400, a site with a searchable jobs board and admin dashboard from £3,900, and hosting from £20 a month. Here is what each buys a recruiter, what moves a quote and how it compares with recruitment templates.
What a Recruitment Website Costs With DigitalPod
Our prices are published and identical for every sector, because designing and building a website for a two-consultant agency takes the same care as for any other business. What differs is the content, and for recruitment the deciding question is the jobs board. A site with employer and candidate journeys, sector pages, consultant profiles and a simple jobs page with apply forms fits within the starting price. A searchable board with filters, alerts and applications, fed from your ATS or managed yourself, needs the dashboard package.
The starting price buys a custom-designed site of up to around ten pages, designed from scratch around your specialism and hand-coded so that job pages and CV uploads are fast and secure. The website with admin dashboard adds a secure area and database where vacancies, consultants, sectors and testimonials are managed by your team or synchronised with your ATS. Logo design is quoted alongside the build, with the whole figure fixed in writing before we start.
Recruitment Agencies Website Design Packages
Startup Website
- For recruiters: employer and candidate journeys, sector pages, consultant profiles and a jobs page with apply forms
- Custom website design created around your brand and business goals, not a template
- Hand-built with modern technology (Next.js / React) for speed and security
- Mobile-friendly, fast-loading and search engine friendly from day one
- Contact forms, maps, galleries and the features a new business needs
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Website + Admin Dashboard
- For recruiters: a searchable jobs board you manage or feed from your ATS, job alerts, CV upload and applications
- Everything included in the Startup Website package
- Secure admin dashboard so you can update your own content
- Postgres database for your content, listings, bookings or members
- Ideal for blogs, directories, booking systems, SaaS marketing sites and member areas
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Optional Extras
Both can be added to either website package, or left out entirely. Hosting is only needed if you would like us to run the site for you, and logo design only if you do not already have a brand.
Managed Cloud Hosting
- Keeps job pages and CV uploads fast and secure, with quick changes when a role goes live or a consultant joins
- Your website hosted in the cloud and completely managed by us
- Keeps your site fast and secure without you lifting a finger
- Quick updates to your website whenever you need them
- Optional: host it yourself and we hand over the complete code
Logo & Brand Design
- A mark that holds up beside an advert on Indeed, as a LinkedIn avatar and on a proposal cover
- Logo design with the files you need for web, print and social media
- Colour palette and typography that carry through to the website
- Designed by the same team that designs your site, so everything matches
- Ask for a combined website and branding quotation
Three Typical Recruitment Agencies Website Projects
Specialist consultant going solo
A single-sector agency launching from a notice period: home, employers, candidates, one sector page, your profile, a jobs page with apply forms, privacy notice and contact, with the board designed in for later.
Agency replacing a theme-based site
A rebuild of a WordPress recruitment theme: a design of your own, a searchable jobs board fed from your ATS, consultant profiles, sector pages, testimonials and redirects from every old job and sector page.
Multi-sector agency with temps and perms
A board filtered by sector, location and contract type, alerts, quick apply, Key Information Document and IR35 pages, links to timesheet portals and a dashboard where each consultant posts and closes their own roles.
What the Starting Price Includes for Recruitment Agencies
- A custom design around your specialism, approved by you before any code is written.
- Up to around ten pages, typically home, employers, candidates, sectors, team, testimonials, a jobs page, privacy and contact.
- Submit-a-vacancy, register and apply forms with CV upload over an encrypted connection, delivered to your inbox or ATS and tested.
- A job advert template carrying the Conduct Regulations statement, a privacy notice structure and REC or APSCo logos where you hold membership.
- Mobile-first, fast-loading pages with the search engine foundations for sector and local searches, structured data on job pages and a sitemap.
- Launch to managed cloud hosting from £20 a month, or the full code handed over to host yourself.
What Changes the Price of a Recruitment Agency Website
- A searchable jobs board with filters, alerts and applications, which moves the project into the from £3,900 package.
- Integration with your applicant tracking system so jobs and applications flow both ways, quoted on scope because every ATS differs.
- The number of sector pages, consultant profiles and offices, and whether you run more than one brand.
- Candidate accounts, saved jobs, client portals and links to timesheet or payroll systems, quoted individually.
- Logo and brand design if you are launching or rebranding, quoted alongside the website.
- Copywriting for sector pages and salary guides, and photography of the team, if you would like them arranged rather than supplied.
Every website is quoted individually, so the final figure depends on what your recruitment agency actually needs. Our website design brief template helps you list those needs so that we can give you an accurate fixed price.
How Our Prices Compare for Recruitment Agencies
Recruiters are sold websites by recruitment-specific platforms that bundle a template site with multiposting to the job boards for a monthly fee, and by ATS vendors offering a website add-on. It is convenient, but the design is shared with hundreds of agencies, the monthly fees continue for as long as you trade and the site is not yours: switch ATS or stop paying and it goes. WordPress recruitment themes with a jobs plugin cost less, but tend to be slow and look like every other agency using the same theme.
Experienced freelancers and small studios typically charge £2,000 to £6,000, while agencies commonly quote £6,000 to £20,000 or more for a small business website. Our recruitment websites start from £2,400, or from £3,900 with a searchable jobs board and dashboard, designed and built in-house to a fixed price, and the finished site, its design and its code are yours to keep. Our guide to how much a website costs in the UK sets the whole market out.
For a wider view of the market, read our guide to how much a website costs in the UK and our comparison of custom websites and website builders.
How a Project Runs
- Your requirements. On a call, you tell us about your business, your customers and what the website needs to do, and we give you a fixed quotation.
- Logic and visuals. We plan the site structure and create visual mockups for your approval before anything is built.
- Development. We build the website, keep you updated and give you a realistic completion date.
- Testing and launch. You review the finished site on a test server, we refine it, and then we launch it or hand over the files.
Most websites take three to six weeks from brief to launch, provided the content is ready. Our guide to the website design process explains each stage, and the timescales guide shows what a typical schedule looks like.
What Clients Say About Working With Us
"Matthew from Digital Pod was, and continues to be, helpful efficient, and knowledgeable. He listened to my ideas and put them into practice. I would recommend the service without hesitation."
"Being a start up company we chose DigitalPod to help us design our website and company logo. We were highly impressed with the professionalism, turnaround and follow up support provided. Matthew was exceptionally client focussed, understood our needs and vision and happily simplified highly technical concepts in a straightforward manner. We would highly recommend DigitalPod to future prospective customers."
"Digitalpod have been a valuable associate to our company and I am extremely pleased to have found a developer that is truly client focused."
Recruitment Agencies Website Price Questions
Why does a jobs board move the price to £3,900?
Because a jobs board is an application, not a page. It needs a database of vacancies, filters by sector, location and contract type, a page template for every job with structured data, alerts to candidates and an apply flow that handles CVs securely, and all of that lives in the website with admin dashboard package. The same dashboard then lets consultants post, edit and close roles themselves. A jobs page listing a few roles with an apply form stays within the starting price.
How much does ATS integration cost?
It is quoted on scope, because applicant tracking systems vary. Some publish a ready-made feed of live jobs that we can read with little work, others need API development for jobs and applications to flow both ways. Tell us which ATS you use and we will include the integration in a fixed quote on top of the dashboard package.
Are there monthly fees for the jobs board?
Not from us, beyond hosting from £20 a month if you choose it, which covers a managed cloud server, security updates and quick changes. There is no charge per job posted and no licence fee for the site. Your ATS subscription and any job board accounts remain separate contracts between you and those providers, and you can move the website's code elsewhere at any time.
Can we launch with the brochure site and add the board later?
Yes. Many agencies start with the employer and candidate journeys, sector pages, consultant profiles and a simple jobs page at the starting price, then add the searchable board, alerts and ATS integration when the volume of vacancies justifies it. Because we build on the same foundation, the board is an addition to the site you have rather than a second project.
When do we pay?
A 50% deposit when the project starts and the remaining 50% when the site is complete and ready to launch, so a new agency can be taking vacancies before the balance falls due. There are no further payments afterwards apart from hosting if you choose it, and the finished website, its design and its code belong to you.
Our main prices page and FAQ cover payment terms, hosting and ownership in more detail. For what the website itself should include, see recruitment agencies website design, or startup recruitment agencies website design if you are launching a new business.
Guides to Website Costs and Planning
Other Sectors We Work With
Prices are the same whatever you do; the pages below explain what they buy in other sectors.
Get an Exact Quote for Your Recruitment Agency Website
Send us your requirements or book a call with our senior software engineer. We will tell you which package fits, what the extras would cost and how long the project will take, and we reply personally with a fixed price.