UK SIC 2007 · 82200
Activities of call centres (SIC code 82200)
Activities of call centres is UK SIC code 82200. It sits in division 82 (Office administrative, office support and other business support activities) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 1,554 active UK companies list 82200 among their SIC codes. 873 of them list it first.
Division 82: Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
Without 82990 this division would be small. That code, other business support n.e.c., is what companies in every industry pick when nothing else describes them. So a list built on 82990 alone is noisy. It holds virtual assistants, consultants, agencies and plain misclassifications side by side. The specific codes are much cleaner. Code 82110 covers combined office administrative services. Code 82301 is for exhibition and fair organisers, and 82302 for conference organisers. Code 82920 covers the packaging and fulfilment trade that grew up with online retail.
Who prospects SIC 82200 companies
Work the edges of this division, not the middle. Event organisers under 82301 and 82302 buy venues, AV production, registration platforms, sponsorship sales and event insurance. A new incorporation there often means an events director has gone independent. Packaging and fulfilment companies under 82920 attract machinery suppliers, courier partnerships and warehouse property agents. Treat 82990 with more care. Layer filters on first: incorporation date, location, officer history and website quality. That turns an unusable catch-all into a source of businesses that tidier competitor lists never reach.
Lead generation for lead generation teams →How to read SIC 82200
SIC 82200 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 82, are the division, office administrative, office support and other business support activities. Add the third and you have group 822; 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 N, administrative and support service 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 82200 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 82200 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 82200 are London (442), Manchester (77), Glasgow (35), Birmingham (30) and Liverpool (18). 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 82200 as a filter
1,554 companies is 0.03 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 82200 7th most used of the 8 codes we track in division 82. 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 82200
Only 873 of the 1,554 companies carrying 82200 put it first. The other 681, 44 per cent, list it behind another code, which usually means the business does more than one thing and files 82200 as a sideline. A search that matches the first code only will miss most of this population, so match on any of the four SIC positions and use a second filter to tighten it.
The population is concentrated: the five busiest post towns hold 39 per cent of it, and London alone accounts for 28 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 82200 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: 82200, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 1,554 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 82200 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 82200
How many UK companies use SIC code 82200?
1,554 active UK companies list 82200 (Activities of call centres) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 873 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
Is it a problem that my company is registered under 82990?
Not legally. Code 82990 is valid and Companies House never queries the choice. The downside is visibility. Directories, lenders and data platforms cannot tell what you do from a catch-all entry. If a better code exists for your trade, swap it in on your next confirmation statement (CS01). You can hold up to 4 codes, so you can keep 82990 alongside it.
What SIC code should a virtual assistant business use?
Most VAs choose 82110, combined office administrative services. Others use the broader 82990 when the work spans admin, inbox management and social media. Neither needs approval, and you can change the choice on any confirmation statement. If a big share of your work is specialised, such as bookkeeping under 69202, list that code too. A company may declare up to 4.
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