United Kingdom POS Terminal Market – 2025
United Kingdom’s POS Terminal Market
A Diverse and Consolidated Retail Technology Landscape
The United Kingdom POS Terminal Market is a diverse and vibrant tapestry, with a dynamic mixture of modern chains and systems and traditional High Street merchants. In spite of this, core retail tends to be fairly consolidated. The advent of online shopping has caused retailers to double-down on their Unified Commerce efforts. In addition, several retailers are leaders worldwide, and their influence extends beyond the UK’s borders.
Market Trends
- The retail industry is the UK’s largest private sector employer with 2.9 million employees. Another 2.8 million work in the hospitality industry.
- The retail industry is heavily concentrated. To whit, only a handful of chains dominate most sectors (Curry’s in electronics, Kingfisher’s B&Q in DIY, Boots in drugstores).
- The food/grocery segment shows Tesco with 28% of the market, followed by Sainsbury (15%), Asda (13%) and Morrisons (9%). Further, the growth of German chains Aldi and Lidl, who together claim nearly 2,000 stores and about 18% of the market between them, continues.
- Retail sales grew 35% for the United Kingdom over the past decade, compared to 19% for France and 25% for Germany.
- Online sales account for 30% of all retail trade (Germany’s figure is 27%, France 14% and the US 16%). As a result, this has had a devastating effect on retailers, especially department stores.
- Contactless payments account for 61% of POS transactions.
Leading Retailers
Tesco (#15 worldwide), J Sainsbury (#31), Asda (#37), Wm Morrison (#47), Kingfisher (#64), John Lewis (#80), Marks & Spencer (#81), Curry’s (#90), JD Sports Fashion (#108), Co-operative Group (#115), Associated British Foods (#160).
Market Size & Growth Projections
2024 Market Size
Expected 2029 Market Size
Total Growth
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Key Vendors
Key United Kingdom POS Terminal Market Size
- 2024 market was £368 Million and is expected to grow to £412 Million (12.0%, 2.3% CAGR ) by 2029.
Key POS Hardware Vendors/Key POS Software Vendors
- Among the key POS hardware vendors in the UK POS market are Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, NCR Voyix, Diebold Nixdorf, and Fujitsu.
- Key POS software vendors in the UK POS market include Flood, Oracle, NCR Voyix, Diebold Nixdorf and Aptos.
IHL Studies for United Kingdom POS Terminal Market
2025 EMEA POS Terminal Market Study
- This study includes market sizing, POS shipments, POS installed base and trends for the key EMEA countries (Germany, France, UK, etc) and the region as a whole.
2024 EMEA POS / mPOS Software Market Share
- Includes POS market share by software vendor by segment
2024 EMEA POS Terminal Hardware Market Share by Vendor
- Provides POS shipments and POS installed base by quarter for each retail segment for the EMEA region.
2025 EMEA Retail Stores/POS Sizing by Retail Chain Size
- Included in this study are Market Sizing by store locations and chain size for Europe/Middle East/Africa