PC Specialist Limited
Registered name: PC SPECIALIST LIMITED
Part of PCS Holding Group Ltd groupPC Specialist Limited made £143m revenue and £4.2m profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025.
PC Specialist Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £143m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £4.2m profit and 269 employees. The company is classified under “other information technology service activities” and is based in Wakefield; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £116m | £132m | £143m |
| Cost of sales | −£98.3m | −£112m | −£113m |
| Gross profit | £17.6m | £19.9m | £29.7m |
| Operating profit | £2.7m | £2.8m | £5.4m |
| Profit before tax | £2.7m | £2.8m | £5.6m |
| Profit after tax | £2.2m | £2.2m | £4.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.2m | £2.2m | £4.2m |
| Employees (average) | 237 | 244 | 269 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.9% | 1.6% | 3% |
| Gross margin | 15.2% | 15.1% | 20.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £489k | £541k | £532k |
| Profit per employee | £9.4k | £8.8k | £15.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.9% | ▲8.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼3% | ▲96.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.9% | ▲10.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £532k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.8k
- 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
- ▲10%
- Now 269
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- PCS Holding Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- PC Specialist Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- PCS Property Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit £4.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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