Companies in London ranked by number of employees
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 12,845 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 12,845 of 1,314,459
- Ranked first
- SODEXO LIMITED
- Average employees of no. 1
- 33,011
- Data as of
Summary
The list is led by SODEXO LIMITED (opens in a new tab) with 33,011 average employees; CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD (opens in a new tab) and GIANT PROFESSIONAL LIMITED (opens in a new tab) complete the top three.
The ranking uses each company's most recent filed accounts. 12,845 companies in London qualified. PLANET EDUCATION NETWORKS LTD, incorporated in 2022, is the newest company on the list. The top three account for 48.8% of the combined average employees of the listed companies (105,738).
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. The previous year's figure is shown for context and does not affect the ranking.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the average number of employees in the latest filed accounts. Companies with fewer than 10 employees are left out.
- 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:
- 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−645,870Average employees not filed in the latest accounts−132,964Average employees below 10−189,393Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−158Qualified for this list12,845