Intellect Design Arena Limited
Registered name: INTELLECT DESIGN ARENA LIMITED
Intellect Design Arena Limited made £59.8m revenue and £4.2m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Intellect Design Arena Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £59.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £4.2m profit and 144 employees. The company is classified under “information technology consultancy activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 28 yrs · since 1998
- Type
- Private Limited Company
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 ultimate parent company is Intellect Design Arena Limited, a company registered in India and listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 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 |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £62m | £53m | £59.8m |
| Cost of sales | £49.9m | £41m | £47.5m |
| Gross profit | £12m | £11.9m | £12.3m |
| Operating profit | £6.8m | £5.4m | £5m |
| Profit before tax | £6.9m | £5.8m | £5.7m |
| Profit after tax | £5.6m | £4.5m | £4.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.6m | £4.5m | £4.2m |
| Employees (average) | 145 | 149 | 144 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9% | 8.4% | 7% |
| Gross margin | 19.4% | 22.6% | 20.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £427k | £356k | £416k |
| Profit per employee | £38.4k | £29.9k | £29.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼14.5% | ▲12.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼20% | ▼5.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.8% | ▼3.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £378k | £958k | £2.2m |
| Net assets | £22.9m | £27.3m | £31.5m |
| Fixed assets | £75.6k | £434k | £427k |
| Current assets | — | £36.6m | £39.3m |
| Debtors | £25.6m | £35.5m | £34.9m |
| Deferred income | — | £7.1m | £9.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £416k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £29.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 15.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 58.4%
- 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
- ▲15%
- Now £31.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲132%
- Now £2.2m
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 144
- Deferred income
- ▲29%
- Now £9.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £427k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £4.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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