Market map · United Kingdom

Technology & software in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 94,820 technology & software companies are based in United Kingdom: 2,343 with 51+ employees, 1,566 hiring right now, led by b2b saas platforms and London.

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

Companies, confident classification
94,820
51+ employees
2,343 · 2%
Hiring now
1,566 · 460 new in 30 d
Largest segment
B2B SaaS platforms · 37,353
Top city
London · 10,265
Running cold outbound
712
94,820technology & software companies in United Kingdom
2,343with 51+ employees
1,566hiring on their own career site today
460opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Technology & software in United Kingdom, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
B2B SaaS platforms
37,353 · 695
Software dev AI agencies
21,725 · 519
Managed IT services
17,588 · 455
Consumer software & mobile apps
14,516 · 48
Web hosting & domains
11,942 · 11
Developer apis & data infrastructure
3,381 · 126
Health technology & life sciences
2,222 · 49
Hospitality software
2,121 · 32
Tracking & fleet software
1,801 · 32
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
62,667 · 102
2-10 employees
20,097 · 363
11-50 employees
9,713 · 522
51-200 employees
1,851 · 385
201-500 employees
303 · 116
501-1000 employees
95 · 40
1001-5000 employees
74 · 32
5001-10000 employees
9 · 4
10,001+ employees
11 · 2
By city
companiesshare
London
10,26511%
Chalbury Common
1,3611%
Hoxton
8091%
Manchester
7231%
Glasgow
4951%
Birmingham
4751%
Bristol
3820%
Aldgate East
3600%
Edinburgh
3500%
Newington
3460%
Canary Wharf
3410%
Leeds
3300%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest technology & software companies in United Kingdom

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

94,820 technology & software companies in United Kingdom; 1,566 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of technology & software in United Kingdom

Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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94,820 technology & software companies are based in United Kingdom: 2,343 with 51 or more employees, 1,566 hiring right now (460 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by b2b saas platforms and London. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/technology_software/united-kingdom)
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.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Technology & software in United Kingdom: questions

How many technology & software companies are there in United Kingdom?

94,820 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 2,343 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to technology & software?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which technology & software companies in United Kingdom are hiring?

1,566 have an open role on their own career site today and 460 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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