United Kingdom
- Participations in EU-funded quantum projects
- 302 (rank 5 of 47 countries)
- EU-funded projects with a participant in the country (CORDIS)
- 217
- Organisations in these projects
- 84
- EU contribution
- EUR 165.8 million
Definitions: Participations by country; Rank of a country by participations; Projects and organisations by country; Net EU contribution to participants by country
How projects are counted: the figure above is the number of EU-funded quantum projects in CORDIS with at least one participant in United Kingdom, the definition used across the country pages. National projects are counted separately below. The projects listing filtered by country shows the records whose own country (coordinator or host) is United Kingdom, EU and national together, and the map counts portal records the same way, so their numbers differ.
Quantum at a glance
- National strategy and programmes
- National Quantum Strategy · 2024-2034 · GBP 2.5 billion as announced (source)
- Top partner countries in EU-funded projects
- Germany (89 shared projects), Italy (57 shared projects), France (56 shared projects), Spain (43 shared projects), Netherlands (41 shared projects) · collaboration in the policy dossier
- Most active organisations
- The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford (32 EU quantum projects), The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge (20 EU quantum projects), University College London (19 EU quantum projects)
- Organisations on this portal
- 30 companies, 36 research organisations and universities, 1 other organisations (of 84 in EU-funded quantum projects)
- Quantum infrastructure
- No entry located in this country in the infrastructure catalogue; pilot lines and EU-wide programmes are listed there without a country.
- Education and training
- Master degrees: 3; other courses and schools: 0 (course directory)
- Open quantum jobs
- 3 open positions in this country on the portal
- More about United Kingdom
- EU Quantum Europe Strategy tracker · Quantum in United Kingdom, in plain words
National quantum landscape
Programmes, agencies, centres and networks of United Kingdom, read on their official pages (checked 2026-10-22). Each item links to the page it was read on; the list is not exhaustive and not an endorsement.
National programmes and initiatives
- UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP): The NQTP was set up in 2014 as a ten-year collaboration of industry, academia and government, established by EPSRC, STFC, Innovate UK and Dstl with other public bodies. Its website is administered by UKRI on behalf of the programme.Source: UK National Quantum Technologies Programme: About us, retrieved 2026-10-22; About us; Governance; UK National Quantum Technologies Programme: Home, retrieved 2026-10-22; Introductory section and footer
Lead ministries and agencies
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT): DSIT is the government department that published the UK National Quantum Strategy in March 2023 and announces government investment in quantum technologies, including the next phase of the NQTP backed by that strategy.Source: GOV.UK: National Quantum Strategy, retrieved 2026-10-22; Publication header (From; first published); GOV.UK: Unlocking the potential of quantum: £45 million investment to drive breakthroughs in brain scanners, navigation systems, and quantum computing, retrieved 2026-10-22; Press release header; paragraph on the NQTP
National centres and institutes
- National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC): The NQCC is the UK national lab for quantum computing, based at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Harwell. It is delivered jointly by the UKRI research councils EPSRC and STFC and works with business, government and researchers to scale quantum computing.Source: NQCC: About us, retrieved 2026-10-22; About us introduction
National quantum computers and testbeds
- NQCC quantum computing testbeds: The NQCC invested £30m, in partnership with Innovate UK, to establish seven quantum computing testbeds at its Harwell Campus facilities, covering photonic, neutral-atom, trapped-ion, spin-qubit and superconducting platforms.Source: NQCC: Quantum computing testbeds, retrieved 2026-10-22; State-of-the-art quantum computing testbeds being established at the NQCC's facilities; Quantum computing testbed projects
National quantum communities
- UKQuantum: UKQuantum presents itself as the voice of the UK quantum industry, aiming to unite the sector, advise government and promote adoption of quantum technologies. It is a company limited by guarantee with members from industry and research.Source: UKQuantum: Home, retrieved 2026-10-22; The voice of the UK quantum industry; About Us; Members
QuantERA research funding network
- QuantERA III consortium partner: Research funding organisations of this country in the QuantERA III consortium, a network of research funding organisations that launches joint calls in quantum science and technologies: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK.Source: QuantERA: Consortium (QuantERA II and QuantERA III partner lists), retrieved 2026-10-22; QuantERA III tab, country entry
Context: population, economy and research spending
| Indicator | Value | Year | Eurostat dataset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population on 1 January | 69,554,275 | 2026 | tps00001 |
| Gross domestic product, current prices | Not published by Eurostat | - | nama_10_gdp |
| Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD), share of GDP | 1.73% | 2019, provisional | rd_e_gerdtot |
| Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) | EUR 44.37 billion | 2019, provisional | rd_e_gerdtot |
| Measure | Value | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Participations per million inhabitants | 4.3 | 302 participations (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and population 2026 |
| EU contribution per inhabitant | EUR 2.38 | EU contribution (CORDIS, projects starting 2015 to 2027) and population 2026 |
| EU contribution per EUR 1 billion of GDP | - | - |
| EU quantum contribution as a share of GERD | 0.0304% | Yearly averages: EU contribution over the 13 start years 2015 to 2027, GERD over 5 years with figures, 2015 to 2019; includes values flagged estimated; provisional |
Method: the CORDIS figures are totals over all EU-funded quantum projects in the catalogue (projects starting 2015 to 2027); population and GDP are the latest single year Eurostat publishes for United Kingdom. Figures per inhabitant and per unit of GDP therefore set cumulative quantum funding against one year of population or output: they correct for the size of the country, not for time. The share of GERD compares yearly averages instead: the EU quantum contribution divided by the number of project start years, against the average yearly GERD over the years of the same span that have a figure. The time windows of the two sources differ, so read these as indicators of relative scale, not as budget shares. Provisional and estimated values are marked as Eurostat flags them. A dash means no figure or no EU contribution; "less than" marks a positive figure too small to show at this precision.
Source: Eurostat, datasets tps00001, nama_10_gdp, rd_e_gerdtot (retrieved 2026-10-21), reused under the Eurostat copyright notice. The normalised figures are calculated by this portal from Eurostat and CORDIS data; Eurostat is not responsible for them.
Quantum areas
| Quantum area | Projects |
|---|---|
| Quantum computing and simulation | 78 |
| Quantum communication | 29 |
| Quantum sensing and metrology | 48 |
| Enabling technologies and supply chain | 4 |
| Quantum-safe security (post-quantum cryptography) | 6 |
| Not placed in a pillar | 52 |
217 distinct projects in all; a project with several areas counts in each. 106 projects are placed by the taxonomy rules on their titles or a keyword suggestion, pending review (they have no reviewed technology tag). Pillars follow one method across the portal: the confirmed classification of a project where there is one, else the taxonomy rules on its title, else the snapshot keyword suggestion when a keyword matched; a project that matches none of them is "Not placed in a pillar" and is counted apart, not under enabling technologies. A project in several pillars is split evenly between them; post-quantum cryptography is shown apart.
Research output
- Quantum publications in 2025
- 1,410 (+9% since 2021)
- Quantum patent families, earliest priority 2020 to 2024
- 315 (partial: 84% of the publication months read so far)
Publications: OpenAlex (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-25; patent families: EPO Open Patent Services. A work or family with several countries counts for each. All countries, method and the patent independence bands
Funding over time
EU-funded quantum projects with at least one participant from United Kingdom, by start year and application pillar. The last two years are still being filled.
- Not placed in a pillar
- Quantum-safe security (post-quantum cryptography)
- Enabling technologies and supply chain
- Quantum sensing and metrology
- Quantum communication
- Quantum computing and simulation
Explore funding trends for United Kingdom by platform, supply-chain segment or kind of organisation, in projects or EU contribution.
Place in the supply chain
Companies from United Kingdom taking part in EU-funded quantum projects of each supply-chain segment, and their share of all companies in that segment. Segments are keyword matches on project titles; public project data, not a census of suppliers.
| Segment | Companies from United Kingdom | All companies | Share | Most active company here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cryogenics and cooling | 0 | 5 | 0% | - |
| Photonics, lasers and optics | 3 | 117 | 3% | - |
| Control electronics and cryo-CMOS | 1 | 24 | 4% | - |
| Materials, fabrication and foundry | 1 | 82 | 1% | Element Six (uk) Limited |
| Qubit hardware platforms | 2 | 76 | 3% | - |
| Quantum software and algorithms | 3 | 72 | 4% | - |
| Quantum communication and security systems | 7 | 201 | 3% | Toshiba Europe Limited |
| Quantum sensors and metrology devices | 12 | 111 | 11% | Element Six (uk) Limited |
European quantum supply chain · Technology map: supply-chain view
Organisations on this portal
Published on this portal: 67 of the 84 organisations from this country in these projects (Higher education 33, Company 30, Research organisation 3, Other 1). With the most EU quantum projects:
- The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford Higher education 32 EU quantum projects
- The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge Higher education 20 EU quantum projects
- University College London Higher education 19 EU quantum projects
- Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine Higher education 13 EU quantum projects
- Heriot-Watt University Higher education 11 EU quantum projects
- University of Glasgow Higher education 11 EU quantum projects
- The University of Birmingham Higher education 10 EU quantum projects
- University of Bristol Higher education 10 EU quantum projects
- University of Leeds Higher education 8 EU quantum projects
- The University of Nottingham Higher education 7 EU quantum projects
Quantum infrastructure
No entry for this country in the infrastructure catalogue; EU-wide programmes such as EuroQCI are listed there.
Quantum infrastructure in Europe, by category
National programmes and public investment
Strategies, programmes and announced financing for this country, from official sources. Amounts are as announced, not disbursed; the list is not exhaustive.
- National Quantum Strategy · National strategy or programme · 2024-2034
National sources
Projects and notices from public sources of this country, read automatically and published with their source and licence. They are national data, not part of the EU figures above. Sources and methods: data sources page.
Gateway to Research (UK Research and Innovation)
Source: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0; contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read weekly check; read in full when the first page changed, at least every 90 days, last read 31 Oct 2026 (3 days ago). The record at the source is authoritative.
National awards in the last read, as the source states them: GBP 1,197,181,895 for 1426 awards. Records without an amount in a stated currency: 1120. National funding, never converted and never added to the EU figures on this page.
2546 projects from this source on the portal, newest first:
- Quantum Fields, Homotopy Algebras, Open Systems and Gravity · 2026
- Sensing the earth with a novel quantum-classical interferometer array · 2026
- Optimal control of open quantum systems in strong coupling regimes · 2026
- Electrically driven maser-based quantum amplifiers for compact and ultra-low-noise detection of microwaves · 2026
- Directly mapping quantum landscapes: finding superconductors’ hidden domains (QMATE) · 2026
- Spin-Optomechanics in Silicon Carbide for Quantum Technologies (SOSiC) · 2026
- Emerging Paradigms in Superconductivity of Novel Quantum Materials · 2026
- QUANTA: Quantum Communications over Atmospheric Channels Aided by Detector Arrays · 2026
- Quantum Sensing in Nature and Synthetic Biology · 2026
- SYNAPSE-PQ: The Sovereign Semantic Synapse: A Post-Quantum Neuromorphic Fabric for Smart Infrastructure · 2026
Find a Tender service (UK), OCDS API
Source: Cabinet Office, United Kingdom. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0; contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read daily: the notices updated in the last 26 hours, at most 30 pages of 100, last read 1 Nov 2026 (2 days ago). The record at the source is authoritative.
No open notice from this source is published on the portal right now.
Contracts Finder (UK), search API
Source: Crown Commercial Service and Cabinet Office, United Kingdom. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0; contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read daily: keyword searches quantum and qubit over the last seven days (two requests), last read 1 Nov 2026 (2 days ago). The record at the source is authoritative.
No open notice from this source is published on the portal right now.
Regional and cohesion funding
Quantum-related projects co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, Cohesion Fund), selected and managed by national and regional authorities and located in this country according to the source. They are not in CORDIS and not part of the EU research figures above. Sources and methods: data sources page.
Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Read weekly, last read 28 Oct 2026 (5 days ago). The record at the source is authoritative.
No Kohesio project located in this country is published on the portal.
Sources and coverage of this profile
Where each part of this profile comes from, the period it covers, how complete it is and when it was last verified. "Unknown" and "none recorded" mean that the portal holds no verified data, not that the figure is zero.
| Part of the profile | Source | Period | Coverage | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU-funded quantum projects | CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union | Projects starting 2015 to 2027 | Every EU-funded quantum project with a participant in the country | 2026-10-16 |
| National quantum landscape | Official pages of ministries, agencies, programmes and centres | As stated on each page | 6 facts, read on official pages; not exhaustive | 2026-10-22 |
| National programmes and public investment | Public investment registry (official announcements) | As announced | 1 record, amounts as announced, not disbursed | 2026-10-27 |
| Quantum infrastructure | Infrastructure catalogue (EuroHPC, EuroQCI and official pages) | Current status of each entry | None recorded (unknown, not zero) | 2026-10-27 |
| Post-quantum cryptography guidance | PQC guide (national cyber security authorities) | Current guidance | Unknown | Unknown |
| National funding sources | National funding inventory (#426) | Per source | Unknown: no national funder has been checked yet | Unknown |
| Population, economy and research spending | Eurostat | Latest year published per indicator | Population, GDP and GERD | 2026-10-21 |
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Next steps
Policy dossier for United Kingdom (printable, with JSON export) · Build a consortium shortlist with partners from other countries · Compare with another country · Follow the money: awards and outputs of projects with a participant in United Kingdom · Country map · All countries
CORDIS projects whose title, acronym or topic identifier mentions quantum, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. Catalogue coverage, not a census of the ecosystem. Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (retrieved 2026-10-16), reused under the European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU). No endorsement by the source is implied.