NEWS13 December 2022

Top UK market research companies by turnover

The MRS League Tables are built on 2022 financial data submitted and collected in 2023; the data is focused solely on UK-based turnover and international work managed and invoiced from the UK.

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Below is a table with the top 25 agencies only – the full MRS League Tables extend to the top 100 individual agencies by turnover. There are also tables for the fastest growing agencies, and the top 50 consolidated businessses.

All of the latest MRS League Tables are available here in the Research Live Market Research Industry Report 2024.

Those in italics are estimated or partially estimated figures.
Those marked ‘--’ are new entrants.

Below are the top 25 individual agencies by turnover - you can see the top 100 agencies in the full report

Company name	2021 rank	Change	2020 rank	2022 (£M.)	2021 (£M.)
Kantar	1	=	1	396.246	469.510
Ipsos	2	=	2	367.498	329.595
Gartner	3	=	3	364.824	288.679
Wood Mackenzie	4	=	4	262.858	231.067
Dunnhumby	5	=	5	253.852	216.913
Euromonitor	6	up	7	160.440	148.120
Mintel	7	up	8	149.283	138.214
GlobalData	8	down	6	135.636	88.478
CACI	9	=	9	132.638	119.531
Verint Systems	10	=	10	112.556	114.155
FastMarkets	11	up	15	106.810	85.400
IQVIA	12	up	16	97.321	83.537
Information Resources	13	down	12	96.583	92.963
Forrester Research	14	=	14	95.640	88.213
NielsenIQ	15	down	11	92.500	84.652
GfK	16	down	13	92.258	92.822
Nice Systems	17	=	17	81.884	83.511
Ebiquity	18	up	19	75.973	63.091
Teradata	19	up	20	71.800	59.623
Dynata Global	20	down	18	68.212	67.535
Evaluate	21	up	22	62.500	53.490
YouGov	22	up	23	57.900	52.100
IDC	23	down	21	55.500	53.560
NatCen	24	up	25	49.241	41.414
CRU International	25	up	26	46.923	40.946