Passenger road transport in United Kingdom
As of 4 November 2026, 14,607 passenger road transport companies are based in United Kingdom; 49 are hiring right now and Northampton has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 14,607
- Hiring now
- 49 · 7 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Taxi & private hire · 6,580
- Top city
- Northampton · 532
- Parent market
- Transport, logistics & rental · 36,966
Passenger road transport in United Kingdom, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxi & private hire | 6,580 | 45% |
| Executive chauffeur service | 4,204 | 29% |
| Bus coach charter | 3,080 | 21% |
| Airport & holiday transfers | 2,901 | 20% |
| General passenger transport operators | 1,325 | 9% |
| Limousine hire for events | 1,118 | 8% |
| Vehicle rental | 241 | 2% |
| Vehicle transport & car shipping | 65 | 0% |
| Other passenger road transport | 32 | 0% |
| Road freight haulage | 26 | 0% |
| Airport parking shuttle | 21 | 0% |
| Other freight transport & equipment rental | 20 | 0% |
| Scheduled bus operators | 19 | 0% |
| Courier & express delivery | 16 | 0% |
| Removals & moving services | 13 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 3,382 · 2 |
| 2-10 employees | 10,024 · 13 |
| 11-50 employees | 859 · 14 |
| 51-200 employees | 268 · 13 |
| 201-500 employees | 50 · 3 |
| 501-1000 employees | 11 · 2 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 10 · 1 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 2 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Northampton | 532 | 4% |
| London | 427 | 3% |
| Birmingham | 131 | 1% |
| Kensington & Chelsea | 88 | 1% |
| Bristol | 86 | 1% |
| Luton | 73 | 0% |
| Manchester | 73 | 0% |
| Edinburgh | 65 | 0% |
| Glasgow | 63 | 0% |
| Liverpool | 60 | 0% |
| Reading | 51 | 0% |
| West Drayton | 47 | 0% |
The biggest passenger road transport companies in United Kingdom
The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.
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The stack of passenger road transport in United Kingdom
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Other segments of transport, logistics & rental in United Kingdom
Transport, logistics & rental in United Kingdom, the whole market →
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14,607 passenger road transport companies are based in United Kingdom; 49 are hiring right now and Northampton has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/transport_logistics_rental/united-kingdom/passenger_road_transport)
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- 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.
Passenger road transport in United Kingdom: questions
How many passenger road transport companies are there in United Kingdom?
14,607 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Transport, logistics & rental → Passenger road transport → leaf niches such as taxi & private hire, executive chauffeur service, bus coach charter. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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