UK SIC 2007 · 65120
Non-life insurance (SIC code 65120)
General insurance carriers file here. Motor, property, commercial, marine and specialty lines all count. Life cover is 65110. Brokers are 66220. Risk assessors are 66210.
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 65120 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.
Lead generation for accountants & bookkeepers →How to read SIC 65120
SIC 65120 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.
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 65120 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 65120 are London (2,109), Grantham (125), Leeds (81), Birmingham (39) and Bristol (35). 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 65120 as a filter
4,389 companies is 0.08 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 65120 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.
3,288 companies put 65120 first and a further 1,101, 25 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 54 per cent of it, and London alone accounts for 48 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 65120 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: 65120, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 4,389 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 65120 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 65120
Are Lloyd's syndicates filed under SIC 65120?
The syndicate vehicle files 65120, through its managing agent. The Lloyd's brokers who place business with syndicates file 66220 instead.
Which SIC code do insurance MGAs use?
Managing General Agents sit between the two, so most file 66220 (broking) and 65120 (insurance) together. About half of UK MGAs carry both codes.
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