Recruitment website cost in the UK: what changes your quote?
In short
A recruitment website quote depends on what your agency needs built, connected and maintained. Design and content are part of the scope, alongside job pages, applications, recruitment-system access, forms and any migration from your existing site. Compare the initial build and ongoing responsibilities separately. Recruitment Connected scopes each project individually and does not publish a fixed price list, so this guide explains what to include in a useful brief rather than offering a price estimate.
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Define what you mean by a recruitment website
A small agency website with an employer enquiry route is a different project from a site that publishes vacancies, filters results and sends applications into a recruitment system. Both may be described as a recruitment website, but a quote for one does not tell you what the other will cost.
Write down the journeys that matter: a candidate finding a suitable role, someone registering for future work, an employer describing a vacancy and your team updating the content. Each journey needs a clear end point and an agreed destination for the information.
The main factors in a recruitment website quote
- Design and page structure: the layouts, navigation and reusable page types your agency needs.
- Content: who writes the service, sector and employer pages, chooses images and approves the wording.
- Jobs and applications: vacancy detail pages, relevant filters, the apply route and the information a recruiter receives.
- Integration: the recruitment system, account permissions, agreed fields, duplicate handling and failed-connection behaviour.
- Forms: a short public enquiry form has a different scope from an invited onboarding flow with reviews and documents.
- Migration: existing pages, useful URLs, downloadable files and content that must be retained or redirected.
- Testing and handover: checking the actual journeys, explaining how to update the site and agreeing ongoing responsibility.
Ask the supplier to identify what is included, excluded and dependent on another provider. An assumption about account access or who supplies the copy can change a project after an apparently straightforward quote.
New WordPress recruitment website or improvements to your current site?
If your existing WordPress site presents your agency well and is straightforward to maintain, start by assessing the job pages and application process. An integration or a focused improvement may address the problem without replacing every page.
A broader rebuild may be appropriate when the content structure, branding and candidate journey all need work. Ask what would be retained, what would change and why. The decision should follow an assessment of the current website rather than assuming that a new design is always the first step.
How Giig integration changes the scope
For a Giig and WordPress connection, list the operations your agency needs separately. Showing supported vacancy information is one operation; sending a registration or an application linked to a particular vacancy is another. CV handling and progress information need their own checks.
Before agreeing a quote, establish what your Giig account permits, which fields move in each direction and what should happen when an operation fails. Some WordPress themes or page builders also need presentation changes. A quote should explain those dependencies and who is responsible for resolving them. Recruitment Connected is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Giig.
Separate website build costs from ongoing costs
Ask for the initial work and continuing responsibilities to be set out separately. The ongoing items to clarify include:
- Domain renewal and who controls the domain account.
- Hosting, backups and how a restoration would be handled.
- Theme, plugin and third-party service licences, including whose account holds them.
- WordPress, theme and plugin updates, with checks that important forms and connections still work.
- Agreed integration monitoring, maintenance and support.
- Content changes or additional development after the original scope is delivered.
WordPress's documentation explains the need to keep installations updated and to back up before updating. For a recruitment site, ask who tests the jobs, applications and connected forms after changes. A maintenance description should say what is covered and how additional work is agreed.
Include migration and search readiness in the brief
Give the developer a list of existing pages that matter to candidates and employers. Include useful guides, sector pages and any links your team already shares. Decide what can stay at the same address and what needs a new destination.
Google's site-move guidance describes mapping changed URLs to their new locations and using server redirects. Ask who handles that mapping, internal links, canonical URLs and the new sitemap when addresses change. These are migration tasks to define in a quote; they are not a promise that rankings will stay the same.
Compare recruitment website quotes against the same brief
Read each quote against the same candidate and employer journeys. If one supplier includes copy, migration, application testing and handover while another expects your team to provide them, the headline prices are describing different amounts of work.
Ask who owns the finished content, which accounts and licences are in your name, what access you receive and what happens if you change suppliers. Also ask how a later requirement is assessed and approved. These questions help you understand the commitment as well as the initial build.
Plan the candidate registration form your quote needs to cover
A practical brief for a recruitment website estimate
- Your current website address and the specific journeys you want to improve.
- The sectors, locations and types of work your agency recruits for.
- The pages and content you want to keep, rewrite or add, and who will supply them.
- The job details, filters and application or registration questions candidates need.
- Your recruitment system and what you know about the account's integration permissions.
- The forms or documents that belong in the initial scope and those that can be assessed later.
- The hosting, licences, maintenance and handover responsibilities you want explained.
- Your available budget and any real business deadline, so the supplier can discuss priorities.
For example, a brief might ask to retain existing sector pages, improve mobile job search, assess supported Giig vacancy information and agree an application route. That gives a supplier something specific to assess. It is an example of scope, not a priced package or a claim that every operation is available on your account.
How Recruitment Connected scopes your project
We start with your current website, recruitment system and the process you want to improve. We assess the website's fit and relevant account access, then define the pages, operations and forms in scope before agreeing commercial terms.
You can ask about a new WordPress recruitment website, an integration for an existing site or a forms project. Bring the website address and the part of the process that is causing difficulty. There is no public fixed price or guaranteed delivery period to assume before that assessment.