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UK Environment & Sustainability Consulting Market Assessment

Understand the value, dynamics and segmentation of the market

REPORT INTRODUCTION

Environment Analyst’s UK Environment & Sustainability Consulting Market Assessment (for financial year 2021-2022) has just been published and reveals the market is forecast to reach a total of £4.9bn by 2027.

 

This flagship report and data-pack provides an in-depth analysis of market dynamics, industry rankings, benchmark data and KPIs, including annual growth, 5-year CAGR, revenue per head, average contract value; all of which can be compared against broader economic indicators. 

 

The report also contains a detailed analysis of M&A activities and the most prominent acquirers, as well as revenue breakdowns by company, service area, and client sector to inform your understanding of key drivers in the sector.

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  • The UK’s Environmental & Sustainability (E&S) consulting market recorded extraordinary growth of 48%, reaching £2.9bn in 2022

  • The top 25 consultancies make up around 75% of the total UK E&S consulting market, with the "Big 5" UK leaders alone accounting for 44%, indicating wider market consolidation

  • Our forecast analysis estimates that the E&S consulting market will reach around £4.9bn by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 10.7%, with the highest growth projected for key service areas, including climate change and energy, sustainability and ESG, and water

HEADLINE FINDINGS

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WHY DO YOU NEED THE REPORT?

Benchmark performance and strategies against competitors

Inform your growth and investment strategies

Understand the value, dynamics and segmentation of the market

TOP 25 UK PLAYERS

  • AECOM

  • Anthesis Group

  • APEM

  • Arcadis

  • Arup

  • AtkinsRéalis

  • Bureau Veritas 

  • Environmental Resources Management (ERM)

  • Jacobs

  • JBA Consulting

  • Logika Group

  • LUC

  • Lucion Group

  • Mott MacDonald

  • Ramboll

  • Ricardo Energy & Environment

  • Royal HaskoningDHV

  • RSK Group

  • SLR Consulting

  • Stantec

  • Sweco

  • Temple Group

  • Tetra Tech Europe

  • Worley Consulting

  • WSP

OUR MARKET DEFINITION

Environment Analyst’s definition of environmental & sustainability consulting is:

 

The provision of specialist technical, management, risk, analytics and strategic advisory services to help organisations understand, manage, and minimise their impacts to protect and enhance the environment and communities, and proactively respond to climate change posed threats and risks.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE LIBRARY

We collaborate with environmental and sustainability consultancies worldwide to produce unique reports, datasets and profiles, highlighting the leading players and regional, service and client sector dynamics influencing the sector

UK Competitor Analysis Profile Series

Environment Analyst's UK competitor profiles provide crucial intelligence on the Top 25 UK Environmental and Sustainability (E&S) consultancy leaders.

 

These profiles are available in an interactive dashboard, which presents our unique and proprietary dataset collected over a decade, showcasing the 25 leading players in the UK E&S consulting landscape (see definition below).

 

The dashboard provides detailed breakdowns of revenue by business activity, region, service area and client verticals, as well as metrics on employee headcount, contract numbers, average contract values, operating margin and five-year compound annual growth rates.

The report and accompanying Excel data pack offers a unique window on the E&S consulting market dynamics, and includes: 

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  • Executive summary of the market

  • Industry rankings tables

  • Benchmark data and KPIs (including year-on-year growth, average contract value, revenue per head and profitability)

  • Revenue breakdowns by company, region, service area and client sector (for the latest FY2022 year and a decade of historic data)

  • Industry M&A transaction & structure analysis

  • Forecast market growth by region, client sector and service area to 2027

Global Environmental & Sustainability Consulting Strategies and Market Assessment

ESG Strategies: Accelerating Impact and Net Zero Goals in Consultancy

We assess how 50 leading global environmental & sustainability consulting firms are reporting and acting on the climate and ESG imperative, to help you make sense of the claims and pledges being made. The report includes:

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  • Detailed company profiles assessing 50 firms' ESG progress using our unique, stakeholder perception analysis and sector-specific ratings system

  • Introduction and recommendations

  • Consultants and the climate disclosure landscape

  • Net zero heroes: divergent pathways and progress

  • ESG impact: beyond emissions

  • Methodology

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