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Top 25 Tool rental companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 295 tool rental companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 3,919 professional contacts across them, including 1,237 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers tool rental 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 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.
The 25 largest tool rental companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,080 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 505 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialist in equipment rental since 1954.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Built on Trust.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Actavo Hire & Sales Solutions is now Altrad Generation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 87 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are on a mission to become the most reputable equipment hire company, supporting the construction industry with the fastest response times and best equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Buckhurst specialises in the supply of construction & utility industry equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Balloo Hire Centres was established in 1987 and is one of Ireland’s leading specialist plant, tool and equipment hire providers to numerous sectors throughout Ireland with our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The MHM Company was formed and founded by a British and Italian team offering over 100 years of experience in the supply and production of industry suited product, with the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alliance Tool Hire is one of the South of England's top five independent tool hire companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Phoenix Hire and Sales are now part of the FTH Hire Group!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Plantool Hire Centres are the best choice for tool hire if you are looking for industrial, commercial or residential tool and equipment hire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Empire Hire Group is a privately owned business dedicated to providing the highest quality Access & Tool Hire equipment across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Essential Site Services we provide reliable, efficient, and nationwide solutions for all site equipment requirements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Discover a huge range of construction site machinery and site equipment, including Italtower mobile lighting towers, ArcGen welders, Denyo generators, AEM generators, and Hilta…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Velocity is a premier equipment rental and plant hire company dedicated to supporting the construction, renovation, and maintenance industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Astley Hire is an independent hire specialist and a growing company with a track record of excellence dating back to 1966.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TOGA Hire Centres is a trusted, trade-focused tool hire business serving professional contractors and trades across London and the South East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clements Plant & Access Hire is one of the Midlands’ leading independent providers of contractors plant, tools, powered access platforms, telehandlers, excavators and forklift…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Anglian Plant Limited offer the hire of plant machinery throughout East Anglia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Champion Hire Ltd is a leading independent plant and tool hire company, supplying small plant equipment to the building, construction, civil engineering and allied industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: tool rental 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 tool rental companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tool rental companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tool rental 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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Tool rental companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 295 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 tool rental 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 “tool rental 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 tool rental 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 tool rental 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, 1,237 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.
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 tool rental 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 tool rental companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 295 tool rental 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?
GAP Group Limited, headquartered in Glasgow, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most tool rental companies?
London leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Nottingham (7) and Harrogate (4).
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 1,237 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 295 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.