Employment Solutions Limited
Registered name: EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Part of Es Group Holdings Limited groupEmployment Solutions Limited made £11.8m revenue and £184k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Employment Solutions Limited’s revenue grew 23% to £11.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £184k profit and 43 employees. The company is classified under “temporary employment agency activities” and is based in Bury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bury, North West
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The company's ultimate and immediate parent company is Employment Solutions (Holdings) Limited, a company incorporated in England & Wales. The registered office address of Employment Solutions (Holdin”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9.5m | £12.9m | £9.5m | £11.8m |
| Cost of sales | £7.6m | £10.4m | £7.9m | £9.8m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £2.5m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Operating profit | £327k | £704k | £287k | £362k |
| Profit before tax | £306k | £624k | £197k | £274k |
| Profit after tax | £235k | £503k | £142k | £184k |
| Profit (best available) | £235k | £503k | £142k | £184k |
| Staff costs | — | £5.5m | £3.6m | £4.4m |
| Employees (average) | 64 | 74 | 42 | 43 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 3.9% | 1.5% | 1.6% |
| Gross margin | 19.6% | 19.6% | 16.6% | 16.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £148k | £174k | £227k | £273k |
| Profit per employee | £3.7k | £6.8k | £3.4k | £4.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲35.9% | ▼26% | ▲23.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲114.2% | ▼71.8% | ▲29.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15.6% | ▼43.2% | ▲2.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £173k | £18.6k | £26.7k | £24k |
| Net assets | £647k | £1m | £1.1m | £1.1m |
| Fixed assets | £186k | £196k | £150k | £119k |
| Current assets | £3.1m | £3.5m | £2.9m | £3.2m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £2.1m | £1.3m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £162k | £230k | £107k | £151k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £273k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.3%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £1.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼10%
- Now £24k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 43
- Deferred income
- ▲42%
- Now £151k
- Fixed assets
- ▼21%
- Now £119k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Es Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Employment Solutions (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Employment Solutions Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Es Group Properties Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Es Steel Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit £35.4k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £184k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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