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Top 25 Social research organizations based in the United Kingdom

Name: Social research organizations based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026 660 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 660 social research organizations headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 10,581 professional contacts across them, including 3,744 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers social 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 22, 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 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest social research organizations based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 660 social research organizations based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to social research organizations: 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	Ipsos In The UK	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	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 22, 2026
2	Verian Group	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	501-1,000	741 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Verian is a world leading research, evidence, evaluation, and communications agency, providing services to government and the public realm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3	IFF Research	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	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 22, 2026
4	BIT	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	233 contacts →
	Partial evidence “BIT is a global research and innovation consultancy which combines a deep understanding of human behaviour with evidence-led problem-solving to improve people’s lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5	Esrc Economic And Social Research Council	Strong evidence	Swindon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	223 contacts →
	Strong evidence “UKRI Economic and Social Research Council funds research and training in social and economic issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6	Rand Europe	Partial evidence	Cambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	222 contacts →
	Partial evidence “RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7	Kudos Research	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	n/a	213 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
8	WALR	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	171 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Walr, we’re not just a data collection partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9	MRS	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	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 22, 2026
10	Institute For Fiscal Studies	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	142 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Institute for Fiscal Studies was founded in 1969.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11	BMG Research	Strong evidence	Birmingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	132 contacts →
	Strong evidence “BMG Research is an award-winning social research and analytics agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12	Opinium Insights With Impact	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	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 22, 2026
13	Cambridge Centre For International Research	Partial evidence	Cambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	96 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Cambridge Centre for International Research (CCIR) was founded by a group of Cambridge graduates upon a definite understanding and vision of the transformative role of knowledge…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14	SQW	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	79 contacts →
	Strong evidence “SQW is a leading independent provider of research, analysis and advice in economic and social development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15	Alma Economics	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	78 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Alma Economics combines unparalleled analytical expertise with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16	QA Research	Partial evidence	York, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	72 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Qa Research has merged with Blue Marble Research and Pye Tait Consulting to create Navigator Insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17	Censuswide	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	71 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Censuswide is a consultancy that specialises in quantitative and qualitative market research for PR, marketing and insight purposes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18	Public First	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	66 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Public First is a public policy research agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19	Grapedata	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	64 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “GrapeData was founded with the vision to close the information gap between the financial world and people on the ground in emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20	Ninth Seat B Corp	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	62 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The world needs more geeks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21	Explain Market Research	Partial evidence	Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	54 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
22	Bodhi Global Analysis	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	52 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Bodhi Global Analysis is a women-led international development research firm delivering evaluations, conflict and political economy analyses, and gender and inclusion research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23	The Tavistock Institute Of Human Relations	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	51 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We offer research, consulting and professional development at the intersection of social science, psychoanalytic thinking and the arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24	Opinion Research Services	Strong evidence	Swansea, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	50 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Opinion Research Services is a full service independent social and market research practice that works across the UK First established at Swansea University, we seek to maintain…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25	MEL Research	Partial evidence	Birmingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	47 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We're not a standard insight agency: we grasp the nettle of social responsiblity; we give people a voice; we push for social value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: social 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 social research organizations.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of social research organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name social 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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Social research organizations based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026

35.4%Verified-email coverage

16.0Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

38.8%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

414

11-50

180

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

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 660 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 social 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 “social 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 social 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 social 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, 3,744 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 22, 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.

Social research organizations by metro

Social research organizations in London256

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 social 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 social research organizations are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 660 social 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?

Ipsos In The UK, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most social research organizations?

London leads with 256 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (18) and Manchester (16).

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 3,744 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 660 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 22, 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.