The Best Applicant Tracking System for UK Hiring Teams
Screen more candidates without growing the team, stay GDPR-ready without a manual audit, and see the price before you book a demo - most UK ATS vendors will not show you one.
How to choose the best applicant tracking system in the UK
The best applicant tracking system for a UK company depends on your team size, hiring volume, and whether you hire in-house or run an agency desk.
The right system collects every application in one place, moves candidates through a structured pipeline, and handles the admin that comes with each stage of the hiring process.
For UK teams, four checks matter before any feature tour. Ask where candidate data lives and how retention works under UK GDPR - our GDPR-compliant ATS page covers the controls in detail.
Check which UK job boards the system reaches and whether every application lands in one pipeline with its source recorded. Posting is table stakes - the time savings come from posting combined with source tracking, knockout questions, and AI screening.
Confirm salaries display in GBP. And ask for the price in writing - of 11 UK ATS vendors we checked in July 2026, only four publish prices at all.
If you are moving off an existing system, a structured ATS implementation plan matters as much as the feature list, because switching costs keep many UK teams stuck on tools they dislike.
100Hires is an applicant tracking system built for UK in-house hiring teams. It suits companies with a handful of open roles a year as well as organisations managing hundreds of applications at once.
It is not built for recruitment agencies, which typically need a combined ATS and CRM for client management.
See which candidates fit the role before you open a CV
When a role receives, for example, 150 applications over a weekend, a small team cannot read every CV before Monday. AI Score ranks each applicant by how well they match the criteria you set for that role, so your team works through a scored shortlist rather than the full pile.
- AI Score on every applicant
- Custom criteria per role
- Ranking updates as applications arrive
- No manual sorting required
Stop spending time on candidates who miss the basics
For a small team posting to multiple job boards at once, manually filtering every application is not realistic. Add knockout questions to any application form and candidates who answer outside your criteria move to a rejected stage automatically. Your team sees only the applicants who cleared the bar, and the rest receive a timely response with no manual effort from your team.
- Mandatory screening questions on any job
- Auto-reject on mismatch
- Candidate notified automatically
- Works across every role you post
Post to Indeed, LinkedIn, and Google for Jobs from one place
Every job you open in 100Hires has a toggle for each supported board. Switch on Indeed, LinkedIn, or Google for Jobs and the job goes live there. Salary displays in GBP, your careers page carries your brand, and every application lands in one pipeline regardless of which board the candidate came from. For Reed and other boards, a per-job trackable link sends applicants to your careers page and records the source.
- Indeed, LinkedIn, Google for Jobs
- GBP salary display
- Branded careers page included
- Trackable links for any additional channel
Reduce the manual work in managing candidate data under GDPR
Set your data retention window and 100Hires sends consent renewal requests before consent lapses, then auto-deletes candidate data when the window expires. Process a deletion request in a few clicks. UK candidate data is hosted on AWS in the United Kingdom, EU candidate data is hosted in Germany, and a DPA is available for your procurement team on request.
- Retention from 1 to 60 months
- Auto-delete on expiry
- Right-to-be-forgotten in a few clicks
- UK and EU data residency, DPA on request
100Hires vs a typical ATS for UK hiring
Here is how 100Hires compares to a typical ATS on the features UK hiring teams ask about most, with pricing available up front.
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Where 100Hires fits among UK applicant tracking systems
Most shortlists for the best applicant tracking system in the UK come down to a few international names and a group of UK-founded specialists.
Greenhouse is a respected enterprise choice, but hiring teams under 50 employees repeatedly report it is heavy and expensive for their size. Workable is a solid generalist from $299 per month as of July 2026, with texting, video interviews, and assessments sold as paid add-ons.
Teamtailor is liked for employer branding, though it sells annual contracts only and prices by headcount band.
UK-founded systems tend to fit public-sector and education hiring well, but most keep pricing behind a demo call, and several have been acquired into larger software groups in recent years, with mixed reviews of support since.
Whichever direction you lean, put the same four checks from the list above to every vendor.
100Hires sits in the in-house, small-to-mid-size slot of this market. AI screening and GDPR controls are available from the starter plan rather than gated to enterprise tiers, and knockout questions unlock on the Advanced plan.
Pricing is published starting at $49 per month billed annually, and UK candidate data is hosted on AWS in the United Kingdom, with EU candidate data hosted in Germany. If that matches how your team hires, start a free 14-day trial and compare it against your shortlist.
It solved all of my recruitment problems and offered all of the features I was looking for. It can automate most of my recruitment processes.
I'd happily recommend it to my industry peers. I'm able to use the platform with ease and don't have to think twice what function to use.
The system is very user-friendly. Even people with no experience will find it easy to understand its functionality.
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