Region of England
38 listed organisations (18% of the UK total; 2nd of 12 nations and regions) and 16 projects led from here.
A doctoral training centre run by the universities of Sussex and Bristol to train PhD researchers in quantum technology.
Led by University of Sussex
Funding: £24m
Themes: Skills and training, Computing
QCi3
The national research hub for quantum computing, led by the University of Oxford. It works on scalable and networked quantum computers.
Led by University of Oxford
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Computing, Networks, Software and algorithms
A £30m programme that paid seven companies to build prototype quantum computers, known as testbeds, at the NQCC in Harwell.
Led by NQCC
Funding: £30m
Themes: Computing
QuBIC
An incubation programme at Harwell, run by STFC with the NQCC, that gives quantum start-ups small grants and business support.
Led by Quantum Business Incubation Centre
Themes: Computing, Skills and training
QUARTET
A trapped-ion quantum computing testbed built for the National Quantum Computing Centre under its 2024 testbed programme.
Led by Oxford Ionics
Themes: Computing
SQALE
A neutral-atom quantum computing testbed built for the National Quantum Computing Centre under its 2024 testbed programme.
Led by Infleqtion UK (ColdQuanta UK Ltd)
Themes: Computing
A neutral-atom quantum computing testbed built for the National Quantum Computing Centre under its 2024 testbed programme.
Led by QuEra Computing (UK)
Themes: Computing
SparQ
The NQCC's programme for helping UK companies and researchers find uses for quantum computers and get access to them.
Led by NQCC
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms, Skills and training
NQCC
The UK's national laboratory for quantum computing, based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire.
Led by NQCC
Funding: £93m
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms, Skills and training
QCNDS
A centre of excellence launched by AWE in November 2025 and led by the University of Strathclyde, applying quantum sensing and computing to nuclear science for national security.
Led by University of Strathclyde, Aldermaston
Themes: Computing, Sensing, Defence and security
OAQ Testbed
A TreQ-led consortium that built a modular quantum computing testbed in Oxfordshire that mixes processors, control systems and software from different suppliers.
Led by TreQ
Themes: Computing
QPINN
OQC and Citi tested whether quantum-compressed neural networks can price financial derivatives.
Led by Oxford Quantum Circuits
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
Frazer-Nash, ORCA Computing and The Crown Estate looked at whether quantum optimisation can help renewable energy planning.
Led by Frazer-Nash Consultancy
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
MARCONI
A RedWave Labs-led consortium building two UK-made receiver modules for entanglement-based quantum key distribution.
Led by RedWave Labs
Funding: £1.5m
Themes: Communications, Networks
A Universal Quantum-led consortium building a trapped-ion quantum computer that can correct its own errors, with Rolls-Royce as end user.
Led by Universal Quantum
Funding: £7.5m
Themes: Computing
QCS
The phase 2 national hub for quantum computing and simulation, led by the University of Oxford. It ran from 2019 to 2024.
Led by University of Oxford
Funding: £27.3m
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
