Companies 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 8,528 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 8,528 of 1,314,459
- Ranked first
- LEMON PEPPER HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Top headcount increase
- +1,491 employees
- Data as of
Summary
At the top is LEMON PEPPER HOLDINGS LIMITED (opens in a new tab), which went from 725 to 2,216 average employees, a change of +1,491 (+205.7%). GIANT PRECISION CONTRACTS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) and TIGER RETAIL LIMITED (opens in a new tab) complete the top three.
The ranking compares each company's latest two annual accounts. 8,528 companies in London qualified. The median listed company was incorporated 9 years ago. Across the list, average headcount rose from 27,001 to 35,783.
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 LEMON PEPPER HOLDINGS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 725 (2023) to 2,216 (2024) +205.7%
- Rank 2 GIANT PRECISION CONTRACTS LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 1,715 (2024) to 2,298 (2025) +34.0%
- Rank 3 TIGER RETAIL LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 803 (2023) to 1,215 (2024) +51.3%
- Rank 4 PAYMENTS PRO LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 897 (2023) to 1,298 (2024) +44.7%
- Rank 5 PLANET EDUCATION NETWORKS LTD (opens in a new tab) 311 (2023) to 661 (2024) +112.5%
- Rank 6 KK SECURITY & FM LTD (opens in a new tab) 213 (2023) to 460 (2024) +116.0%
- Rank 7 OUTFORM GROUP EMEA LTD (opens in a new tab) 62 (2023) to 308 (2024) +396.8%
- Rank 8 LTM UK & IRELAND LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 332 (2024) to 563 (2025) +69.6%
- Rank 9 SIDEKICK GROUP LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 474 (2023) to 705 (2024) +48.7%
- Rank 10 VERVE HOMECARE LTD (opens in a new tab) 30 (2023) to 243 (2024) +710.0%
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
- All industries: every company with a registered office in London, whatever its SIC code.
- 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 registered in London1,314,459Not active−221,785Dormant−111,444Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−645,870Figure missing for one of the two years−159,913Starting figure below the minimum−150,327No increase−16,512Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−80Qualified for this list8,528