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Hair & grooming salons in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 12,364 hair & grooming salons companies are based in United Kingdom; 28 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
12,364
Hiring now
28 · 3 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Hair salons · 8,385
Top city
London · 240
Parent market
Consumer services & leisure · 283,647
12,364hair & grooming salons companies in United Kingdom
28hiring today
3opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Hair & grooming salons in United Kingdom, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Hair salons
8,38568%
Barbershops
2,75822%
Mobile freelance hairdressers
1,1549%
Beauty salons general
4193%
Makeup artists
2282%
Other hair & grooming salons
1561%
Hair loss treatment clinics
1401%
Other beauty & aesthetic treatment
821%
Lash brow studios
801%
Beauty training academies
701%
Waxing & sugaring studios
520%
Laser skin clinics
380%
Permanent makeup studios
300%
Personal stylists image consultants
270%
Nail salons
180%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
2,749 · 0
2-10 employees
9,411 · 18
11-50 employees
180 · 4
51-200 employees
18 · 2
201-500 employees
2 · 2
501-1000 employees
3 · 1
1001-5000 employees
1 · 1
By city
companiesshare
London
2402%
Bristol
1061%
Glasgow
841%
Birmingham
801%
Edinburgh
661%
Nottingham
641%
Manchester
610%
Leeds
590%
Sheffield
550%
Liverpool
540%
Rode
480%
Aberdeen
450%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest hair & grooming salons companies in United Kingdom

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

12,364 hair & grooming salons companies in United Kingdom.

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04 — What they run

The stack of hair & grooming salons in United Kingdom

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

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12,364 hair & grooming salons companies are based in United Kingdom; 28 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/consumer_services_leisure/united-kingdom/hair_and_grooming_salons)
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

Hair & grooming salons in United Kingdom: questions

How many hair & grooming salons companies are there in United Kingdom?

12,364 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Consumer services & leisure → Hair & grooming salons → leaf niches such as hair salons, barbershops, mobile freelance hairdressers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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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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