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Top 25 Market research organizations based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 847 market research organizations headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 44,423 professional contacts across them, including 14,656 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers market research organizations 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.
The 25 largest market research organizations 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,637 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YouGov is a global research data and analytics group, powered by reality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mintel, we empower businesses to navigate the future with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hall & Partners is a team of unconventional thinkers, obsessed with how marketing influences the relationship between people, brands, and culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RFI Global is the only global data and insights company focusing exclusively on financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The world’s most experienced B2B market research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Walr, we’re not just a data collection partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “STRAT7 Incite is a strategic research and planning consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Where Evidence Matters I The Market Research Society (MRS) is the world’s leading research association, driven by the principle that evidence matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The global authority on marketing effectiveness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Europanel provides you with unparalleled insight into global consumer behaviour to help create and activate your growth strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Researchbods delivers insight that drives action for ambitious brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Curve is a fast-growing digital insights consultancy which harnesses the power of unstructured data to generate actionable insights, unleashing growth for businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 21, 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: market research organizations. 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 market research organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of market research organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name market research organizations. 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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Market research organizations based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 847 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 organizations, 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 organizations”. 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 organizations), 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 organizations, 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, 14,656 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
- 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.
Market research organizations by metro
- Market research organizations in London411
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 organizations, 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 organizations are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 847 market research organizations 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 organizations?
London leads with 411 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (20) and Leeds (11).
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 14,656 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 847 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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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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