Professional
Business
Services
& Consulting
Business
Services
& Consulting
The consulting industry employs 63,000 people and its largest segments include:
As the professional business services sector becomes more competitive, companies will focus on their most valuable assets: their people.
The most important challenges of the sector include:
Demographic developments (upcoming & retiring generations)
The increasing importance of ICT in education
Expansion of access to learning experiences
Globalisation
Maximised pressure on public finances
Focus on sustainability
Key role of education and training in labour market and social policies
Commercialisation of supplying qualifications and competences
The largest part of the industry’s turnover is represented by:
Key growth drivers of the industry:
Digital transformation
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Robotics
Mobile
Artificial Intelligence
The UK has a total of 140,000 management consultancies, of which 97% have ten or fewer employees.
Consulting is divided in the following categories:
Strategy Consulting
Operations Consulting
IT Consulting
Finance, Banking and Accounting
Law
HR, Recruitment / Staffing sector