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

In 2024, although just 0.2 percent of businesses in the UK were large-sized enterprises, they accounted for 40.1 percent of employment, and almost half of overall business turnover.

Weekly data showing the number of Companies House incorporations, voluntary dissolutions accepted, and companies placed into compulsory dissolution in the UK. These are official statistics in development. Source: Companies House.

This statistic displays the share of businesses with a website in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2019, by business size. In 2019, approximately 97 percent of businesses with 1000 employees or more had a website.

In 2023, professional, scientific, and technical businesses in the United Kingdom totaled *******, making up **** percent of total UK businesses. In 2022, these businesses accounted for **** percent of total businesses in the UK, with a total of *******. This was a decrease of ****** professional, scientific, and technical businesses between 2022 and 2023.

London had the most business enterprises of any region of the United Kingdom, with ******* registered in 2024, while the South East, had the second-highest amount at *******. Northern Ireland and North East England had the fewest businesses at ***, *** and ******* respectively.

There were around *** million private sector businesses operating in the United Kingdom in 2024, with ******* of these being construction businesses and a further ******* professional, scientific, and technical businesses. The overall number of businesses in the UK reached a peak of **** million in 2020, but fell quite sharply to **** million following the COVID-19 pandemic. UK business confidence muted in 2025 Several metrics suggest UK businesses are operating in a tough environment in 2025. Business confidence has generally declined since 2022, with many firms pointing to an increased tax burden as one of their main challenges. Inflation remains a major concern too, with elevated prices remaining in place from the inflation crisis, and expected to rise further in 2025. This challenging environment may also cause firms to think twice when it comes to hiring, with the UK labor market starting to show signs of this happening already. Labor market cooldown well underway A survey from Spring 2025 that asked businesses about their employment intentions revealed that ** percent of firms intended to reduce their staff levels, the highest share in that survey since 2020. The number of job vacancies in the UK has also continued to fall, with just ******* in June 2025. This was the fewest number of vacancies since April 2021, and outside the pandemic, the lowest since May 2015. The number of employees on UK payrolls has also declined recently, with the pace of this reduction accelerating since the start of the year.

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

This statistic displays the main concerns during the decision-making process prior to the implementation of cloud-based services among organizations in both public and private sectors in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015. During the survey, it was found that ** percent of respondents representing organizations in the public sector reported that the regulatory constraints had been the area of main concern during the decision-making process within their organizations.

According to a survey conducted in the second quarter of 2025, the main external concern for businesses in the United Kingdom, compared with the previous quarter, was that of taxation, at 56 percent of responding firms. Inflation was the next most concerning external issue, at 52 percent of firms, with competition the third-most important issue this quarter, at 37 percent of firms. Businesses takes the hit in the last budget After promising not to raise taxes for working people in the 2024 election, the Labour government's first budget that Autumn sought to increase revenue via higher taxes for employers. From April 2025 onwards, the rate of National Insurance Contributions for employers increased from 13.5 percent, to 15 percent. The UK's minimum wage also increased that month, rising from 11.44 pounds per hour to 12.21 pounds for workers aged 21 and over, with minimum earnings for younger workers also rising. Job losses accelerating in 2025 In recent years, the UK's labor market has gradually cooled, with the unemployment rate slowly ticking up from a low of 3.6 percent in Summer 2022. Additionally, there were a record 1.3 million job vacancies reported in May of that year, highlighting how overheated the jobs market was at that time. As of 2025, this is no longer the case, with the unemployment rate at 4.6 percent in April 2025, the highest since 2021, with job vacancies also falling to a four-year low. Since the start of the year, the number of employees on payrolls has fallen quite substantially, with approximately 230,000 jobs lost since the start of the year.

As of 2022, online bank accounts were the most used online service by businesses in the United Kingdom (UK), with ** percent of surveyed businesses using it. According to the same survey, ** percent of businesses possessed the opportunity to hold personal information about customers electronically.

In 2021, approximately ************** of consumers in Germany, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom (UK) stated they used Google when looking for local business information, making it the most commonly used and by far the most dominant search engine for this purpose. There were, however, many other search engine platforms frequently used by consumers including Apple Maps, Yahoo, Tripadvisor, as well as other content-specific websites and apps.

In 2024, there were approximately 5.5 million private businesses operating in the United Kingdom, a slight decrease when compared with the previous year, and down from a peak of 5.98 million businesses reported in 2020. There has been a net increase of around 2.03 million business enterprises since 2000, when there were 3.47 million. During the provided time period, the largest annual rise in the number of businesses occurred between 2013 and 2014, which saw a net increase of approximately 340,000 private enterprises. Employment in the UK Of the almost 34 million people employed in the UK in 2025 almost 28 million are employed in the private sector, highlighting their key role in the UK economy. Additionally, a significant share of the UK workforce are employed by around 4,000 large companies which employ over 500 people. In 2024, large companies employed over 9.65 million people, despite only composing a fraction of the total number of UK private enterprises. During the same time period, the UK public sector employed around 6.1million people, approximately 17.9 percent of the workforce. Retail and wholesale dominate Over 4.9 million people were employed in retail and wholesale in the UK in 2024, the most of any sector. After the retail sector, administrative, and support service businesses were the next biggest employer, at just over 3.09 million people. Retail and wholesale enterprises were also responsible for the highest combined turnover of UK businesses, at more than 1.8 trillion British pounds. The sector with the most enterprises, was the construction sector with over 870,000 enterprises belonging to this industry in 2024.

Compass Group had by far the highest number of global employees among companies based in the United Kingdom as of 2025, at approximately 500,000 employees. Tesco had the second-highest number of employees at around 336,400, followed by HSBC Holdings which had 211,000 employees. In the same year, HSBC Holdings had an annual revenue of 142.3 billion U.S. dollars, the third-highest among UK-based companies. The oil and gas giant Shell had the highest annual revenue at over 283 billion dollars, ahead of BP at 189 billion dollars. How many businesses are there in the UK? In 2024, there were approximately 5.5 million business enterprises in the UK, down from a peak of 5.98 million in 2020. Although there were just 1,930 large firms that employed 1,000 people or more, these firms employed more than a quarter of the UK's private sector workforce, and made a combined turnover of approximately 1.69 trillion British pounds. As of this year, the construction industry had the highest number of enterprises by sector, at over 870,000. The sector with the most workers was that of wholesale and retail, which collectively employed just under 4.9 million people in 2024, and also had the highest turnover compared to other sectors, at over 1.8 trillion pounds. Current UK economic climate Although the UK economy is expected to grow in 2025, growth has been downgraded from earlier forecasts, while inflation and unemployment are expected to be higher than initially thought. According to the business confidence index, sentiment among businesses at the end of 2024 was lower than it has been since early 2021. Furthermore, since the start of 2025, businesses have been shedding jobs at an accelerating rate, possibly due to recent tax rises, which was seen as the main external concern of businesses in early 2025. The precarious state of the UK's government finances, and potential tax rises in the next budget, are also likely feeding into this pessimistic mood.