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Top 25 Commercial consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 5,557 commercial consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 44,089 professional contacts across them, including 16,104 with verified work emails and 4,592 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers commercial 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 28, 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 commercial consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,179 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Baringa is a global consulting firm that helps leaders drive meaningful change and create value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,011 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 528 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategy Insights is a specialist business and economic development consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 477 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help companies with their biggest challenges – market strategies, regulatory reviews, competition inquiries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 302 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CIL is a global growth strategy consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 275 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OIM is dedicated to building competitive organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clarify helps global Technology companies achieve sustained and significant commercial success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Intralink is a business development consultancy specialising in international markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In an uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, business change is essential and inevitable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategic development for already dynamic businesses, successful mergers & acquisitions between household names, technology planning in cutting edge industries and real-world…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Athens helps clients make superior investment decisions and supports them to deliver value from these decisions through timely implementation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Freelance management consultancy, support business owners and their management teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BDO NI specialises in helping businesses, whether start-ups or multinationals, to grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Heavenly is a global, independent creative consultancy, founded in 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At ELEVATE, we execute complex B2B go-to-market strategies with precision at every revenue-critical juncture, managing leads, building executive access, winning deals, expanding…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plural Strategy is a strategy consultancy for the media, information and technology industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whether complex transformation is required across your business or you are seeking support with a small project, we are here to help.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Excalibur provides an end to end business consulting service that offers reliable insight, and expertise in communications and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Punter Southall is a group of companies with one aim – helping businesses and people make better decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sharma & Co operates from offices in Birmingham, London and Manchester delivering practical and cost effective advice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In complex transformation programmes, risk, regulation, financial crime, data, technology and operations no longer sit in separate silos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BFY Group is one of the UK's Leading Management Consultancies, recognised by the Financial Times.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: commercial consulting firms. 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 commercial consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of commercial consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name commercial consulting firms. 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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Commercial consulting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked
Email last verified
Median 30.0dCompany record updated
Median 78.0dHow 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 commercial 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 “commercial 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 commercial 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 commercial 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, 16,104 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 28, 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.
Commercial consulting firms by metro
- Commercial consulting firms in London2115
- Commercial consulting firms in Manchester114
- Commercial consulting firms in Birmingham62
- Commercial consulting firms in Edinburgh62
- Commercial consulting firms in Glasgow55
- Commercial consulting firms in Bristol54
- Commercial consulting firms in Cambridge50
- Commercial consulting firms in Leeds44
- Commercial consulting firms in Reading41
- Commercial consulting firms in Oxford35
- Commercial consulting firms in Belfast26
- Commercial consulting firms in York25
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 commercial 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 commercial consulting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 5,557 commercial 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 commercial consulting firms?
London leads with 2115 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (114) and Birmingham (62).
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 16,104 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,557 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 28, 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.
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