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Top 25 Equipment rental platforms based in the United Kingdom

Name: Equipment rental platforms based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 2, 2026 268 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 268 equipment rental platforms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 5,738 professional contacts across them, including 1,346 with verified work emails and 310 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers equipment rental platforms 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 2, 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 2, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

268Companies

5,738Contacts tracked

1,346Verified emails

310Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest equipment rental platforms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 268 equipment rental platforms based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 2, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to equipment rental platforms: 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	GAP Group Limited	Strong evidence	Glasgow, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	1,095 contacts →
	Strong evidence “GAP Hire Solutions is the UK’s largest independent equipment rental company, hiring out an extensive range of equipment to industries including construction, utilities, civil…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
2	Nationwide Platforms	Strong evidence	Lutterworth, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	572 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We’re Nationwide Platforms, the UK’s market leader in powered access platform hire, equipment sales and IPAF training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
3	Loxam Access	Indirect evidence	Nottingham, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	301 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Loxam Access Limited, formed in March in the UK following the acquisition of one of the leading Powered Access companies which has its origins from 1958.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
4	Hewden	Indirect evidence	Manchester, United Kingdom	501-1,000	204 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Hewden was established in 1968 and is one of the largest hirers in the industry, providing on-site solutions for customers working in the Construction, Industrial, Events and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
5	Height For Hire	Indirect evidence	Fenny Compton Southam, United Kingdom	51-200	112 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Height for Hire has been in business for nearly 40 years and has always been at the forefront of working safely at height.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
6	Star Platforms	Partial evidence	Wrotham, United Kingdom	51-200	92 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Star Platforms offer a UK wide powered access hire service including a comprehensive range of scissor lifts, cherry pickers and low-level platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
7	Smiths Equipment Hire	Indirect evidence	Blackpool, United Kingdom	51-200	89 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Smiths Hire, we believe in high quality service and pride ourselves on offering a level of service that separates us from our competition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
8	MCS Rental Software	Strong evidence	White Waltham, United Kingdom	51-200	82 contacts →
	Strong evidence “MCS provides all-in-one equipment rental software, and aims to be the software leader empowering growth of the rental market worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
9	KDM Hire	Strong evidence	Newtownabbey, United Kingdom	201-500	73 contacts →
	Strong evidence “KDM Hire is a professional and dynamic family-run business which has grown to become one of the UK and Ireland’s leading equipment rental companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
10	Buckhurst Plant Hire	Partial evidence	Waterfoot, United Kingdom	51-200	64 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Buckhurst specialises in the supply of construction & utility industry equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
11	Pulse Hire LTD	Indirect evidence	Wakefield, United Kingdom	11-50	54 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Get your next project off the ground with Pulse Hire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
12	APL Aerial Platforms LTD	Strong evidence	Manchester, United Kingdom	51-200	48 contacts →
	Strong evidence “APL (Aerial Platforms Ltd) are a privately owned powered access rental business determined to offer the highest levels of customer service in the industry, serving the North West…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
13	Hamilton Rentals	Partial evidence	Wokingham, United Kingdom	51-200	44 contacts →
	Partial evidence “35 years' industry experience and a £multi million pound IT rental fleet comprising of products from leading manufacturers enables us to provide flexible computer hire, laptop…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
14	JMS Powered Access	Indirect evidence	Leeds, United Kingdom	51-200	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “JMS is a nationwide powered access comapny offering a comprehensive range of powered access inlcuding Booms, Scissors, Low Level Access, Track mounted booms, Telehandlers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
15	KRANK	Partial evidence	Cambridge, United Kingdom	11-50	40 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Krank is changing the way heavy equipment is traded globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
16	Blade Access	Partial evidence	Bradford, United Kingdom	51-200	39 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Blade Access are a national premium market leader in the Powered Access Platform hire market with specific focus on; • Truck Mounted Platforms from 20m up to 103m • Track Mounted…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
17	HSS Hire	Partial evidence	Manchester, United Kingdom	1,001-5,000	36 contacts →
	Partial evidence “HSS Hire is the UK’s original tool and equipment hire company; we’ve come a long way since we were founded in 1957.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
18	Smart Platform Rental Limited	Partial evidence	Manchester, United Kingdom	11-50	33 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Smart Platforms is the UK's specialist in self-drive truck- and van-mounted cherry picker hire (powered access / MEWPs), with operated hire, an IPAF-approved training centre and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
19	Access Plus LTD	Strong evidence	Irvine, United Kingdom	11-50	31 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Specialising in delivering excellence in powered access equipment rental.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
20	Mainline Group	Indirect evidence	Swadlincote, United Kingdom	11-50	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Mainline has been a key player in the Hire Industry since 1982.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
21	X-Hire Platforms	Indirect evidence	Park, United Kingdom	51-200	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
22	Ashtead Group PLC	Indirect evidence	London, United Kingdom	n/a	26 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “About us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
23	Access Hire Nationwide	Partial evidence	United Kingdom	11-50	25 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Access Hire is the UK’s leading provider of Vehicle Mounted Access Platforms for hire and lease, boasting the market’s largest and most modern fleet with over 1,500 vehicles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
24	Essential Site Services	Partial evidence	United Kingdom	11-50	19 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At Essential Site Services we provide reliable, efficient, and nationwide solutions for all site equipment requirements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
25	Orion Access	Indirect evidence	Erith, United Kingdom	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1988, by Managing Director, Paul Chalk, Orion started as a Window Cleaning Company in the City specialising in High Level Window Cleaning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 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: equipment rental platforms. 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 equipment rental platforms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of equipment rental platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name equipment rental platforms. 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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Equipment rental platforms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 2, 2026

23.5%Verified-email coverage

5.4%Mobile-number coverage

21.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

10.4%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 2, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

142

11-50

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 equipment rental platforms, 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 “equipment rental platforms”. 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 equipment rental platforms), 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 equipment rental platforms, 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, 1,346 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 2, 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.

Equipment rental platforms by metro

Equipment rental platforms in London28

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 equipment rental platforms, 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 equipment rental platforms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 268 equipment rental platforms 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?

GAP Group Limited, headquartered in Glasgow, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most equipment rental platforms?

London leads with 28 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (9) and Leeds (6).

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 1,346 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 268 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 2, 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.