Payments Used by UK Field Services Companies: Market Share (2026)
Across 3,685 UK field services companies with a detectable payments system, PayU leads the 2026 detected market share with 74.8% (2,757 companies).
Among 248,331 trading UK field services companies, Payments use is identifiable for 3,685 companies across 13 systems. PayU dominates the visible market with 74.8% (2,757), well ahead of Stripe at 9.1% (336) and PayPal at 8.5% (314).
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Scale changes the pattern. PayU leads Under 10 employees with 78.0% of 2,855 companies and 10–50 employees with 64.9% of 800 companies, while PayPal leads Over 50 employees with 43.3% of 30 companies.
The long tail is thin but varied: Ideal4Finance accounts for 4.1% (150), Authorize.net 1.5% (57), GoCardless 1.5% (54), Square 1.2% (46) and Codeweavers 0.4% (16). A further 5 systems cover 39 companies between them.
3,685
field services with detected Payments
Of 248,331 UK field services
1.5%
Detection rate
2026
13
Systems detected
In this category
74.8%
Leader share
PayU
UK Field Services Payments market share
Share of the 3,685 UK Field Services with a detectable system. As of June 2026.
Payments compared
| System | UK Field Services | Share | Median headcount | London share | Typical profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PayU | 2,757 | 74.8% | 6 | 10.5% | 6-employee median, 74.8% share |
| Stripe | 336 | 9.1% | 7 | 13.1% | 7-employee median, 9.1% share |
| PayPal | 314 | 8.5% | 6 | 12.4% | 6-employee median, 8.5% share |
| Ideal4Finance | 150 | 4.1% | 7 | 5.3% | 7-employee median, 4.1% share |
| Authorize.net | 57 | 1.5% | 7 | 12.3% | 7-employee median, 1.5% share |
| GoCardless | 54 | 1.5% | 6 | 11.1% | 6-employee median, 1.5% share |
| Square | 46 | 1.2% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Codeweavers | 16 | 0.4% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Worldpay | 15 | 0.4% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Plaid | 13 | 0.4% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Klarna | 12 | 0.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Opayo | 10 | 0.3% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
| Recharge | 1 | 0% | — | — | View these companies in Firmbase → |
Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.
Market leader by size
The leading Payments system shifts with company size: among UK Field Services with under 10 employees, PayU leads at 78% of the 2,855 with a detectable system; among UK Field Services with 10–50 employees, PayU leads at 64.9% of the 800 with a detectable system; and among UK Field Services with over 50 employees, PayPal leads at 43.3% of the 30 with a detectable system.
Under 10 employees
78% of band
Under 10 employees is the largest visible band, with 2,855 companies. PayU leads with 78.0%, so competition is concentrated in a relatively small remainder.
10–50 employees
64.9% of band
10–50 employees covers 800 companies and remains PayU-led at 64.9%. The lower PayU share leaves more room for Stripe, PayPal, Ideal4Finance and smaller systems.
Over 50 employees
43.3% of band
Over 50 employees is a small band of 30 companies. PayPal leads with 43.3%, making it the only employee band here where PayU is not first.
How Payments usage is detected
Company data
Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.
Detection
Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.
Freshness
Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.
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