The Professional Pensions Administration Survey 2025 reveals the rankings of the best third-party administrators for pension schemes.
As part of the survey, the 256 participants were invited to rate the third-party administrators (TPAs) they had experience of working with.
We calculated a weighted satisfaction score based on how respondents had ranked the importance of a range of different factors - such as data accuracy, flexibility, customer service and technology.
The top five TPAs according to our ranking of 14 different firms were:
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PP Administration Survey Methodology
This report details the findings from the 2025 Professional Pensions Administration Study, designed to track industry attitudes towards both in-house and outsourced pension scheme administration.
The study was conducted by Incisive Works on behalf of Professional Pensions. The overall aim of this research was to measure the different experiences of schemes using in-house and outsourced administration functions.
In total, 256 pension professionals in the UK responded to an online survey, which ran earlier this year.
This year's survey gathered data from respondents in both the public and private sectors, and across a range of different scheme types.
Overall, 77% of this year's respondents are trustees – with 19% professional/independent; 30% member-nominated; and 27% employer nominated. The remaining 23% of respondents are made up of CEOs, financial directors and HR directors and managers, among other roles.
The majority of respondents (80%) were primarily responsible for defined benefit (DB) schemes, with a further 10% overseeing hybrid schemes, 9% managing defined contribution (DC) schemes and 1% looking after career average schemes.
