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Top 25 Collection agencies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 284 collection agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 6,417 professional contacts across them, including 1,802 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers collection agencies 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 19, 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.
The 25 largest collection agencies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,539 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lowell is one of Europe's leading and most respected credit management companies, we offer combined expertise in debt purchasing, third party collections, business process…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 492 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wescot is a UK based debt collection agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Powered by technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We help the UK’s market-leading companies with debt collection solutions and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to The Sheriffs Office, your one stop solution to debt recovery and enforcement nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Drawing from the expertise, experience and reputation of three of the UK’s leading enforcement and debt recovery providers – JBW Group, Phoenix Commercial Collections and Collect…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Advantis provides contingency collections and trace and collect services to c.50 blue chip clients in the public sector, water, energy, telecoms, financial services and insurance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2009, BW Legal has seen continued growth year on year due to the expertise we show in the debt recovery industry and have grown in to the UK’s largest independent debt…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As one of the UK’s largest law firms dedicated to debt recovery and litigation, we play a crucial role in delivering real commercial results while preserving client relationships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Resolvecall is an award winning, technology led, credit management business delivering customer resolution services on behalf of our clients from the UK banking, Utility and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DCBL is one of the UK’s largest Enforcement Companies, specialising in debt recovery, high court enforcement and high-volume letter cycle collection.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We offer a specialised and committed debt collection service that is respectful, dedicated and highly effective.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Zinc Group delivers its services from a network of partners operating under the banner/label of the “Zinc Group”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Newlyn, we not only provide Councils with increased levels of collection rates; and improve on these rates year on year; but also offer more innovative ways to assist the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our purpose - Redefining Debt Recovery - A caring approach you can trust.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UK Search Limited is a niche DCA with a detailed knowledge of a wide range of business sectors including Financial Services, Utility, Retail, Telecom, Local Authorities, Housing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Equivo is a nationwide collections, recoveries and enforcement business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Originally established in 1997, and a limited company since 2003, Ardent Credit Services Ltd,(a Phillips & Cohen Associates Company) provides 1st or 3rd party early arrears…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Conexus Recovery and Field Services are a Debt Recovery and Field Business based in Coleraine Northern Ireland, we specialise in getting the right outcomes for both our clients…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our People our systems Our People – With well over 100 years experience in the Senior Management team we know what works and what doesn’t.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STA International empowers businesses to protect and strengthen their bottom line through tailored, end-to-end credit management solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Solaris Law are specialist debt recovery solicitors who sit within the Azzurro Associates group of companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Baker Ing International is a leading receivables management provider, consisting of skilled credit professionals who specialise in handling high-value and sensitive accounts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Credit Services Association (CSA) is the sole national trade association in the UK representing organisations in the debt collection and purchase industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: collection agencies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names collection agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of collection agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name collection agencies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Collection agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 284 companies.
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 collection agencies, 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 “collection agencies”. 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 collection agencies), 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 collection agencies, 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, 1,802 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Collection agencies by metro
- Collection agencies in London49
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 collection agencies, 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 collection agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 284 collection agencies 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?
Lowell, headquartered in Leeds, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most collection agencies?
London leads with 49 headquartered companies, followed by Leeds (13) and Glasgow (10).
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 1,802 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 284 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 19, 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.