What your consultants ring a client about on Monday
RoleDemand does not only show you your market. Each cycle it names the employers whose hiring moved, says what moved, and hands the consultant the line to open with. That is the difference between a report and a call list.
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- Core, per agency
- £169 a month
- Tracked employers on Core
- 50
- Refresh
- Daily
- In-house analyst needed
- None
Priced per agency rather than per seat. Core covers one market of up to 50 tracked employers; Plus covers up to 100 at £299 a month.
What does it change in a business development conversation?
It gives a consultant a reason to call a specific client on a specific morning. Each cycle names the tracked employers whose hiring moved, says which functions grew and which went quiet, and attributes every figure to the employer that published it, so the call opens with what the market did rather than with a request for a catch-up.
Team build
1KOMMA5° opened 12 Tech and Product roles in 27 days
Several roles in one function inside a month is a team going in, which usually has a budget and a deadline attached.
Talking point
Of the 21 renewable energy employers we track, 13 opened three or more roles in one discipline inside 30 days. That is who is building this month, by name.
RoleDemand sample cycle, 7 August 2026. 13 of 21 tracked employers, counted off 744 live vacancies. Open the sample and the same names are in it.
| Market | What the cycle shows | The call it justifies |
|---|---|---|
| Renewable energy | A developer's open roles shift from development and consenting to asset management and operations. | A project is close to energisation. Ask who is staffing it and whether it is going in house. |
| Construction | Quantity surveyors, planners and commercial managers all go up at one contractor in the same week. | They have won work and are mobilising it. The site roles follow, and you can be early to them. |
| Cybersecurity | A vendor is advertising revenue roles and no engineering roles at all. | They are selling a product they have stopped building. Worth knowing before you take the brief. |
| Private capital | A fund closes, then one of its portfolio companies posts a finance director. | The fund is installing leadership. That is the placement most funds never run through their own talent team. |
The insight pack carries the same thing in prose: a short summary a consultant can forward without editing it. That is the document the 30-day cancellation window is measured against.
We already have reporting. Why is this different?
Reporting reads your own data and tells you how your desk performed. A sourcing seat reads candidate profiles and helps you fill a brief you already have. RoleDemand reads what the employers in your market are publishing in public, which is the only one of the three that tells you where the next brief is going to come from.
| Tool | Published price | What it reads | What it is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn Recruiter Lite | £120 to £170 a seat a month per seat | Candidate profiles | Finding a person to place |
| Bullhorn | £80 to £120 per user a month | Your own desk: contacts, pipeline, placements | Knowing what you have already done |
| RoleDemand Core | £169 a month per agency | What the employers in your market are advertising in public | Deciding who to ring, and with what |
Who is RoleDemand for?
The owner or director of a two to fifty person specialist recruitment agency who is also the business development function, and who has nobody in-house whose job is to analyse a market.
They know their market by name and by reputation, cannot afford an analyst, and are asked in client meetings to describe a market they have no systematic view of. Enterprise workforce-intelligence platforms do that job and are priced for corporate talent teams.
Why does this matter more in 2026 than it did?
UK vacancies fell to 712,000 in April to June 2026, down 2.5 per cent on the year and down in 11 of 18 industry sectors, according to the Office for National Statistics on 21 July 2026. Fewer briefs are being placed, so more of the conversations you do get are competitive ones where a client is comparing you against another agency in the same week.
- 712,000
- UK vacancies in April to June 2026, down 2.5 per cent on the yearSource: Office for National Statistics, 21 July 2026
- 11 of 18
- industry sectors where vacancies fell over that quarterSource: Office for National Statistics, 21 July 2026
- £40.6bn
- the recruitment industry's contribution to the UK economy in 2024, 1.6 per cent of gross value addedSource: REC
How much of my team's time does it take?
None after setup, and setup is a conversation rather than a project. You name the market and the employers once. Collection, quality checks, repairs when an employer moves their careers page, and the setup itself are all inside the £169 a month.
Your time goes into the setup conversation: which employers belong in the market, and how roles group for your desk. After that the run is scheduled and a source that breaks is our problem. If the first insight pack does not tell you something you could use with a client, stop inside 30 days and nothing further is charged. Before any of that, the 11 seeded packs show what a scoped market looks like.