SThree plc
Purchase of own shares

SThree plc ('SThree' or the 'Company') announces that on 25 May 2017, it purchased for treasury 15,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 317.5p per share.

The highest price paid was 320.5p and lowest price paid was 314p.

This represents 0.0011 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 2,219,225 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is 129,083,198 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