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Retail trading platforms in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 4,851 retail trading platforms companies are based in United Kingdom; 72 are hiring right now and London has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
4,851
Hiring now
72 · 26 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Online trading platforms · 3,074
Top city
London · 1,490
Parent market
Business & finance services · 239,426
4,851retail trading platforms companies in United Kingdom
72hiring today
26opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Retail trading platforms in United Kingdom, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Online trading platforms
3,07463%
Forex cfd brokers
1,15924%
Retail investment brokerages
79416%
Crypto trading bots
71215%
Trading signal services
66914%
Crypto exchanges
4058%
Other wealth management investment
2595%
Prop trading firms
2335%
Wealth management general
1904%
Currency exchange & money transfer
491%
Other holding & investment companies
401%
Investment research services
331%
Private asset managers
190%
Property investment advisers
80%
Venture capital firms
80%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
3,605 · 3
2-10 employees
662 · 8
11-50 employees
432 · 31
51-200 employees
112 · 15
201-500 employees
24 · 6
501-1000 employees
7 · 5
1001-5000 employees
5 · 3
5001-10000 employees
2 · 0
10,001+ employees
2 · 1
By city
companiesshare
London
1,49031%
Canary Wharf
1884%
Hampstead Garden Suburb
1864%
Hoxton
802%
Newington
661%
Aldgate East
391%
Glasgow
381%
Manchester
381%
Edinburgh
351%
East Ham
311%
Birmingham
281%
Leeds
240%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest retail trading platforms companies in United Kingdom

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

4,851 retail trading platforms companies in United Kingdom.

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04 — What they run

The stack of retail trading platforms in United Kingdom

From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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4,851 retail trading platforms companies are based in United Kingdom; 72 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/business_finance_services/united-kingdom/retail_trading_platforms)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
FAQ

Retail trading platforms in United Kingdom: questions

How many retail trading platforms companies are there in United Kingdom?

4,851 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Business & finance services → Retail trading platforms → leaf niches such as online trading platforms, forex cfd brokers, retail investment brokerages. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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