What Amiqus does

Amiqus is a specialist recruitment agency exclusively focused on the video games industry, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Warrington, United Kingdom. The company places permanent, contract, and executive-level candidates into UK and European games studios and publishers, with a leadership team averaging nearly 15 years of games talent acquisition experience. Its service portfolio comprises four lines: Executive Search (board-level confidential appointments), Permanent Hires, Contract Hiring, and Amiqus Alliance (a fixed-cost subscription recruitment model with ATS integration via Team Tailor and placement guarantees).

The firm's technology layer is conventional: a recruitment website with job search, CV submission, job alerts, and a client portal, supported by a Team Tailor ATS integration. There is no evidence of AI-driven matching, automation, or proprietary model infrastructure. Revenue is generated primarily through transaction-based placement fees on permanent and contract roles, with the Amiqus Alliance subscription model adding a recurring-revenue component. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed.

Beyond recruitment, Amiqus operates two proprietary ecosystem initiatives: G Into Gaming (founded 2018 by Business Director Liz Prince) and Empower Up (launched 2022 in partnership with trade body Ukie), both focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion in games hiring. The company is a Corporate Ambassador of Women in Games and supports SpecialEffect charity. Amiqus is privately held, bootstrapped with no external investors, and has won 24 industry awards, including Best Recruitment Agency at the 2025 TIGA Games Industry Awards.

Name

Amiqus

Legal name

Amiqus Limited

Website

https://amiqus.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Amiqus is a UK-based specialist recruitment agency placing permanent, contract, and executive candidates into games studios and publishers. Founded in 2000, the firm serves UK and European clients with a four-service model and operates the G Into Gaming and Empower Up EDI initiatives.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Warrington

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Recruitment and Placement Fees: Amiqus charges fees for permanent hires, contract placements, executive search services, and fixed-cost hiring solutions. The primary revenue model involves placement fees, typically calculated as a percentage of the hired candidate's salary for permanent roles, with contract roles potentially involving margin on contractor rates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Amiqus is a specialist recruitment agency that places professional candidates into games studios, publishers, and developers across the UK, Europe and beyond. Its core offerings comprise Executive Search (leadership and board-level appointments), Permanent Hires (full-time placements across all disciplines), Contract Hiring (short to medium-term contractor placements), and Amiqus Alliance (fixed-cost multi-role subscription hiring solutions). Revenue is generated primarily through employer-paid placement fees on each successful hire.

Product overview

Amiqus is an award-winning recruitment agency specializing exclusively in the games industry, offering a portfolio of hiring services including Executive Search for leadership appointments, Permanent Hires for direct placements, Contract Hiring for flexible workforce needs, and Amiqus Alliance for fixed-cost multi-role hiring solutions. The company operates alongside EDI initiatives G Into Gaming (founded 2018) and Empower Up (launched 2022 with Ukie) that support diversity and inclusion across the sector. Amiqus has been serving the games industry for over 25 years and has won 24 industry awards for recruitment excellence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Executive Search Specialist search service focused on leadership and board-level appointments for games studios, handling confidential search, targeted industry engagement, and access to senior leaders not actively seeking new positions. Targeted at CEO, CFO, CMO, COO, CTO, HRD and CIO level roles with extensive research, diverse shortlists, candidate approach and engagement, interview support, and final selection negotiation.
• Permanent Hires

Quantifiable outcome

• 24 industry awards for recruitment excellence in 25 years
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Women in GamescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Amiqus is a proud Corporate Ambassador of Women in Games, supporting and amplifying the work of the organisation. Liz Prince is also an active Individual Ambassador and has spoken at many of Women in Games' events, as well as contributing to the Women in Games Guide: Building A Fair Playing Field.
• Dom Shaw (Founder, Sussex Games)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Co-Founder of Empower Up platform alongside Liz Prince and trade body Ukie, providing practical EDI guidance and resources to the games industry.
• SpecialEffectminorOthersAmiqus is proud to support the SpecialEffect charity, which helps transform the lives of physically disabled people around the world through technology and games.
• UkiecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-created Empower-Up EDI platform with Ukie's Raise The Game initiative. The platform provides practical guidance, resources and signposting around equity, diversity, inclusion, hiring, leadership and workplace culture for games studios.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Aardvark Swift: UK-based specialist games industry recruitment agency. Direct competitor to Amiqus, offering permanent, contract and executive search services to studios across the UK and internationally with similar vertical specialisation.
• OPM Response: Long-established recruitment agency dedicated exclusively to the video games and interactive entertainment industry, providing permanent, contract and executive search — directly comparable headcount, services and customer base to Amiqus.
• Interactive Selection: Specialist games industry headhunting and recruitment firm with over two decades of experience placing senior, technical and creative talent into studios — directly comparable service mix and vertical focus to Amiqus.
• Games Jobs Direct (by Creative Assembly Publishing): Leading games-industry job board and recruitment platform serving UK and international studios — competes with Amiqus for mid-level placement visibility, particularly around technical and creative roles.

Broad incumbents

• Keywords Studios: Large publicly-listed games-services platform offering art, engineering, QA, localisation and embedded services. Though not a recruitment agency, it competes for the same talent pool with embedded/staff augmentation models that can substitute for traditional agency placements.
• Robert Half: Global publicly-listed professional staffing firm with dedicated technology and creative practices that place into games-adjacent roles. Much larger scale and broader sector mandate than Amiqus, but intersects on tech and finance placements for studios.
• Hays plc: Large UK-listed generalist recruiter with technology and digital practices that occasionally service games studios for project-services and technology hires — competes at the margin for contract and technology roles.
• Reed Global: Major UK generalist recruitment group with a sizeable technology and digital practice — represents the broad-incumbent threat on price-sensitive contract and permanent hires versus specialist games agencies.

Emerging players

• Datascope Recruitment: UK recruitment firm with niche specialisations in technology, broadcast and digital media — overlaps with Amiqus at the intersection of games and broader digital entertainment, particularly for technical and production roles.

Others

• Hemmersbach UK: IT services and staffing provider with significant games-adjacent contracts — relevant ecosystem participant rather than direct competitor, but representative of the broader talent-services ecosystem Amiqus operates within.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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