SThree plc
Purchase of own shares

SThree plc ('SThree' or the 'Company') announces that on 30 March 2017, it purchased for treasury 4,389 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 308.9691p per share.

The highest price paid was 301p and lowest price paid was 3011p.

This represents 0.0033 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 1,724,879 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is 129,551,048 ordinary shares of 1p each.

Shareholders may use the above figure 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 7268 6000