Glasgow City · Scotland
Web design in Glasgow, written for the people who hire you.
We design and write websites for businesses in Glasgow, from sole traders to multi-site firms. The Glasgow City council area has 30 active businesses for every 1,000 residents, below the figure for Great Britain. A £299 setup fee, then £99 a month. We aim to have you live in 3 working days.
How many businesses Glasgow has, and which kinds.
These are figures for the Glasgow City council area, whose boundary does not match the built-up city exactly. Sources: ONS UK Business Counts 2025, rounded to the nearest 5, and ONS population estimates.
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: Population estimates by local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Glasgow City council area has 30.4 active businesses for every 1,000 residents, against 39.3 across Great Britain. That ranks it 262nd of 350 council areas.
Compared with the UK as a whole, the Glasgow City council area has more solicitors’ firms than its size would suggest (2.6 times the national share) and more takeaways and mobile food businesses (twice).
By count, the largest group is management consultancies, with about 730 businesses. Domestic construction firms are thinner on the ground, at 33% of the UK share.
7,635
businesses across 79 of the trades we build for, in the Glasgow City council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 730 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 650 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 635 |
| Licensed restaurantsRestaurants | 440 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 380 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 330 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 315 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 265 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 250 |
| Solicitors’ firmsSolicitors | 245 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 210 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 185 |
| Other personal service businesses, a category that includes pet grooming, pet boarding and tattooing,Dog Groomers · Dog Walkers & Pet Sitters · Dog Trainers & Behaviourists · Kennels & Catteries · Tattoo Studios | 180 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 175 |
| Dental practicesDental Practices | 170 |
| Estate and letting agenciesEstate Agents | 160 |
Glasgow and the places nearby.
Glasgow has a big, confident independent scene in food, drink, music and personal care, and a housing stock dominated by sandstone tenements with shared closes, factors and communal repairs. For trades, tenement work is its own specialism worth stating outright. Loyalty tends to run by area too: the West End and the Southside behave like separate markets, and a business that names the neighbourhoods it covers will look far more local than one claiming all of Glasgow.
Just over the council boundary, Rutherglen (3 miles), Bishopbriggs (3 miles), Cambuslang (4 miles) and Bearsden (5 miles) are close by. It is worth saying plainly which of these you travel to, so people further out know whether to call.
Within Glasgow itself, we build for businesses in Finnieston, Merchant City, Partick, Hyndland, Shawlands and Dennistoun.
Glasgow addresses fall in the G postcode area, about 356 miles north of Exeter, where we are based.
How we work with Glasgow businesses.
356 miles from our Exeter studio
We run Glasgow projects from our Exeter studio, by phone, WhatsApp and video call. You approve every page on your phone, and how well you show up locally comes down to how the site is built and written.
£299to set up
£99a month
3working days to launch
You approve it before anything goes live.
Designed from scratch, every word written for you, hosting and Google setup included. Or pay £1,795 once and £49 a month with no minimum term.
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