UK SIC: 2026

The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) provides a framework for the collection, tabulation, presentation and analysis of data, and its use promotes uniformity.

In addition, it can be used for administrative purposes and by non-government bodies as a convenient way of classifying industrial activities into a common structure.

Since 1948, the classification has been revised in 1958, 1968, 1980, 1992, 1997, 2003 and 2007.

• Updated guidance for UK SIC (2026) following revision of UK SIC (2007) which was previously included as part of the Main Volume for UK SIC (2007)
  UK SIC (2026) Introductory Guidelines (31 July 2026) (pdf 822.6KB)
• SIC 2026 structure with integral explanatory notes (xlsx 325.8KB) (3 August 2026)
• Summary of structure (xlsx 112.0KB) (3 August 2026)
• UK SIC (2026) Indexes (xlsx 537.9KB) (3 August 2026)
• UK SIC (2026) Correspondence Table (SIC 2007 to SIC 2026) (xlsx 77.6KB) (3 August 2026)
• Interactive SIC hierarchy (to follow in 2026)
• Previous revisions and correlations (XLS 1.84MB)

Please note:

From 20 September 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) no longer supports requests from individual companies requesting the appropriate Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code. The previous SIC classification is available in our UK SIC 2007 page. If you have any queries please contact industry.information@ons.gov.uk.