2,445 new software development companies
registered in the UK, October 2026.

2,445 were registered in October 2026, from the Companies House register; 22,711 over the last twelve months, and 85,232 software development companies are on the register today. The newest are named below. That is about 62 a day, somewhere in the country. 2,467 registered in the last 30 days to 12 November 2026, 583 in the last 7 days.

Which companies count: SIC codes starting 6201, such as 62011 ready-made interactive leisure and entertainment software development and 62012 business and domestic software development.

Monthly figures from the 1 November 2026 register file; the newest companies and the last 30 days update every night. The register total counts live companies only, and a company with codes in two trades sits in both. How the counts are made.

Web & software development · United KingdomOctober 2026
New in October
2,445
Up 6% on September 2026
Last 12 months
22,711
Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 1,893 a month
Share of all new companies
4.5%
22,711 of the 504,685 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes software development the number 5 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 12 November 2026
2,467
583 in the last 7 days · From the Companies House daily feed, updated every night.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 November 2026

Five rows from this list, with an email found

Real companies from the file, picked from the ones we found an email for: most companies this new have none yet. The full file has every column and the whole address. We hide most of each email here, never in the file you buy.

CompanyTownRegisteredTradeEmail
HECTIC SOFTWARE LTDWatford12 Oct 2026Web & software developmenth•••@hecticsoftware.com
SQUIRRELSOLVE LTDColne12 Sep 2026Web & software developmentc•••@squirrelsolve.com
REGSCHECKA LIMITEDBurton-on-Trent4 Jul 2026Web & software developmentj•••@regschecka.co.uk
KINFLO LTDManchester13 Oct 2026Web & software developmenth•••@kinflo.io
RENTALINK LIMITEDRomford20 Jul 2026Web & software developmenti•••@rentalink.co.uk
Quick answer

Software development companies in the UK: the short answer.

How many software development companies are there in the UK?

85,232 live companies are on the Companies House register under a SIC code starting 6201, as of 1 November 2026. 22,711 were registered in the last twelve months. Sole traders and ordinary partnerships are not on the register, so there are more software development businesses than this.

Registered since 1 November

1,065 new software development companies so far in November.

Newest first, updated every night.

The 20 most recent of 1,065 software development companies registered in the UK, 1 to 12 November 2026.
CompanyTownRegistered
ARTIFICIAL BEANS LTDAirdrie12 November 2026
GOLF AFFILIATES NETWORK LTDCarnoustie12 November 2026
NEON VISION LTDEdinburgh12 November 2026
LOGIC CIPHER LTDEdinburgh12 November 2026
AEDAN CORP LTDEdinburgh12 November 2026
EVENTSTEC LTDBelfast12 November 2026
SR AI TECH LTDBallynahinch12 November 2026
APEXSPHERE TECH LTDWednesbury12 November 2026
ZEYNOVIA LTDRichmond12 November 2026
IDEAL CHANGE STUDIO LTDLondon12 November 2026
CHAPMAN & JAMES LTDWestbury12 November 2026
SWIFT CAR GROUP LIMITEDMatlock12 November 2026
ATLYTIQ LTDLondon12 November 2026
CP AI LABS LTDDunstable12 November 2026
EYMOVEX LTDMilton Keynes12 November 2026
EOSAXIS LTDLondon12 November 2026
HIVEMARK AI LIMITEDManchester12 November 2026
NATIVE LOOPS LTDLondon12 November 2026
APPHUSKY LTDEastleigh12 November 2026
INK LABS LIMITEDWembley12 November 2026

And 1,045 more registered since 1 November.

Digital and professional · The register

The 50 newest in the 1 November 2026 register file.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full software development list when that page exists, otherwise to the broader town page. Each company number links to its own Companies House record.

The 50 most recent of 22,393 software development companies registered across 1,174 towns, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026.
Company Town Registered
BASKETNOW LIMITED Birmingham 31 October 2026
BITCUB.IO LTD High Wycombe 31 October 2026
BOOKEDTIK LTD Ipswich 31 October 2026
EMRE TECHNOLOGIES LTD London 31 October 2026
ENESY PMOS LTD Bolton 31 October 2026
GONGYLUS GAMES LTD Leeds 31 October 2026
KINETIC DATA LTD Heanor 31 October 2026
KORA JETS HOLDINGS LTD Greenford 31 October 2026
LANGROYD LTD London 31 October 2026
LARKRIDE LTD Lincoln 31 October 2026
LITTLE TREASURES INTERACTIVE LTD Coventry 31 October 2026
LUMENYN LTD Telford 31 October 2026
MACRODESK LTD London 31 October 2026
MITCHELL FINANCE & TECHNOLOGY LTD Liverpool 31 October 2026
NEXORA CODE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED Enfield 31 October 2026
REGINAQ LIMITED London 31 October 2026
ROHALL TECHNOLOGIES LTD York 31 October 2026
SEVENFOLD STUDIOS LTD London 31 October 2026
THEORYGO LIMITED Slough 31 October 2026
TRUDUES LTD Plymouth 31 October 2026
VA1 TECH LTD Milton Keynes 31 October 2026
WOWPHIE LTD Marlow 31 October 2026
3S COMMODITIES LTD Orpington 30 October 2026
A & R E-COMMERCE LTD Kingston upon Thames 30 October 2026
AA SOFTWARE LTD Southampton 30 October 2026
AERO INVESTMENTS LIMITED London 30 October 2026
AGENT SAMMY LIMITED Reading 30 October 2026
ALTURA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS LIMITED Ilford 30 October 2026
AMCBLAST SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED Barry 30 October 2026
AN&RV LTD Newcastle upon Tyne 30 October 2026
ATLAS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE LIMITED Wolverhampton 30 October 2026
BEAN HOURS BACK LTD London 30 October 2026
BEATBRIX LTD Barnsley 30 October 2026
BEET PAY LTD. Wolverhampton 30 October 2026
BELQUINE LTD London 30 October 2026
BETTER LIFE OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN LTD London 30 October 2026
BLACK STORM STUDIO LIMITED Birmingham 30 October 2026
BLUEPRINT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LTD Liverpool 30 October 2026
BROOVA LTD Birmingham 30 October 2026
CHESTER DIGITAL LTD Chester 30 October 2026
COLVUNI LIMITED St Albans 30 October 2026
COMPLIVANCE LTD Daventry 30 October 2026
COMPLY FM LTD Kidderminster 30 October 2026
CORNUVO LIMITED Exeter 30 October 2026
COURSELY LIMITED Liverpool 30 October 2026
DARTS4ALL LTD Southampton 30 October 2026
DEMYST AI LIMITED Milton Keynes 30 October 2026
EN PLEIN SOLUTIONS LTD Ashford 30 October 2026
FARLOOM LTD London 30 October 2026
FIENDISH LABS LTD Ripley 30 October 2026

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.

Digital and professional · Twelve months

October was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of software development companies across the UK. The busiest month was October on 2,445. The quietest was December on 1,115.

New software development companies in the UK, by month

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026 · 22,711 in total

Previous months October 2026

Registrations dip over Christmas and pick up in the new year in almost every trade, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the one before it.

2015 to 2026

How far back it goes.

Web & software development companies on the register by year of incorporation, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.

New software development companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to October only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to October 2026 20,360 New software development companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 11,095 Up 84% year on year
2025, the last full year 13,446 Against 1,865 in 2015

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 of UK company formation works through it in full, across all 39 trades.

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

Where they're starting up.

Every town with a page of its own for new software development companies: 155 of them, covering 69% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New software development company registrations by town. The bar shows the twelve-month figure relative to London, the largest. The mark and the bar carry the digital and professional family colour.
Town Oct 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 447 4,107
Manchester 59 524
Birmingham 51 459
Bristol 35 331
Glasgow 25 309
Nottingham 22 252
Leeds 18 240
Liverpool 26 213
Cambridge 21 204
Leicester 19 196
Edinburgh 19 192
Sheffield 16 183
Reading 19 178
Milton Keynes 18 174
Coventry 19 168
Cardiff 19 155
Ilford 17 142
Southampton 11 138
Norwich 13 136
Harrow 19 128
Newcastle upon Tyne 8 125
Belfast 15 123
Northampton 12 117
Slough 9 117
Luton 11 115
Peterborough 10 114
Brighton 18 104
Bolton 19 103
Bradford 6 102
Preston 11 99
Bedford 15 98
Hull 17 98
Stockport 16 95
Croydon 9 92
Salford 8 91
Stoke-on-Trent 11 91
Wolverhampton 13 85
Oxford 5 84
Bournemouth 10 83
Watford 6 83
Swindon 7 81
Aberdeen 11 79
Hounslow 7 77
Romford 10 77
Colchester 5 75
Doncaster 11 75
Derby 7 74
Wembley 5 74
Maidstone 8 71
Huddersfield 9 69
York 13 69
Swansea 11 67
Cheltenham 8 64
St Albans 8 64
Ashford 5 63
Chelmsford 6 63
Guildford 6 63
Gloucester 12 59
High Wycombe 4 59
Middlesbrough 4 59
Plymouth 8 59
Newport 6 58
Aylesbury 6 57
Ipswich 5 57
Warrington 4 57
Exeter 5 54
Woking 6 54
Barking 7 53
Lincoln 6 53
Poole 9 53
Portsmouth 2 53
Hayes 5 52
Bath 5 51
Dagenham 7 50
Enfield 5 49
Gravesend 2 49
Hove 6 49
Oldham 7 49
Orpington 6 48
Sutton 4 48
Walsall 4 48
Bromley 6 47
Solihull 4 47
Dartford 8 46
Richmond 4 46
Barnsley 6 45
Maidenhead 4 45
Worcester 3 44
Brentwood 3 43
Bury 7 43
Chester 5 43
Kingston upon Thames 7 43
Rotherham 4 43
Windsor 5 43
Wokingham 7 43
Blackburn 2 42
Edgware 5 42
Grays 7 42
Twickenham 4 42
Wirral 6 42
Telford 7 41
Altrincham 1 40
Crawley 3 40
Stockton-on-Tees 5 40
Tunbridge Wells 3 40
Wigan 5 40
Blackpool 4 39
Basildon 7 38
Basingstoke 3 38
Farnham 3 38
Rochester 5 38
Wellingborough 7 38
Fareham 6 37
Shrewsbury 4 37
Canterbury 7 36
Epsom 4 36
Hatfield 2 36
Rugby 3 36
Sevenoaks 6 36
Worthing 3 36
Chesterfield 3 35
Gateshead 6 35
Harrogate 6 35
Harlow 3 34
Loughborough 3 34
Southall 8 34
Surbiton 3 34
Sutton Coldfield 3 34
Wakefield 3 34
Winchester 2 34
Barnet 6 33
Chorley 3 33
Dundee 1 33
Feltham 2 33
Hornchurch 7 33
Southend-on-Sea 2 33
Horsham 3 32
Leamington Spa 1 32
Mansfield 3 32
Southsea 2 32
Darlington 1 31
Didcot 3 31
Pinner 1 31
Sale 2 31
Cheadle 2 30
Halifax 1 30
Isleworth 4 30
Kettering 1 30
Uxbridge 4 30
Bracknell 3 29
Hemel Hempstead 2 29
Rochdale 3 29
Chatham 2 28
Sunderland 2 28
Brentford 2 24
United Kingdom, all towns 2,445 22,711

Towns come from the post town on the registered office address, except where that office is a formation agent: those companies are counted in the town established from their directors' other companies, or not counted at all. A town needs at least 30 new software development companies in twelve months before it gets a page, so the rows above do not add up to the national total. How towns are worked out.

The whole digital and professional family · All 39 trades nationally · Browse every town

Once a month, every new software development company registered in the UK. The new month's count and the names behind it, by email, with a link to that month's list and its price. Nothing to buy unless you want the list, and one click to stop.