Contino Solutions Limited
Registered name: CONTINO SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Part of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation groupContino Solutions Limited made £15.8m revenue and £5.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Contino Solutions Limited’s revenue fell 65% to £15.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £5.1m profit and 49 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2013
- 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: “The company is controlled by Cognizant Worldwide Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom by virtue of its 100% ownership of the company's issued share capital. The ultimate controlling p”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 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 |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £45.7m | £45m | £15.8m |
| Cost of sales | £28.9m | £29.9m | £12m |
| Gross profit | £16.8m | £15.1m | £3.8m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £4.8m | £760k |
| Profit before tax | £3.5m | £120m | £6.8m |
| Profit after tax | £3m | £119m | £5.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £3m | £119m | £5.1m |
| Staff costs | £32.1m | £30.8m | £7m |
| Employees (average) | 224 | 209 | 49 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.5% | 264.1% | 32.5% |
| Gross margin | 36.8% | 33.5% | 24% |
| Revenue per employee | £204k | £215k | £321k |
| Profit per employee | £13.2k | £569k | £104k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.5% | ▼65% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲3914% | ▼95.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.7% | ▼76.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.2m | £960k | £32.2k |
| Net assets | £12.3m | £131m | £21.3m |
| Fixed assets | £2.8m | £26.2k | £0 |
| Current assets | £15.5m | £134m | £23m |
| Debtors | £2.9m | £4.6m | £1.3m |
| Deferred income | £2.2m | £515k | £511k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 32.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £321k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £104k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.4%
- 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
- ▼84%
- Now £21.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼97%
- Now £32.2k
- Headcount
- ▼77%
- Now 49
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £511k
- Fixed assets
- ▼100%
- Now £0
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
- Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Cognizant Holdings UK Limited75–100%
- Cognizant Worldwide Limited75–100%
- Contino Solutions Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (10)
- Inawisdom LtdRev. £8.6m · Profit £30.1m
- Cognizant New Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Cognizant Oil and Gas Consulting Services UK LtdFigures not disclosed
- Cognizant Technology Solutions (GB) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Devbridge UK LtdLiquidationFigures not disclosed
- Mobica Bidco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mobica Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mobica LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thirdera UK LtdFigures not disclosed
- Zentek Engineering (UK) LimitedLiquidationFigures 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 Dec 2024 (profit £5.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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