WMS Recruitment Limited
Registered name: WMS RECRUITMENT LIMITED
Part of Cottrill Holdings Limited groupWMS Recruitment Limited made £13.3m revenue and £128k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2024.
WMS Recruitment Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £13.3m in the year to 30 Nov 2024, with £128k profit. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in Wisbech; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wisbech, East of England
- Age
- 22 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 | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16m | £12.3m | £13.3m |
| Cost of sales | £13.4m | £10.3m | −£11.5m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £2m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £384k | £211k |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £315k | £200k |
| Profit after tax | £834k | £225k | £128k |
| Profit (best available) | £834k | £225k | £128k |
| Staff costs | £14m | £11.1m | — |
| Employees (average) | 584 | 469 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | 1.8% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 16.6% | 16.4% | 13.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £27.5k | £26.3k | — |
| Profit per employee | £1.4k | £479 | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼23.1% | ▲7.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼73% | ▼43.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼19.7% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £862k | £420k | — |
| Net assets | £2.9m | £3.1m | — |
| Fixed assets | £1.5m | £1.7m | — |
| Current assets | £3.9m | £3.4m | — |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £715k | — |
| Deferred income | £53.5k | £59.5k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- 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
- —
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- Deferred income
- —
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- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cottrill Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- WMS Recruitment Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Walsoken Mot's 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 30 Nov 2024 (profit £128k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 20 Oct 2026
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