Professional Services

Thirty-seven of Guernsey's 221 professional-services firms work in IT — six Microsoft Partners, one Cisco Gold among them.

Thirty-one firms — 26 limited companies, nearly half trading from St Peter Port — founded between 1900 and 2019.

Twenty-nine consultancies — all four Big Four firms here, weighted toward compliance, risk, and governance advisory.

Twenty-seven firms, 24 in St Peter Port — offshore magic-circle practices alongside family, criminal, and mediation specialists.

Twenty-nine practices — sixteen in St Peter Port, thirteen RICS-regulated, and one structural-and-civil engineering outlier.

Twenty firms — 17 limited companies, 12 in St Peter Port — weighted toward SME compliance, with Big Four offices alongside sole traders.

Seventeen marketing and design firms — web-and-digital heavy (15 of 17), St Peter Port-clustered, mostly serving SMEs.

Nineteen agencies — residential sales and lettings near-universal, nine adding commercial work, two based in Alderney.

Fifteen agencies, twelve in St Peter Port — finance recruitment runs through nearly all of them, alongside temporary staffing.

Nine of 226 professional services train or coach — split between accredited qualification pathways and ILM-based coaching practices.

Eight firms — three engineering practices founded 1981–1984, plus single-discipline specialists in trees, ecology, marine, and IT waste.

Four firms — all in St Peter Port. Three GFSC-licensed corporate services outfits and EasyCo's 'company in a box' package.

Six operators — Beckfords (1875), two 1942 foundings (Argent, Noyon's), Martels (1974), a parish committee, and Alderney's Sebire.

Four on the island — two H&S consultancies (Normandie, 1995; CopCoy, 2009), the States regulator HSE, and a water-hygiene specialist.