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Top 25 Payroll companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 582 payroll companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 17,338 professional contacts across them, including 7,801 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers payroll companies 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 19, 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 payroll companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,063 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Sage, we knock down barriers with information, insights, and tools to help your business flow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Moorepay delivers expert HR and payroll solutions trusted by SMEs across the UK and Ireland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 313 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PayStream is a market leading business providing a range of payroll, umbrella, tax, software and accountancy services for recruitment agencies, contractors and other businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A cloud based online software that provides Intuitive and comprehensive solutions integrated with impeccable management of employees payroll processing in real-time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Proudly based in the North East, our multi award-winning Payroll & HR service has been delivering professional payroll and HR solutions for over 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SAMpeople, SAMpeople Recruit and SAMpeople Payroll” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Software When You Need It.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Churchill Knight Umbrella is an FCSA-accredited and SafeRec-certified PAYE umbrella company for contractors and freelancers in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PayEscape is one of the UK’s fastest growing outsourced Payroll, HR and Time Management providers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Introducing DASA Umbrella Limited A Fully Compliant & Award-winning Payroll Company DASA Umbrella Limited provides recruitment agencies, contractors and end-user clients with a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1996, Pay Check continues to provide bespoke fully managed payroll services in the UK to more than 1500+ clients across various industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2002, JMK Group UK has supported over contractors and 900 recruitment agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Are you seeking expert assistance in navigating the intricate world of human resources, payroll, and more?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bar2 helps recruitment agencies and end hirers simplify contractor payroll, strengthen compliance, and reduce supply chain risk.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a payroll company catering for contractors, freelancers, locums and agency workers, providing a fully compliant and secure way of paying contractors for their temporary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Qtac are the specialist payroll provider focused on delivering a helpful, human approach for clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bishopsgate offers a suite of payroll & employment services to businesses throughout the UK typically, those engaging with a contingent workforce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Payroll teams across the UK are losing up to 11 hours a week to manual processes, disconnected tools and legacy systems that were never built for scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PayPacket are a team of UK experts dedicated to managing the Payroll and Pension needs of our service users who receive a direct payment for their care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Generate is an industry-leading contractor payroll solutions provider, specialising in payroll management, outsourced employment, international services and limited company…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The CE team specialises in helping organisations deliver their HR and payroll changes and run critical outsourced payroll services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Portfolio Payroll is the market leading specialist recruitment consultancy solely focusing in the recruitment of payroll professionals at all levels of the market and across the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Payroll specialists with 28 years of industry expertise offering an array of fully compliant payroll solutions to a variety of industry sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are are a fully accredited, award winning payroll intermediary offering a one-stop-shop for candidate payroll options - covering CIS Sole Trader, Umbrella PAYE and PEO PAYE for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AZebra Group, Over 20 Years of Trusted Payroll, Employment, and Contractor Support With more than two decades of expertise, AZebra Group is a leading UK provider of compliant and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: payroll companies. 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 payroll companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of payroll companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name payroll companies. 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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Payroll companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 582 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 payroll companies, 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 “payroll companies”. 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 payroll companies), 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 payroll companies, 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, 7,801 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 19, 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.
Payroll companies by metro
- Payroll companies in London110
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 payroll companies, 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 payroll companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 582 payroll companies 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?
SAGE, headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most payroll companies?
London leads with 110 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (21) and Birmingham (10).
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 7,801 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 582 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 19, 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.