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Top 25 Custom market research firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 655 custom market research firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 29,421 professional contacts across them, including 10,149 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers custom market research 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 custom market research firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 15,564 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,621 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mintel, we empower businesses to navigate the future with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 702 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide high performing intelligence that answers critical business questions for leading companies around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 651 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Infiniti Research is a leading provider of market intelligence and customer intelligence solutions with 20+ years’ experience spanning across 20+ industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 464 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Savanta is a fast-growing data, market research and advisory company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 420 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1965, IFF is a social and market research agency who helps people make better informed decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RONIN International is an independent B2B market research company specialising in business, healthcare and tech studies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 259 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are now Inizio Ignite, the global advisory partner for health and life sciences, encompassing connected expertise across Research Partnership, Putnam, Vynamic, and STEM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Canvas8, a global strategic insights practice operating out of London, LA, New York, Singapore and Manila.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kudos Research has been providing high value, competitively priced, market research services to both internal and external clients since 1986.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RFI Global is the only global data and insights company focusing exclusively on financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The world’s most experienced B2B market research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MTM is the trusted insight and strategy partner tackling the biggest challenges for the world's biggest brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “STRAT7 Incite is a strategic research and planning consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EMIS, an ISI Markets product line, is the leading provider of reliable industry and company intelligence on fast-growing markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in January 2015 and based in London, Ampere Analysis is a fast-growing analyst firm with an experienced team of sector-leading industry analysts specialising in media…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Researchbods delivers insight that drives action for ambitious brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BVA BDRC is now part of Ipsos, and using the Ipsos brand name, following acquisition in June 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Opinium is a multi-award-winning strategic insight agency, twice recognised Market Research Society (MRS)'Agency of the Year' in the past five years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lumina Intelligence is the trusted source for food and drink market insight solutions, powered by the world’s best analytics technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With 26+ years of experience and more than 500+ professionals, Cognition empowers growth for B2B organizations by delivering reliable data, intelligence, and actionable insights…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Not just insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We get responses from people who ignore everyone else.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Qa Research has merged with Blue Marble Research and Pye Tait Consulting to create Navigator Insight.” 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: custom market research 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 custom market research firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of custom market research firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name custom market research 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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Custom market research firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 28, 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 655 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 custom market research 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 “custom market research 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 custom market research 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 custom market research 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, 10,149 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.
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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 custom market research 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 custom market research firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 655 custom market research 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?
Kantar, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most custom market research firms?
London leads with 315 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (14) and Leeds (8).
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 10,149 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 655 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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