Icon Development Solutions Limited
Registered name: ICON DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Part of Icon Plc groupIcon Development Solutions Limited made £1.2m revenue and a £1m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Icon Development Solutions Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £1.2m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £1m and 14 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Reading; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1983
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.5m | £1.2m | £1.2m |
| Cost of sales | −£1.4m | −£1.4m | — |
| Operating profit | £41.7k | −£109k | −£737k |
| Profit before tax | −£30.4k | £160k | −£534k |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £42.3k | −£1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £42.3k | −£1m |
| Employees (average) | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 96.1% | 3.4% | −81.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £105k | £88.7k | £87.6k |
| Profit per employee | £101k | £3k | −£71.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼15.7% | ▼1.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼97% | ▼2469% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −81.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £87.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£71.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 14
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Icon Plc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Icon Clinical Research Holdings (U.K.) Limited50–75%
- Icon Clinical Research (U.K.) Limited75–100%
- Icon Development Solutions Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (6)
- VSK (Kenilworth) LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £391
- Aptiv Solutions (UK) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Docs International UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Icon Clinical (UK) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Icon Clinical Research (U.K.) No. 2 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Icon Clinical Research (U.K.) No. 3 LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 20 Oct 2026
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