The 50 newest companies registered in Edinburgh.
Straight from the Companies House register, newest first, across all 39 trades. Every company number links to its own record there, and every trade links to the full list for Edinburgh.
Names, numbers and incorporation dates are free to reuse under the Open Government Licence. What the register does not carry is a way to contact any of them. That is the part we sell.
Property investment & letting leads Edinburgh.
Every trade counted in Edinburgh over the last twelve months, busiest first. Property investment & letting took 513 of the 3,493, and the retail and food family took 30% between them. 25 trades have enough volume here for a page of their own.
- Building and trades
- Digital and professional
- Retail and food
- Transport and logistics
- People and care
- Property
| Trade | Aug 2026 | Last 12 months | Relative twelve-month volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property. Property investment & letting | 53 | 513 | |
| Building and trades. Construction | 31 | 292 | |
| Retail and food. Online retail | 29 | 283 | |
| Retail and food. Restaurants & cafes | 19 | 237 | |
| Digital and professional. Management consultancy | 16 | 233 | |
| Digital and professional. Web & software development | 15 | 182 | |
| Retail and food. Takeaways | 13 | 170 | |
| Property. Property management | 14 | 132 | |
| Digital and professional. IT consultancy | 9 | 131 | |
| Retail and food. Convenience stores | 9 | 106 | |
| Digital and professional. Architecture & engineering | 9 | 103 | |
| Digital and professional. Advertising & design | 7 | 100 | |
| Retail and food. Hairdressing & beauty | 6 | 95 | |
| People and care. Health practitioners | 11 | 94 | |
| Digital and professional. Business support services | 4 | 83 | |
| People and care. Cleaning services | 7 | 77 | |
| Digital and professional. IT support | 6 | 76 | |
| Retail and food. Catering & events | 5 | 70 | |
| Digital and professional. Education & training | 5 | 61 | |
| Transport and logistics. Freight & couriers | 5 | 53 | |
| Retail and food. Pubs & bars | 3 | 47 | |
| Transport and logistics. Taxi & private hire | 5 | 47 | |
| Retail and food. Wholesale | 3 | 35 | |
| Transport and logistics. Motor vehicle repair | 3 | 32 | |
| Building and trades. Electricians | 7 | 31 | |
| Building and trades. Plumbers & HVAC | 4 | 29 | |
| Transport and logistics. Used car dealers | 3 | 29 | |
| People and care. Care services | 3 | 23 | |
| Digital and professional. Recruitment | 1 | 19 | |
| Building and trades. Landscaping | 2 | 18 | |
| Digital and professional. Accounting | 1 | 16 | |
| Digital and professional. Estate agents | 6 | 16 | |
| People and care. Fitness | 1 | 13 | |
| People and care. Security services | 2 | 12 | |
| Digital and professional. Photography | 0 | 11 | |
| Transport and logistics. Removals | 1 | 11 | |
| People and care. Childcare | 0 | 7 | |
| Digital and professional. Legal services | 0 | 6 | |
| Edinburgh, all trades | 318 | 3,493 |
A trade needs at least 30 new companies in Edinburgh over twelve months before it gets a page of its own, so the 13 trades below that line are listed without a link. A company carrying more than one SIC code can appear in more than one trade, so the rows add up to more than the number of companies behind them.
March was the busiest month.
New companies registered to a Edinburgh address each month, across all 39 trades. The busiest month was March on 337. The quietest was December on 207.
New companies in Edinburgh, by month
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 3,493 in total
Registrations dip over Christmas and pick up in the new year almost everywhere, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the one before it.
How far back Edinburgh goes.
Companies registered to a Edinburgh address by year of incorporation, across all 39 trades, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.
New companies in Edinburgh, by year
2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only
Older years undercount. The register only holds companies that still exist. Anything formed in an earlier year and since dissolved has dropped off it, so the further back the chart goes the more it undercounts. That alone makes every trade look like it is growing. Some of the rise here is real growth and some of it is simply that recent companies have had less time to close. The long view works through it in full.
How Edinburgh compares.
New companies over the last twelve months in the towns closest to Edinburgh on volume. Edinburgh is number 15 of the 1,082 towns counted here.
10 companies from June 2026 and July 2026 and August 2026 registered in Edinburgh, any trade, you can actually contact. £15.
10 of the companies that registered a Edinburgh address in June 2026 and July 2026 and August 2026, across every trade we count, have an email address we checked as deliverable and tied to that company: name, number, registered address, directors, website and the contact. The rest are left out, not padded in, and you are not charged for them.
One file, every trade, filtered to Edinburgh by postcode. Closed months only, so the count you see is the count you get. £0.30 a record, £15 minimum. Selling into one trade instead? The UK-wide list for each trade.
Exact record count, the price and a sample row by email, usually the same working day. Asking is not ordering.
Not ready to buy? The names alone, without contacts, are on the public register and we give them away: the newest 50 in Edinburgh are on this page (223 registered in the 30 days to 25 September 2026), and every trade's last 30 days is a free CSV. Pick the trade.