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Machinery equipment wholesale in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 6,986 machinery equipment wholesale companies are based in United Kingdom; 48 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
6,986
Hiring now
48 · 14 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Machinery spare parts distributors · 1,210
Top city
London · 144
Parent market
Commerce & trade · 178,481
6,986machinery equipment wholesale companies in United Kingdom
48hiring today
14opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Machinery equipment wholesale in United Kingdom, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Machinery spare parts distributors
1,21017%
Other machinery equipment wholesale
1,04715%
Agricultural machinery dealers
71810%
Construction machinery dealers
5949%
Industrial tool & machine dealers
5338%
Outdoor power equipment dealers
4897%
Catering equipment distributors
3966%
Automation & electrical distributors
3295%
Industrial process machinery dealers
3084%
Office & printing equipment dealers
3014%
Industrial parts distribution
2844%
IT hardware distributors
2784%
General machinery & equipment dealers
1773%
Other trade & technical equipment webshops
1482%
Forklift & handling equipment
1372%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
516 · 0
2-10 employees
4,931 · 4
11-50 employees
1,274 · 15
51-200 employees
222 · 21
201-500 employees
34 · 7
501-1000 employees
5 · 1
1001-5000 employees
3 · 0
10,001+ employees
1 · 0
By city
companiesshare
London
1442%
Sheffield
631%
Birmingham
611%
Bristol
381%
Leeds
330%
Glasgow
320%
Manchester
210%
Stoke-on-Trent
210%
Nottingham
200%
Leicester
190%
Liverpool
160%
Newport
160%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest machinery equipment wholesale companies in United Kingdom

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

6,986 machinery equipment wholesale companies in United Kingdom.

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04 — What they run

The stack of machinery equipment wholesale in United Kingdom

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

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6,986 machinery equipment wholesale companies are based in United Kingdom; 48 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/united-kingdom/machinery_equipment_wholesale)
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

Machinery equipment wholesale in United Kingdom: questions

How many machinery equipment wholesale companies are there in United Kingdom?

6,986 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Commerce & trade → Machinery equipment wholesale → leaf niches such as machinery spare parts distributors, other machinery equipment wholesale, agricultural machinery dealers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

Can I get the list?

Yes: the first 20 largest are on this page; the full list with verified e-mails is in the product. Counting is free.

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