Nucleus Financial Platforms Limited
Registered name: NUCLEUS FINANCIAL PLATFORMS LIMITED
Nucleus Financial Platforms Limited made £225m revenue and £59m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Nucleus Financial Platforms Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £225m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £59m profit and 1,148 employees. The company is classified under “other professional, scientific and technical activities” and is based in Salisbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Salisbury, South West
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2006
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £157m | £218m | £225m |
| Operating profit | £60.4m | £72.5m | £79.2m |
| Profit before tax | £47m | £50.3m | £61.5m |
| Profit after tax | £44.5m | £58m | £59m |
| Profit (best available) | £44.5m | £58m | £59m |
| Employees (average) | 1,449 | 1,076 | 1,148 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 28.3% | 26.6% | 26.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £108k | £202k | £196k |
| Profit per employee | £30.7k | £53.9k | £51.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲38.4% | ▲3.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲30.2% | ▲1.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼25.7% | ▲6.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 26.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £196k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £51.4k
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now 1,148
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (6)
- Third Financial Software LimitedRev. £20.6m · Profit £4.2m
- Ifg UK Group Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ips Pensions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- James Hay Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nucleus Clyde Acquisition LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Ips Partnership 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 Dec 2025 (profit £59m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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