Derry Limited
Registered name: DERRY LIMITED
Part of Damatech Holdings Limited groupDerry Limited made £17.9m revenue and £1.2m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Derry Limited’s revenue grew 34% to £17.9m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.2m profit and 32 employees. The company is classified under “electrical installation” and is based in Newark; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newark, East Midlands
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2002
- 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.
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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21.6m | £17.6m | £13.4m | £17.9m |
| Cost of sales | £17.4m | £13.4m | £8.7m | £12.9m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £4.2m | £4.7m | £4.9m |
| Operating profit | £838k | £1m | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £847k | £1.1m | £1.4m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £728k | £922k | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £728k | £922k | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £2.2m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 29 | 28 | 29 | 32 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.4% | 5.2% | 8.3% | 6.4% |
| Gross margin | 19.2% | 24% | 34.8% | 27.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £745k | £628k | £461k | £558k |
| Profit per employee | £25.1k | £32.9k | £38.2k | £35.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼18.5% | ▼24.1% | ▲33.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲26.7% | ▲20% | ▲3.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.5% | ▲3.6% | ▲10.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £6.2m | £6.5m | £4.2m | £4.8m |
| Net assets | £1.7m | £1.8m | £2m | £2.4m |
| Fixed assets | £53.1k | £56.8k | £73.3k | £55.1k |
| Current assets | £12.1m | £11.1m | £7.5m | £12.2m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.5m | £2.5m | £4.2m |
| Deferred income | £6.5m | £7.3m | £3.5m | £6.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £558k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £35.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 36%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 23.6%
- 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
- ▲20%
- Now £2.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲15%
- Now £4.8m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 32
- Deferred income
- ▲84%
- Now £6.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▼25%
- Now £55.1k
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
- Damatech Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Derry Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Lamflow LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Matt Horbury LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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