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Top Web Development Companies in the UK

1,532 IT service providers ranked by rating, review volume and listing quality.

Web development covers building and running the software behind a website or web application — the pages a visitor sees, the systems underneath them, and the work of keeping both online afterwards. In practice the label spans very different jobs: a brochure site on a content management system, a customer portal wired into an existing back office, and a full product delivered as a web application are all sold as web development.

The questions that separate providers are less about language and more about scope. Does the engagement end at launch, or does it include hosting, monitoring and updates? Who owns the code and the repository afterwards? Is the work fixed-price against a specification or time-and-materials against a backlog? A team that builds well but hands over nothing maintainable costs more in the second year than it saved in the first.

Between them, the 600 best-ranked of these 1,532 IT service providers cover web design (457), UI/UX design (321), android (245) and iOS app (243). They also list work in London. 593 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.

TrustList ranks more than 1,500 web development companies in the UK, ordered on client reviews and profile quality, never on payment. At the top right now: Eton Digital Limited, Drupal Teams and Marzee Labs.

What to check before you shortlist a web development company

  • Live sites they built, and whether those clients still use them
  • That the stack suits whoever maintains the site after launch (a CMS your team can edit, or custom code)
  • Hosting, security updates and the handover of code and credentials, written into the contract
  • Performance and accessibility targets agreed before build, not after
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  1. Pinewood Technologies logo

    Web Design · Software Development · IT Services

    Pinewood Technologies provides dealer management software and support services to motor retailers and fleet providers in the UK and internationally.

  2. GCI logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    Multi-award-winning GCI is one of the UK’s leading ICT Service Providers, with offices across the UK.

  3. Big Marketing Ltd logo

    Search Engine Optimization · Web Design · UI/UX Design

    Big Marketing. The full-service marketing agency. Follow us for ideas and inspiration (and advice on what NOT to do!) Marketing Agency Ideas with a difference...

  4. Serco logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · IT Services

    Serco is one of the world’s largest providers of public services to Governments, employing over 50,000 people in over 20 countries.

  5. dataJAR Ltd logo

    Mobile App Development · Custom Software Development · Web Design

    Welcome to dataJAR - elegant and powerful Apple services for education and business.

  6. Quality Sales Leads Limited logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    Quality Sales Leads Limited (QSL) is a boutique Inside Sales Consultancy that specializes in outbound B2B Lead generation, B2B Sales appointment making & outsourced telesales…

  7. minicabit logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    As seen on Dragons Den, minicabit is a taxi cab comparison site for the UK, that lets you grab great deals across 550 UK locations.

  8. Smart Cookie Design Ltd logo

    Mobile App Development · Search Engine Optimization · Web Design

    Smart Cookie Design is an Ecommerce specialist agency and Shopify Experts helping businesses of all sizes grow online. Based in London.

  9. Product Hub Hob logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · Software Development

    Or, looking to get into Product Management? Then we have a lot in common.

  10. Gibbs Hybrid logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    Gibbs Hybrid is an international IT and Business Services firm providing a "one-stop-shop"​ helping customers with Project Consulting, Talent and Outsourced solutions, whilst…

  11. Inhealthcare logo

    Mobile App Development · Web Design · UI/UX Design

    Inhealthcare is a digital health and telehealth provider working with NHS organizations to digitize care.

  12. cool Data Centres Limited logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · IT Services

    Established in 2017, coolDC® – cool Data Centres Limited – offers a step-change in how data centres are designed, built, and operate.

  13. Simply Hosting & Servers logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    With 15 years industry experience, we’re confident we can make even the most complex IT - simple.Our services range from VPS and public cloud to outsourcing your entire IT…

  14. thinkWhere logo

    Web Design · IT Services · PHP

    thinkWhere use leading-edge cloud, Open Source, and GIS technologies, to develop innovative software and solutions, backed by a wide range of GIS implementation, consultancy,…

  15. Miigen (UK) Limited logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    The story of your life in your words and voice saved as a digital time capsule. Be part of a global movement collecting the life stories of our generation.

  16. Plexal logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    Designed and built in the heart of Olympic east London, Plexal is the innovation centre and coworking space for people with big ideas.

  17. SCC logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    People do business. We make it work. We enable people to do business by planning, supplying, integrating and managing their IT.

  18. ELF Productivity Ltd logo

    Web Design · Software Development · PHP

    ELF Productivity Ltd has been developing Employee Time / Absence Management and Access Control software for over 30 years.

  19. Ashton Court Group Ltd logo

    Web Design · IT Services · PHP

    Ashton Court Group Ltd is an experienced client-focused information systems consultancy providing on-premise, cloud, and hybrid solutions to the public, private, and not-for-profit…

  20. Britecloud logo

    Web Design · iOS App · IT Services

    Britecloud is a deeply technical Value Added Distributor - the UK based, working globally.

  21. iComply365 logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · iOS App

    Compliant Systems, trading as iComply365 is at its core a RegTech organization.

  22. Digital Batch Limited logo

    Mobile App Development · Web Design · E-Commerce Development

  23. Landmark Information logo

    Web Design · IT Services · PHP

    Landmark Information, part of the Daily Mail General Trust, is the UK’s leading provider of land and property search information, including digital mapping, environmental risk…

  24. Qubic Group plc logo

    Web Design · UI/UX Design · Software Development

    Qubic was conceived in 1994 uniquely, as a voice and data systems integrator delivering the benefits of converged communications to commercial organizations and public sector…

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How many web development companies are there in the UK?

1,532 companies on TrustList offer web development and are based in the UK. That makes the UK the number 2 web development market we rank, after the USA.

How is this ranking worked out?

Each firm's position comes from its client reviews and its profile, blended into one score:

  • Rating, smoothed so a single five-star review cannot outrank a firm with hundreds of good ones
  • Review volume, with diminishing returns
  • Profile completeness: the details a buyer needs to judge the firm
  • Earned trust: verification and awards, as a small lift

No firm can pay for a position. Sponsored listings are labelled and shown apart from this list. How rankings work

What else do firms in the UK offer?

We also rank web design (1,385), IT services (871) and software development (443) in the UK.

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