Exporting from across Britain: Financial and related professional services 2026

Britain is well known for exporting a wide range of services, and these overseas sales of services are a crucial part of the British economy.

UK exports of financial and related professional services are those industry services which originate in the UK and are sold abroad, for example, legal services provided by a UK-based firm to a client in another country.

This report quantifies financial and related professional services exports from the regions and nations of Great Britain. In 2023 (latest data available), total services exports reached £465bn. Financial and related professional services exports accounted for almost 40% of these services exports, demonstrating the particular importance of the industry in this regard.

The £465bn in total services exports represented a 14% increase from 2022. This contrasts with the export of goods, which saw a decline of 3.6% over the same period. Financial and related professional services exports rose by 8.7% year on year in 2023.

The data in this report comprises experimental data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and our estimates. (For more detail on the implications of experimental data, see the report’s appendix.) For this reason, the data should be considered as indicative rather than precise, giving us a more in-depth, but still imperfect, understanding of the subnational origin of Britain's industry exports, and relative contributions of the different regions and nations to the robust international sales of financial and related professional services.

In this report, financial services includes financial and insurance services; related professional services includes accountancy, legal services, and management consultancy and business management. This last category is wider than our normal definition of related professional services, but has been included here as the ONS does not separate business management from management consultancy in its services export data.

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