Purchase in Own Shares

SThree plc

Purchase of own shares

SThree plc ("SThree" or the "Company") announces that on 12 August 2016, it purchased for treasury 5,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 255 pence per share.

The highest price paid was 260.00p and lowest price paid was 248.00p.

This represents 0.004 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 1,589,082 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is128,159,752 ordinary shares of 1p each.

The above figure may be used by shareholders 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 618 0248