Orbital People Ltd

Orbital People Ltd is a recruitment and staffing augmentation company that places freelance, contract and permanent technology talent. It works with senior executives, managers and technology professionals, and says it partners with organisations across the globe, from tech start-ups and established SMEs to multinational companies. Its specialist areas are information technology, industrial automation and robotics, and port and container automation.

The company supplies contract, interim, freelance, SOW, permanent and fixed-term staff. Its engagement models range from single-role contingency recruitment to retained searches and fully outsourced staff augmentation, with options such as pre-agreed fixed fees, sliding scale placement fees and in-house temporary talent acquisition. Candidates are pre-screened and interviewed before being represented, and contractor placements cover checks such as right to work, insurance and IR35 status.

Founder Geoffrey Dunnett has worked in technology recruitment for over 25 years. He founded Orbital Recruitment Group in Sydney in 2008, recruiting across Australia and Asia, before returning to the UK in 2018. The company has an office in Sevenoaks, Kent, and also gives Sydney, Australia as a location.