October 2026
Largest Business Consulting Public Companies in the UK
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Serco Group, Clarivate, GlobalData, YouGov and FRP Advisory Group.
 | Serco Group PLC helps governments and public-sector bodies deliver public services. The company generates revenue from four divisions; the UK & Europe division provides hospital management, welfare, business support operations, and defense services in the U.K. and Europe. The North America division provides professional, defense, technology, and management services to the U.S. and Canadian governments. The Asia-Pacific segment provides frontline services, defense, and citizen services in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The Middle East division provides transport, defense, and health services in the Middle East. The company generates its key revenue from the U.K. & Europe divisions. | $3 | +4% | $3.3B | $4.3B | 0.7x | 7.0x | ||
| Clarivate Plc is a British-American information services and analytics company, headquartered in Philadelphia and London, that sells subscription data, analytics and workflow software to academia, government, intellectual property owners and life sciences companies. It formed in 2016 when Thomson Reuters sold its Intellectual Property and Science division to Onex and Baring Private Equity Asia, and it listed on the NYSE in 2019 through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp. Its products include Web of Science, ProQuest, Ex Libris, Derwent, CompuMark and Cortellis. It acquired CPA Global, an IP management software and services provider with about $575 million of revenue and 12,000 customers, in an all-stock deal valued at about $6.8 billion that closed in October 2020. For 2025 revenue was $2.46 billion, 88% of it recurring, with a net loss of $201.1 million and adjusted EBITDA of $1.00 billion. In 2026 it agreed to sell its Life Sciences & Healthcare segment to Altaris for $600 million, leaving Academia & Government and Intellectual Property as its two segments. Matti Shem Tov has been chief executive since August 2024. | $2 | -49% | $1.1B | $5.2B | 2.1x | 6.2x | ||
| GlobalData PLC is a UK-based data analyzing and publishing company. The firm conducts industry analysis and research reports and also provides forecasts to help its clients make informed decisions. The company has spread across the Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin and North America serving clients from the consumer, information communications technology, and healthcare markets. The Group operates within two segment, Data Analytics: Healthcare, and insights: Non-Healthcare. Company operates in Uk, Europe, USA, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, and Others. Majority of revenue is from USA. | $1 | -43% | $538M | $773M | 1.8x | 5.6x | ||
| YouGov PLC is a market research agency company. Its suite of products consists of YouGov BrandIndex, YouGov Reports, and YouGov Profiles. Other services offered are YouGov Omnibus service and custom research by sector specialists. Segments in which the company operates include Data Products, Data Services and CPS. Revenues are generated from market research services, syndicated services, non-syndicated services, and media buying. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from EMEA and also has its presence in the UK, Americas, and Asia Pacific. | $4 | +13% | $456M | $670M | 1.3x | 6.8x | ||
| FRP Advisory Group PLC is a professional services firm offering advisory services to companies, lenders, investors, and other stakeholders, as well as individuals. The company's services include Restructuring advisory; Corporate finance; Debt advisory; Forensic services; and Pension advisory. The group's revenue is derived from the provision of specialist business and advisory services. It advises across multiple sectors and all business sizes, principally servicing smaller and mid-market companies. | $2 | -15% | $404M | $383M | 1.6x | 7.2x | ||
| Elixirr International PLC is a provider of management consultancy services. The company is principally engaged in the provision of consulting services, delivering original and bespoke solutions to a globally-recognised client base, including creative, marketing and transformation services. These challenges include future proofing against technological disruption development and roll-out of new products, services and businesses navigating a more complex and multinational regulatory environment; and project management and implementation of change programs. It has worked with over one hundred fifty clients across twenty five countries spanning Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia, with offices in the UK and permanent presence (and employees) in the United States and South Africa. | $7 | -40% | $337M | $418M | 2.1x | 8.8x | ||
| Science Group PLC provides outsourced science and technology-based consultancy, advisory, and product development services to a wide range of industries and markets. It operates in the Services segment, which comprises five consultancy Practises under the Sagentia brand: Medical, Innovation Regulatory, Defence, and Aviation. The Systems segments comprise two businesses: Critical Maritime Systems & Support (CMS2), which designs, manufactures and supports submarine atmosphere systems for the defence sector; and Frontier Smart Technologies Limited (Frontier), which designs and supplies radio and audio semi-conductors/modules. Its geographical segments are the UK, Other European Countries, North America, Asia, and Other, of which the majority of its revenue comes from the United Kingdom. | $8 | +4% | $304M | $229M | 1.5x | 3.7x | ||
| Fintel PLC is engaged in UK retail financial services in the provision of financial data and intelligence embedded in digital technologies. The company's principal activity is the provision of Fintech and support services to the UK retail financial services sector. The company's segment includes Intermediary Services; Distribution Channels and Fintech and Research. It generates maximum revenue from the Intermediary Services segment. Intermediary Services provides compliance and regulation services to individual financial intermediary Member Firms, including directly authorized IFAs, directly authorized mortgage advisers, workplace consultants and directly authorized wealth managers. | $3 | -14% | $268M | $319M | 2.8x | 18.1x | ||
| Begbies Traynor Group PLC is a professional services consultancy. It provides insolvency, restructuring, and consultancy services to businesses, professional advisors, and financial institutions. It provides professional services, such as business rescue options, advisory options, forensic accounting and investigations, corporate and commercial finance, personal insolvency solutions, and services to banking, legal, and accounting sectors. The company is managed as two operating segments: business recovery and advisory, and property advisory. The group generates the majority of its revenue from business recovery and advisory services. The group's principal operations and markets are in the UK. | $1 | -1% | $236M | $256M | 1.1x | 9.1x | ||
| Braemar PLC provides advice in investment, chartering, and risk management to enable its clients to secure sustainable returns and mitigate risk in shipping and energy industry. The company's operating segment are, Chartering, Investment Advisory and Risk Advisory. The majority of the revenue for the company is generated from its Chartering business segment under which it provides cost-saving solutions that create and protect the deals for their clients. Geographically, the company has its presence in United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, United States, Germany and Rest of the world. A substantial part of its overall revenue is generated from its business in United Kingdom. | $3 | +5% | $103M | $118M | 0.7x | 8.0x | ||
| TPXimpact Holdings PLC is in the provision of digitally native technology services to clients within the commercial, government and non-government organisation (NGO) sectors. The company has three segments Digital Transformation, Manifesto, and Keep IT Simple (KITS). The company generates majority of revenue from Digital Transformation segment. It has presence in UK, United States, Switzerland, and Other. The company generates majority of revenue from United Kingdom. | $1 | +463% | $100M | $107M | 1.0x | 14.0x | ||
| Christie Group PLC offers a portfolio of professional business services for the leisure, healthcare, education, retail and care sectors. The business of the group is operated through three segments namely Professional & Financial Services (PFS) and Stock & Inventory Systems & Services (SISS) and other. The Professional & Financial Services segment covers business valuation, consultancy & agency, business mortgages & insurance services and business appraisal and the Stock and Inventory Systems and Service segment cover stock audit and counting, compliance, inventory preparation and valuation, hospitality, and software. The company derives maximum revenue from the Professional Financial Services segment. | $2 | +68% | $61M | $61M | 0.7x | 5.2x | ||
| Frontier IP Group PLC is engaged in the business of commercialization of intellectual property (IP). The company is focused on establishing formal and informal relationships with universities, academics, scientists and engineers as sources of IP and deal flow, identifying and helping to create and grow companies built around IP, and earning equity in return for strategic and commercial support. In addition, it also provides active, hands-on support to build a network of sources of capital. | $0 | -50% | $17M | $32M | 74.6x | (3.8x) | ||
| Median | $2 | -1% | $304M | $319M | 1.5x | 7.0x |
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