Welcome to Stopgap – the UK’s leading independent marketing recruitment agency. Operating across the complete marketing spectrum, our dedicated recruitment teams ensure you get the very best in freelance and permanent marketing jobs!

Established in 1993, we were the first Freelance marketing recruitment agency in the UK.  17 years on and we’re now as well known for our permanent marketing recruitment service as our freelance offering. 

We’re not your typical marketing recruitment agency and we don’t want you to have your ‘typical’ experience of marketing recruitment.  At Stopgap, we pride ourselves on our ‘positively different’ approach, remaining true to our guiding principles of integrity, daring, passion, agility and collaboration.

Stopgap is constantly recruiting for a wide range of freelance and permanent marketing jobs. Our recruitment consultants handle FMCG marketing jobs, agency jobs, digital marketing jobs, direct marketing jobs, market research jobs, PR and internal communications jobs and marketing jobs within the professional services sector. To view our current list of permanent and freelance marketing jobs, click here.

We have entered the inaugural Marketing and Advertising Recruitment Awards (MARAs) in the 'Best Candidate Care' and 'Recruitment Innovation' categories.  In order to become a finalist, we need YOUR votes!  To vote for our unique candidate care service, click here.  To vote for us in the recruitment innovation catgory, click here.  To vote for us in the agency of the year category, click here.

GHD is a world-leading brand in the Health & Beauty sector. With cutting-edge advertising and global success that began with a cult following, it is now looking for a Consumer Brand Experience Manager to take its in-store experience to the next level - interested?  Click here for more.

Would you like to take on an engaging freelance marketing job with one of the UK's most popular food brands?  The New Covent Garden Food Co. is looking for an experienced Marketing Manager to manage all elements of the marketing mix for the next six months in Cambridgeshire.  Interested?  Read more here!

Living and working in Switzerland, this role as Cross Category Insight Manager will see you join Nestlé and take on the biggest challenge of your insight management career.  If you are keen to read more, click here.

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to apply your marketing expertise to an innovative consultancy role?  EffectiveBrands is a rapidly growing global marketing consultancy and is offering a great opportunity for a Senior Marketing Consultant to join its vibrant team.  Click here to read more.

We're currently looking for a number of talented, passionate and motivated marketers to join us as consultants.  Recruitment experience is not necessary - however the drive and determination to succeed within a unique company is.  For more details on who we're looking for, click here to visit our careers page!

Are you an agency account handler who is thinking of heading over to the Australia?  Well, Australia’s agency scene is booming!  Stopgap’s Sydney office is in need of talented integrated, promotional marketing and direct marketing account handlers with solid agency experience.  Interested? Click here for more.