U.K. (FTSE) Professional Services Industry Analysis

Industry Valuation and Performance

Has the U.K. Professional Services Industry valuation changed over the past few years?

Date	Market Cap	Revenue	Earnings	PE	Absolute PE	PS
Fri, 10 Jul 2026	UK£78.8b	UK£36.4b	UK£3.4b	15.9x	23x	2.2x
Sun, 07 Jun 2026	UK£83.5b	UK£36.4b	UK£3.4b	18x	24.5x	2.3x
Tue, 05 May 2026	UK£111.2b	UK£36.0b	UK£3.3b	18.2x	33.7x	3.1x
Thu, 02 Apr 2026	UK£78.5b	UK£33.7b	UK£3.5b	15.9x	22.6x	2.3x
Sat, 28 Feb 2026	UK£84.4b	UK£36.0b	UK£3.5b	20.6x	24.1x	2.3x
Mon, 26 Jan 2026	UK£93.7b	UK£36.0b	UK£3.4b	20.5x	27.9x	2.6x
Wed, 24 Dec 2025	UK£99.4b	UK£36.0b	UK£3.4b	19.8x	29.4x	2.8x
Fri, 21 Nov 2025	UK£98.1b	UK£36.0b	UK£3.5b	20.4x	28.2x	2.7x
Sun, 19 Oct 2025	UK£106.7b	UK£35.5b	UK£3.3b	21.4x	32.4x	3x
Tue, 16 Sep 2025	UK£111.9b	UK£36.0b	UK£3.3b	22.1x	33.5x	3.1x
Thu, 14 Aug 2025	UK£112.6b	UK£36.2b	UK£3.4b	21x	33.6x	3.1x
Sat, 12 Jul 2025	UK£123.9b	UK£36.7b	UK£3.5b	22.4x	35.9x	3.4x
Mon, 09 Jun 2025	UK£122.3b	UK£36.6b	UK£3.4b	23.1x	35.8x	3.3x
Wed, 07 May 2025	UK£125.1b	UK£36.5b	UK£3.4b	22.9x	36.5x	3.4x
Fri, 04 Apr 2025	UK£119.0b	UK£36.6b	UK£3.4b	22.4x	34.7x	3.3x
Sun, 02 Mar 2025	UK£121.6b	UK£37.7b	UK£3.4b	27.2x	36x	3.2x
Tue, 28 Jan 2025	UK£126.1b	UK£37.9b	UK£3.4b	28.5x	37.5x	3.3x
Thu, 26 Dec 2024	UK£115.2b	UK£37.8b	UK£3.4b	23.8x	34.2x	3x
Sat, 23 Nov 2024	UK£120.2b	UK£37.8b	UK£3.3b	23.5x	36.9x	3.2x
Mon, 21 Oct 2024	UK£121.4b	UK£37.4b	UK£3.2b	22x	37.5x	3.2x
Wed, 18 Sep 2024	UK£120.3b	UK£37.3b	UK£3.2b	25.3x	37.3x	3.2x
Fri, 16 Aug 2024	UK£118.1b	UK£38.1b	UK£3.3b	21.9x	35.4x	3.1x
Sun, 14 Jul 2024	UK£118.8b	UK£38.4b	UK£3.1b	18.6x	38.1x	3.1x
Tue, 11 Jun 2024	UK£117.9b	UK£38.6b	UK£3.1b	20.1x	37.5x	3.1x
Thu, 09 May 2024	UK£113.9b	UK£38.4b	UK£3.0b	19.1x	37.6x	3x
Sat, 06 Apr 2024	UK£111.1b	UK£38.4b	UK£3.0b	22.7x	36.8x	2.9x
Mon, 04 Mar 2024	UK£112.6b	UK£40.7b	UK£3.2b	19.3x	34.8x	2.8x
Wed, 31 Jan 2024	UK£112.5b	UK£41.6b	UK£3.3b	20.3x	33.7x	2.7x
Fri, 29 Dec 2023	UK£106.4b	UK£41.6b	UK£3.3b	22.5x	31.9x	2.6x
Sun, 26 Nov 2023	UK£101.5b	UK£41.7b	UK£3.5b	17.3x	29.2x	2.4x
Tue, 24 Oct 2023	UK£95.4b	UK£41.7b	UK£3.3b	17.3x	29x	2.3x
Thu, 21 Sep 2023	UK£96.7b	UK£41.7b	UK£3.3b	19.3x	29.6x	2.3x
Sat, 19 Aug 2023	UK£89.1b	UK£41.1b	UK£3.3b	17.6x	27.1x	2.2x
Mon, 17 Jul 2023	UK£92.8b	UK£39.5b	UK£3.3b	16.2x	28.4x	2.3x

Current Industry PE

Investors are pessimistic on the British Professional Services industry, indicating that they anticipate long term growth rates will be lower than they have historically.

The industry is trading at a PE ratio of 23.2x which is lower than its 3-year average PE of 32.3x.

The 3-year average PS ratio of 2.8x is higher than the industry's current PS ratio of 2.2x.

Past Earnings Growth

The earnings for companies in the Professional Services industry have remained mostly flat over the last three years.
Meanwhile revenues for these companies have declined 2.7% per year.
This means that the cost of doing business could be reducing since sales have declined but profits have remained steady.

Industry Trends

Which industries have driven the changes within the U.K. Industrials industry?


GB Market	-1.69%
Industrials	-2.53%
Professional Services	0.17%
HR Services	5.50%
Research and Consulting Services	0.22%

Industry PE

Investors are most optimistic about the Research and Consulting Services industry even though it's trading below its 3-year average PE ratio of 32.5x.

Analysts are expecting annual earnings growth of 9.4%, which is lower than the prior year's growth of 16.0% per year.

Forecasted Growth

Analysts are most optimistic on the HR Services industry, expecting annual earnings growth of 71% over the next 5 years.
This is better than its past earnings decline of 3.2% per year.

In contrast, the Research and Consulting Services industry is expected to see its earnings grow by 9.4% per year over the next few years.

Top Stock Gainers and Losers

Which companies have driven the market over the last 7 days?

Company	Last Price	7D	1Y	Valuation
REL RELX	UK£23.75	0.9% +UK£387.6m	-40.5%	PE20.3x
HAS Hays	UK£0.36	7.0% +UK£37.7m	-46.1%	PS0.09x
PAGE PageGroup	UK£1.23	8.8% +UK£31.0m	-53.7%	PE42.3x
DGQ Delta Gold Technologies	UK£1.65	11.9% +UK£10.3m	n/a	n/a
KGH Knights Group Holdings	UK£1.96	3.7% +UK£5.2m	1.3%	PE35.2x

Capita Launches Forward Deployed Orchestrator to Help Clients Turn Agentic AI into Measurable Operational Value

Capita has launched the Forward Deployed Orchestrator (FDO), a new operating model designed to help organizations turn AI investment into measurable operational results in the middle and back office. The model addresses a growing challenge for businesses: while agentic AI tools can now be deployed quickly, making them work safely, reliably and at scale in live regulated environments is much harder. The Forward Deployed Orchestrator helps clients run AI-enabled processes safely and effectively after go-live, with a clear focus on adoption, performance and measurable operational results. The Forward Deployed Orchestrator is an AI–fluent process and change expert embedded directly in a client's operation. Rather than building a solution and stepping away, the FDO runs the AI–enabled process in the live environment, continuously improving performance and owning a clear, measurable outcome. The FDO is accountable for what traditional deployments miss: driving adoption so the 'new way' becomes the only way, optimising performance across the combined human-and-agent workforce and identifying opportunities to expand into new use cases from within day-to-day operations. While a forward–deployed engineer builds and integrates the AI agent, the FDO ensures it delivers sustained results in practice. Capita believes this model sets a new standard for deploying agentic AI in regulated environments: operate–and–own, not build–and–exit; platform–agnostic, not tied to a single vendor; and accountable for outcomes, not just deployment. It is built on Capita's long-standing experience running complex, regulated operations at national scale, combined with deliberate investment to make its workforce AI–fluent. Proven first within Capita's own operations, the model also addresses a growing governance gap as AI deployment outpaces control, ensuring human oversight on critical decisions, clear auditability, and continuous management as systems evolve. One of the first use cases for the Forward Deployed Orchestrator was high-volume recruitment, underpinned by Salesforce's Agentforce. Capita deployed the model first within its own operations, using an internal FDO pod across recruitment, people and operations teams as 'customer zero'. The results were delivered not by AI alone, but by combining the technology with Capita's domain experts in recruitment and hiring back-office processes, who were critical to embedding the new way of working and realising the benefits. In the first four months of operations, Capita saved over 1,000 management and recruitment hours and cut candidate screening time by 43%. In another regulated service, straightforward applications that previously took an average of four days to clear can now be completed in around 11 seconds, with AI reading and verifying documents, running authenticity and fraud checks, and referring cases to a human colleague with the necessary expertise where further review is needed. The Forward Deployed Orchestrator was highlighted at Salesforce's Agentforce World Tour London on 18 June 2026.

U.K. (FTSE) Professional Services Industry Analysis

Industry Valuation and Performance

Industry Trends

Top Stock Gainers and Losers

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