Financial and insurance services in the United Kingdom
This page gathers the figures we hold on financial and insurance services in the United Kingdom. Each section names its own source.
Each source groups industries its own way, so the edges of financial and insurance services differ a little from section to section.
- Median sale multiple12.0times EBITDA
- Still trading after three years68.7%of businesses started in 2021
- Earnings change+2.9%the year to June 2026
What businesses sold for
- Financial and insurance services12.0 times EBITDA, middle half 8.0 to 13.0, 10+ deals
- Payments11.5 times EBITDA, 5+ deals
Deal details
Financial and insurance services: median 12.0 times EBITDA. The middle half of deals ran from 8.0 to 13.0 times (10+ deals of £5.3 million to £263 million, announced 2017 to 2025).
Payments: median 11.5 times EBITDA (5+ deals of £5.3 million to £263 million, announced 2019 to 2022).
Sizes are converted from our size range of A$10 million to A$500 million, at the fixed rate our database uses to place overseas deals: £1 = A$1.90. The rate stays fixed, so the range always describes the same deals.
What multiple will my business sell for?
In the United Kingdom, financial and insurance services businesses bought between 2017 and 2025 sold for a median of 12.0 times EBITDA, across 10+ deals.
See what UK businesses sell for, by sector.
These are deals for UK businesses in our database, not every deal in the market.
Source: deals in our database with a published value. Counts by onestepright.
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How many businesses are still trading
About 69 in every 100 were still trading three years later.
The ONS counts businesses registered for VAT or PAYE. The rate is our calculation from its counts.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Business Demography, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Rates computed by onestepright.
Businesses that started and stopped
Each is a share of the businesses trading in 2024.
A business counts as stopped when it is no longer active on the ONS register of VAT and PAYE businesses. The rates are our calculation from ONS counts.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Business Demography, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Rates computed by onestepright.
What costs did
What earnings and input prices did in this industry. Each comes from its own ONS series and grouping of industries. Earnings move with the mix of jobs and hours as well as with pay, so they are not a pay rate.
Each bar comes from its own ONS series, named below.
Average weekly earnings in financial and insurance activities, the ONS group nearest financial and insurance services, rose 2.9% in the year to June 2026.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Average Weekly Earnings, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
No ONS price series measures this industry's inputs closely enough to show.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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