SThree plc

Purchase of own shares

SThree plc ("SThree" or the "Company") announces today, that it purchased for treasury 10,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 305.25p per share.

The highest price paid was 308.75p and lowest price paid was 297.5p.

This represents 0.0077 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 2,545,868 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is 128,771,330 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

Company Secretarial Assistant

0207 7268 6000