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Fashion & apparel ecommerce in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 28,288 fashion & apparel ecommerce stores are based in United Kingdom; 55 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
28,288
Hiring now
55 · 30 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Own brand casual apparel · 4,643
Top city
London · 1,374
Parent market
Ecommerce · 156,553
28,288fashion & apparel ecommerce stores in United Kingdom
55hiring today
30opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Fashion & apparel ecommerce in United Kingdom, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Own brand casual apparel
4,64316%
Print on demand merch
4,40716%
Womens general fashion webshops
3,50112%
Clothing fashion webshops
2,2658%
Bags accessories webshops
1,9007%
Footwear webshops
1,7036%
Other apparel fashion webshops
1,6186%
Childrens clothing webshops
1,5305%
Activewear webshops
1,4335%
Sporting goods webshops
1,2885%
Menswear webshops
1,0204%
Lingerie webshops
8393%
Secondhand & vintage clothing
7983%
South asian ethnic wear
7273%
Luxury designer resale
5422%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
21,147 · 0
2-10 employees
5,847 · 3
11-50 employees
925 · 14
51-200 employees
204 · 14
201-500 employees
67 · 6
501-1000 employees
42 · 5
1001-5000 employees
48 · 10
5001-10000 employees
7 · 3
10,001+ employees
1 · 0
By city
companiesshare
London
1,3745%
Manchester
2181%
Birmingham
1871%
Leeds
1210%
Glasgow
1200%
Aldgate East
1180%
Bristol
1040%
Stonebridge
1020%
Hoxton
1010%
Liverpool
950%
Rode
780%
Sheffield
730%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest fashion & apparel ecommerce stores in United Kingdom

The largest ecommerce stores of the segment, by headcount; marketplaces and portals left out.

28,288 fashion & apparel ecommerce stores in United Kingdom.

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04 — Ecommerce platforms

What these ecommerce stores run on

Ecommerce platform read from the stores' own pages and DNS.

04 — What they run

The stack of fashion & apparel ecommerce in United Kingdom

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

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28,288 fashion & apparel ecommerce stores are based in United Kingdom; 55 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/united-kingdom/apparel_fashion_webshops)
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

Fashion & apparel ecommerce in United Kingdom: questions

How many fashion & apparel ecommerce stores are there in United Kingdom?

28,288 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Ecommerce → Fashion & apparel ecommerce → leaf niches such as own brand casual apparel, print on demand merch, womens general fashion webshops. 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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