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Top 25 Big 5 consulting firms based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 3,656 big 5 consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 51,692 professional contacts across them, including 21,429 with verified work emails and 5,034 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers big 5 consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 23, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 23, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
3,656Companies
51,692Contacts tracked
21,429Verified emails
5,034Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest big 5 consulting firms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 3,656 big 5 consulting firms based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 23, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to big 5 consulting firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202610001+17,070 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
2Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261,001-5,0002,179 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Baringa is a global consulting firm that helps leaders drive meaningful change and create value.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026501-1,0001,011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At OC & C Strategy Consultants we have more than 35 years of experience at unpicking the most complex business challenges with simple, uncommon sense™.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500360 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Softwire exists to help organisations use technology to deliver meaningful outcomes and a positive impact for themselves, their users and the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026501-1,000351 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Emergn is a global technology and management consultancy built on a simple conviction: the only sustainable competitive advantage is the way you work.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
6Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20265,001-10,000329 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are the global consulting division of Davies, accelerating business, technology and people performance across financial services including Retail Finance & Corporate Banking…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
7Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500302 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Cartesian is a specialist consulting firm focused on the global telecommunications, media, and technology industries and is now part of Bounteous, an AI services firm helping…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
8Indirect evidenceKing's Cross, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500281 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Most organisations commit to bold growth ambitions but aren’t set up to deliver them.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
9Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026501-1,000275 contacts →

Partial evidence

“An award-winning global consulting firm working with clients across a diverse range of markets, industries and geographies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
10Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500255 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Transform is a fresh alternative to Big Consulting.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
11Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500247 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We’re a dynamic consulting firm, focused on delivering change.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500245 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Percipere is a niche global consultancy, partnering companies in their evolution towards greater operational efficiency and profitability.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
13Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500240 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Albany Beck is a client-first consulting firm helping financial services organisations deliver complex change and build capability, not dependency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
14Partial evidenceGuildford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500224 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Actica Consulting is a business and technology consultancy specialising in the delivery of complex transformation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
15Indirect evidenceTheale, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200191 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Clarify helps global Technology companies achieve sustained and significant commercial success.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
16Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500178 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The future has never moved this fast.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
17Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200170 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are an employee-owned, award-winning international consulting firm that believes there’s a better way to do consultancy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
18Indirect evidenceMilton Keynes, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200166 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In an uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, business change is essential and inevitable.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200160 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“InterEx Group is becoming the strategic partner of choice for organizations undergoing digital, business, and technology transformation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
20Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200152 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1990, The Berkeley Partnership is an independent management consultancy, specialising in business transformation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLondon (uk), United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200142 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Sysdoc we exist to help our clients to transform, adapt and operate in order for them to achieve their ambitions, and to provide our own people with opportunities that allow…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
22Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261,001-5,000139 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We believe that change is an opportunity to thrive.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
23Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200134 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Winners of the UKOUG Business Transformation Advisory Partner of the Year Award 2025 Veran Performance is an advisory consultancy specialising in HR, Payroll, Procurement and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
24Indirect evidenceStaines-upon-thames, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500125 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Technology consultancy providing expertise to complex IT programs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
25Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200123 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Specialists in change and transformation across asset, wealth and insurance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026

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Big 5 consulting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 23, 2026
41.5%Verified-email coverage
9.7%Mobile-number coverage
14.1Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
38.4%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 23, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
2,835
11-50
532
51-200
182
201-500
38
501-1,000
9
1,001-5,000
16
5,001-10,000
5
10001+
5

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked

Email last verified

Median 26.0d

Company record updated

Median 74.0d

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among big 5 consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “big 5 consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names big 5 consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among big 5 consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 21,429 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 23, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names big 5 consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many big 5 consulting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 3,656 big 5 consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Ey-Parthenon, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most big 5 consulting firms?

London leads with 1403 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (68) and Bristol (45).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 21,429 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,656 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 23, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.