Professional services n.e.c.
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
110142
Active companies
84830
Formed in latest 12 months
10417
Median active-company age
7.9 years
Revenue known
1430
Importers
2381
Exporters
1698
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 110,142 |
| Active companies | 84,830 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 10,417 |
| Importers | 2,381 |
| Exporters | 1,698 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 1430 known, 83400 unknown (1.7%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 776 | 747 |
| 2025-12 | 681 | 868 |
| 2026-01 | 1,024 | 817 |
| 2026-02 | 895 | 828 |
| 2026-03 | 932 | 850 |
| 2026-04 | 875 | 738 |
| 2026-05 | 830 | 756 |
| 2026-06 | 900 | 661 |
| 2026-07 | 863 | 1,137 |
| 2026-08 | 262 | 606 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 77,344 |
| Dissolved | 24,094 |
| Dormant | 7,486 |
| Liquidation | 1,173 |
| In Administration | 30 |
| Voluntary Arrangement | 7 |
| Converted / Closed | 4 |
| Receiver Action | 3 |
| Insolvency Proceedings | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - West | 8,959 |
| Inner London - East | 7,399 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 4,164 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 4,084 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 4,072 |
| Greater Manchester | 3,793 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 2,785 |
| West Midlands | 2,462 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 2,404 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 2,319 |
Geography coverage: 84217 known, 613 unknown (99.3%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 53,868 |
| 1m-15m | 7,970 |
| 15m-54m | 325 |
| 54m+ | 662 |
Revenue-range coverage: 62825 known, 22005 unknown (74.1%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 35,357 |
| Small | 24,855 |
| Medium | 57 |
| Large | 899 |
| Holding | 273 |
| Dormant | 7,486 |
Company-size coverage: 68927 known, 15903 unknown (81.3%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 16,457 |
| 1–9 | 41,008 |
| 10–49 | 1,812 |
| 50–249 | 270 |
| 250+ | 27 |
Employee coverage: 59574 known, 25256 unknown (70.2%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 10,232 |
| 1–3 years | 13,299 |
| 3–5 years | 8,584 |
| 5–10 years | 17,640 |
| 10–20 years | 24,900 |
| 20+ years | 10,174 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 84829 known, 1 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Directly assigned to this segment | 84,830 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 1,127 |
| Exporter only | 444 |
| Both | 1,254 |
| Neither | 82,005 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 1,239 | £182,009,207,651 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 1,211 | £56,824,584,832 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 1,067 | £146,817,480,610 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 469 | £20,261,916,499 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 423 | £13,934,716,655 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 406 | £23,190,569,813 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 251 | £22,751,433,194 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 38 — Miscellaneous chemical products | 236 | £13,913,923,695 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 235 | £4,696,590,917 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 227 | £2,775,170,964 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 898 | £51,919,191,714 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 866 | £67,718,246,651 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 781 | £71,829,951,743 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 298 | £12,511,573,323 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 290 | £7,249,359,127 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 284 | £3,841,069,447 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 207 | £13,843,916,071 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 38 — Miscellaneous chemical products | 167 | £11,940,672,006 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 167 | £563,210,867 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 159 | £1,233,500,699 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 9,433 | 76,110 | 8,720 | 89.7% |
| Holding company | 17 | 76,110 | 8,720 | 89.7% |
| Solo founder | 40,429 | 76,110 | 8,720 | 89.7% |
| Ecommerce | 218 | 1,884 | 82,946 | 2.2% |
| Website | 2,316 | 2,364 | 82,466 | 2.8% |
| 1,842 | 2,364 | 82,466 | 2.8% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Hudson Contract Limited | £1,688,027,382 |
| Hudson Cis (gb) Limited | £208,724,518 |
| Irobot Uk Ltd. | £200,255,740 |
| Sodexo Live Uk Limited | £154,832,000 |
| Ashley Chartering Limited | £107,888,337 |
| Next Jump Limited | £84,979,578 |
| Alten Ltd | £80,956,567 |
| Kinly Uk Ltd | £79,675,000 |
| Synexus Clinical Research Limited | £76,426,000 |
| Sodexo Global Services Uk Limited | £75,359,000 |
Revenue coverage: 1430 known, 83400 unknown (1.7%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Management consluting | 286,194 |
| Advertising agencies | 55,763 |
| Creative and Industrial Design | 52,007 |
| Accounting and audit | 45,221 |
| Non-trading company | 41,490 |
| Non-industrial engineering | 40,766 |
| Geospatial services | 35,852 |
| Head office services | 31,122 |
| Bookkeeping | 25,784 |
| Financial management | 22,804 |
| Architechts | 21,393 |
| Public relations | 16,704 |
| Media sales | 14,620 |
| Scientific and technical R&D | 13,970 |
| Environmental consulting | 13,940 |
| Tax consulting | 13,396 |
| Industrial engineering | 12,759 |
| Solicitors | 12,503 |
| Copyright agents | 10,419 |
| Specialist photography | 9,204 |
| Other | 64,005 |
SIC classification
SIC 74909 — Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
Includes
business brokerage activities, i.e. arranging for the purchase and sale of small and medium-sized businesses, including professional practices, but not including real estate brokerage, patent brokerage activities (arranging for the purchase and sale of patents), appraisal activities other than for real estate and insurance (for antiques, jewellery, etc.), bill auditing and freight rate information, weather forecasting activities, security consultants, agronomy consulting, other technical consulting, activities of consultants other than architecture, engineering, environment and management consultants, activities carried out by agents and agencies on behalf of individuals usually involving the obtaining of engagements in motion picture, theatrical production or other entertainment or sports attractions and the placement of books, plays, artworks, photographs etc., with publishers, producers etc.
Excludes
wholesale of used motor vehicles by auctioning, see ##45.1, online auction activities (retail), see ##47.91, activities of auctioning houses (retail), see ##47.79, activities of real estate brokers, see ##68.31, activities of environmental consultants, see ##74.90/1, activities of quantity surveyors, see ##74.90/2, bookkeeping activities, see ##69.20, activities of management consultants, see ##70.22, activities of architecture and engineering consultants, see ##71.1, industrial and machinery design, see ##71.12, ##74.10, veterinary testing and control in relation to food production, see ##71.20, display of advertisement and other advertising design, see ##73.11, creation of stands and other display structures and sites, see ##73.11, activities of convention and trade show organisers, see ##82.30, activities of independent auctioneers, see ##82.99, administration of loyalty programmes, see ##82.99, consumer credit and debt counselling, see ##88.99