Elevation Recruitment Limited
Registered name: ELEVATION RECRUITMENT LIMITED
Part of Elevation Eot Limited groupElevation Recruitment Limited made £12.3m revenue and £63.5k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Elevation Recruitment Limited’s revenue grew 19% to £12.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £63.5k profit and 121 employees. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in Rotherham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2009
- 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: “Elevation Recruitment Group Limited is the parent company of Elevation Recruitment Limited. The shareholding of Elevation Recruitment Group Limited is held by Elevation Holdings Limited. The ultimate ”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.3m | £11.1m | £10.4m | £12.3m |
| Cost of sales | £1.5m | £1.3m | £1.4m | £2.3m |
| Gross profit | £8.9m | £9.8m | £9m | £10m |
| Operating profit | £3.8m | £2.8m | £344k | £126k |
| Profit before tax | £3.8m | £2.8m | £344k | £90.3k |
| Profit after tax | £3.1m | £2.2m | £314k | £63.5k |
| Profit (best available) | £3.1m | £2.2m | £314k | £63.5k |
| Staff costs | £5.4m | £7.1m | £7.8m | £9.3m |
| Employees (average) | 95 | 110 | 114 | 121 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 29.8% | 20.2% | 3% | 0.5% |
| Gross margin | 85.8% | 88.4% | 86.9% | 81% |
| Revenue per employee | £109k | £100k | £90.9k | £102k |
| Profit per employee | £32.5k | £20.3k | £2.8k | £525 |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.9% | ▼6.2% | ▲18.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼27.7% | ▼85.9% | ▼79.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15.8% | ▲3.6% | ▲6.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.6m | £2m | £596k | £29.6k |
| Net assets | £4.4m | £4.2m | £3.9m | £3.3m |
| Fixed assets | £69.5k | £56.4k | £446k | £431k |
| Current assets | £8.2m | £8.1m | £7.1m | £7.5m |
| Debtors | £1.5m | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £250k | £278k | £339k | £357k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 81%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £102k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £525
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.5%
- 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
- ▼16%
- Now £3.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼95%
- Now £29.6k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 121
- Deferred income
- ▲5%
- Now £357k
- Fixed assets
- ▼3%
- Now £431k
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
- Elevation Eot Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Elevation Holdings Limited75–100%
- Elevation Recruitment Group Limited75–100%
- Elevation Recruitment Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £63.5k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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