Overview

London is home to international banks and businesses, UK's capital city, a leading financial & business centre.

Central London

The City is the epicentre of London's legal activity, tourism and entertainment. Soho, an active media and creative cluster home to small and large organisations.

East London

Canary Wharf in East London, home to global Banks/businesses. Tech City or Silicon Roundabout is a technology district broadly occupying the area between Old Street and Shoreditch areas. London is third-largest tech startup cluster after San Francisco & New York City, ranking high for tech startups and Silicon Valley firms like Google, Facebook, and Apple.

West London

Area of distinctive character with famous market at Portobello Road, annual Notting Hill Carnival to Kensington/Chelsea boasting diversity and creativity. Technology-based businesses stretch to Thames Valley where international companies are based.

North London

A district containing small proportion of the city’s industry, from the heart of London's creative scene, Soho. Shoreditch, Hammersmith & King’s Cross form the world's creative capital. 

South London

With excellent transport links, plenty of shops & cafés, South London is a haven for those seeking a livelier pace of life. Many businesses in areas including Southwark, Kingston, Sutton and Wandsworth operate in sales and marketing, software and finance sectors.

Key Sectors

fintech

London’s diverse fintech scene encompasses mobile payments, digital currencies to other sub-sectors of financial services; retail and investment banking, money remittances, investor relations and virtual currencies.

edtech

London’s education technology industry supports world-class education and learning opportunities, schools, apps, tutoring, distance learning, digital making kits, massive open online courses (MOOCs) and more.

professional business services

Rated as the world’s top city for professional services, London is Europe’s top legal, dispute resolution market & top-three global insurance hub. Home to accountancy firms, lawyers, legal advisers and consultants.

Financial services

London is where capital, new ideas and expertise collide, opportunities with international financial services companies, financial institutions, accountants, management consultants.

Life Sciences

London offers one of the world’s most innovative and collaborative life sciences sectors where more research papers are generated than in any other city after Boston with 1,000 life sciences companies thriving. Home to The Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine, Cell Therapy Catapult centre and 2015 Francis Crick Institute in MedCity.

Creative

Discover the most culturally diverse and stimulating city with access to some of world's leaders in advertising, design, fashion, architecture, video games, music, performing arts, publishing, film, television and radio.

Tech

London universities are undertaking leading R&D with 23,000 students studying computer science. Tech clusters are thriving; spanning software, gaming, business process outsourcing, telcos; Tech City, Croydon or Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and centrally, Google’s £1bn HQ. Meet likeminds with 240,000 digital tech professionals based in London.

Education

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist university founded in 1895.

Imperial College London's mission is to achieve excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business for the benefit of society. Committed to developing the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics.

University College London England's third oldest university.

King's College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world and one of the oldest and most prestigious in England.

Queen Mary, University of London part of the Russell Group.

City, University of London focussed on business & professions.

Goldsmiths University of London has heritage alongside innovation: a reputation for being inventive, forward thinking.

Colleges in london

University Technical Colleges in london

Employers

Best places to work in London by Glassdoor