2025 Top VARs and MSPs: Full list announced!
Drumroll please... here is your 2025 crop of top solution providers
If there’s one thing to take away from 2025’s crop of Top VARs, it’s that consolidation is the name of the game. The gap between this year’s top ten and the rest is widening, as nearly all of the largest resellers in the UK have undertaken M&A over the past two years.
As the list gets increasingly top-weighted, several of last year’s honourees are missing entirely, as they now report results as part of their new parent companies. These include Total Computers (now part of Boxxe), Grey Matter (now part of Climb Channel Solutions) and others.
Even the biggest partner firms got in on the M&A action this year, as Softcat made its first ever acquisition by buying up Leeds-based AI consultancy Oakland and Bytes.
This means there is more space in the top one hundred for up-and-coming partners, which is the silver lining to the trend. The pattern is clear – with a few exceptions, most of the partners who have achieved double-digit revenue growth over the past 12 months have done so through acquisitions.
AI continues to feature heavily in annual reports, results announcements and interviews, but less so than last year, and it seems we’re now firmly on the right side of the adoption curve.
Meanwhile, the companies that have made organic gains fall into two main camps: software resale and service-led propositions.
More than savvy decision-making, we may be witnessing the lingering effects of the great hardware slump of 2024, as bellwether Computacenter indicated in its annual report earlier this year.
The list also includes some new entrants towards the SME end of the spectrum this year, who have made significant gains over the past 12 months.
Even in a channel environment defined by the big fish eating the little, there’s loads of activity to be found under the surface.