Purchase of own shares

11th August 2011

SThree plc

Purchase of own shares

SThree plc ("SThree" or the "Company") announces that on 11 August 2011, it purchased for treasury 200,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 275.8 pence per share. The highest price paid was 282 pence per share and the lowest 274.5 pence per share.

This represents 0.16 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 625,000 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is 122,382,579 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 FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Sian Hoskins

Assistant Company Secretary

0207 268 6026