London Private Equity Recruiting

What is the story right now? It feels like nobody is hiring (looking for associate 1 roles). 

Obviously hard to navigate as cannot keep in touch with everyone I ever had coffee with all the time and do not want to pester too much, but also not all HHs are responsive or they pick and choose to tell you which opportunities about..

Ones I am unsure on and appreciate if anyone knows 

1. Great Hilll
2. Keensight Capital
3. Inflexion
4. Bridgepoint
5. Cinven
6. CPPIB
7. MML
8. Providence Equity Partners
9. TA Associates
10. Warburg Pincus
11. KKR
12. TPG
13. Carlyle
14. Adams Street
15. Bregal
16. Mubadala
17. PSG
18. Sovereign
19. Epiris
20. Apollo
21. Ardian
22. Terra Firma Capital Partners
23. Stellex

I have the below places marked as not hiring

1. 3i
2. Advent
3. AGIC
4. Ares
5. Astorg
6. August Equity
7. Battery Ventures
8. BDT Capital Partners (BDT & MSD)
9. Blackstone
10. Bowmark
11. Brookfield
12. CD&R
13. Charterhouse
14. CVC
15. EQT
16. Eurazeo
17. Fremman
18. General Atlantic
19. GI Partners
20. Hellman & Friedman
21. Hg
22. Hillhouse
23. ICG
24. IK Partners
25. Investcorp
26. L Catterton
27. Lion Capital
28. LLCP
29. Limerston
30. Livingbridge
31. Marlin
32. Mayfair
33. Metric
34. Oakley Capital
35. OakTree
36. One Peak
37. Perwyn
38. Platinum Equity
39. PSP
40. Rhone
41. Silver Lake
42. Stirling Square
43. Synova
44. TCV
45. TDR
46. Thoma Bravo
47. TowerBrook
48. Trilantic
49. TSG Consumer
50. Waterland