Accounting firms in London ranked by employee growth
Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . Showing the top 50 of 98 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 98 of 13,065
- Ranked first
- AZETS HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Top headcount increase
- +154 employees
- Data as of
Summary
98 accounting firms with a registered office in London grew their average employees between their latest two annual accounts and met the rules for this list.
AZETS HOLDINGS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) ranks first, with average employees rising from 3,333 to 3,487 (+4.6%).
The youngest company on the list is SMARTER TRADING LIMITED, incorporated in 2022. The median listed company was incorporated 10 years ago.
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 AZETS HOLDINGS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 3,333 (2023) to 3,487 (2024) +4.6%
- Rank 2 BLICK ROTHENBERG LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 691 (2023) to 779 (2024) +12.7%
- Rank 3 UK PROPERTY ACCOUNTANTS LTD (opens in a new tab) 42 (2023) to 67 (2024) +59.5%
- Rank 4 JOHNSONS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 58 (2023) to 76 (2024) +31.0%
- Rank 5 GUARDIAN PROFESSIONAL CORPORATE SERVICES LTD (opens in a new tab) 28 (2023) to 45 (2024) +60.7%
- Rank 6 NM FIVE GROUP LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 27 (2023) to 41 (2024) +51.9%
- Rank 7 E JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 12 (2023) to 21 (2024) +75.0%
- Rank 8 SCALEUP FINANCE UK LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 16 (2023) to 25 (2024) +56.3%
- Rank 9 CHRISTIANSONS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 20 (2024) to 27 (2025) +35.0%
- Rank 10 SOLUTIONS 4 CATERERS LTD (opens in a new tab) 28 (2023) to 35 (2024) +25.0%
The ranking
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50 rows, the same as the table. “–” means the figure was not filed.
How this list was made
- Industry
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Companies with any of these SIC codes on their Companies House record:
- 69201 – Accounting and auditing activities
- 69202 – Bookkeeping activities
- 69203 – Tax consultancy
- Location
- The post town of the registered office address is London.
- Periods compared
- Each company's latest annual accounts against its accounts for the year before. Companies whose two latest accounts are not for consecutive years are left out.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the increase in average employees between the latest two consecutive annual accounts, then by percentage increase. Companies must have started with at least 5 average employees.
- Exclusions
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Companies that are dissolved, in liquidation, in administration or proposed to be struck off; dormant companies; and companies whose latest accounts end more than 21 months before the newest accounts in the data (or are dated after it).
Figures that cannot be right, which are most likely filing errors, are also left out:
- headcount more than 10 times the year before
- an employee number identical to the net assets figure, or above 100,000
- more employees than the company's accounts category allows (micro: 50, small: 250, with a margin)
- less than £5,000 of turnover per employee, or a round number of thousands with no turnover to check it against
- Companies checked
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Companies with a matching SIC code in London13,065Not active−1,425Dormant−1,154Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−5,591Figure missing for one of the two years−1,832Starting figure below the minimum−2,677No increase−288Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−0Qualified for this list98