For Employers
Hire high-calibre
technology talent.
When the right candidate isn't actively looking, a job advert won't reach them. We will.
The candidate you need isn't applying.
The strongest engineers, security specialists and technology leaders are employed, well paid and busy. They don't scroll job boards, and they ignore cold InMails — which is why the same advert can run for months and return nothing worth interviewing.
SDL Solutions works the other side of the market. Twenty-five years of specialist technology recruitment has built a network of over twelve thousand professionals who know us, trust us, and take our calls. When you brief us on a role, we don't wait for applications — we go and get the people who should be on your shortlist, including the ones no other agency can reach.
Three ways to engage
Permanent, contract,
or executive search.
Executive Search
For leadership that changes a company's trajectory: CTOs, CISOs, heads of engineering, data and technology. Fully mapped markets, discreet approaches, and a process run in total confidence — on both sides.
Permanent Recruitment
Critical hires across software, cloud, data, cyber security, infrastructure and IT leadership. Every candidate is qualified against the brief and the culture before you ever see them — a short list, not a long one.
Contract Recruitment
When delivery can't wait. Proven contractors for development, testing, support, cloud, security and change — vetted, referenced and typically on site within days of the brief.
How we work
Six steps.
No surprises.
- Brief. We sit down, we listen, and we push back where it's needed — the role gets defined properly before anyone is approached.
- Map. The whole market charted, including the people who aren't looking.
- Approach. Direct, discreet conversations with the hardest people to reach.
- Qualify. Skills proven, motives understood, culture matched.
- Shortlist. Three or four right answers — never a pile of CVs.
- Land. Offer to onboarding, handled. And we stay in touch long after the start date.
What clients say
SDL is the only agency we use now. Ten years in, they have never sent a CV we didn't want to read.
Three developers, two weeks' notice. All three still with us years later.
Start a search
Send us the brief.
Tell us about the role — or the problem the role needs to solve — and a specialist consultant will come back to you the same working day.