SThree plc
Purchase of own shares

SThree plc ('SThree' or the 'Company') announces that on 15 March 2017, it purchased for treasury 7,139 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 320.1444p per share.

The highest price paid was 321p and lowest price paid was 319.25p.

This represents 0.0055 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 1,621,965 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is 129,647,394
ordinary shares of 1p each.

Shareholders may use the above figure as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, SThree under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Hanisha Hands-Patel

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

0207 7268 6000