Excotek Ltd
Registered name: EXCOTEK LTD
Part of Excotek Holdings Ltd groupExcotek Ltd made £29.8m revenue and £1.7m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Excotek Ltd’s revenue grew 21% to £29.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.7m profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “other information technology service activities” and is based in Blackburn; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackburn, North West
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- 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 ultimate parent company is Excotek Holdings Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | £87.5m | £6.6m | £24.6m | £29.8m |
| Cost of sales | £83.2m | £5.3m | £21.2m | £25.7m |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £1.3m | £3.3m | £4.1m |
| Operating profit | £3.2m | £189k | £2.1m | £2.3m |
| Profit before tax | £3.2m | £184k | £2.1m | £2.3m |
| Profit after tax | £2.6m | £138k | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.6m | £138k | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Staff costs | £603k | £725k | £734k | £992k |
| Employees (average) | 10 | 12 | 11 | 12 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3% | 2.1% | 6.2% | 5.7% |
| Gross margin | 5% | 20% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £8.8m | £552k | £2.2m | £2.5m |
| Profit per employee | £259k | £11.5k | £139k | £140k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼92.4% | ▲270.6% | ▲21.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼94.7% | ▲1005% | ▲10.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲20% | ▼8.3% | ▲9.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £9.1m | £2.2m | £694k | £2.2m |
| Net assets | £4m | £3.7m | £4.5m | £5.1m |
| Fixed assets | £15.8k | £50.2k | £31.3k | £15.7k |
| Current assets | £10.6m | £4.3m | £8.2m | £9m |
| Debtors | £685k | £1.6m | £6.4m | £5.6m |
| Deferred income | £706k | £85k | £354k | £1.1m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2.5m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £140k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.9%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £5.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲219%
- Now £2.2m
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- ▲215%
- Now £1.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▼50%
- Now £15.7k
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
- Excotek Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Excotek Ltdthis 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 Mar 2025 (profit £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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