In 2024, there were approximately 5.49 million small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the United Kingdom. Micro-sized enterprises that employ up to nine people constitute the majority of SMEs in the UK, at over 5.23 million. Enterprises that have between 10 and 49 employees are classed as small enterprises, and numbered around 219,900 in the UK, while there were 37,750 medium-sized enterprises.

In 2024, there were approximately 870,040 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the construction sector in the United Kingdom, the most of any sector in that year. The sector with the second-highest number of SMEs was the Professional, Scientific and Technical activities sector, at 754,520 SMEs.

Numbers of enterprises and local units produced from a snapshot of the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 8 March 2024.

Data on the share of small and medium enterprises (SME) in the hospitality sector in the United Kingdom (UK) that made a profit between 2014 and 2020 shows that in 2016, 79 percent of hospitality SMEs based in the UK made a profit, the most of any year.

Data on the share of small and medium enterprises (SME) in the hospitality sector with growth plans for the next 12 months in the United Kingdom (UK) from fourth quarter 2011 to the fourth quarter 2020 shows that the peak of the period was in third quarter 2013, when 53 percent of hospitality sector SMEs stated that they planned to grow in the following 12 months.

Bankruptcies in the United Kingdom increased to 2035 Companies in February from 1978 Companies in January of 2025. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Bankruptcies - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

There were 305 company insolvencies in Northern Ireland in 2024, compared with 218 in the previous year.

London had the most companies that accepted cryptocurrency in the UK in 2021, but Manchester had a higher number of firms compared to other cities of equal size. This is according to open-source tracking, which tried to list how many companies either had an in-store ATM or accepted them for POS payments. The figures shown here are different from a source that investigates Bitcoin ATMs in the United Kingdom: Although the figure for the capital was the same, a big difference can be observed for second city Birmingham.

In the second quarter of 2023, mobile phones were the preferred device among online shoppers in the United Kingdom (UK), with 48 percent of shoppers reporting a preference for mobile commerce. Computers followed behind with 40 percent reporting that they prefer their online shopping through laptops and desktops. Only 13 percent of respondents opted for tablets as their go-to device for online shopping.

Microsoft 365 is used by over two million companies worldwide, with over one million customers in the United States alone using the office suite software. Office 365 is the brand name previously used by Microsoft for a group of software applications providing productivity related services to its subscribers. Office 365 applications include Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. The consumer and small business plans of Office 365 were renamed as Microsoft 365 on 21 April, 2020. Global office suite market share  An office suite is a collection of software applications (word processing, spreadsheets, database etc.) designed to be used for tasks within an organization. Worldwide market share of office suite technologies is split between Google’s G Suite and Microsoft’s Office 365, with G Suite controlling around 45 percent of the global market and Office 365 holding around 26 percent. This trend is similar across most worldwide regions.

During a 2024 survey among marketers worldwide, around 86 percent reported using Facebook for marketing purposes. Instagram and LinkedIn followed, respectively mentioned by 79 and 65 percent of the respondents. The global social media marketing segment According to the same study, 59 percent of responding marketers intended to increase their organic use of YouTube for marketing purposes throughout that year. LinkedIn and Instagram followed with similar shares, rounding up the top three social media platforms attracting a planned growth in organic use among global marketers in 2024. Their main driver is increasing brand exposure and traffic, which led the ranking of benefits of social media marketing worldwide. Social media for B2B marketing Social media platform adoption rates among business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) marketers vary according to each subsegment's focus. While B2C professionals prioritize Facebook and Instagram – both run by Meta, Inc. – due to their popularity among online audiences, B2B marketers concentrate their endeavors on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn due to its goal to connect people and companies in a corporate context.