UK Company Financials 2019–2025: 2M Companies

Key findings

1. 3,861,907 company-years for 1,988,626 UK companies, fiscal years 2019 to 2025. Coverage is densest in recent years: 578,252 companies in 2023, 1,759,265 in 2024 and 1,508,193 in 2025.
2. Most UK accounts are balance sheets. Total assets are present on 73% of company-years, equity on 99% and headcount on 79%, but turnover on only 2.6% and profit on 4.0%: small and micro companies may file without a profit and loss account.
3. 18% of UK companies reported negative equity in fiscal 2024 (liabilities above assets), out of 1,734,786 companies that filed equity. The median company held £56.3K of total assets and £2.8K of equity.
4. London is home to 26% of companies with a known region in fiscal 2024 but 71% of their combined total assets: the large banks and insurers that lead the total-assets table are registered there.
5. The median company that filed a profit and loss account earned a 3.7% net margin (n = 86,183 company-years); 32% reported a loss.
6. Among 3,799 companies with turnover of at least £1M in both 2023 and 2024, the median grew 2.8%; 57% grew and 43% shrank.
7. Headcount: 1,044,415 companies reported employees in fiscal 2024, a combined 6,144,947 average employees; 41% reported a single employee and 1,459 reported 250 or more.

UK company accounts by fiscal year

Full data. Fiscal 2025 fills in as accounts are filed (companies have up to nine months after the year end), and the earlier years hold fewer companies (see Limitations).

UK companies by region, fiscal 2024

Region is the registered office, which for many groups is a London or accountant's address rather than where the business operates.

UK companies by SIC section, fiscal 2024

Primary SIC 2007 code from the register. Turnover medians cover only companies that filed turnover, which skews them towards larger firms.

Largest UK industries by number of companies, fiscal 2024 (top 40 SIC divisions)

Largest UK companies by turnover, fiscal 2024 (top 50)

Entity-level accounts as filed. A group can appear through its parent and its subsidiaries; consolidated figures are used where the filing has them. Amounts in GBP (other filing currencies converted at fixed 2024 rates).

Most profitable UK companies, fiscal 2024 (top 50 by profit after tax)

Largest UK companies by total assets, fiscal 2024 (top 50)

Largest UK employers, fiscal 2024 (top 50)

Fastest-growing UK companies 2023 → 2024 (top 50, turnover ≥ £10M in 2023)

Same company and same accounts basis in both years. Growth above 5x is left out as a likely change of scope or units; remaining jumps can reflect acquisitions or a change of year end.

UK companies by total-assets band, fiscal 2024

UK companies by accounts size class, fiscal 2024

Accounts type is the size class of the latest accounts on the register, so it can differ from the class filed for fiscal 2024.

UK companies by incorporation period, fiscal 2024

Net margin by SIC section, 2019–2025 (companies that filed turnover and profit)

Sections with at least 100 company-years. Net margin = profit after tax / turnover, clipped to ±500%.

Full dataset on request

This release publishes about 100,000 company-years. The complete dataset of 3.86 million company-years for about 2 million UK companies (same columns) is available on request for research, journalism and other fair use.

• Email [email protected] with your name, organisation and a short description of how you will use the data, or
• use the Fliar contact page.

Detailed financial line items beyond the headline figures come from the Radar API.

Column dictionary

21 columns in the sample CSV.

Method

1. Source. Annual accounts filed with the UK public company register (public company registry filings), parsed from structured iXBRL accounts, joined on the company number to the register snapshot of May 2026 for SIC code, legal form, status, incorporation date, accounts size class and registered-office postcode.
2. One row per company-year. Annual periods only. When a company files both single-entity and consolidated accounts for a year, the consolidated figures are used; when a year has several filings (amendments), the latest balance-sheet date wins. Two source records with the same company number and year are merged into the one with more figures.
3. Metrics. turnover is turnover / revenue; profit is profit or loss for the financial year after tax; equity is shareholders' funds; total_assets is total assets, or fixed plus current assets for the many small-company accounts that file no total line; employees is the average headcount (rounded).
4. Sanity checks. Values are blanked, not corrected, when: turnover or total assets are negative; a figure exceeds a ceiling (turnover £400B, profit ±£80B, equity ±£800B, total assets £4T); equity exceeds total assets; profit is more than 10x the larger of turnover and total assets; turnover exceeds 1,000x total assets above £10M (unit errors); a headcount above 1,000 that the company's turnover or assets cannot support, or above 800,000; or a metric is filed in a different currency from the rest of the year. Rows with no figure left are dropped.
5. Region. The registered office's postcode area is mapped to the twelve UK regions and nations; the register's own country field decides Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland when present. Companies registered in the Crown Dependencies and overseas entities are dropped. Postcodes and addresses are not published.
6. Sector. The first SIC 2007 code on the register, mapped to its section and two-digit division. 99999 (dormant) and 74990 (non-trading) are kept as their own labels.
7. Personal names. Companies whose name is only a person's first name and surname (for example "Jane Smith Ltd") are one-person businesses named after their owner and are dropped, as are names starting with Mr/Mrs/Ms/Dr. The test uses a list of common first names, so it removes most but not all such names.
8. Currency. Money columns are in the filing currency (GBP for almost every row). Tables convert other currencies at fixed 2024 rates.

9. Website link. A company gets a domain when Fliar's company index links it directly, or through the same company number with a matching name and exactly one website.

10. Sample. Each company key is ranked by sha1(key). Keys are taken in rank order until the file holds max(25%, 5,000) rows (capped at 100,000).

11. Profile links. Links are built from Fliar's company index and checked against it. A row whose company has no public profile has an empty link.

Limitations

• One storage shard of the source table was unavailable at release time, so roughly one in seven filings is missing and every count is a slight undercount.
• Coverage is concentrated in fiscal 2023–2025; 2019–2022 hold few companies, so compare companies within a year and do not read the yearly row counts as growth in the number of UK companies.
• Fiscal 2025 is partial because many accounts for that year were not yet due or filed.
• Small and micro companies may file without a profit and loss account, so turnover and profit are present for only a few percent of rows and those rows skew towards larger companies.
• Figures are entity-level accounts as filed: a group can appear several times (parent and subsidiaries).
• Register attributes (status, accounts type, SIC, region) come from the May 2026 snapshot, not from the year of the accounts; companies that have since left the register have blank attributes.
• Region is the registered office, often an accountant's or head-office address, not where the business trades.
• Only a small share of companies are linked to a website, so most company_domain and fliar_profile_url cells are empty.

Cite this dataset

@misc{fliarbi_uk_company_financials_2019_2025_2026,
  author    = {{Fliar BI}},
  title     = {{UK Company Financials 2019–2025: 2M Companies}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Fliar BI},
  url       = {https://fliarbi.com/datasets/uk-company-financials-2019-2025/},
  note      = {Sample release. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0}
}