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Top 25 Market research businesses based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 448 market research businesses headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 26,175 professional contacts across them, including 8,856 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers market research businesses 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 21, 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 HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
448Companies
26,175Contacts tracked
8,856Verified emails
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The 25 largest market research businesses based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 448 market research businesses based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to market research businesses: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202610001+15,564 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0001,621 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 21, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0001,475 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Mintel, we empower businesses to navigate the future with confidence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000651 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 21, 2026
5Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000464 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Savanta is a fast-growing data, market research and advisory company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200420 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 21, 2026
7Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200312 contacts →

Strong evidence

“RONIN International is an independent B2B market research company specialising in business, healthcare and tech studies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a213 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 21, 2026
9Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200211 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“RFI Global is the only global data and insights company focusing exclusively on financial services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200178 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The world’s most experienced B2B market research company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200150 contacts →

Partial evidence

“STRAT7 Incite is a strategic research and planning consultancy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200106 contacts →

Partial evidence

Researchbods delivers insight that drives action for ambitious brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200104 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 21, 2026
14Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5089 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 21, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20076 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Not just insight.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Partial evidenceYork, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5072 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Qa Research has merged with Blue Marble Research and Pye Tait Consulting to create Navigator Insight.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20071 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Censuswide is a consultancy that specialises in quantitative and qualitative market research for PR, marketing and insight purposes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50069 contacts →

Strong evidence

“MASMI is a full-service international market research company with broad industry expertise specialising in delivering research insights and decision support, based on state of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5066 contacts →

Partial evidence

Research that helps brands glow and grow’ is the simple expression of everything we do.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20Indirect evidenceSt Albans, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20062 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ESA Retail is now part of Ipsos, and using the Ipsos brand name, following acquisition in June 2025.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21Strong evidenceNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20054 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Explain is a market research agency that is committed to creating insightful and dynamic partnerships that deliver powerful and intelligent results.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5041 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are an insight partner for financial services, inspiring confident decisions that build consumer trust.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5041 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BAMM is a global consumer insights agency that specializes in helping big brands better compete in the ever-changing world of consumer trends and technology, and to stay ahead of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5040 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We’re a Certified B Corp™, full-service market research agency based in London, and we're experts in B2B & Technology market research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5040 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We’re an award-winning digital market research agency helping clients make fast, confident decisions with high-quality data they can trust.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Market research businesses based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
33.8%Verified-email coverage
58.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
45.5%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
270
11-50
115
51-200
42
201-500
10
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
4
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
1

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 448 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 market research businesses, 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 “market research businesses”. 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 market research businesses), 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 market research businesses, 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, 8,856 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Market research businesses by metro

  • Market research businesses in London204

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 market research businesses, 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 market research businesses are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 448 market research businesses 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 market research businesses?

London leads with 204 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (12) and Birmingham (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 8,856 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 448 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 21, 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.