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Top 25 Drug development consulting firms based in the United Kingdom

Name: Drug development consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026 1,029 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,029 drug development consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 29,198 professional contacts across them, including 11,492 with verified work emails and 4,424 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers drug development 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 1, 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 RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 1, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

1,029Companies

29,198Contacts tracked

11,492Verified emails

4,424Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest drug development consulting firms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,029 drug development consulting firms based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to drug development 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Premier Research	Partial evidence	Wokingham, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	2,637 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Premier Research International LLC (Premier) is a global leader in clinical research and consulting services with expertise in driving an efficient and effective path to market…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
2	Pharmaron	Indirect evidence	Cramlington, United Kingdom	10001+	1,717 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pharmaron: Global Life Sciences Services Provider Stock Code: 300759.SZ/3759.HK Founded in 2004, Pharmaron is a premier life sciences service provider that offers a broad spectrum…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
3	Perceptive INC	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	1,197 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Expanding on their combined 50-year history, Perceptive provides best-in-class specialist support to global pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations, spanning…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
4	Celerion	Indirect evidence	Belfast, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	1,094 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Celerion, a leader in early clinical research, delivers Applied Translational Medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
5	Selvita	Indirect evidence	Cambridge, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	684 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Selvita is one of the largest preclinical contract research organizations in Europe, driven by a clear mission: to offer a comprehensive scope of services bridging the gap between…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
6	Aptuit	Strong evidence	Abingdon, United Kingdom	501-1,000	680 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Aptuit, an Evotec company, is a pharmaceutical services provider that offers the most complete set of integrated early discovery to mid-phase drug development solutions by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
7	Carbogen Amcis	Strong evidence	Manchester, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	651 contacts →
	Strong evidence “CARBOGEN AMCIS leverages its world-class chemistry skills to provide seamless drug substance, drug products development and commercialization services for leading pharmaceutical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
8	Fisher Clinical Services	Strong evidence	Horsham, United Kingdom	10001+	615 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Thermo Fisher Scientific provides industry-leading pharma services solutions for drug development, clinical trial logistics, and commercial manufacturing to customers through our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
9	Pharm-Olam, LLC	Indirect evidence	Bracknell, United Kingdom	501-1,000	560 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pharm-Olam is now Allucent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
10	Citeline	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	501-1,000	475 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Citeline (a Norstella company), we are a global leader in clinical trial intelligence, data, and insights for the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
11	CALYX	Indirect evidence	Nottingham, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	457 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Calyx and Invicro are now Perceptive!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
12	Putnam	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	201-500	401 contacts →
	Indirect 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 1, 2026
13	Phastar	Indirect evidence	Glasgow, United Kingdom	501-1,000	383 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Phastar is an award-winning specialist biometrics and data science CRO, trusted by pharma, biotech, and medical device companies worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
14	Vernalis	Strong evidence	Great Abington Cambridge, United Kingdom	51-200	330 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We develop and apply fragment and structure-based methods to solve problems in drug discovery, and have generated cell active lead compounds and development candidates against…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
15	Isomorphic Labs	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	201-500	324 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Isomorphic Labs is here to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
16	Simbec-Orion	Indirect evidence	Tydfil, United Kingdom	201-500	308 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our passion for improving patients’ lives motivates us to apply our skills, experience, and knowledge to advance medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
17	Amiculum	Partial evidence	Bollington, United Kingdom	201-500	293 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Amiculum is an independent healthcare consulting and communications agency with >300 talented team members in key locations worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
18	Theorem NOW Fortrea	Indirect evidence	Slough, United Kingdom	10001+	286 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are now Fortrea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
19	Lucid Group	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	201-500	279 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Lucid Group: Catalysts for Change In today’s complex healthcare environment, even the most brilliant science can stall, with 70% of healthcare brands not hitting launch…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
20	Langland	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	201-500	239 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Welcome to Langland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
21	Concept Life Sciences	Indirect evidence	Sandwich, United Kingdom	201-500	208 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Concept Life Sciences is a knowledge-based, science-led and customer-focused contract research and manufacturing organisation with world-leading expertise in the pharmaceutical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
22	Richmond Pharmacology	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	51-200	203 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Richmond, we're on a mission to transform healthcare by delivering faster answers and turning hope into tangible solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
23	Caduceus Lane Marketing Consultancy	Indirect evidence	Dubai., United Kingdom	51-200	184 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Caduceus Lane is a strategic partner providing holistic consultation services to the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industries with a wide spectrum of tailored tactics and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
24	Celegence	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	51-200	182 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Celegence provides services and solutions to support the Life Sciences industry with regulatory affairs operations and strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
25	SCOUT	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	201-500	168 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Scout proudly celebrates over 30 years of empowering clinical trials with people-first solutions and industry-leading tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026

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: drug development 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 drug development consulting firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of drug development consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name drug development 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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Drug development consulting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 1, 2026

39.4%Verified-email coverage

15.2%Mobile-number coverage

28.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

31.6%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 1, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

666

11-50

204

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

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 drug development 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 “drug development 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 drug development 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 drug development 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, 11,492 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 1, 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.

Drug development consulting firms by metro

Drug development consulting firms in London325
Drug development consulting firms in Cambridge54
Drug development consulting firms in Manchester29

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 drug development 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 drug development consulting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 1,029 drug development 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?

Premier Research, headquartered in Wokingham, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most drug development consulting firms?

London leads with 325 headquartered companies, followed by Cambridge (54) and Manchester (29).

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 11,492 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,029 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 1, 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.