How many management consultancies are in Saudi Arabia?
Management consulting and regional head offices.
22.4K
active registrations list management consultancies & head offices activities — 1.6% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
22,427 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list management consultancies & head offices activities as of 16 September 2026 — 1.6% of all classified registrations, the 43rd-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
5,434 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +19.5% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (12,727), Jeddah (3,598), Makkah (1,014) lead. Relative to its size, Riyadh is the most concentrated: management consultancies make up 1.9× the share they hold nationally.
72.4% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 50,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 22,427
- 1.6% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 5,434
- +19.5% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 72.4%
- 16,245 of 22,427
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where management consultancies are registered
Column height: management consultancies by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh12,7271.9×
- Jeddah3,5981.5×
- Makkah1,0140.9×
- Dammam9420.9×
- Khobar8471.7×
- Madinah6360.7×
- Buraydah2230.4×
- Jubail1760.3×
- Taif1530.3×
- Abha1410.6×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Management consultancies & head offices: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Executive management consultancy8,360Activity code 702017
- Head office activities4,841Activity code 701012
- Administrative, financial and operational restructuring3,334Activity code 702014
- Document and data verification1,737Activity code 702012
- Public relations and communications1,282Activity code 702015
- Management system certification883Activity code 702011
- Management consultancy570Activity code 702013
- Regional headquarters of foreign companies528Activity code 701011
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC15,73470.2%
- Sole proprietorship5,88726.2%
- JSC3101.4%
- Foreign branch2791.2%
- SJSC1650.7%
- General partnership260.1%
- GCC branch160.1%
- Limited partnership10<0.1%
Management consultancies & head offices by city
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Common questions
How many management consultancies are there in Saudi Arabia?
22,427 active commercial registrations list management consultancies & head offices activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most management consultancies?
Riyadh, with 12,727 — 56.7% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 3,598.
Is the number of management consultancies growing?
5,434 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +19.5% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in management consultancies & head offices in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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