B2B prospect lists for the United Kingdom.

01  The UK market

Four nations, twelve statistical regions

The United Kingdom had an estimated 69.48 million residents in mid-2025, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS): England 58.83 million (capital London), Scotland 5.55 million (Edinburgh), Wales 3.18 million (Cardiff) and Northern Ireland 1.93 million (Belfast). England is divided into nine statistical regions: the South East (9.69 million), London (9.12 million), the North West (7.77 million), the East of England (6.61 million), the West Midlands (6.21 million), the South West (5.91 million), Yorkshire and the Humber (5.67 million), the East Midlands (5.09 million) and the North East (2.76 million). A prospect list can be scoped to one region or nation, several neighbouring regions or the whole country.

Industrial and manufacturing: the Midlands and the North

The ONS Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2.31 million people working in manufacturing in Great Britain in 2024 (provisional), 7.1% of all employment. The North West had 312,000, Yorkshire and the Humber 263,000, the West Midlands 259,000, the East Midlands 255,000 and the South East 249,000; Scotland had 182,000 and Wales 134,000. Manufacturing's share of employment was highest in the East Midlands (11.3%), followed by Yorkshire and the Humber (10.2%) and Wales (9.9%). The West Midlands had 45,000 of the 141,000 people in motor vehicle manufacturing and 44,000 of the 259,000 in fabricated metal products. Other transport equipment, which covers aircraft, ships and rail vehicles, employed 125,000, including 33,000 in the South West and 32,000 in the North West. Northern Ireland, counted separately by its statistics agency NISRA, had 92,300 manufacturing jobs in September 2024.

Energy and environmental technology: wind, solar and bioenergy

Renewable sources produced 52.1% of UK electricity in 2025, according to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: 153.0 TWh out of 293.6 TWh. Wind supplied 29.5% of generation, gas 31.8%, nuclear 12.2% and solar 6.9%, and 2025 was the first full year with no electricity generated from coal. Scotland generated 22.0 TWh from onshore wind, 64% of the UK total, while England produced 79% of offshore wind generation (41.1 TWh). Within England, Yorkshire and the Humber had the most renewable capacity at the end of 2025 (8,882 MW, mainly offshore wind and bioenergy), ahead of the East of England (7,728 MW, wind and solar) and the South East (5,918 MW, mostly solar). Electricity, gas and steam supply employed 128,000 people in Great Britain in 2024, of whom 21,000 were in Scotland.

Pharma and life sciences: the North West and the South East

Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 41,000 people in Great Britain in 2024. The North West had 10,000, the East of England 5,000 and the South East 4,500, followed by Yorkshire and the Humber and the South West (3,500 each) and by Scotland and Wales (3,000 each). Northern Ireland adds around 3,100 employee jobs. Chemicals employed another 93,000 in Great Britain, of whom 23,000 were in the North West.

Food and agriculture: from the East Midlands to Scotland

Food manufacturing employed 387,000 people in Great Britain in 2024: the East Midlands 59,000, Yorkshire and the Humber 58,000, the North West 50,000, the East of England 35,000, the South West 33,000, London 32,000 and Scotland 29,000. Northern Ireland adds around 23,000 employee jobs in food manufacturing. Beverages employed 56,000, of whom 14,000 were in Scotland. On 1 June 2025, farms across the UK held 9.3 million cattle, 30.5 million sheep and lambs, 4.7 million pigs and 183 million poultry, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

How a UK list is built

Choose your unit, describe what you sell and name the nations or regions you want covered, or the whole country. Nexfield works through all 56 sub-sectors of your unit and returns only companies that are probable buyers, never your competitors. Each row comes with nation or region, city, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company belongs on your list.