An ethical business movement most associated with consumer good brands such as Ben & Jerry’s and Patagonia is beginning to make substantial headway in the UK IT channel.
There are now at least 34 UK IT managed services providers, resellers and IT consultancies that have become B Corps, by our calculations (nearly 1% of the UK’s 3,800-strong B Corp community).
Some eight of these converted to the status – which recognises firms which balance profit with purpose – in the first quarter of 2026 alone.
And now even some of the UK’s largest MSPs – among them Zenzero and Kerv – have gained their B Corp stripes (although the mean and median headcount is a lot lower, at 76 and 25). This is not to mention the other breeds of companies that sit in the UK IT channel – among them software distributor QBS Software and lifecycle services firm KOcycle – that have bagged the status.
So prevalent is the B Corp movement among UK MSPs, that several have even banded together to form a dedicated ‘B IT’ group.
But what lies behind the trend, and how hard is it to obtain B Corp, exactly?
In an effort to get to the bottom of it, IT Channel Oxygen has profiled all 34 UK MSP/IT provider B Corps on our radar, talking to top execs at 16 of them.
They range from generalists MSPs and consultancies to education specialists, managed print providers and pure-play Microsoft and Oracle consultancies.
Certain geographic hotspots also emerge, with three based in Bristol, and two each in Cornwall, Cheltenham and – most unexpectedly – Waterlooville in Hampshire.
But who are these 34 firms?
Here we count them down, in reverse size order (based on the average monthly headcount figure displayed in each firm’s latest sets of accounts)….
Countdown starts on next page…
