UK SIC 2007 · 65110
Life insurance (SIC code 65110)
Life insurance is UK SIC code 65110. It sits in division 65 (Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 2,338 active UK companies list 65110 among their SIC codes. 1,705 of them list it first. That makes it the second most used code in its division.
Division 65: Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
Division 65 holds insurance and reinsurance carriers and pension funding vehicles. These firms carry the risk. They do not sell policies for someone else. Almost every visible UK entry sits under 65120, non-life insurance. That covers underwriters of motor, property, liability and specialist commercial lines. Brokers and intermediaries belong in division 66. Remember that when you build a list. A company classified here has chosen to call itself an insurer, not an adviser or an agent.
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Who prospects SIC 65110 companies
Selling into this division means selling to institutions, not small traders. Actuarial consultancies, claims technology vendors, compliance specialists, reinsurance intermediaries and specialist recruiters all target it. Carriers are regulated, so a new incorporation here often comes before an authorisation application. That is an early signal for advisory firms. Filing deadlines and fast headcount growth matter too. Established carriers rarely let their site rot, so the poor-website filter here mostly finds neglected or pre-launch entries rather than live buyers.
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SIC 65110 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 65, are the division, insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security. Add the third and you have group 651; the fourth narrows it to a class, and the fifth to the subclass, which is the level Companies House actually asks a company to pick. The whole division sits under section K, financial and insurance activities, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
More on how SIC 65110 is built
A company chooses its own codes when it incorporates and can change them on any confirmation statement. It may list up to four, and Companies House does not check whether they are right. That is why 65110 is worth reading as a claim the company made about itself rather than as a verified fact, and why the first-position and any-position counts above differ.
Measured on the August 2026 register, the busiest registered-office post towns for 65110 are London (750), Leeds (40), Glasgow (35), Manchester (29) and Birmingham (24). Those are registered-office locations, which is where the paperwork sits rather than necessarily where the work happens, so treat them as where to start looking rather than as a service area.
Using SIC 65110 as a filter
2,338 companies is 0.05 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 65110 second most used of the 5 codes we track in division 65. That is the pool before any filter. Whether it is a big market for you depends on what you sell, but it is the number every other filter on this page cuts down from.
More on filtering by SIC 65110
1,705 companies put 65110 first and a further 633, 27 per cent, list it in one of their other three SIC slots. That gap is the difference between a tight list and a broad one. First-code-only is the safer filter when you are writing to them; matching any position is worth it when you need the volume.
The population is concentrated: the five busiest post towns hold 38 per cent of it, and London alone accounts for 32 per cent. If you sell nationally, those five towns are most of the market. If you sell locally and you are not in one of them, expect a much smaller pool and widen the radius early.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 65110 with an incorporation date to catch companies in their first months, when they are still choosing suppliers, or with a filing deadline to reach them while the year end is on their mind. A worked example for this code: 65110, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 2,338 company pool into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a website, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job. Every company you pull carries the Companies House record, the director's name, a verified website and a verified email, and the ones we cannot complete are not charged.
Where SIC 65110 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 65110
How many UK companies use SIC code 65110?
2,338 active UK companies list 65110 (Life insurance) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 1,705 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
Does registering SIC code 65120 make my business an authorised insurer?
No. SIC codes are self-selected descriptions with no approval process. You pick them at incorporation, or update them on your confirmation statement (CS01). Companies House never vets the choice. Carrying on insurance business in the UK needs authorisation from the PRA and FCA. That is a separate regulatory application, and it has nothing to do with the code on the public register.
Should an insurance broker choose a division 65 SIC code?
Usually not. Division 65 is for carriers that underwrite risk. Agents and brokers fit 66220 in division 66. A company can list up to 4 SIC codes and change them at any time on its confirmation statement. So if you picked a carrier code by mistake, it is easy to correct. Fixing it also puts you on the right lists.
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