KPMG continues to grow, achieving total revenue of €2.72 billion
Business figures 2025 KPMG in Germany
- Total revenue increased by 4.1 percent to €2.72 billion
- Transformation and technology drive demand in all business areas
- Audit records strong growth
- Advisory successfully establishes new structure on the market
- Tax achieves strong growth, Law maintains leading position
- KPMG looks ahead to fiscal year 2026 with confidence despite challenging environment
Berlin, 22nd December 2025
KPMG in Germany continued its growth trajectory in the 2025 financial year (October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025) and consolidated its strong position in the market. Total revenue rose by 4.1 percent to €2.72 billion. All business areas contributed to growth despite increasing economic headwinds during the fiscal year.
We can look back on a strong fiscal year. We have continued to grow sustainably in a difficult environment. Our focus on the major transformational issues facing the economy has paid off. We are strong where it matters most to our clients: in addition to auditing, we also offer expertise in digitalization, transactions, and business performance. Our clients can rely on our regulatory and technical expertise, our quality, and our technological competence to help them meet their highly complex challenges.
Audit remains the leader in the MDAX
In the Audit division, KPMG repeated its strong growth of the previous year. Total revenue rose by 7.7 percent to €829 million. With Airbus, the company won a new audit mandate in the DAX 40. In the MDAX, KPMG's new clients included TUI, and it maintained its leading position in this index with a market share of 36 percent. Business also developed positively outside of listed companies. With new audit mandates at the Würth Group and ZF Friedrichshafen, among others, KPMG further expanded its very strong position with family-owned and industrial companies. KPMG also reinforced its market-leading position in the financial sector with new mandates.
The audit-related advisory business benefited from services in the areas of governance and IT compliance. With new and comprehensive audit and advisory services, KPMG addresses, for example, the interface between regulation and AI and supports companies in using AI safely and responsibly.
Advisory off to a robust start in new structure
The Advisory division performed robustly after the very high level of the previous year, growing by 1.2 percent to a total output of €1,142 million. The division worked successfully within its new structure comprising three units—Consulting, Deal Advisory, and Performance & Strategy—to deliver an even more integrated offering.
Consulting reinforced its strong position as a consultant for technology-driven transformations. Growth drivers included data- and AI-driven strategies and solutions, SAP S/4HANA transformations, modern cloud architectures, and cybersecurity.
Deal Advisory performed very well despite the challenging transaction environment. Growth in transactions was driven primarily by clients in the industrial, technology, and defense sectors. Deal Advisory also maintained its leading position in the IPO market, supporting the IPOs of Aumovio, Ottobock, and TKMS. According to Mergermarket, KPMG led the German market in the third quarter of 2025 in terms of both the number of transactions supported and deal volume.
Performance & Strategy emerged as a separate division for the first time in fiscal year 2025 and successfully established itself in the market. Here, KPMG bundles its advisory services for improving the operational and financial performance of companies. The division benefited in particular from business with restructuring and operational transaction consulting as well as from the optimization of corporate functions and processes.
Tax consulting grows significantly
The Tax division, which also includes KPMG's legal advisory services, increased its total revenue by 4.8 percent to €738 million. KPMG grew particularly strongly in tax consulting, mainly thanks to high demand for the digitalization of tax functions and tax consulting for large carve-out projects and in the area of regulation, for example in customs. KPMG also provided increased support to its clients' central tax functions in their transformation.
KPMG Law once again claimed the top spot as the highest-grossing legal advisory firm among the Big Four companies. Legal advice on digital transformation and technological issues such as AI regulation, data protection, and cybersecurity was in particularly high demand. The company also benefited from demand for advice on the implementation of DORA and NIS2 and for managed legal services, in which KPMG performs recurring legal tasks for clients.
KPMG rapidly expands use of AI
In the past fiscal year, KPMG focused strongly on integrating AI into customer solutions and internal processes. The company has bundled key activities related to technology and AI in its new CTO organization, expanded its cooperation with the AI group Merantix, and has been working with an external, high-caliber Technology Advisory Board since the end of this year. This enables it to translate market impulses into solutions for clients and KPMG itself at an early stage.
We started our own digital transformation very early on. We have now integrated AI into almost all of our services and processes and created a clear competitive advantage with our CTO organization. This benefits our customers. We support them far beyond mere efficiency gains with new business models and additional growth opportunities.
Part of KPMG's technology strategy is its alliance business with technology partners, which once again recorded significant growth in the past fiscal year and in which AI now plays a key role. KPMG also expanded the use of AI on its own platforms. The use of AI agents was strengthened in the Clara AI audit platform. In tax consulting, Digital Gateway continued to gain ground, with more and more companies using the platform to digitize their tax departments.
Training offensive strengthens AI skills
KPMG employed an average of 14,148 permanent staff in Germany in fiscal year 2025. Around 1,900 new colleagues were hired on a permanent basis – another strong figure following the record years before. With a peak of over 175,000 applicants, applications rose by around 20 percent for the sixth year in a row.
In addition to a strong influx of applications, our employees also confirm our position as a top employer. We have a recommendation rate of almost 90 percent as a good employer in our annual employee survey. We want to offer our employees the best prospects. That's why we invested around 130 million euros in training and development again in 2025.
One focus was on a comprehensive training initiative, through which KPMG has established AI expertise as a key qualification throughout the organization. All employees have access to AI tools and agents and have integrated them into their day-to-day work.
Further growth expected in the current fiscal year
Despite the difficult economic environment, KPMG has made a good start to the new fiscal year and expects positive development to continue.
It is precisely in these challenging times that the strength of our strategic positioning becomes apparent. We are also investing heavily in the future. That is why we are looking forward to confident about the current fiscal year.
By 2026, KPMG will invest around US$4.2 billion globally in key future topics such as technology and AI. This means that the network is also continuing to grow internationally: global revenues rose by 5.1 percent to US$39.8 billion and the number of employees to around 276,000.
Press contact
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Clemens Reisbeck
T +49 89 92821722
creisbeck@kpmg.com
www.kpmg.com/de