Sector
Administrative & support
400,892 UK companies classified under administrative & support. Public register information only.
Sector insights
Administrative & support in the United Kingdom
Counts over the Companies House register as loaded on 2026-09-14. Dissolved companies are excluded. No financial figures are involved.
400,892Companies on the register
7.3%of UK companies5,503,259 across all sectors
7 yearsMedian company age6 years across all sectors
2.3%In insolvency proceedings1.9% across all sectors
New companies per year
How old they are
Administrative & support
All sectors
- Under 3 years 25%
- 3 to 9 years 35%
- 10 to 19 years 27%
- 20 years or more 13%
8.8% carry a proposal to strike off (7.3% across all sectors). That is mostly dormant companies being removed, so it is not counted as insolvency.
What they do
- Other business support service activities n.e.c. SIC 82990184,73746%
- Other activities of employment placement agencies SIC 7810927,9577.0%
- General cleaning of buildings SIC 8121019,8184.9%
- Landscape service activities SIC 8130018,6574.7%
- Temporary employment agency activities SIC 7820014,4883.6%
- Private security activities SIC 8010013,5113.4%
- Travel agency activities SIC 7911012,9483.2%
- Other cleaning services SIC 8129911,3852.8%
- Combined office administrative service activities SIC 821109,9302.5%
- Human resources provision and management of human resources functions SIC 783009,7562.4%
- Specialised cleaning services SIC 812228,4342.1%
- Combined facilities support activities SIC 811007,3101.8%
Where they are registered
- 81,56720%
- 7,8021.9%
- 7,3531.8%
- 4,9671.2%
- 4,3121.1%
- 4,2511.1%
- 3,9611.0%
- 3,9561.0%
- 3,4770.9%
- 3,0850.8%
Legal forms
- Private Limited Company389,87497%
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)5,6501.4%
- Community Interest Company2,6590.7%
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)1,9020.5%
- Private Unlimited Company4040.1%
- Public Limited Company393<0.1%
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