UK SIC 2007 · 85590
Other education n.e.c. (SIC code 85590)
Private training providers file here. It covers corporate training, online courses, language schools, tutoring agencies and adult education. Anything teaching-led that does not fit the primary, secondary or higher education codes lands in it. That makes it a busy catch-all.
Division 85: Education
Education on the companies register looks nothing like the school system. Most state schools and academy trusts sit outside ordinary company lists. Most of this division lives in 85590, other education. Tutors, training providers and course businesses of every kind register there. Code 85600 covers educational support services, from consultancy to exam administration. Other codes are more precise. Sports coaching is 85510. Cultural education, such as music and dance teaching, is 85520. Driving schools use 85530. Private nurseries and independent schools use the staged schooling codes, including 85100.
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Who prospects SIC 85590 companies
Training businesses buy learning platforms, accreditation, booking systems and marketing. The freelance-heavy 85590 group is a good place to look for accountants and insurers. A new company there usually means a teacher or trainer has gone self-employed. Nurseries under 85100 need different things: Ofsted compliance support, staffing agencies, payroll built for shift patterns, and premises services. Driving schools buy dual-control vehicle leasing and booking apps. Across the division, the poor-website filter on an established company usually finds a tutor who runs on referrals. Web and booking tool vendors convert those quickly.
Lead generation for recruiters →How to read SIC 85590
SIC 85590 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 85, are the division, education. Add the third and you have group 855; 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 P, education, 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 85590 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 85590 are London (17,825), Birmingham (1,363), Manchester (1,314), Glasgow (720) and Bristol (704). 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 85590 as a filter
64,985 companies is 1.3 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 85590 most used of the 12 codes we track in division 85. 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.
Only 37,586 of the 64,985 companies carrying 85590 put it first. The other 27,399, 42 per cent, list it behind another code, which usually means the business does more than one thing and files 85590 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.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 27 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 34 per cent, so the remaining 66 per cent sits across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows this list without gutting it, which makes it a reasonable code to work territory by territory.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 85590 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: 85590, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 64,985 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 85590 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 85590
Are online course platforms filed under SIC 85590?
Yes. E-learning firms, MOOCs and niche subscription content all file 85590. Product-led ones often add 62012 (software development) as a second code.
What kind of training falls under SIC 85590?
Corporate training, language schools, tutoring agencies, professional certifications, online courses, adult evening classes and hobby instruction. If it teaches something and does not fit primary, secondary or higher education, it ends up here.
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